Skip the port. The good lunch is forty minutes inland.
St. Tropez has a reputation problem, mostly earned. The port in August is a parking lot of bad decisions. But twenty minutes inland, you find the Provence everyone keeps writing books about.
Come in late May or early September. The light is soft, the rosé is cold, the village is quiet enough to actually walk through.
Lunch is the meal that matters here. Plan around it. Drive to it.
Quiet, off the main drag, and actually feels like Provence rather than the brochure version. The garden is what you came for. The pool is where you'll spend every afternoon.
Book a garden suite. Walk into the village in the morning, drive somewhere good for lunch, come back, swim, repeat.
Drive to Ramatuelle for lunch on a weekday.
Twenty minutes inland, a hill village the tourists haven't found. Park outside the walls, walk in, eat at the place with the fig tree.
Bring sunglasses and time. Don't book anything for the evening.
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Every single one. The view costs you eighty euros and dignity.
Unless someone else is paying. Even then, it's a maybe.