Libération

North of the centre, Libération is where Niçois actually do their daily shopping, around the long covered-and-open market of the Avenue Malausséna and the restored Gare du Sud, now a food hall under its glass-and-iron canopy. The crowd is more local and more mixed than downtown, the prices fairer, and the cooking spans North African, Italian and proper Niçois without much fuss. It rewards a morning wander more than a planned destination meal: cheese, charcuterie, a coffee standing at the counter. The tram makes it an easy hop from Masséna, and it stays busy without ever feeling staged.