Club 55

Club 55 stands on Pampelonne, the long east-facing bay below Ramatuelle, in the commune rather than in Saint-Tropez, whose name the bay carries. It is one of many concessions along the sand and the oldest of them. The club reaches the water directly and keeps its own landing stage, with a boat shuttle alongside the road access. Like the other structures on the bay it is demountable: under the shore plan it is taken down each autumn and put back each spring, so what persists through the winter is the operation, not the building.

The club is held by the de Colmont family and run today by Patrice de Colmont. It began in 1955 as the canteen for the crew of Roger Vadim's And God Created Woman, filmed on this beach, and it has kept the shape of a lunch. It opens at ten, closes at five and is never open in the evening. The day is sold on its own terms: a mattress, a parasol or a straw paillote on the sand is priced apart from the table. The season runs from late March to the first days of November. A boutique stands beside the tables, and the menu turns on wild fish, grilled whole as the catch allows. Vegetables come from the family's farm at La Mole, and since 2023 from a second estate at Brue-Auriac.

Lunch as the whole programme. There is no dinner, no night and no second service. Everything the club does happens between ten and five, which is the reason a crowd of this size leaves the bay quiet by evening.

The same family since the first season. The operation has not changed hands in seven decades, which on a bay where concessions pass between groups is the exception rather than the rule.

Grown, not bought in. A share of the kitchen is supplied from the family's own land, and the house rosé is pressed for the club by the growers' cooperative on the peninsula at Gassin.

Sources

• sainttropeztourisme.com, listing 4601210 — season 27 March to 1 November 2026, open daily 10:00–17:00; mattress, parasol and paillote priced separately from the table; 300 covers; boutique; farms at La Mole and, since 2023, at Brue-Auriac
• sainttropeztourisme.com, listing 4601210, read 28 September 2026 — mattress 39 euro, parasol 19, paillote 59; season 27 March to 1 November 2026, daily 10:00–17:00; phone 04 94 55 55 55, contact@leclub55.fr
• cotedazurfrance.fr, same listing, updated 20 April 2026 — address 43 boulevard Patch, Ramatuelle; landing stage and boat shuttle
• candidat.francetravail.fr, offers 191DRVP and 191HSBV (2025) — lunch service only, never open in the evening; employer named as Patrice de Colmont
• yonder.fr (2015) — founded in 1955 as the canteen of the crew of And God Created Woman; up to 1,000 covers a day and 350 sunbeds in high season
• gillespudlowski.com (2012) — Patrice de Colmont; around 800 covers a day; wild fish grilled as the catch allows; house rosé pressed by the growers' cooperative at Gassin
• Beach Matters, BM-0003 Pampelonne — the structures on the bay come down each October
• Sensor evidence, read 28 September 2026 — price: an independent source; way in for an outsider: the operator's phone and e-mail as listed by the Saint-Tropez tourist office; the operator's own site did not answer.

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covers: 300 (tourist office, 2026) against 800 (2012) and up to 1,000 a day (2015). Recorded, not resolved; no cover count is stated in the text.

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The register does not book. It records where the day is sold and on what terms.

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