Food & beverage
Opposite: Hôtel Martinez sits on the Mediterranean coastline in the French Riviera.
Left: The new menu comes into frame.
Below: Jean Imbert is the face of La Plage du Martinez.
The rooms are close enough to hear the waves lapping the shore. The sea theme spills into the rooms, which are decorated with soothing white lacquered furniture and mirrors and flooded with light. The water and sunshine thread continues into the bathrooms, where guests can throw open a panel to allow a glorious sea view from the bath. Two rooftop suites on the seventh floor, originally designed as private residences, offer guests a stunning 180° panoramic view of the Bay of Cannes that make guests feel like they are on top of the Riviera.
The suites are designed in honour of icons of French cinema – actress Isabelle Huppert and Thierry Frémeux, director of the Cannes Film Festival. Huppert inspires the femininity imbued throughout one suite while black and white cinematography a la Frémeux is throughout the other. The two suites can be booked together as one mega-suite, the largest in Europe – at a cool rate of €50,000 a night.
Dining with the stars
And it is the movies once again that sets the scene for the F&B offering at Hôtel Martinez. Chef Jean Imbert’s innovative approach, unveiled at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, redefines fine dining with menus that read like film scripts. This unique presentation does more than list ingredients; it invites diners into a narrative where each dish plays a starring role in a grand, sensory production. “Because we have this amazing name that is known all over the world, we have to have a link with the Cannes Film Festival in a way that no other restaurant can have,” said Imbert. “It’s the most iconic restaurant in Cannes.”
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“I love storytelling and in this restaurant, you can tell a story you can’t tell anywhere else. The name is ‘La Palme d’Or’. So I want to push as far as we can to immerse the people in this world,” said Imbert. “I don’t want to be another fancy fish restaurant.”
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