For quick and tasty street food on the go, try Sur La Pouce.

The moustachioed owner is friendly and chatty - go a second time and chances are he'll remember you.

To get a real taste of classic Nice food go for the assiette Nicoise. It gives you all the classics on one plate: stuffed vegetables, courgette flowers, sardines etc.

On Rue St Francois in the Old Town
It is one of the recommendations on this site: www.nice-city-vacation.com/nice-restaurant.html

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This is a fairly new restaurant, at least it wasn't around last time we visited, but we could have missed it. It is on Rue de Prefecture and it serves traditional Nicois dishes.

It is quite small and cosy with some tables outside. It's always busy and we'd highly recommend booking a few days before (we had to try three times before we got a table). It is a much better experience than the tourist trap of the Cours Saleya, and just two streets back.

Rue de Prefecture

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The new owners of bar Antoine in Rue de la Prefecture have certainly changed the place; it’s cleaner, more sophisticated and with a less varied menu, but: it is still a very French atmosphere with lovely food and good service.

Try the Parma ham freshly sliced to order in front of you. The duck is good too and the truffle risotto to die for. It’s still one of the busiest restaurants in Old Nice, a place where every other doorway leads to a restaurant, so book a table and enjoy.

Rue de la Prefecture

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Beautiful restaurant with very nice service and a reasonable price tag. We had oysters which were out of this world.

Oysters were not previously palatable for both my wife and I, but this experience was to die for.

We have not stopped eating them since! So now we are all zinced up and with a few of the shampoo bubbles we have been lifted to a new way of life.

www.flobrasseries.com/brasseries/index.asp?brasserie=14

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This is an olive oil shop and restaurant in the Old Town of Nice. The owner is one of the most enthusiastic we have ever met. We had no idea how much variety there could be in the taste of the oils and how much the different olive oils can bring out the taste of the food. My advocado starter was amazing and my new hubby also loved his goats cheese starter. I had lasagne and he had rabbit for the main course which were great too. And the tiramisu to polish it all all, fantastic. It's such a friendly place, but we would have never had gone if it hadn't been recommended to us by Matt and Gayle at Nice Pebbles who rented our apartment to us. If you're in Nice, you so must go to Olivieria. It's not to be missed.

Rue de Collet, Vieux Nice
www.oliviera.com

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The guidebooks I read before setting off to Nice failed to mention Cagnes. I wanted to go to Renoir's museum so that's why I went. I was very taken with the place. I imagine it's like Brighton was in the 1960s but with a lot more class and a lot more sun. Pay this place a visit. There are restaurants a plenty and they are much cheaper than in Nice yet to the same standard. There are so many children here having fun in the sun too. A very sweet family holiday place which I intend to recommend to my niece's ma and pa.

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This is a fantastic restaurant on Rue Lascaris just off the port. It's fantastic and well deserves its Michelin star. The chef is Finnish and it's just a little bit different to the usual whilst still tasting great. The menu changes every day and you can eat outside too.

Rue Lascaris.
www.jouni.fr
Tel: 33 4 9708 1480

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This is a fabulous vegetarian restaurant next to the old port. There is no menu to choose from: the Italian chef, Marco Folicaldi, cooks fresh ingredients from that morning's market.

Five courses delivered by friendly waiters who explain the ingredients of each course. Excellent food and wine, a unique restaurant with a great atmosphere.

4 bis, quai Papacino
(Rue de Foresta)
+33 049356 25 27

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La Zucca Magica is the best vegetarian restaurant in the south of France. It is located in Nice Harbour.

There's no menu as such - you get 5 small, perfectly prepared and utterly stunning courses: some of the best Italian food you'll ever eat and at a superb price. Unpretentious, delicious and fun. Highly recommended.

If you're approaching Nice Harbour from Nice, La Zucca Magica is on the left, facing the harbour.

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Villefranche is a 15-minute ride on the No 100 bus from the Gare Routier.

The views as you leave Nice and curve around the Cap de Nice into the Rade de Villefranche are spectacular.

Loads to do when you get there whatever your tastes. Sightseeing: the Citadel, Rue Obscure, the old Port; culture: four museums/galleries, all free entry; relaxing: two beaches, one coarse sand, the other stony; and loads of bars and restaurants.

There's a food market with local produce on Saturdays, antiques (well bric-a-brac) on Sundays, and above all it's a nice, relaxing, cosy place after the brashness of Nice.

PS don't take a car!

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Small, family-run restaurant packed with locals and regulars near the train station with great service, good quality food and large portions.

Makes a change from the tourist traps (bad food and rip-off service) around the pedestrian zone and the flower market/Cours Saleya.

Three-course menus start at €14 (very filling dish of the day); the €26 menu is almost gastronomic (frogs legs, veal sweetbread, foie gras or sole meunière).

A great address!

25 Rue d'Angleterre, between the back of Notre Dame Cathedral and the train station.
Closed on Sunday nights and Mondays.
Tel: 04 93 88 64 48

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A fantastic seafood restaurant in the old harbour. The Bouillabaisse is sensational.

They do it in the traditional fashion, with the mixed fish and seafood presented on a platter for your inspection before and after cooking, then served in an exquisite saffron-spiced broth with croutons and rouille. Delicious with a cold, dry Hock.

Sit outside, watch the sun set over the cliffs surrounding the harbour, and imagine you're Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.

In the old harbour

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Small (40 seater) and totally delightful restaurant near the port. Menu Italian/Mediterranean, and seriously good.

Amazingly, considering the quality of the food and the surroundings, it is also cheap. Menu changes daily, according to the market. First courses currently €5, main dishes €10. In addition, dishes can be sampled in "bouls".

Very good wine list.

Paulo Bonnisoni, the young Italian patron, is opening an Italian delicatessen across the street.

All tables filled with local clientele lunch and dinner, so booking is essential. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Boni, 21 Rue Berla (between the Museum of Modern Art and the port).
04 89 98 91 20

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It only has about 24 seats, looks like nothing special, but it serves the best Nicois food anywhere. The chef once had two Michelin stars but he gave them up to make home cooking. No phone and no credit cards.

4 rue Raoul Bosio

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A great vegetarian restaurant - not something easy to find anywhere, let alone France.

There's no menu, just whatever they bring you - usually five courses, strictly veggie. No hard choices! And good value too.

Probably need to book ahead for evenings.

4 bis, quai Papacino, +33 4 93 56 25 27

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