# The Riviera Table: From Nice to Menton — The South of France
> Where to eat along the Côte d’Azur — the cuisine niçoise of the old town, the perched-village tables, and one window over the bay at Menton.

*Source : https://the-south-of-france.com/en/the-table/riviera-table-guide/*

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By **The Editors** — _Nice to Menton_

Spring 20268 min read Share LinkMail

The Riviera eats two ways. There is the cuisine niçoise of the markets — socca, pissaladière, salade niçoise made properly, with no potato — and there is the grand terrace, hung over the sea, where the view is half the bill. Both are worth your time; neither should be hurried.

## I. The perched tables

At Èze, **La Chèvre d’Or** serves lunch on a terrace that falls four hundred metres to the water. At Saint-Paul-de-Vence, **La Colombe d’Or** sets you among Légers and Mirós and a famous trolley of hors-d’œuvre. At Menton, **Mirazur** cooks down its own terraced gardens above the bay.

“On the Riviera, lunch is a view you happen to eat through.”

From the notebook

![A small harbour on the Côte d’Azur at golden hour](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1576341041968-319baa97c70a?fm=jpg&q=74&w=1400&auto=format&fit=crop)

The old port at dusk — the terraces fill, and the sea does the talking.

## II. The old town, standing up

In Nice, eat the way the city does: socca hot off the copper pan at the Cours Saleya market, a slice of pissaladière, a glass of Bellet from the hills behind the airport. It costs almost nothing and tells you more about the coast than any tasting menu.

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### Plan the _table_

When to go

May–June and September. July–August the perched tables book out and the coast roads crawl.

The market

**Cours Saleya**, Nice — flowers and produce daily except Monday (antiques).

Book ahead

The terrace tables at Èze and Menton fill weeks out; reserve directly.

Read next

[The Riviera in three days](https://the-south-of-france.com/en/french-riviera/riviera-in-three-days/)

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About the Author · L’auteur

#### Élise Marchand

Travel Editor — based in Marseille

Élise has been driving the back roads of the Midi for the journal since its first issue. She pays for her own rooms and her own lunches — and only writes about the places she would return to.

[More by Élise Marchand — voir ses articles](https://the-south-of-france.com/en/journal/)

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