Best Restaurants in Nice

Two-Michelin-star chef Dominique Le Stanc's bare-essentials Niçoise counter

Four generations of Cuisine Nissarde on rue Droite since 1927

Michelin Bib Gourmand bistrot on the prettiest lane in the old town

Open-kitchen market bistro off Place Rossetti, Bib Gourmand

Retro bistro de marché between Porte Fausse and the Palais de Justice

Nicole Rubi's celebrated Provençal table by the Opéra

Pop-art-walled old-town bistro the locals guard

Family rotisserie of spit-roasted meats near Place Rossetti

Cheese, natural wine and fondue in a 16th-century vaulted cave

Mediterranean-meets-South-America raw fish bar by the Opéra

Brothers' laundromat-turned-natural-wine kitchen in the old town

Hyper-local cooking and a cult natural-wine cellar near the Negresco

Virginie Basselot's one-star Mediterranean haute cuisine at the Negresco

Art-deco fine dining over the sea at the foot of Mont Boron

Mediterranean dining on a rock-pillar former diving platform

South African chef Jan Hendrik's intimate one-star room on the old port

Sélim M'Nasri's spice-route one-star table behind Port Lympia

Italo-Argentine couple's one-star room in the antiques quarter

The Onice chefs' generous Italian trattoria on rue Lascaris

Chef-owner José Orsini's 25-year bistronomic seafood room on Quai Lunel

Chef-owner Alexandre Belais's Mediterranean reference on the port

Market-driven slate cooking between the Matisse and Chagall museums

A 1952 family Niçois institution at the top of Fabron hill

A 1987 family neighbourhood brasserie in the western Magnan district

Market-driven bistro by Nicolas Mendjisky, opposite the hall

Early-20th-century seafood institution on Malausséna

Niçois-Sicilian family trattoria, heart of la Libé

100% local lunch room for true Niçois home cooking

Handmade pasta and pizza by two well-travelled chefs

Two-Michelin-star travel cuisine by the Tourteaux brothers

One-star creativity from chef Samuel Victori

Michelin-listed modern Riviera cuisine near Masséna

Convivial seasonal bistro in the Carabacel grid

Market-driven cooking in a book-and-bric-à-brac salon

David Vaqué's market bistronomie, trained under Guérard

Julien Pilati's seasonal, organic kitchen in the former Pure & V

Jan Hendrik's South-African-French single menu, one Michelin star

Aurèle Gasperoni's solo tasting kitchen in the Petit Marais

Aurélien Nourry's solo bistronomie near Riquier

Meilleur Apprenti de France cooking, brunch to dinner by the port

Three generations of true Niçoise home cooking since 1979

Tokyo-style tavern by France's sushi champion

Nice's first izakaya, natural wine and small plates

Refined Franco-Japanese cooking by two sisters

Japanese chef's long-running French table

Long-running Lebanese kitchen off Place Masséna

Peruvian-Mediterranean cocina near the port

Socca pilgrimage near the port since 1923