My wife and I are Canadian seniors who will be snow-birding in Antibes for the first time this winter. We've been to Nice a number of times, but never Antibes. Et donc:

1) What are your favorite épiceries/delis and why?

2) What are you fave gelato places and why? *research you understand

3) Do you have any favorite restaurants or cafes that may be open this winter in the surrounding area, including from Cannes across to Menton, plus up in any of the villages perche?

Merci
I am done. The end.

Not knowing what you would call "in the surrounding area," I'm not going to list specific restaurants, but you can check my trip report for the restaurants at which I dined and my comments about them, and then you can google them to see if they are open.
Enjoy!
A stellar month in southeastern France

We have always liked Don Juan restaurant in Antibes, Great fish and vegetables. If the weather is good, the path from plage de la Garoupe around the Cap is great. Not difficult, but there are steps. Plage Keller at Garoupe will be closed in winter though. Do you have a car? The market at Valbonne on Friday is great, and it is a lovely town. We usually just have pizza in the square there. Lots of lovely villages but donīt miss Gourdon, just above Valbonne. Best done on a clear day when the views are fantastic.

Hey there, thank you for your post, regarding your questions.

1. Épicerie l'Idéal (Marseille).
2. Gelaaati Di Marco - there are quite a few other, but depends on where you will be staying.
3. Michelin star - Great for this wheather for the scenary.

Sounds like something I could do. How did you find an apartment?

So merci tous. I re-read your TR Kja, and was once again impressed by both your writing plus the depth of detail!
Et merci Tulips for that restaurant recco. Will add it to the tourist map that arrived for us yesterday from the Antibes Tourism Board. I was actually just plotting that Garoupe hike onto it this morn. They've re-nigged on sending us a similar pair of promised local transit maps (we are non-drivers) but their lengthy excuse/explanation goes beyond my grasp of French. Something about a hovercraft full of eels...
Been hearing about Valbonne from Reddit posters (ie Antibes locals and ex-pats). Will def go there--sounds like our kinda place vs the bus hordes at some more popular villages.
Is Valbonne steep? My wife can no longer handle steep places.

Merci Muntiaq.
Vicky, we found our apartment through VRBO after our usual exhaustive search across:
VRBO; the Tourism Board: Booking.com; Plum Guide; Guidebooks (the Reference Library); AI; Google; previous landlords/landladies and their property managers; real estate sites and like that.

Just discovered that the rental's actual, true location is not as was first shown 'right beside the second bus station' but is instead many blocks away up by the yacht port. No biggie, but just a lesson for us all to be aware of possible location um, 'variances'.
A Rick Steves poster with a travel blog has invited us to rendezvous (as we did with maitaitom and Tracy back in Feb.) with them and their spouse in Villefranche, where they'll be renting this winter.
We just re-learned an important lesson regarding rentals during our recent Loire trip. For loooooonger stays, never underestimate the importance of the living room. On rainy days or when you're otherwise too exhausted to move, that room will be your reality for extended hours.

I am done. the voyageurs

Thanks for the kind words, zebec! I hope the details were helpful.

No Valbonne itself is not steep. Donīt know where the bus stop is, but maybe a few steps up to the town. The market is all through the town in the small streets. It starts early.