French in Nice

All-day natural-wine bistro and specialty café on rue Bonaparte

Industrial-chic Place du Pin institution, café by day, bar by night

Aurèle Gasperoni's solo tasting kitchen in the Petit Marais

Japanese chef's long-running French table

Pop-art-walled old-town bistro the locals guard

Market-driven bistro by Nicolas Mendjisky, opposite the hall

Cheese, natural wine and fondue in a 16th-century vaulted cave

Chef-owner José Orsini's 25-year bistronomic seafood room on Quai Lunel

Hyper-local cooking and a cult natural-wine cellar near the Negresco