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Things to do in Nice: the full list behind the map

This interactive map of Nice (France) brings together 148 hand-picked places: 44 attractions, 48 restaurants, 27 cafés and 29 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.

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Walking routes in Nice

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Old Nice on foot

2.5 h · 7 stops · 7 stops

  1. Cours Saleya
  2. Chapelle de la Miséricorde
  3. Place Rossetti
  4. Palais Lascaris
  5. Chez Thérésa · Rue Droite
  6. Rue Pairolière
  7. Place Garibaldi
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The Promenade and Baie des Anges

2 h · 6 stops · 6 stops

  1. Place Masséna
  2. Jardin Albert 1er
  3. Plage Beau Rivage
  4. Palais de la Méditerranée
  5. Hôtel Negresco
  6. Musée Masséna
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Castle Hill and the port

3 h · 7 stops · 7 stops

  1. Free lift
  2. Tour Bellanda panorama
  3. Cascade du Château
  4. Noon cannon
  5. Cimetière du Château
  6. Place Garibaldi
  7. Bassin Lympia
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Cimiez: Matisse, Chagall and Rome

3.5 h · 6 stops · 6 stops

  1. Musée Marc Chagall
  2. Arènes de Cimiez
  3. Roman baths
  4. Musée d'Archéologie
  5. Musée Matisse
  6. Monastère de Cimiez
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Libération: the locals' Nice

2.5 h · 6 stops · 6 stops

  1. Marché de la Libération
  2. Gare du Sud
  3. Malongo Café
  4. Racines · Bruno Cirino
  5. Atelier Alfred
  6. La Route des Vins
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Things to do in Nice: top attractions

The city's heart

Vieux Nice

Old Town · Genoese quarter

A maze of ochre façades and green shutters where every corner smells of hot socca and orange blossom.

Tip: Enter via Rue Droite at 8am: the delivery carts and the smell of bread are the real Nice.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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Iconic market

Cours Saleya

Flower market · Old Town

The Riviera's most photographed market: flowers, Menton lemons and striped awnings from 6am to 1pm.

Tip: On Mondays the flowers give way to antique dealers: the day to hunt cheap Provençal china.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 6 min walk

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The photo square

Place Rossetti

Ochre square · Old Town

Nice's postcard square: yellow façades, a fountain, the baroque cathedral and Fenocchio's endless queue.

Tip: Come back at 10pm: the square empties, warm lights come on and the photo has nobody in it.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 3 min walk

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Genoese baroque

Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate

Baroque cathedral · Old Town

Pure Genoese baroque: a glazed-tile dome, ten gilded chapels and acoustics that stop you mid-step.

Tip: Free entry. See the dome from Rue de la Poissonnerie: the tiles shift colour with the sun.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 4 min walk

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Frescoes and instruments

Palais Lascaris

Baroque palace · Old Town

A 1650 Genoese palace with mythological frescoes and one of Europe's finest antique instrument collections.

Tip: Free for everyone on the first Sunday of the month; take the marble stairs to the noble floor.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 2 min walk

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Perfect baroque

Chapelle de la Miséricorde

Baroque gem · Cours Saleya

For many historians the most perfect baroque chapel in all France. And it opens only a few hours a week.

Tip: Usually open only Tuesday afternoons with a free guided tour: check the time that same day.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 6 min walk

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Hidden rococo

Église Saint-François de Paule

18th-century church · Opera

Plain façade, wildly rococo inside. It sits beside the Opera and almost nobody walking past goes in.

Tip: On the way out cross to Alziari: the most fragrant corner of Nice, incense meets olive oil.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 3 min walk

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UNESCO World Heritage

Promenade des Anglais

Seafront promenade · Baie des Anges

Seven kilometres of turquoise sea, palms and chaises bleues. UNESCO-listed since 2021 as a winter resort city.

Tip: In October it empties out: grab a Vélo Bleu and ride the whole thing to the airport at sunset.

🚇 Tram L2 · Alsace Lorraine, 9 min walk

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1913 pink dome

Hôtel Negresco

Belle Époque palace · Promenade

The 1913 pink dome that defines the Promenade skyline, with a 16,000-crystal Baccarat chandelier inside.

Tip: You don't need a room: walk into the Salon Royal for the chandelier and have a drink at Bar Le Relais.

🚇 Tram L2 · Alsace Lorraine, 8 min walk

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Rescued art deco

Palais de la Méditerranée

Art deco · Promenade des Anglais

The most spectacular 1929 art deco façade on the Riviera, saved from demolition and now a casino and hotel.

Tip: See it at night from the seaward pavement: the lit bas-reliefs are something else.

🚇 Tram L2 · Alsace Lorraine, 13 min walk

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The oldest garden

Jardin Albert 1er

Historic garden · Promenade

Nice's oldest public garden: century-old palms, the Théâtre de Verdure and Bernar Venet's steel arc.

Tip: It's the natural shortcut between the Promenade and Place Masséna: cut through instead of going around.

🚇 Tram L1 · Masséna, 6 min walk

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Chequerboard and statues

Place Masséna

Main square · Centre

Red-and-white chequerboard, Pompeian-red façades and Plensa's seven figures floating on 10-metre masts.

Tip: The figures change colour all night: sit on the rim of the Soleil fountain for ten minutes.

🚇 Tram L1 · Masséna, 3 min walk

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The city's green lung

Promenade du Paillon

Linear park · Centre

Twelve hectares of green over the buried river, with a mirror pool, water jets and a giant climbable wooden octopus.

Tip: The miroir d'eau runs well into October: kids go in fully dressed, bring a change of clothes.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 2 min walk

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The best view

Colline du Château

Hilltop park · Old Town

The definitive lookout over the Baie des Anges and the old town's red roofs. The castle is gone; the view isn't.

Tip: Ride the free Rauba-Capèu lift up and walk down the stairs to Place Garibaldi.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 9 min walk

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30-metre waterfall

Cascade du Château

Artificial waterfall · Castle Hill

A 19th-century waterfall dropping 30 metres inside the park, with a viewpoint behind the curtain of water.

Tip: The platform above the falls is the best spot for one photo with both the port and the old town.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 8 min walk

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Free, zero steps

Ascenseurs de la Colline du Château

Free lift · Rauba-Capèu

The trick half the tourists miss: a free lift that drops you at the top of the lookout without a single step.

Tip: It's at the end of Quai des États-Unis, under the war memorial. Runs until sundown.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 14 min walk

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The full curve

Panorama de la Tour Bellanda

Bay viewpoint · Castle Hill

The castle's lower terrace, right above the tower where Berlioz lived. The whole curve of the Baie des Anges.

Tip: Come 40 minutes before sunset: the sun drops right behind the airport and the bay turns orange.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 12 min walk

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Marble facing the sea

Cimetière du Château

Monumental cemetery · Castle Hill

White marble mausoleums facing the Mediterranean. Garibaldi's father, Mercedes Jellinek and Gaston Leroux rest here.

Tip: Find Mercedes Jellinek's grave: the little girl the car brand was named after.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 6 min walk

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Every day at noon

Tir du canon de midi

Noon cannon · Castle Hill

Every day at noon sharp a cannon booms over the city. An English tradition from 1861 that never stopped.

Tip: If you're on Cours Saleya at 11:59, look up: the smoke leaves the hill before the bang arrives.

🚇 Tram L2 · Garibaldi - Le Château, 8 min walk

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Nice before Nice

Cathédrale Sainte-Marie du Château

Medieval ruins · Castle Hill

The excavated foundations of the 11th-century cathedral that was the city centre before Nice moved downhill.

Tip: The panels show how the walled city looked: the best free history lesson in town.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 9 min walk

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Carved into rock

Monument aux Morts de Rauba-Capèu

Art deco memorial · Rauba-Capèu

Carved into the living rock of the hill, a 32-metre art deco arch between sea and stone. Striking up close.

Tip: It's the bend where the Promenade becomes the port: the best whole-city photo is from here.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 17 min walk

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Arcades and oysters

Place Garibaldi

Turin-style square · Garibaldi

Yellow Turin-style arcades, Garibaldi's statue in the middle and the best oyster terraces in Nice.

Tip: Trams L1 and L2 cross here: the best place in the city to switch lines.

🚇 Tram L2 · Garibaldi - Le Château, 2 min walk

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Yachts and red façades

Bassin Lympia

Old port · Lympia

White yachts against ox-blood red façades. The 18th-century port is now the most appetising district in Nice.

Tip: Walk Quai des Deux Emmanuel at dusk: it's where locals eat, not the cruise crowd.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 4 min walk

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Klein, Warhol, Niki

MAMAC

Contemporary art · Place Yves Klein

Nouveau Réalisme and Pop in four marble towers: Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Warhol and Arman together.

Tip: The roof terrace is free and gives a 360° view over the Paillon that almost nobody goes up for.

🚇 Tram L1 · Garibaldi, 4 min walk

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Matisse among olives

Musée Matisse

Genoese villa · Cimiez

A 17th-century red villa among ancient olive trees, holding the collection Matisse left to his adopted city.

Tip: It shares the olive grove with the Roman arena: do both Cimiez museums in one morning.

🚇 Bus 15 · Arènes / Musée Matisse

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Chagall blue

Musée Marc Chagall

Biblical Message · Cimiez

Seventeen huge Biblical Message canvases in a building Chagall co-designed, plus the deep-blue stained glass.

Tip: The Mediterranean garden with its pond is part of the visit: have a coffee at the Buvette du Musée.

🚇 Tram L1 · Gare Thiers, 12 min walk

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16th-century gardens

Monastère de Cimiez

Monastery and gardens · Cimiez

16th-century gardens with roses, wisteria and the calmest view in Nice. Matisse and Dufy are buried here.

Tip: The terrace looks over the Paillon valley: best picnic-with-a-view in the city, and it's free.

🚇 Bus 15 · Monastère

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Rome before Nice

Arènes de Cimiez

Roman amphitheatre · Cemenelum

The amphitheatre of Cemenelum, the Roman capital that predates Nice. Today it hosts the Nice Jazz Festival.

Tip: Free to enter and you can walk on the sand: locals use it as a square to play pétanque.

🚇 Bus 15 · Arènes / Musée Matisse

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Nine-metre walls

Thermes romains de Cimiez

Roman baths · Cemenelum

Three 3rd-century bath complexes still standing among the olive trees, with walls nine metres high.

Tip: Entry is combined with the Musée d'Archéologie next door: one ticket covers both.

🚇 Bus 15 · Arènes / Musée Matisse

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The underground museum

Musée d'Archéologie de Cimiez

Roman archaeology · Cimiez

Everything dug out of Cemenelum: Roman glass, jewellery, coins and a map explaining why Nice sits where it does.

Tip: Small and air-conditioned: the perfect plan if the mistral or a rainy afternoon catches you in Cimiez.

🚇 Bus 15 · Arènes / Musée Matisse

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1878 villa

Musée des Beaux-Arts Jules Chéret

Fine arts · Baumettes

An 1878 Ukrainian princess's villa holding Fragonard, Monet, Rodin, Dufy and Jules Chéret's poster work.

Tip: It's nearly always empty. The marble staircase in the hall is worth the ticket on its own.

🚇 Tram L2 · C.U. Méditerranéen, 4 min walk

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How the Riviera began

Musée Masséna

Belle Époque villa · Promenade

The Italianate villa beside the Negresco tells how Nice invented itself as a winter resort.

Tip: The palm garden opens straight onto the Promenade and is free even without a museum ticket.

🚇 Tram L2 · Alsace Lorraine, 8 min walk

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Photography, mostly free

Musée de la Photographie Charles Nègre

Photography · Old Town

Three floors of contemporary photography shows in the heart of the old town, almost always free to enter.

Tip: It's thirty seconds from Cours Saleya: ideal once the market has packed up.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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Domes outside Russia

Cathédrale orthodoxe russe Saint-Nicolas

Russian domes · Tzarewitch

Six coloured-ceramic onion domes: the largest Russian Orthodox church outside Russia, paid for by the Tsar.

Tip: Shoulders and knees must be covered. Ten minutes on foot from Nice-Ville station; almost nobody includes it.

🚇 Tram L1 · Nice-Ville, 14 min walk

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Red and gold hall

Opéra de Nice

Italian-style opera house · Old Town

An 1885 red-and-gold Italian-style hall with a Gustave Deloye ceiling and upper-gallery seats for the price of a coffee.

Tip: The season opens in October: check the day's billing, upper seats cost next to nothing.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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Loungers on the water

Plage Beau Rivage

Beach club · Quai des États-Unis

Nice's largest beach club: blue loungers, a restaurant at water level and the old town right behind you.

Tip: In October the sea is still 21°C and loungers get cheaper: the best month for a swim.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 9 min walk

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The most sheltered

Plage Castel

Sheltered beach · Below the hill

The bay's very last beach, shielded by Castle Hill: calmer water, far less wind and a lot fewer people.

Tip: Bring water shoes: like all of Nice it's pebbles, not sand. Your feet will thank you.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 10 min walk

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Trails with a view

Parc du Mont Boron

Forest and viewpoints · Mont Boron

Eleven kilometres of trails through pines and carobs, with views over Nice one side and Villefranche the other.

Tip: Bus 12 drops you at the top: ride up and walk down to the port in about 40 minutes.

🚇 Bus 12 · Mont Boron

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No-filter view

Petite Batterie du Mont Boron

Fortified viewpoint · Mont Boron

A 19th-century gun battery hanging over the sea, with the cleanest view there is of Cap de Villefranche.

Tip: It's on the coastal path and almost always empty: bring water, there's nothing up there.

🚇 Bus 12 · Mont Boron

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The largest church

Basilique Notre-Dame de Nice

Neo-Gothic · Jean Médecin

Two 65-metre towers modelled on Notre-Dame de Paris, standing right on Nice's main shopping avenue.

Tip: Perfect refuge between shops: it's steps from Nicetoile and always cool and empty.

🚇 Tram L1 · Gare Thiers, 6 min walk

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A vineyard inside Nice

Château de Crémat

Urban winery · AOC Bellet

A neo-Gothic château among vines inside the city limits: AOC Bellet is one of Europe's urban vineyards.

Tip: September and October are harvest: book the tasting visit, the white rolle is the jewel.

🚇 Taxi from Libération, 15 min

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Giant greenhouse

Parc Phoenix

Botanical garden · Arénas

Seven hectares with one of Europe's biggest greenhouses: rainforest, crocodiles, lemurs and butterflies.

Tip: It's next to the airport: the ideal way to kill four hours before a flight with kids.

🚇 Tram L2 · Parc Phoenix, 4 min walk

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Home of OGC Nice

Allianz Riviera

Stadium and museum · Saint-Isidore

OGC Nice's home ground, 36,000 seats under a timber-and-ETFE canopy, with the national sports museum inside.

Tip: Tram L3 drops you at the door straight from the airport: 20 minutes, no changes.

🚇 Tram L3 · Stade, 7 min walk

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Classics in original

Cinémathèque de Nice

Arthouse cinema · Acropolis

Classic and arthouse seasons in original version at a token price, in a big hall that's rarely full.

Tip: Perfect rainy-day plan: tickets cost less than a coffee on Cours Saleya.

🚇 Tram L1 · Vauban, 2 min walk

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Where to eat in Nice: restaurants

The city's top table

Flaveur

Two Michelin stars · Centre

The Tourteaux brothers run Nice's only two-star table: creole-Mediterranean cooking in a tiny dining room.

Tip: Just 25 seats: book six weeks out. The lunch menu is the way in.

🚇 Tram L2 · Durandy, 1 min walk

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Short set menu only

Les Agitateurs

One Michelin star · Port

Four-hands market cooking in a neighbourhood room by the port: a short menu, no à la carte, no fuss.

Tip: Take the pairing: their natural-wine list from the Rhône and Bellet is the port's best.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 6 min walk

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South Africa meets Nice

JAN

One Michelin star · Port

Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen crossed South Africa with Provence and earned the star: local produce, Cape soul.

Tip: If you can't get a table, Bistrot de Jan next door is the same chef and far easier to book.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 4 min walk

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Starred vegetable cooking

Racines · Bruno Cirino

One Michelin star · Libération

Bruno Cirino came back to Libération with a market-vegetable kitchen that earned a star in its first year.

Tip: Fifty metres from the Marché de la Libération: he buys that morning and cooks it at lunch.

🚇 Tram L1 · Libération, 1 min walk

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The Negresco dining room

Le Chantecler

One Michelin star · Negresco

The Negresco's Regency-panelled dining room, Aubusson tapestries on the walls and high-school Mediterranean cooking.

Tip: Ask for a table by the Promenade window and take the lunch menu, far more affordable.

🚇 Tram L2 · Alsace Lorraine, 9 min walk

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Twenty covers

L'Aromate

One Michelin star · Centre

Mickaël Gracieux runs central Nice's most technical kitchen in a twenty-cover room behind a closed door.

Tip: It's on Rue de l'Hôtel des Postes with no loud sign: without a booking you'd walk right past.

🚇 Tram L1 · Masséna, 3 min walk

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The newest star

Onice

One Michelin star · Garibaldi

Razor-sharp Italo-Mediterranean cooking in the antiques quarter, holder of the city's newest star.

Tip: Have lunch here then dive into the antique dealers on Rue Antoine Gautier: same block.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 3 min walk

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One weekly menu

Épicentre

One Michelin star · Port

A single weekly menu that follows the catch and the market garden, served at a twenty-seat port counter.

Tip: Sit at the counter facing the kitchen: you see everything and the chef talks you through each dish.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 3 min walk

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No phone, no cards

La Merenda

Bib Gourmand · Nissart cooking

Twelve tables, no phone, no cards, wooden stools. The most orthodox Niçois cooking still standing.

Tip: You must show up in the morning to write your name in the book, and bring cash. No other way.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 2 min walk

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Chalkboard bistro

Le Bistrot d'Antoine

Bib Gourmand · Old Town

A chalkboard bistro on Rue de la Préfecture: tripe, daube, pigeon and a southern wine list you can't exhaust.

Tip: Book days ahead or turn up at 7pm sharp: by 7:15pm nobody else gets in.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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13 tables, living menu

Olive & Artichaut

Bib Gourmand · Old Town

Thirteen tables and a menu rewritten weekly with whatever Cours Saleya brings in. Pure produce, zero garnish.

Tip: October brings cèpes and the first truffle: always ask what came from the market that morning.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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Family-run since 1958

Chez Davia

Bib Gourmand · Nissart cooking

A Rue Grimaldi family institution since 1958: petits farcis, daube and Niçois ravioli, cooked like at home.

Tip: Order the petits farcis niçois to share as a starter: the dish that defines the city.

🚇 Tram L1 · Jean Médecin, 4 min walk

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Unbeatable Bib Gourmand

L'Alchimie

Bib Gourmand · Rue Maccarani

Best value-for-cooking in the centre: a three-course menu that changes weekly and always surprises.

Tip: The two-course lunch menu is one of the genuine gastronomic bargains in Nice.

🚇 Tram L1 · Jean Médecin, 5 min walk

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Live fire and producers

Café des Musiciens

Bib Gourmand · Farm to table

Real farm-to-table in the Musicians' quarter: Var producers and a wood fire you can see from the door.

Tip: Tables outside on Avenue Auber: in October you can dine outdoors well into the night.

🚇 Tram L1 · Jean Médecin, 10 min walk

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Socca since 1923

Chez Pipo

1923 socca · Port

The benchmark socca since 1923: wood-fired oven, shared tables and one thing done right for a century.

Tip: They close at midday and open only for dinner: arrive 6:45pm, order socca plus pissaladière and tourte de blettes.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 5 min walk

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Eaten standing up

Chez Thérésa

Street socca · Rue Droite

The Rue Droite stall selling socca straight from the wood oven on a copper tray. You eat it standing up.

Tip: They close when the batter runs out, often before 1pm: go early and bring cash.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 4 min walk

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The whole repertoire

Lou Pilha Leva

Nissart street food · Old Town

A street counter with the whole cheap Niçois repertoire: socca, farcis, courgette-flower fritters and pissaladière.

Tip: Best place in Nice to try six different things cheaply. Order one at a time and share.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 1 min walk

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Four generations

Acchiardo

1927 family table · Rue Droite

Four generations on the same Rue Droite corner making estocaficada, daube and hand-rolled ravioli.

Tip: Open weekdays only and no group bookings: come alone or as a pair and wait at the door.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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Spit-roast in a vault

La Rossettisserie

Rotisserie · Place Rossetti

A stone vault serving nothing but spit-roasted meat with three different mashes. Simple, cheap, always full.

Tip: Order the olive-oil mashed potato: the best side in the city and it comes separately.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 2 min walk

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Courgette-flower fritters

L'Escalinada

Nissart cooking · Old Town

On an old-town staircase since 1958, home to the best courgette-flower fritters and the Niçois testine.

Tip: Ask for a table outside on the steps: one of the prettiest old-town terraces at night.

🚇 Tram L2 · Garibaldi - Le Château, 3 min walk

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Menu changes daily

Le Bar des Oiseaux

Chef's bistro · Old Town

A small hand-painted room where the menu changes daily with whatever fish Cours Saleya had.

Tip: Very few tables and the chef cooks alone: phone that same morning to book.

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Short chalkboard menu

Comptoir du Marché

Market bistro · Old Town

A produce bistro a block from Cours Saleya: short chalkboard menu, natural wines, lightning service.

Tip: Ideal for an early dinner before the Opera: three minutes' walk and they serve from 7pm.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 4 min walk

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The 1988 original

La Petite Maison

International classic · Cours Saleya

The Niçois restaurant that became a global brand, from London to Dubai. This is the 1988 original.

Tip: Order the raw vegetables with anchovy and the lemon Bresse chicken: the two house dishes.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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Nice's oyster bar

Café de Turin

Oysters since 1908 · Place Garibaldi

Under the Garibaldi arcades since 1908: oysters, sea urchins, whelks and a marble bench where they're shucked.

Tip: No bookings: arrive at noon sharp or after 3pm. The plateau royal is for two.

🚇 Tram L2 · Garibaldi - Le Château, 2 min walk

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The crudo phenomenon

Peixes Vieux Nice

Ceviche and crudo · Old Town

Nice's raw-fish phenomenon: Peruvian ceviches, tiraditos and Mediterranean crudo, served non-stop.

Tip: No bookings and a queue from 7pm: leave your name and drink next door until they call.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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The table of the moment

Colita

Colombian-Italian fusion · Garibaldi

The most talked-about table in Garibaldi: pork pluma, chef's arepas and a short, sharp natural wine list.

Tip: Order the pork pluma to share: the dish that put Colita on every list this year.

🚇 Tram L2 · Garibaldi - Le Château, 4 min walk

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All from the neighbourhood

Le Local

Neighbourhood bistro · Port

Hyper-local cooking on Rue Rusca: everything comes from the Marché de la Libération or the port's catch.

Tip: The two-course lunch is among the cheapest of the port's serious kitchens.

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Official Nissarde label

La Table Alziari

Cuisine Nissarde label · Old Town

From the olive-oil mill family: one of the city's official Cuisine Nissarde label restaurants.

Tip: The Cuisine Nissarde label only goes to those respecting original recipes: look for the plaque at the door.

🚇 Tram L2 · Garibaldi - Le Château, 3 min walk

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Tables in the street

Socca chez René

People's socca · Rue Pairolière

Plastic tables in the street, jugs of rosé and socca for pennies. Loud, scruffy and utterly Niçois.

Tip: Order the classic round: socca, fritters, pissaladière and a jug of rosé. Cash only.

🚇 Tram L2 · Garibaldi - Le Château, 3 min walk

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Sea on three sides

Le Plongeoir

On a rock in the sea · Mont Boron

A 1920s diving platform on an isolated rock: you eat literally surrounded by sea on three sides.

Tip: Book months out. If there's no table, take a drink on the lower terrace at sunset instead.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 20 min walk

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Lunch at water level

Bocca Mar

On the sand · Promenade des Anglais

Mediterranean sharing plates at water level, with its own loungers and the Promenade right above.

Tip: Book a 1:30pm table and add a lounger: they let you stay on the beach all afternoon.

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Natural wines

Frisson

Natural-wine bistro · Old Town

One of the old town's most celebrated openings: natural wines, small plates and a menu that changes unannounced.

Tip: Sit at the bar and let them pick your wines by the glass: the best way to discover Bellet.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 3 min walk

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Within a hundred km

Le Canon

Seasonal bistro · Rue Meyerbeer

Everything they serve grows within a hundred kilometres and the board is rewritten twice a week. Living wines.

Tip: In October come cèpes, chestnuts and the first Alba white truffle: this is the month for it.

🚇 Tram L2 · Alsace Lorraine, 6 min walk

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The real pain-bagnat

La Femme du Boulanger

Brunch and bakery · Rue Grimaldi

Bakery and dining room in one: real pain-bagnat, savoury tarts and the centre's most-booked weekend brunch.

Tip: Get the pain-bagnat to take to the beach: wrap it, wait half an hour, the bread drinks the oil.

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Seventy family years

Lou Balico

Nissart family table · Garibaldi

Seventy years of one family making hand-rolled Niçois ravioli, tourte de blettes and long-cooked daube.

Tip: Order the savoury tourte de blettes to start and the sweet one for dessert: few know both exist.

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An 1892 station

Gare du Sud

Food hall · Libération

The 1892 railway station turned into a food hall, fifteen kitchens under a vast iron-and-glass nave.

Tip: Ideal with a group or with kids: everyone eats what they want and the long tables are shared.

🚇 Tram L1 · Libération, 3 min walk

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Stall to table

À la Table du Marché

Market bistro · Libération

Steps from the Marché de la Libération, with a menu drawn straight from that morning's stalls.

Tip: Have Saturday lunch here after walking the market: the real locals' ritual.

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Ninety-four flavours

Fenocchio

1966 gelateria · Place Rossetti

Ninety-four flavours since 1966, from tomato-basil to violet, fig and olive oil. This is the ice cream of Nice.

Tip: Get a two-scoop cone and gamble on the odd ones: tomato-basil with fig works better than it sounds.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 3 min walk

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Fewer flavours, more craft

Azzurro

Artisan gelato · Old Town

Fenocchio's counterpoint: fewer flavours, more craft, Piedmont farm milk and real Bronte pistachio.

Tip: Try the Bronte pistachio and the Nice olive oil: two flavours you won't find elsewhere.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 4 min walk

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The queue is local

Oui, Jelato

Chef gelato · Rue de la Préfecture

Nice's trending gelateria: made fresh daily, a short rotating list and queues of locals, not tourists.

Tip: Check the day's board before queuing: seasonal flavours last a week and vanish.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 2 min walk

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Nice's oldest

Raugi

1930 gelateria · Rue Masséna

Nice's oldest gelateria still in founding-family hands, with sorbets made from market fruit.

Tip: The fruit sorbets change weekly: October brings fig, muscat grape and quince.

🚇 Tram L1 · Masséna, 8 min walk

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Everyone's aperitivo

Les Distilleries Idéales

Corner bar · Old Town

The old town's busiest corner at aperitivo hour: craft beer, oysters and a charcuterie board.

Tip: Happy hour runs 6 to 8pm and the corner fills up: get there at 5:45pm for an outside table.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 6 min walk

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Always packed

Comptoir Central Électrique

Wine bar · Garibaldi

An old electrical shop turned into Garibaldi's loudest and best-loved wine bar. Always packed.

Tip: Order the Arrière-Pays cheese board with a Bellet red: the perfect local pairing.

🚇 Tram L2 · Garibaldi - Le Château, 4 min walk

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Pick from the shelf

La Part des Anges

Cave à manger · Centre

Nice's pioneering natural-wine cave à manger: pick the bottle off the shelf and they open it at your table.

Tip: You pay shop price plus corkage: the cheapest way to drink well in Nice.

🚇 Tram L2 · Durandy, 2 min walk

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Cocktails and yachts

FOAM

Cocktails on the quay · Lympia

Craft cocktails on Quai des Deux Emmanuel, yachts in front and a menu built on southern herbs.

Tip: Ask for something with rosemary or immortelle and sit on the quayside: the port at night is another city.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 4 min walk

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Jazz with no cover

Shapko

Live jazz · Old Town

Live jazz and blues every night in an old-town cellar, no cover, with the line-up rotating weekly.

Tip: Music starts around 10pm and it fills by 11: come earlier and stay at the bar.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 3 min walk

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Homemade Niçois pasta

Lou Gesu

Nissart trattoria · Place du Jésus

A tiny old-town square, tables on the cobbles and homemade Niçois pasta: gnocchi, ravioli and merda de can.

Tip: Order the merda de can, green chard gnocchi: the name is awful, the dish is glorious.

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Handwritten menu

Chez Paulette

Neighbourhood cooking · Garibaldi

Twenty covers in the antiques quarter with a handwritten menu and prices you won't find in the old town.

Tip: It's the Garibaldi locals' secret: book that morning and order the daily special.

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Specialty coffee in Nice

Nice's brunch spot

Emilie and the Cool Kids

Brunch and specialty · Old Town

The café that changed breakfast in Nice: avocado toast, pancakes and a flat white taken seriously.

Tip: They have four branches: if the old-town one is full, the Gioffredo one almost never is.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 1 min walk

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Rotating roasters

Café Marché

Specialty coffee · Rue Barillerie

A minimal bar on a lane behind Cours Saleya, rotating European roasters and pastry made that morning.

Tip: Stop by before doing the market: it opens early and pours the old town's best espresso.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 7 min walk

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Roasting since 1934

Malongo Café

Nice's own roaster · Gare du Sud

Malongo has roasted in Nice since 1934 and is the city's coffee brand: here you see the machine and taste the origins.

Tip: Order a single origin as filter and take a bag home: the most Niçois edible souvenir there is.

🚇 Tram L1 · Libération, 3 min walk

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Two blocks from the train

Hug Café

Specialty and brunch · Gare Thiers

A bright bar two blocks from the station, careful extractions and brunch plates that change weekly.

Tip: Ideal for a last coffee before the train to Monaco or Ventimiglia: five minutes away.

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Roasts on site

Éburnie

Micro-roastery · Rue de France

A micro-roaster obsessed with Ivorian and Ethiopian coffees, and a barista who talks you through every cup.

Tip: Ask what they're roasting that week: they often have lots that reach nowhere else in France.

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House pastry

Noisette

Coffee and pastry · Boulevard Gambetta

Specialty coffee with house-made French pastry, a hundred metres from the Promenade and zero tourist tables.

Tip: The natural stop between beach and Musée Masséna: take a cinnamon roll to your lounger.

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Light Nordic roast

Copenhagen Coffee Lab

Nordic roast · Boulevard Jean Jaurès

Light Scandinavian roast on the edge of the old town, Danish pastry and tables beside the Paillon.

Tip: The contrast with traditional French coffee is stark: order filter, not espresso, to feel it.

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Coffee then wine

La Claque

Coffee and natural wine · Old Town

Specialty coffee by day, natural wine bar by night. One of the old town's most celebrated openings.

Tip: The shift changes at 6pm: stay put and slide from last flat white to first glass.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 2 min walk

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Brunch without a queue

Maison Karlie

Chef brunch · Rue Pastorelli

Hot-plate brunch and specialty coffee on a quiet central corner, far from the old-town queues.

Tip: Opens 8:30am on weekdays: the best calm breakfast before the city fills up.

🚇 Tram L2 · Durandy, 5 min walk

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A bar among plants

Full Bloom Café

Specialty and plants · Garibaldi

A plant-filled bar in the antiques quarter, guest roasters and vegan pastry made that morning.

Tip: It's on the same street as the antique dealers: coffee first, Village Ségurane after.

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Coffee plus shop

Le Country Store

Coffee and shop · Centre

Half specialty café, half object shop: you drink a filter and leave with a mug or an apron.

Tip: Good spot for quick gifts: Nice-roasted beans fit perfectly in a suitcase.

🚇 Tram L1 · Masséna, 4 min walk

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Four stools

Brume

Neighbourhood bar · Rue du Four

A micro-café on a tiny old-town lane, with savoury breakfast, homemade cakes and just four stools.

Tip: It's steps from Rue Pairolière, the food-shop street: do both at once.

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A window of cakes

HOBO

Cakes and coffee · Rue Sainte-Réparate

A window of giant cakes metres from Place Rossetti, specialty coffee and a small sunny terrace.

Tip: The sweet alternative to Fenocchio when the Rossetti ice-cream queue is twenty metres long.

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The vegan reference

Koko Green

Vegan and bowls · Old Town

The old town's vegan reference: bowls, smoothies and specialty coffee in a tiny room that's always full.

Tip: Only four tables: get it to go and eat on the Place Saint-François steps, half a block away.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 1 min walk

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Cycling and espresso

Café du Cycliste

Cyclists' café · Port

The Niçois cycling brand's flagship: specialty coffee, technical kit and group rides along the Riviera.

Tip: October is the best month to ride the Riviera: ask about that week's group rides.

🚇 Tram L2 · Port Lympia, 6 min walk

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Bikes and coffee

The Service Course

Café and bike workshop · Ponchettes

Road-bike workshop and coffee bar in one room facing the sea. The meeting point for Nice's cyclists.

Tip: They rent road bikes by the day: the loveliest way to reach Villefranche without the train.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 7 min walk

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The day's first coffee

La Hacienda Coffee Shop

Seaside bar · Gambetta

Thirty metres from the Promenade, where morning surfers and runners take their first coffee.

Tip: Opens at 7am: the only specialty spot in the west that runs before October sunrise.

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Two blocks from the domes

Pyramides Coffee

Neighbourhood specialty · Tzarewitch

A tiny bar in the Russian quarter, two blocks from the Orthodox cathedral, best cortado in west Nice.

Tip: Pair it with the Russian cathedral: it's the quarter's only decent coffee and it's on the way.

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The market's café

Atelier Alfred

Specialty coffee · Rue Vernier

Libération's specialty spot: own roast, savoury breakfast and a clientele of market neighbours.

Tip: Do the full Saturday circuit: market at 9, coffee here at 10:30, lunch at noon.

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One block from the train

Örven

Nordic café · Avenue Thiers

Pale wood, handmade ceramics and light-roast coffees a block from Nice-Ville train station.

Tip: Nice's best train wait: leave the bag in left luggage and cross the hundred metres here.

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Hand-thrown cups

Clay

Specialty and ceramics · Rue Gioffredo

A specialty bar where every cup is hand-thrown ceramic, and they're for sale. Serious coffee downtown.

Tip: You can buy the cup they served you in: the most original souvenir you'll take home.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 4 min walk

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All-morning brunch

Umi Café

Brunch and filter · Amiral de Grasse

All-morning brunch and filter methods in the quiet quarter between the station and the Russian cathedral.

Tip: One of the few doing weekday brunch until 2pm: ideal if you overslept.

🚇 Tram L2 · Alsace Lorraine, 7 min walk

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Books and coffee

Read The Room

English bookshop café · Garibaldi

An English-language bookshop with a coffee bar behind: armchairs, second-hand books and Nice's only English book club.

Tip: Perfect rainy plan: armchair, coffee and a second-hand book for the price of two coffees.

🚇 Tram L1 · Garibaldi, 2 min walk

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A break between shops

GojiGoji

Specialty and matcha · Rue Masséna

The specialty spot in the shopping precinct: ceremonial matcha, single-origin filters and sweet toasts to lift the mood.

Tip: The only decent coffee on the Masséna-Paradis axis: save it for the mid-afternoon shopping break.

🚇 Tram L1 · Jean Médecin, 6 min walk

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The locals' terrace

Juliette

Square café · Gare du Sud

A terrace on the pedestrian square of Gare du Sud, in the heart of the quarter where locals have breakfast.

Tip: Sit outside on a Saturday at 10: the whole neighbourhood walks past with market bags.

🚇 Tram L1 · Libération, 3 min walk

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A seat over the market

Café des Amis

Market terrace · Cours Saleya

The oldest terrace on Cours Saleya: coffee, pastis and the best seat to watch the flower market pack up.

Tip: Come at 1pm: the florists strike the stalls and the waiters push out the tables. The best free show.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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No museum ticket needed

La Buvette du Musée

Garden café · Musée Chagall

The café in the Chagall Museum's Mediterranean garden, among olives and a pond, and you don't need a museum ticket.

Tip: One of the calmest spots in Nice and almost nobody knows you can enter just the garden.

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Shopping in Nice: where to shop

6am to 1pm

Marché du Cours Saleya

Flowers and produce · Cours Saleya

Cut flowers, Niçois olives, socca and mountain cheeses, Tuesday to Sunday from 6am to 1pm.

Tip: No flowers on Mondays: it's the antiques market, the Riviera's best for hunting old china.

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Zero souvenirs

Marché de la Libération

The locals' market · Libération

Where actual locals shop: day-boat fish, autumn cèpes, cheese and not a single souvenir stall.

Tip: Go on a Saturday before 10 and queue at the fishmonger: the best fish in the city.

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Blue tins since 1868

Moulin à Huile Alziari

1868 olive oil · Saint-François de Paule

A Niçois oil mill since 1868: hand-painted blue tins, cailletier olives and Marseille soap by weight.

Tip: The half-litre blue tin is the Nice souvenir par excellence and travels fine in checked luggage.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 5 min walk

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Same family since 1820

Maison Auer

1820 confectioner · Saint-François de Paule

An 1820 rococo confectioner, same family throughout: Nice candied fruit, chocolate and original 19th-century mirrors.

Tip: Nice candied fruit is a local heritage: ask for the citrus peel, it keeps for months.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 4 min walk

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Free factory tour

Confiserie Florian

Factory tour · Port

A sweet factory with a free guided tour: watch violets, rose petals and clementines being crystallised.

Tip: The tour takes twenty minutes, is free and ends with tasting. Perfect with kids and in the rain.

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A dozen dealers

Village Ségurane

Antique dealers · Antiques quarter

A gallery with a dozen antique dealers under one roof, in the quarter that concentrates the Riviera's trade.

Tip: Walk all of Rue Antoine Gautier and Rue Catherine Ségurane: thirty shops in three blocks.

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Forty stalls

Les Puces de Nice

Flea market · Port

Forty open-air brocante stalls by the port: furniture, porcelain, vintage posters and 1930s costume jewellery.

Tip: Runs Tuesday to Saturday and prices are negotiable: never take the first one quoted.

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Grasse in Nice

Molinard

Grasse perfumer since 1849

The Grasse house keeps its Nice boutique on the Opera street, with Lalique flacons and bespoke perfume workshops.

Tip: They run one-hour workshops where you build your own perfume and they post it home: book ahead.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 6 min walk

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Ducasse bean-to-bar

Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse

Bean-to-bar chocolate · Old Town

Ducasse's bean-to-bar manufacture in the old town: single-origin bars, praliné and pure chocolate ice cream.

Tip: Get an origin bar as a gift and a chocolate ice cream for the walk: two very different things.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 4 min walk

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Mercantour cheeses

Fromagerie Métin

Ageing cheesemonger · Rue Pairolière

Affineurs on Rue Pairolière with goat cheeses from the Arrière-Pays and tommes from the Mercantour valleys.

Tip: Ask for fresh brousse du Rove: the Niçois cheese that barely leaves the region, eaten with honey.

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The oldest cellar

Cave Bianchi

Historic wine cellar · Rue Raoul Bosio

Nice's oldest wine cellar, 1860, with a vaulted basement and the city's best Bellet selection.

Tip: Ask to see the vault and buy a white Bellet from rolle: only made in Nice, barely exported.

🚇 Tram L1 · Opéra - Vieille Ville, 3 min walk

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The first white truffle

Signorini Tartufi

Truffles · Old Town

Fresh seasonal truffle, truffle oils and butters in the old town. October brings the first white one.

Tip: October and November are Alba white truffle season: ask to smell it before you buy.

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Local producers only

Le Goût de Nice

Niçois produce · Old Town

A shop given over entirely to Niçois-country producers: oil, honey, jam, beer and local liqueurs.

Tip: Best stop for edible gifts: everything on the shelves is made within 50 km.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 2 min walk

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City showcase

Maison de l'Artisanat et du Goût

Niçois craft · Jean Médecin

The city's showcase for craftspeople and producers of the Nice Métropole: ceramics, textiles, sweets and oil, all certified.

Tip: No mass-produced souvenirs here: everything on show has a craftsperson's name on it.

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The blue chair

La Chaise Bleue

Nice's own icon · Old Town

The official shop of the chaise bleue, the Promenade's blue chair turned keyring, tablecloth, magnet and miniature.

Tip: The most recognisably Niçois souvenir there is, and the miniature fits any pocket.

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On Place Masséna

Galeries Lafayette Nice

Department store · Place Masséna

The Place Masséna department store: French fashion, perfumery and a food floor stocked with southern produce.

Tip: Ask for the VAT refund at the ground-floor desk if you spend over a hundred euros.

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Ninety shops

Nicetoile

Shopping centre · Jean Médecin

Ninety shops under one roof on Avenue Jean Médecin: the failsafe shopping plan when it rains in Nice.

Tip: Tram L1 stops at the door: the most practical meeting point in town if you split up.

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The Carré d'Or

Rue Paradis

Carré d'Or · Luxury

The heart of the Carré d'Or: Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Tiffany in three pedestrian blocks.

Tip: Cross to pedestrian Rue Masséna for high-street brands: the price contrast in a hundred metres is huge.

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Pedestrian end to end

Rue Masséna

Pedestrian axis · Centre

Nice's pedestrian shopping street: international brands, gelaterias and terraces end to end.

Tip: It's the pedestrian shortcut from Place Masséna to the Negresco: ten minutes without crossing a road.

🚇 Tram L1 · Masséna, 4 min walk

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Big Riviera section

Librairie Masséna

Historic bookshop · Centre

A classic general bookshop downtown with a big section on Nice history and Riviera art books.

Tip: Look for the historic Promenade photo books: the best gift for someone who's already been.

🚇 Tram L1 · Masséna, 2 min walk

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Vinyl and Friday DJs

Kosimi Records

Independent record shop · Hôtel des Postes

Second-hand vinyl and independent pressings in a tiny downtown shop, with DJ sets on Fridays.

Tip: Ask for the 1960s French jazz crate: that's where the cheapest gems turn up.

🚇 Tram L2 · Durandy, 4 min walk

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In fishermen's vaults

Agnès b.

French fashion · Rue des Ponchettes

The Paris house keeps its Nice shop in the old fishermen's vaults facing the sea, behind Cours Saleya.

Tip: The shop itself is worth the detour even if you buy nothing: 18th-century vaults facing the sea.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 8 min walk

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Olive bonbons

Pâtisserie Lac

Chocolate and pastry · Garibaldi

Pascal Lac is Nice's master chocolatier: olive, fig and olive-leaf bonbons you won't find anywhere else.

Tip: Get the mixed box of Niçois-flavour bonbons: the city's most original gourmet gift.

🚇 Tram L1 · Garibaldi, 6 min walk

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Provence and Bellet

La Route des Vins

Southern wines · Rue Trachel

A Libération wine merchant specialising in Provence, Bellet and natural wines, with tasting at the counter.

Tip: October is when the first harvest wines land: ask what has just come in.

🚇 Tram L1 · Gare Thiers, 3 min walk

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Neighbourhood prices

Les Halles Niçoises

Neighbourhood greengrocer · Rue Barla

Arrière-pays fruit and veg at neighbourhood prices, seasonal produce stacked out on the pavement.

Tip: If you rented an apartment, this is where you shop: half the Cours Saleya price.

🚇 Tram L1 · Garibaldi, 8 min walk

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Not one magnet shop

Rue Pairolière

Food-shop street · Old Town

The old town's food-shop street: cheesemongers, greengrocers, roasted coffee and charcuterie, no souvenirs.

Tip: Build your picnic here and carry it up to Colline du Château: ten minutes uphill.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 4 min walk

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Roasts cocoa on site

Xocoalt

Bean-to-bar chocolate · Centre

A chocolatier who roasts the cocoa on site and makes single-origin bars from Venezuela, Peru and Madagascar.

Tip: Taste the Nice olive-oil bar before you buy: very odd and surprisingly good.

🚇 Tram L2 · Durandy, 5 min walk

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A kilometre of shops

Nice Étoile · Avenue Jean Médecin

Main shopping avenue · Jean Médecin

Nice's shopping avenue, pedestrianised with the tram running through: every French chain within a kilometre.

Tip: Walk it south to north up to Libération: you end up right at the locals' market.

🚇 Tram L1 · Jean Médecin, 4 min walk

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Soap cut by weight

Terre Dorées

Soaps and perfumery · Rue du Marché

Marseille soap cut by weight, Provence essential oils and eau de cologne on tap in the old town.

Tip: Marseille soap cut by weight is the cheapest, most French gift you can carry home.

🚇 Tram L1 · Cathédrale - Vieille Ville, 3 min walk

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