Where to Eat Socca in Nice (and the Rest of Nice's Street Food)
Chickpea pancakes, onion tarts and fried courgette flowers, eaten standing up.
Socca is Nice in one bite: a thin chickpea-flour pancake baked in a wood oven, cut into ragged pieces and showered with black pepper. Eat it hot, with your fingers, and a glass of rosé if it's past noon.
Here's where to find it, and the pissaladière, panisse and petits farcis that go with it.
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Chez Pipo
🍽️ Restaurants · Le Port & Mont Boron · € · allow 1 hour
The wood oven by the port, and the socca the locals queue for in the evening.
A socca house near the port that has been baking the chickpea pancake in a wood-fired oven for generations. Order a portion (or two), a glass of rosé and a pissaladière.
💛 Budget friendly🕯️ Cosy inside - 2
Chez Thérésa
🍽️ Restaurants · Vieux Nice (Old Town) · € · allow 30 min
Hot socca at the market, carried down from the oven in the Old Town.
A market favourite: socca baked in the Old Town and carried down to the Cours Saleya, served in a paper cone with plenty of black pepper. Best mid-morning while the market is in full swing.
💛 Budget friendly🧒 Good with kids - 3
Lou Pilha Leva
🍽️ Restaurants · Vieux Nice (Old Town) · € · allow 1 hour
Order everything at the counter and share it at long tables in the lane.
Order at the counter and eat at long tables in the lane: socca, pissaladière, panisse, beignets and stuffed vegetables. The easiest way to taste all of Nice's street food in one sitting.
🌿 Terrace outside💛 Budget friendly🧒 Good with kids - 4
Cours Saleya Market
☀️ Things To Do & Day Trips · Vieux Nice (Old Town) · Free · allow 1.5 hrs
Graze the stalls: olives, pissaladière, tapenade and fresh figs.
Nice's flower and food market fills the long Cours Saleya from early morning until about 1pm, Tuesday to Sunday. On Mondays it becomes an antiques and flea market. Come hungry.
💛 Budget friendly🧒 Good with kids - 5
Acchiardo
🍽️ Restaurants · Vieux Nice (Old Town) · €€ · allow 1.5 hrs
For a sit-down taste of the same tradition: beignets and stuffed vegetables.
A long-standing family bistro on Rue Droite where locals still come for Niçois dishes at fair prices: daube with gnocchi, beignets, stuffed vegetables. Simple, warm and busy.
🕯️ Cosy inside💛 Budget friendly - 6
Fenocchio
☕ Cafés, Bakeries & Gelato · Vieux Nice (Old Town) · € · allow 30 min
And for dessert, a scoop of lavender or tomato-basil gelato.
Nice's best-known ice-cream maker, facing the cathedral on Place Rossetti. Alongside the classics you'll find tomato-basil, lavender, olive and violet. Eat it on the cathedral steps.
🌿 Terrace outside🧒 Good with kids💛 Budget friendly
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