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The French Riviera Restaurants

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The French Riviera Restaurant Reviews

In Nice and the larger towns of the Eastern Riviera, you can savor a salade niçoise or soupe de poisson (fish soup) on a sunny terrace at any time of day. The Niçois, in particular, celebrate snacking, and this city alone in France is famous for its street food. But don't bring high culinary expectations to the top people-watching venues, such as the Cours Saleya in Nice or the Vieux Port in Cannes, though it's a safe bet that the dry local rosé will be well chilled, and the food fresh, if not elaborate. As a rule, restaurants in the Old Towns of Nice, Cannes, or Antibes stick to traditional fare; the more inventive chefs tend to set up shop a little off the beaten path. You'll find these ambitious chefs in picture-perfect hill towns such as Mougins, while the smaller villages of the arrière-pays (backcountry) remain bastions of rustic traditional cooking. Here, you're unlikely to find a restaurant that will serve outside conventional mealtimes—entire towns indulge in the afternoon sieste. More »