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💡 The Short Version: The places named by the most of the 27 publishers counted are Chez Pipo (12), Acchiardo (11), JAN and La Merenda (10 each), and Chez Thérésa, Le Chantecler and Le Plongeoir (7 each). The Michelin Guide France 2026 gives the city one two-star restaurant, Flaveur, and seven one-star restaurants, one of them closed for 2026. Chez Pipo takes no reservations and is closed Monday and Tuesday; Acchiardo and La Merenda shut at weekends. Racines is closed for 2026. Or book a tour: the No Diet Club tastingsad are from €69 and the food and wine old-town walkad from €84 (GetYourGuide).
📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. This pass read the restaurant lists of 27 publishers, 17 English-language and 10 French-language, and counts the publishers that name each place. They are resident and local sites such as Nice & Beyond and Niss Actu, magazines such as Time Out, Vogue France and AD, and newspapers such as The Times. Tripadvisor, TheFork and other review sites are not counted, and Michelin, Gault&Millau and the tourist office’s label list are read apart. A name on a list is not a recommendation: the count shows who is on the shortlist. How the guides are made
⚠️ Check the day. Chez Pipo is open Wednesday to Sunday only, with no reservations. Acchiardo and La Merenda are shut on Saturday and Sunday, and Flaveur, JAN and the Bistrot d’Antoine on Sunday and Monday. Chez Davia is closed on Monday and serves only dinner on Tuesday.
The places named by the most sources
The count is the number of publishers that name the place on a list of Nice restaurants or street food, with the split between English and French publishers. A place named by fewer than 4 is left out of this table.
| Place | Kind | Sources | English | French | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chez Pipo | Socca restaurant | 12 | 6 | 6 | |
| Acchiardo | Niçois restaurant | 11 | 6 | 5 | Cuisine Nissarde label |
| JAN | Set-menu restaurant | 10 | 8 | 2 | Michelin one star; Gault&Millau 3 toques |
| La Merenda | Niçois restaurant | 10 | 5 | 5 | Michelin Bib Gourmand |
| Chez Thérésa | Socca counter | 7 | 4 | 3 | Cuisine Nissarde label |
| Le Chantecler | Hotel restaurant | 7 | 7 | 0 | Michelin one star; Gault&Millau 3 toques |
| Le Plongeoir | Restaurant on a rock | 7 | 4 | 3 | |
| La Table Alziari | Niçois restaurant | 6 | 3 | 3 | Cuisine Nissarde label |
| Le Bistrot d’Antoine | Bistro | 6 | 4 | 2 | Michelin Bib Gourmand |
| Chez René Socca | Socca counter | 5 | 2 | 3 | |
| Lou Balico | Niçois restaurant | 5 | 3 | 2 | Cuisine Nissarde label |
| Lou Pilha Leva | Street-food counter | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
| Peixes | Seafood small plates | 5 | 4 | 1 | Michelin Selected |
| Babel Babel | Restaurant | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Bocca Nissa | Rooftop tapas bar | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Chez Davia | Niçois restaurant | 4 | 1 | 3 | Michelin Bib Gourmand; Cuisine Nissarde label |
| Fenocchio | Ice cream | 4 | 2 | 2 | |
| Flaveur | Creative restaurant | 4 | 2 | 2 | Michelin two stars; Gault&Millau 4 toques |
| Lavomatique | Bistro | 4 | 3 | 1 | |
| Le Bistrot des Serruriers | Bistro | 4 | 1 | 3 | |
| Le Safari | Cours Saleya restaurant | 4 | 3 | 1 | Cuisine Nissarde label |
The English lists lean towards the hotel restaurant and the set menu: Le Chantecler is named by 7 English lists and no French list, and JAN by 8 English and 2 French. The French lists lean towards the Niçois family restaurants and the bistros: Chez Davia (1 English, 3 French), Le Bistrot des Serruriers (1 and 3) and Chez René Socca (2 and 3). The starred restaurants other than JAN and Le Chantecler are named by one or two publishers each, except Flaveur with 4. The counts show who is on the shortlist; the awards below show whom the guides’ inspectors name.
These have their own guides: best socca in Nice and Nice food tours.
Michelin and the other awards
The Michelin Guide France 2026 was presented on 16 March 2026 in Monaco. Michelin’s list for Nice and its surroundings runs to 115 restaurants, from Èze to Cannes and Monaco; the lines below are the restaurants Michelin places in the city of Nice: one with two stars, seven with one, six with a Bib Gourmand, its mark for good value, and 26 more in its Selected list.
| Restaurant | Distinction | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Flaveur | Two stars | 25 rue Gubernatis |
| Le Chantecler | One star | Hôtel Negresco, 37 promenade des Anglais |
| Épicentre | One star, new in 2026 | 8 rue Fodéré |
| Les Agitateurs | One star | 24 rue Bonaparte |
| L’Aromate | One star | 2 rue Gustave-Deloye |
| JAN | One star | 12 rue Lascaris |
| ONICE | One star | 5 rue Antoine-Gautier |
| Café des Musiciens | Bib Gourmand | 13 avenue Auber |
| Chez Davia | Bib Gourmand | 11 bis rue Grimaldi |
| Bistrot d’Antoine | Bib Gourmand | 27 rue de la Préfecture |
| Olive & Artichaut | Bib Gourmand | 6 rue Sainte-Réparate |
| La Merenda | Bib Gourmand | 4 rue Raoul-Bosio |
| L’Alchimie | Bib Gourmand | 14 rue Maccarani |
Michelin’s days for the ones without an entry below: Les Agitateurs is closed on Tuesday and Wednesday and serves lunch and dinner at weekends; ONICE serves dinner from Wednesday to Sunday; Café des Musiciens serves lunch from Tuesday to Thursday, lunch and dinner on Friday and dinner on Saturday; Olive & Artichaut is closed on Sunday and Monday; and L’Alchimie serves lunch from Tuesday to Saturday and dinner on Friday and Saturday only.
Michelin says of L’Alchimie that it is invariably fully booked for the first service and much easier to find a table at 14:00. Of Les Agitateurs it says the chef works only with local suppliers, and of ONICE that the couple who run it met at Mirazur in Menton. Racines, the seventh one-star restaurant, is closed for 2026.
Michelin’s Selected list for the city names 26 more, among them La Rotonde at the Negresco, Le Cèdre, Taulissa, Tina Trattoria, Kōyō, Pialha, Magma, Le Bistrot de Jan, Shintaro, Colita, Pirouette, Peixes Opéra and Peixes Bonaparte.
- Gault&Millau gives Flaveur 4 toques, and Le Chantecler, JAN and L’Aromate 3 toques each, in its 2026 guide to Nice. Épicentre, Les Agitateurs and ONICE have 2. See Gault&Millau’s Nice page.
- The 50 Discovery, a curated list rather than a ranking, names Flaveur and JAN for Nice.
- Outside Nice, the starred restaurants readers ask about are Mirazur in Menton and Le Louis XV in Monaco, with three stars each, and La Chèvre d’Or in Èze, with two: see Menton, Monaco and Èze.
The Niçois table
The Cuisine Nissarde label is the tourist office’s: 27 establishments in the Métropole carry it, 18 of them in Nice, and the office says it asks them to respect traditional recipes, the products used, the proportions and the preparation methods. In Nice the list names A Buteghinn’a, Acchiardo, the Auberge de l’Aire Saint-Michel, Chez Cane, Chez Davia, Chez Marie-Thé, Chez Thérésa, D’Aqui, L’Escalinada, La Gaité Nallino, La Ratapignata, La Table Alziari, Le Pitchoun Traiteur, Le Safari, Le Tchitchou, Lou Balico, Lou Pelandroun and Lu Fran Calin. Chez Pipo, La Merenda and the Bistrot d’Antoine are not on it, and the lists name all three.
Chez Pipo
13 rue Bavastro, near the port · Wednesday to Sunday 11:30 to 14:30 and 17:30 to 22:00 · no reservations · Cited by 12 of 27 sources (6 English, 6 French) · chezpipo.fr
A socca restaurant whose operator says it has kept the tradition for close to 100 years. The socca comes from a wood-fired oven; The Times calls it nutty and smoky. The menu adds spreads of olive tapenade, anchovy cream and sun-dried tomato on toasted bread, pissaladière and pizza. The restaurant takes cards, American Express and cash, according to the tourist office. Closed Monday and Tuesday: best socca in Nice has the counters side by side.
Acchiardo
38 rue Droite, old town · Monday to Friday 12:00 to 14:00 and 19:00 to 22:00, closed at weekends · Cited by 11 of 27 sources (6 English, 5 French) · Cuisine Nissarde label
A family restaurant run by the Acchiardos since 1927, now in its fourth generation. The lists describe copper pots hung from the ceiling, family photographs on the walls, a run of typical Niçois dishes and local wines at a fair price. It seats 80, according to the tourist office, and takes cash, cards and restaurant vouchers.
La Merenda
4 rue Raoul Bosio, old town · Monday to Friday 12:00 to 14:00 and 19:00 to 21:30 · bookings through lamerenda.net · Michelin Bib Gourmand · Cited by 10 of 27 sources (5 English, 5 French)
A small bistro in an old-town street, with about 20 seats according to Time Out, run by Dominique Le Stanc, a former two-star chef at the Negresco, on a market menu that changes with the season. Its own site lists pissaladière, courgette-flower fritters, stuffed sardines, pasta with pistou, stockfish, daube and Swiss-chard pie. Time Out puts a meal at around €25 to €35 a head without drinks. The restaurant has no baby chairs and cannot take bulky suitcases or large dogs. It is shut on Saturday and Sunday, so book through its site.
Chez Thérésa
28 rue Droite, old town · Tuesday to Sunday 09:30 to 15:00 · no reservations · Cited by 7 of 27 sources (4 English, 3 French) · chez-theresa.fr
A socca counter since 1925, with a wood-fired oven from 1867 and a copper plate blackened by use, and a stand at the Cours Saleya market that brings the socca hot on a cargo tricycle. A slice of socca, pissaladière or pizza is €3.50 and a pan bagnat €6.00, from the operator’s own price list. Cuisine Nissarde label. It is closed on Monday.
Le Safari
1 cours Saleya · open seven days a week with continuous service · Cited by 4 of 27 sources (3 English, 1 French) · Cuisine Nissarde label
A restaurant with a terrace on the Cours Saleya market square. Its own site lists wood-fired pizzas and lamb, bagna cauda, grilled peppers, calamari with artichokes and fresh pasta with pistou, and Chef Denise, a food blog, says olives and pissaladière arrive to start. The restaurant says it has held the label since 2013.
La Table Alziari
4 rue François Zanin · daily · Cited by 6 of 27 sources (3 English, 3 French) · Cuisine Nissarde label
Niçois and Mediterranean cooking in a small family room with a terrace at the far end of the old town, according to the lists. Its entry on the tourist office’s label list carries a 2026 toque.
Lou Balico
20-22 avenue Saint-Jean-Baptiste · Cited by 5 of 27 sources (3 English, 2 French) · Cuisine Nissarde label
The assiette niçoise du Balico puts at least eight regional specialities on one plate for two, according to the lists, and the tourist office names socca, merda de can, which is Swiss-chard gnocchi, and petits farcis among its dishes. It has a children’s menu and high chairs and takes American Express. The No Diet Club food tour meets at its door: Nice food tours.
Chez Davia
11 bis rue Grimaldi · Monday closed, Tuesday dinner 19:00 to 21:30, Wednesday to Sunday 12:00 to 13:30 and 19:00 to 21:30 · Cited by 4 of 27 sources (1 English, 3 French) · Michelin Bib Gourmand · chezdavia.com
Run by three generations of one family since 1953. The restaurant names the daube niçoise, the barbajuans, small fried pastries, and the lemon tart as its house dishes, and its site takes bookings. It carries the label and, on the tourist office’s list, a 2026 toque.
Bistrot d’Antoine
27 rue de la Préfecture · closed Sunday and Monday · Michelin Bib Gourmand · Cited by 6 of 27 sources (4 English, 2 French)
Michelin lists an old-fashioned pork casserole with creamy polenta, knife-cut beef tartare and grilled veal kidney with wholegrain mustard, and says of the room, “Crowded? Well, yes.” Book.
Starred and destination dining
Flaveur
25 rue Gubernatis · Tuesday to Friday lunch and dinner, Saturday dinner, closed Sunday and Monday · two Michelin stars · Gault&Millau 4 toques · Cited by 4 of 27 sources (2 English, 2 French)
The brothers Gaël and Mickaël Tourteaux, who trained at the Negresco, won a first Michelin star in 2011 and a second in 2018. Michelin’s example of the cooking is a scorpion fish from Nice against a fish broth lifted with vadouvan, an Indian spice blend. Michelin gives the booking number as +33 4 93 62 53 95.
JAN
12 rue Lascaris · Tuesday to Saturday dinner 19:00 to 22:00 · one Michelin star · Gault&Millau 3 toques · Cited by 10 of 27 sources (8 English, 2 French)
A 20-seat room near the port, where the South African chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen cooks a single set menu that plays on sweet and sour and smoky flavours and gives an insight into South African cooking. Michelin adds that a cheese bar opposite offers about twenty cheeses. Next door, Le Bistrot de Jan is open daily from 12:00 to 15:00 and 19:00 to 00:30, with a lunch set menu, and is in Michelin’s Selected list.
Le Chantecler
Hôtel Negresco, 37 promenade des Anglais · one Michelin star · Gault&Millau 3 toques · Cited by 7 of 27 sources (7 English, 0 French)
Seasonal tasting menus in the Negresco’s dining room, cooked by Virginie Basselot, according to The Times, Michelin and Gault&Millau. It is the one restaurant on this page that English lists name and French lists do not. The Negresco’s brasserie, La Rotonde, is in Michelin’s Selected list and open daily from 07:00 to 22:00, with a terrace.
By the sea and for dessert
Le Plongeoir
60 boulevard Franck Pilatte · Cited by 7 of 27 sources (4 English, 3 French) · leplongeoir.com
A restaurant on a rock in the sea, serving Mediterranean, seasonal cooking at tables beside the water. Its site takes bookings. Its bar-lounge, Le Vivier, is closed for the season and reopens in May 2027.
Fenocchio
2 place Rossetti and 6 rue de la Poissonnerie, old town · Cited by 4 of 27 sources (2 English, 2 French) · fenocchio.fr
An ice-cream parlour since 1966, run by the founders’ grandson, with more than 96 flavours made in its workshop at La Gaude. The operator names violet, tomato-basil and Swiss-chard tart among the regional ones. The Place Rossetti shop has a large terrace under the cathedral.
The restaurant and café terraces on Place Rossetti, under the cathedral. Photo: Fred Romero, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
Peixes and Lavomatique
| Place | Where | What the lists say | Time Out’s days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peixes Opéra | 4 rue Jacques-Médecin | Seafood small plates and ceviche, in a room tiled in blue and white | Monday to Saturday 12:00 to 22:00, Sunday from 18:30 |
| Lavomatique | 11 rue du Pont Vieux | A former launderette turned bistro serving small plates, about €15 to €25 a head | Tuesday to Friday only |
Peixes has a second shop, Peixes Bonaparte, also in Michelin’s Selected list.
What to eat
| Dish | What it is | Where the sources send you |
|---|---|---|
| Socca | A thin chickpea-flour and olive-oil pancake, baked on a round copper plate and eaten hot with pepper, with the fingers | Chez Pipo, Chez Thérésa, Chez Marie-Thé |
| Pissaladière | A flatbread topped with slowly cooked onions, olives and anchovies; the name comes from pissalat, an anchovy paste | Chez Pipo, Chez Thérésa, La Merenda |
| Salade niçoise | Raw vegetables, tuna or anchovy, egg and olives. Jacques Médecin, Nice’s mayor, wrote in his 1972 cookbook that no boiled potato or other boiled vegetable belongs in it | Lou Balico, the label restaurants |
| Pan bagnat | The salad in a round roll soaked in olive oil | Chez Thérésa, Lou Balico, the bakeries and markets |
| Petits farcis | Tomatoes, courgettes, onions, peppers and aubergines hollowed and stuffed with a baked mix of meat, cheese, egg yolk, bread and herbs | Lou Balico |
| Tourte de blettes | A Swiss-chard pie, sweet or savoury; trouchia is the chard omelette and merda de can the chard gnocchi | Chez Thérésa, Lou Balico, Fenocchio’s ice cream |
| Daube, ravioli, stockfish | Beef daube, ravioli filled with it, and estocafic, dried-cod stew | La Merenda, Chez Davia, the label restaurants |
The tourist office names pan bagnat, ravioli à la daube and the salade niçoise as the three Niçois dishes to try.
A pissaladière from a Cours Saleya market stall, topped with onions, olives and anchovies. Photo: Arnaud 25, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Food tours
A food tour is a guided walk that stops to eat. GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices are per person:
| Tour | From | Length | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Diet Club: Unique Local Food in Nice with Tastingsad | €69 | 3 hours | 946 |
| Food and Wine Old Town Guided Walking Tourad | €84 | 4 hours | 429 |
| Sunset Food Tour with Full Meal and Winead | €87 | 3.5 hours | 174 |
Nice food tours compares them and the tourist office’s cooking class.
Closed and changed
- Racines, the one-star vegetarian restaurant at 3 rue Clément-Roassal, is closed for 2026.
- Le Plongeoir’s bar, Le Vivier, reopens in May 2027.
- Épicentre won its first Michelin star in March 2026.
- Michelin’s 2027 guide is presented in spring 2027.
At the table
- Book the small rooms. La Merenda takes bookings through its site, and Chez Davia’s site has a booking button. Chez Pipo and Chez Thérésa take no reservations.
- Lunch is short. Acchiardo serves from 12:00 to 14:00 and La Merenda from 12:00 to 14:00, and the socca counters shut between 13:30 and 15:00.
- Tipping. Service is in the price, and small change or 5 to 10 per cent is optional.
- Markets. The Cours Saleya market is the morning stop for socca stands and the fish market.
Plan the rest
3 days in Nice fits the meals to the sights and the closed days, where to stay in Nice compares the areas, and what to book before you go to Nice lists the closed days of every sight. The old town is where most of these restaurants are.
Common questions
Which places do the most food lists in Nice name?
Chez Pipo, with 12 of the 27 publishers counted (6 English, 6 French), then Acchiardo with 11, JAN and La Merenda with 10 each, Chez Thérésa, Le Chantecler and Le Plongeoir with 7 each, and La Table Alziari and the Bistrot d'Antoine with 6 each.
How many Michelin stars does Nice have?
In the Michelin Guide France 2026 the city has one two-star restaurant, Flaveur, and seven one-star restaurants: Le Chantecler, Épicentre, Racines, Les Agitateurs, L'Aromate, JAN and ONICE. Racines is closed for 2026. Six restaurants hold a Bib Gourmand.
Which Nice restaurants are closed on Sundays and Mondays?
Flaveur, JAN, the Bistrot d'Antoine and Olive & Artichaut are closed on both days, Acchiardo and La Merenda shut at weekends and Chez Pipo is closed on Monday and Tuesday. Chez Davia is closed on Monday and serves only dinner on Tuesday.
Do I need to book a restaurant in Nice?
La Merenda takes bookings through its own site, and Michelin says the Bistrot d'Antoine is crowded, so book it. Michelin lists a booking number for Flaveur, JAN, Les Agitateurs and ONICE. Chez Pipo and Chez Thérésa take no reservations.
What is the Cuisine Nissarde label?
A label the tourist office gives to 27 establishments in the Métropole, 18 of them in Nice, which it asks to respect traditional recipes, the products used, the proportions and the preparation methods. Chez Pipo, La Merenda and the Bistrot d'Antoine are not on its list.
Which well-known Nice restaurants are closed?
Racines, the one-star vegetarian restaurant on rue Clément-Roassal, is closed for 2026. Le Plongeoir's bar, Le Vivier, is closed for the season and reopens in May 2027.
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