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Marseille is both a big city and a working port, so naturally it doesnât lack for bars, some of them with pretty raucous reputations. Many of the best of the rest cluster around the Vieux Port, though these days, the hippest of all, gather in the streets around Rue Sainte et Rue dâEndoume, up above the Vieux Port in a previously little-visited district. Other highlights include a sprawling rooftop bar that gives directly onto the sea, a pleasingly bonkers bar in a design-conscious hotel, and a fab spot for craft beer drinkers with more than 400 varieties on offer.