The Best Mediterranean Food in Nice
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The best Mediterranean food in Nice, according to the experts: Michelin Guide and Le Fooding have both weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. L'Aromate comes out on top.
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Le Chantecler and Racines - Bruno Cirino hold the next two places. Michelin Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with Le Fooding next.
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Rank 1. L'Aromate
Modern Mediterranean
A glazed kitchen window lets you watch the brigade work from your table, which sets the tone at this sleek modern restaurant a short walk from Place Masséna. The chef cooked at Plaza Athénée and Le Bristol before landing here, and the cooking shows it: Mediterranean ingredients, Nice and Ligurian coast produce, handled with the precision that résumé implies. It holds a Michelin star.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 1. Le Chantecler
Modern Mediterranean
Fine dining inside the Negresco, the grand old hotel that lords over the Promenade des Anglais. Virginie Basselot, a Meilleur Ouvrier de France, runs the kitchen and cooks modern French with a Mediterranean lean, sourcing tightly from local producers. The room is the kind of swanky that makes you sit up straight without being told. A Michelin star hangs over the whole project, and the service is polished enough to match it.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 1. Racines - Bruno Cirino
Vegetarian Mediterranean
A Michelin-starred vegetable restaurant in Nice where the menu is a single set of whatever the kitchen garden offered at its peak that day. Bruno Cirino and his team have built the whole thing around local organic produce, coaxing something quietly extraordinary from garlic, olive oil, artichokes, and basil. The room is small, the price is not what you'd expect for a star, and the wine list runs the same way.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: 1 Star
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Rank 4. Café des Musiciens
Niçoise Mediterranean Bistro
A short, market-driven menu in Nice's Musicians' Quarter, where the cooking changes with what looked good that morning. This is a neighborhood bistro with Australian roots and a Niçoise soul, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand for hearty, unfussy plates served by the chef's partner, who runs the room with the ease of someone who genuinely likes being there. Natural wines, affordable lunches, and no dish on the menu that needs an explanation.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 4. La Merenda
Mediterranean
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 6. Le Canon
Natural Mediterranean
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 6. MARMAR
Mediterranean
A former burger joint on a backstreet near the port, now a bright Mediterranean restaurant run by a southern Italian chef and a Lombard sommelier who named it by combining their surnames. The kitchen pulls from the Saleya Market daily, so the menu shifts with whatever looked good that morning, leaning on citrus and spice. The wine list roams all over Europe and moves around as much as the food does.
The awards
- Le Fooding Le Fooding: Le Fooding Guide
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 8. Bistrot d'Antoine
Southern French Mediterranean Bistro
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Bib Gourmand
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Rank 9. Apopino
Mediterranean
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. La Rotonde
Mediterranean
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. Le Bistrot des Docks
Modern Mediterranean
A chalkboard menu across from the Docks de la Riviera covered market sets the tone: this is a neighborhood gourmet bistro that the tourist trail has yet to find, which suits the regulars just fine. The kitchen runs on seasonal Mediterranean produce, and the short menu changes with what's good rather than what's safe. Service is warm and personal in the way only a small operation can pull off.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. Les Deux Canailles
Mediterranean
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant
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Rank 9. Taulissa
Southern French Mediterranean
The sixth floor gives you Nice from both sides, city behind you and sea ahead, which is a view that makes it hard to focus on the menu. This hotel restaurant in Maison Albar - Le Victoria leans into Southern French cooking, with local produce and confident, deeply reduced sauces. The team presents dishes tableside, so there's a gentle theatre to the whole thing that stops just short of fussy.
The awards
- Michelin Guide Michelin Guide: Selected Restaurant