Because of the spelling of "Nice" and the inability to discriminate from "nice", a restaurant search for Nice doesn't provide much help. Does anyone have a suggestion for a reasonably priced restaurant in Nice? We are "foodies", but prefer great food and local ambiance rather than a grand restaurant?

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L'Univers in Nice is pretty good.

Hi Mike. We happened upon a very interesting, kind of "old world" restaurant in Nice about a month ago. Called Pazzez &agrave; Table, it's at 30, Rue Pertinax, one block east of the main shopping street, Avenue Jean Medicin.<BR><BR>It's very homey (the family lives there) with just a few tables, and cages of birds, two dogs, and a cat. We both thought the food we had there was very good and we especially enjoyed who our waiter was, the family's delightful 13 year old son named Florestan. It was one of our most memorable dining experiences of our trip.

Sorry, mispelled it. It's Passez &agrave; Table.

Thanks to a recommendation from a Fodor's person, we went to Piazza Massena at 2 rue Massena in Nice. It had the wonderful pizza and salad and was very inexpensive.

hi. i think the best way to experience food in nice is do-it-yourself: hit the market in the old town (cours saleya)and work out a picnic. bread, fresh or aged cheese, great vegtables, spices, jambon and salami, maybe a bit of socca just to try it. get a bottle of wine, water or beer and make for a bench, beach or the chateau. wonderful local ambiance. if you're left to a restaurant, in general terms, the food is neither french nor italian and kind of mediocre. or get in a car and head for the hinterlands. if you can get up to peille, for example, you will find real provencal cooking. have a great time.

Lou Pistou was wonderful! Small place with 10 or 12 tables. All fresh food, the husband is in the kitchen and the wife runs the front. Highly recommend it. Just off the Plaza Massena at the beginning of the old town. PS-Chantecleer was wonderful! You may want to consider it.

Thanks for the recommendations. Any more?

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Mike-run don't walk to Tavern Massena in Nice. I am one of the Fodors people that constantly recommends this place. Paula above called it Piazza Massena(its been a couple years so maybe I have the name wrong).It is inexpensive,very local atmosphere,wonderful wood oven pizza that makes your mouth melt! I am from Chicago and we are known for great pizza here-but trust me when I say that I would hop a plane for Nice today just for that pizza!Be sure and leave some room for a chocolate crepe from the little store across the street from Tavern Massena.......be still my cellulite!

<BR>In Nice:<BR>Cannes Pizza<BR>Auberg de Arts<BR>Don Camillo<BR><BR>Lots of great restraunts along the strip where the flower/vege/junk markets are held in the morning, I just cant remember the names of the ones we ate at.<BR>