La Mamma St Roch runs a mozzarella bar and wood-blistered pizzas near the station in Montpellier, imported Italian cheeses over gnocchi and pappardelle.
Tip: Start at the mozzarella bar before the pizzas; it is one of the few kitchens in the quarter serving every day.
La Mamma St Roch pairs a mozzarella bar with pizzas and fresh pasta near Montpellier's station quarter, Italian cheeses flown in for the counter.
Order: The mozzarella bar selection before any pizza.
Tip: Open every day including Sunday night, which makes it the station quarter's most dependable Italian table.
French Kiss faces Gare Saint-Roch in Montpellier with retro decor, planches, revisited French plates and a Sunday buffet brunch at 28 euros.
Order: A planche with the house cocktail.
Tip: Its all-day continuity suits odd train times; dinner proper only runs Tuesday to Saturday.
French Kiss runs all day opposite Gare Saint-Roch in Montpellier, a retro café-restaurant that rolls from coffee into planches and Sunday brunch.
Signature drink: Signature cocktails
Tip: The 28 euro Sunday brunch includes an unlimited salad and dessert buffet, useful right off a morning train.
Nectar Cocktail Club shakes drinks with herbs from its hotel's rooftop garden at the Belaroïa by Gare Saint-Roch in Montpellier, plates from 18:00.
Signature drink: House creations with rooftop-garden herbs
Food: Sharing plates from 18:00
Tip: It sits inside the Belaroïa hotel by the station, which makes it the natural first or last drink of a train trip.
La Nonna runs the JOST hotel rooftop by Saint-Roch station, pouring spritzes over bruschette with nightly DJ sets or live music above the quarter.
Signature drink: Spritz list
Food: Bruschette and antipasti until 22:45
Tip: Walk-ins only and it closes in bad weather; Wednesday brings the grilled-skewer night to the roof.
French Kiss runs an all-day room on Rue Jules Ferry near the station and turns Sunday over entirely to a sit-down brunch service until 16:00.
Order: The shared brunch board with charcuterie, eggs and house pastries
Tip: Sunday is the only brunch day here; the rest of the week it works as an all-day bistro and cocktail room.
La Nonna occupies the JOST hotel rooftop by Saint-Roch station, an Italian kitchen running to 22:45 and a pool-side bar that carries on until 01:00.
Try: Italian small plates and rooftop cocktails
Tip: The rooftop pool bar is open to non-guests; the last food order lands at 22:45.
La Nonna sits on top of the JOST hotel with a pool, an Italian kitchen and a long view across the rooftops of Saint-Roch towards the Ecusson.
Tip: Monday evenings through the summer the rooftop runs Thau oysters with a glass of white from €14, walk-in from 18:00.