Brasserie Biscuit on Cap d'Antibes – a terrace grown in flowers

Most of Cap d'Antibes hides behind long walls and private gardens, and when the big seasonal hotels and beach restaurants close in October, the peninsula goes quiet. Brasserie Biscuit does not. On Boulevard Francis Meilland, in the leafy Thuret quarter at the very centre of the Cap, it keeps its lanterns lit until 31 January 2027 – one of the few restaurants on the Cap you can count on this winter. The terrace is dressed like a garden, with baskets of roses and hydrangeas hanging from the canopy and the tables waiting beneath them in crisp white cloths. In the kitchen there are two chefs, one French and one Japanese, which is why a Mediterranean brasserie also keeps a serious sushi list. And from the first coffee of the morning to the last table at night, there is Alexandre, the owner, making sure every guest is looked after. Metro Mode recommends it.

Here is the winter, the terrace, the man who runs it, the kitchen and how to fit Biscuit into a day on the Cap.

01Open when the Cap goes quiet

In summer the Cap is spoilt for choice. In winter it is not. The grand hotels close their restaurants in October, the beach clubs pack away their parasols, and the roads under the pines fall silent. Biscuit stays open until 31 January 2027, which makes it one of the very few places on the Cap where you can still sit down to breakfast, lunch or dinner this winter. That matters to the people who live here all year, and to anyone who has discovered the Cap's best-kept secret: the low, golden light of a clear January day, and a peninsula you have almost to yourself. Under the covered terrace or in the lamp-lit room inside, Biscuit is as good a reason to be here in winter as in summer.

02A terrace grown rather than built

The terrace is the reason you will remember the place. Step off the boulevard and the noise falls away. Under the awning, wicker chairs stand on pale stone tiles, white cloths catch the filtered light, and hydrangeas and climbing foliage soften every edge, so that the whole space feels shaded and layered rather than walled in – a room that seems to have grown there. In early summer, when the flowers are at their fullest, it is one of the prettiest places to sit down anywhere on the Cap.

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Open until 31 January 2027; valet parking; breakfast buffet except Saturday.

03Alexandre's house

Every great brasserie has someone who makes it feel like theirs, and at Biscuit that is Alexandre, the owner. He opens with the breakfast service and is still there when the last table leaves, and he puts everything into it: greeting the regulars by name, finding a table for the couple who turned up without booking, checking that the evening is going the way it should. It is hospitality of the old-fashioned, hands-on kind – you feel it the moment you sit down – and it is the reason so many people on the Cap come back, season after season.

04The room after dark

Inside, the light is the story. The lamps were made for the brasserie by Spiridon, a lighting studio in Tournai: a golden dome above the bar, a beaded pendant marking each table, one by one, and strings of glass beads wound around the pillars, glowing from within – the same glass and the same metal, three times over, at three different heights. By day it is quietly elegant; at night, when the beads light up and the lanterns come on along the front, the room turns warm and theatrical. On a winter evening there are few better places on the Cap to be.

05Two chefs, two traditions

Biscuit describes its cooking as Mediterranean, and it covers the whole day. The kitchen has two chefs, one French and one Japanese, and the menu carries both. The French side gives you the brasserie card, a chalkboard table du jour and the house's showpiece, a flambéed rack of lamb. The Japanese side gives you a full sushi menu, served at the table and also offered to take away or delivered anywhere on the Cap d'Antibes, at lunch and in the evening. For anyone spending the winter in a villa on the peninsula, that alone makes Biscuit worth knowing.

The day starts early. Every morning except Saturday there is an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet; in June 2026 the brasserie offered a hot drink, a pastry and a freshly squeezed orange juice for €9.90, with the buffet for €1 more. The kitchen serves without a break – the board on the pavement says so – so a late breakfast can drift into lunch and nobody minds.

06What to order

For an evening, the flambéed rack of lamb, carried to the table with a little ceremony. For something lighter, a plate of sushi for the middle of the table, as good at lunch as at dinner. At midday, read the chalkboard first: the table du jour changes with the day. Then a cocktail, taken slowly under the lanterns. Desserts and drinks are a point of pride here – the brasserie gives each its own chapter on its Instagram.

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07When to go

Now. Biscuit is open until 31 January 2027, through the months when most of the Cap is shut. Come for a long lunch in the low winter sun, or for dinner, when the lanterns come up along the front and the beaded lights glow inside. Breakfast makes it a natural first stop on a day on the Cap. The brasserie has room for about 120, so a table is rarely far away – and a valet parks your car at the door, no small thing on the Cap's narrow roads.

08Make a day of it

Biscuit sits in the quiet heart of the Cap, which makes it the perfect hinge for a day here. Start with breakfast. Walk to the botanical garden of the Villa Thuret, a few minutes away, where rare Mediterranean trees have grown since the nineteenth century. Head down to La Garoupe for the coastal path along the rocks, as beautiful in winter as in summer and far emptier, then come back for a late lunch – or have the sushi delivered to wherever you are staying and let Biscuit come to you.

For a weekend. For a lifetime.