Nice - Eating
- Nearby guides:
- Sestriere
- Sauze d’Oulx
- Torino Ski Region
- Turin
- Toulon
- Les Deux Alpes
- Genova
- Alpe d’Huez
- Courchevel
- Provence
- Other guides in France:
- Brest
- Courchevel
- La Rochelle
- Les Deux Alpes
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Montpellier
- Nîmes
- Paris
- Pau
- More
Nice’s cuisine is a reflection of the city’s 300 days of sun a year. This means great tasting olive oil, garlic and lemons. Also a vast selection of all kinds of vegetables like aubergines, tomatoes, vegetable marrow, and lots more. If you put all this in a frying pan with olive oil, it makes ratatouille. Put it in the oven and you have a tian (au gratin). The city’s own traditional take-away food is la socca – a kind of pancake made from chick peas. Some say it has a salty bracing taste, others say it tastes of old socks. However, this does not stop a new generation of playful chefs who have started to prepare Provençal cuisine nouveau. Bon appétit!
Chantecler-La Rotonde
Chantecler is Nice’s culinary and cultural heritage flagship on the beach promenade. The restaurant is like the hotel: overblown and extravagant - bordering on kitsch. It also has a hidden low-price dining restaurant, “La Rotonde,” with market decor, where you can eat lunch for a mere €30.
Le Grand Balcon
Fusion food on your plate, beautiful people on the seats and their portraits on the walls - all in a red, intimate atmosphere. Tajine containing fish and crab, eggs and foie gras together with other fancy ingredients.
Sapore
Sapore allows you to pick and choose from lots of small, delicious tapas-style dishes. Décor in stylish metal and light-coloured wood. The chef has been trained at some of the Riviera’s most highly-regarded kitchens.
La Reserve de Nice
La Reserve de Nice is a one star Michelin restaurant with a panoramic view of the best of that Nice has to offer- lovely ocean view and a sunset over the Baie des Anges. The chef Sébastien Mahuet works with locally produced flavourful vegetables which brings exquisite taste to his cuisine.
Le Grand Café de Turin
A genuine 1900s brasserie, with everything that the shellfish enthusiast could dream of – above all, heaps of oysters. Lightning fast waiters, as you would expect at a place like this.
Cours Saleya
Cours Saleya is largest square in the city and a historic centre. Perfect at any time of day, for a coffee or lunch, beneath what used to be Matisse’s balcony.
