Salade nicoise is the Nicois raw vegetable salad with tomatoes, anchovies, hard boiled eggs, Nicoise olives, raw red onion, raw green pepper and tuna, all dressed with olive oil and never any cooked vegetable.
Salade nicoise originated as the Nicois fishermen's quick lunch made from the components of the morning market. The Cuisine Nissarde label requires raw vegetables only, no cooked potato or green bean (Escoffier's later version added them) and Nicoise olives instead of black olives. The dish travels well across the city under the same name at Chez Acchiardo, La Petite Maison and Le Safari.
4 editor picks for Salade Nicoise in Nice, ranked by editorial score. All Nice signature dishes · Salade Nicoise across every city.
La Petite Maison ★ 4.6
carre-d-or · 11 Rue Saint Francois de Paule, 06300 Nice
La Petite Maison in Nice's Carre d'Or has cooked Nicole Rubi's Mediterranean room since 1999 on Rue Saint Francois de Paule, the home of the Nice school of cooking now exported to London and Dubai.
Acchiardo ★ 4.5
vieux-nice · 38 Rue Droite, 06300 Nice
Acchiardo on Rue Droite in Vieux Nice has cooked the family Nicoise canon since the close of the First World War, four generations under the Acchiardo name and a single sitting at lunch.
Le Safari ★ 4.2
vieux-nice · 1 Cours Saleya, 06300 Nice
Le Safari on Cours Saleya in Vieux Nice has cooked the canonical Nicois lunch since 1972, the Cuisine Nissarde labelled trattoria with terrace tables across from the flower market.
Felix ★ 3.9
carre-d-or · 12 Avenue Felix Faure, 06000 Nice
Felix on Avenue Felix Faure faces the Coulee Verte garden in Nice's Carre d'Or, the historic city brasserie reopened under a new name with French Mediterranean across five rooms and a large outdoor terrace.