The Places · France
Nice
Made By profiles 12 places in Nice, spanning modern french fine dining, authentic niçois bistro, classic french fine dining — each tied to the people and producers behind it.
01.Modern French Fine Dining
Flaveur
Nice, France
Flaveur holds two Michelin stars and a sustained presence on La Liste and Opinionated About Dining, placing it among Nice's most serious creative kitchens. Brothers Mickaël and Gaël Tourteaux run both the kitchen and the front of house from a modest room on Rue Gubernatis, where local Provençal ingredients meet spices drawn from further afield. Service is precise, the format classical, and the cooking consistently committed to measured risk.
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02.Hotel
Hôtel du Couvent
Nice, France
A 17th-century convent transformed into one of Nice's most quietly authoritative hotels, Hôtel du Couvent earned the #27 position on the World's 50 Best Hotels list in 2025 and a Gault & Millau Exceptional Hotel distinction the same year. The 88-room Marriott Luxury Collection property trades Riviera flash for cloister calm: Roman baths, a resident herbalist, and garden rooms where the dominant sound is a fig tree in the breeze rather than the Promenade des Anglais.
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03.Classic French Fine Dining
Le Chantecler
Nice, France
Inside the Negresco on Nice's Promenade des Anglais, Le Chantecler carries a Michelin star and a Meilleur Ouvrier de France distinction under chef Virginie Basselot. The kitchen works from a Mediterranean-seasonal framework, sourcing from local artisans to produce modern French cooking with clear Provençal reference points. Dinner runs Wednesday through Sunday, positioning it firmly within Nice's upper tier of fine dining.
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04.Modern French Fusion Fine Dining
ONICE
Nice, France
ONICE holds a Michelin star and a 2025 ranking among Europe's top 700 restaurants on Opinionated About Dining, placing it firmly within Nice's compact tier of serious modern kitchens. Chefs Florencia Montes and Lorenzo Ragni run the room at 5 Rue Antoine Gautier, where the cooking sits at the sharper end of the Riviera's contemporary dining scene. At €€€€, it competes on ambition rather than occasion-dining convention.
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05.Modern French-Scandinavian Fine Dining
Pure & V
Nice, France
Pure & V brings a Nordic-inflected neobistro sensibility to Nice's old town, where Finnish chef Pinja Paakkonen's vegetable-forward cooking meets sommelier Vanessa Massé's natural wine focus. The ground-floor dining room runs a produce-driven menu built around fermentation and careful sourcing; upstairs, Pure & Vins offers a simpler evening format. Ranked #549 in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Europe for 2024.
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06.Modern French Fine Dining
L'Aromate
Nice, France
A Michelin-starred address near Place Masséna, L'Aromate serves modern Mediterranean cuisine from chef Mickaël Gracieux, whose résumé spans Oustau de Baumanière, Plaza Athénée, and Louis XV. The contemporary dining room pairs black, white, and gold interiors with an open kitchen, while the menu draws from local producers and Ligurian markets for ingredients such as San Remo prawns, local green crab, and Niçoise citrus.
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07.South African-French Fusion Fine Dining
JAN
Nice, France
A 20-seat counter on Rue Lascaris brings South African culinary sensibility into sharp dialogue with Côte d'Azur tradition. Chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen serves a single set menu that moves through sweet-sour contrasts, smoke, acid, and spice, an approach that has earned Michelin recognition and made JAN one of Nice's most closely watched reservation windows.
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08.Modern Niçoise Bistro
Chez Davia
Nice, France
On a quiet residential street in central Nice, Chez Davia represents the kind of Niçoise cooking that rarely travels far from its neighbourhood. Chef Pierre Altobelli holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for the second consecutive year and an Opinionated About Dining Casual recognition for 2025, placing the restaurant firmly in Nice's most respected tier of affordable, tradition-grounded dining. The price point sits at €€, making it one of the more accessible entries in the city's award-recognised restaurants.
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09.Modern French Bistro
L'Alchimie
Nice, France
Two consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmands (2024 and 2025) place L'Alchimie among Nice's most consistent value propositions in modern cuisine. Chef Philip Tan runs a tight, focused operation on Rue Maccarani that punches well above its price tier, drawing a loyal local following and near-perfect Google ratings across close to a thousand reviews.
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10.Mediterranean Niçois Bistro
Olive & Artichaut
Nice, France
Olive & Artichaut holds two consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand awards (2024 and 2025) and sits in Nice's Vieille Ville, where regional Niçoise cooking meets a considered, unhurried approach. At the €€ price point, it occupies a different tier from the city's starred rooms, making it one of the more reliable addresses for serious regional cooking without the formal overhead. Google reviewers rate it 4.6 across nearly 960 responses.
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11.Provençal French Bistro
Bistrot d'Antoine
Nice, France
Bistrot d'Antoine sits in Nice's Old Town as one of the Cours Saleya quarter's most consistent addresses for traditional Niçoise and Provençal cooking, earning consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition in 2024 and 2025. Chef Simon Scott holds the line on technique and sourcing at a price point that sits well below the city's starred tier, making it a reference point for anyone tracking the city's mid-range dining scene.
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12.Authentic Niçois Bistro
La Merenda
Nice, France
La Merenda sits at the lower end of Nice's price spectrum yet draws consistent recognition from both Michelin's Bib Gourmand and Opinionated About Dining's European casual list, ranked 68th in 2024, 75th in 2025. Chef Dominique le Stanc runs a strict, cash-only, no-reservation format that puts the food, not the experience machinery, at the centre. The case for eating here is straightforward: serious Niçoise cooking at a price point that the starred alternatives cannot match.
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