La Croisette: "Kiosk Life" Top 5 Page for this destination Cannes Restaurant Tip by NiceLife

After several years of looking for value and quality in Cannes, quizzing regular visitors and locals, I have concluded: there isn't any. Its too expensive, there is no return on quality, no one else offers it, it doesn't fit with the Cannois lifestyle, so I gave up.

All along the Croisette are kiosks. All the same, offering the same standard items, at identical poor value prices. I can only guess the reason everyone queues here is that everything else is even worse.

There are people who consider kiosks offer great value. A can of cold drink from the cold shelf in Casino is one euro, from a kiosk is two euro fifty. Great value, these kiosks.

Fancy frites? Well tough, no kiosk offers you that. No competition, very French, take what we offer. There is one place to get frites - at the start of Rue Meynardier is the man, and the queue is ten minutes long, and its worth it! The French LOVE frites. Someone has decided kiosks are not allowed to offer them. I once ventured into a street market in Slovenia before the collapse of Yugoslavia. Fifty identical stalls offering identical fruit at identical prices, the "communist" vision of competition.

My advice: nip into Monoprix and buy enough to make up an alfresco picnic at sensible prices. Buy champagne retail and enjoy.

Comparison: more expensive than average
Price: less than US$10
Rating: 2
Theme: Local