L'Atelier

L'Atelier, 17 Rue Gioffredo. Top quality soccas in the beautiful city of Nice! They are of the highest quality and also offer excellent, refined service. You have to make the effort to walk 5 minutes further than the tourist center, but it's definitely worth it! You won't regret it!

Every course and every taste was exceptional. Delicate, rich, elegant flavors. Highly recommend.

Very professional chief and friendly personal. We really enjoyed it. Food was great and very creative.

Perfect first meal in Nice! Had a great experience - they must have updated the space based on past reviews because the atmosphere was lovely and intimate with comfortable, classic seating. Highly recommend the chef's tasting menu where each dish is a surprise and delicious. It allowed our group to try foods we would normally avoid and loved them. We loved guessing the ingredients with our server who was great. There was only one server and one chef but the dishes were well paced and we appreciated the space to enjoy a good meal without feeling rushed. Prices felt very fair for quality and quantity of food. Will definitely return when visiting Nice again!

I don’t know where to start, please, visit this restaurant. The quality of the dishes is top notch, creativity, flavor, innovation and presentation is amazing. Everything I tried was exquisit, my waiter was amazing, I loved how he let me guess about what was I trying and then he explained everything. Every dish danced perfectly in my mouth, a symphony of flavor. Will be going back many times. Also, prince was very fair, I tried the three course menu and I felt that it was worth every penny.

We chose the chef’s choice dinner with wine. Wonderful meal. Each dish prepared with skill. So much fun guessing the ingredients. Easily the best meal of our trip.

What a wonderful experience from an amazing duo. The front of house guy is charming, knowledgeable, efficient and amusing. The chef is creative, warm and oh so talented! We chose a four course chef's choice meal with paired wine. Every course was incredible in creativity, flavors and presentation. And the chef was so kind to come out to chat with us at the end and toast our anniversary. Bravo to both!

I am surprised by their food. I chosen the dinner three plate by chef. All came out good! Tasty! And it is a quiet place.

With so much amazing food in Nice, it would be difficult to not eat well, even for a tourist. But when you are given a heads up about a restaurant from a reliable local, then it would be foolish to not heed the advice. For us, a visit to L'Atelier was that advice and we are glad that we went. Things didn't start off well, but they couldn't have needed better. It was a wet, nasty day. And by the time we made it to the restaurant, it was that odd time of day where they are closing their lunch service and will not be open until dinner service. But the awesome staff told us that they can still make us some Socca. I had the socca with cheese and my wife had the socca with foie gras. They were both absolutely amazing. Perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned. All the ingredients just came together well. It was also a surprisingly large portion. What I thought was going to be a snack turned out to be a meal. And with a great coffee at the end our meal was complete. It's not too often that one can visit a Michelle star rated restaurant and have a meal for under 20 euro per person. But that's exactly what we did here. One day, I'd love to come back and try everything else on the menu. I have no doubt it's just as good.

The socca appetizers were nice and tasty. The service was average at best. For a $50 bill for 2 soccas and 2 beers I expect more.

This was by far one of my favorite places to dine in Nice! We came here when we were visiting Nice in May and the weather was pleasant enough to sit and eat our meal outside. As a lot of restaurants in France, L'atelier has its menu written on a blackboard with chalk. This is one of the things I love about dining in France (at least at the good spots) is that they really aim to serve food that is in season and the menu changes constantly to accommodate for the various seasonal produce / meat / fish. The specialty of this place is socca (this is a Nicoise specialty which is basically a chickpea flour crepe). I am vegan and gluten free so I was really delighted that they could accommodate for my dietary restrictions. This place takes the simple socca - which is traditionally served with salt and pepper and elevates it to another level by making individual soccas in their cast iron pots and then topping it with various delicacies - as I recall you could get anything from foie gras to Thai beef to grilled vegetables as a topping on your socca. One of the things that I really liked about this place was the service. Not only was it good but the waiter was so charming (a delight to find anywhere but especially in France). Not to get on a soapbox, but one of biggest pet peeves when visiting a restaurant is lack of good service. It can be the best restaurant in the world with the most amazing food but the meal is imperfect unless accompanied with great service. But this place has the most spectacular service, our waiter was charming and more than willing to help us out since the menu was written in French (and my French is rustic at its best)! Me and my boyfriend both decided to order socca - I ordered mine topped with various seasonal roasted vegetables while my boyfriend ordered his with Thai beef (which the server recommended). I wasn't in the mood to drink but my boyfriend ordered a glass of red with the recommendation of our server. Both of us really enjoyed our meal! It was flavorful, seasoned perfectly and very well balanced. My boyfriend also thought that this wine paired really well with the Thai beef. I was quite full after the meal but we looked around and the desserts looked so delicious that my boyfriend couldn't resist and ordered the deconstructed Ferrero Rocher (suggested by our server once again!). The dish was so beautiful to look that - its served in a glass jar and has mousse at the bottom and layered with chocolate and crunchy nuts and had several cookies and chocolate added from top. Its much easier to explain via the picture (which I have added). Overall, our experience here was great and I would highly recommend trying out this place if you find yourselves in Nice!

Excellent food in a very rustic restaurant. Very warm interior. Awesome value. Reserve early, only 26 seats.

One of the best! WE made Nice our headquarters on a 3 week south of france trip and this was the one we kept coming back to... hope to be back next summer!

The worst thing about our dinner at L'Atelier was that it came on our last night in Nice -- we might've eaten there every night had it come up earlier in my restaurant searching. It could be that the name, which essentially means "shop" and is common in many business names, and the location, a bit away from the restaurant-heavy areas of the city, make it harder to find online. Since we had an early flight out the next morning, we were out to get dinner relvatively early, and arrived just a few minutes after their dinner hours began as the evening's first patrons. We had sought out various niçois dishes during our trip, but hadn't had socca yet. L'Atelier takes a unique approach to the regional specialty, using it as a base on which to serve a variety of toppings. Unlike the socca that some restaurants make in a large pan and split into smaller servings, these are individual-sized. My wife and I ordered the Thai beef and the bresaola and mozzerella, and split them. They were superb. I preferred the bresaola a bit, if only because it was more unusual for me. The ingredients were fresh and delicious all the way around. They had an extensive dessert list, from which we ordered chocolate and raspberry crepes. This was a dish of three small crepes with chocolate filing, folded into triangles and covered with raspberries and sauce, with a scoop of vanilla ice cream (or gelato perhaps) and a pinch of coconut sprinkles on the side. Also delicious. The service was great as well. Our server answered whatever questions we had about the menu and happily tolerated my weak French. She recommended wines for us from their extensive selection, as well. Not long after we arrived, the rest of the restaurant began to fill up, and it was mostly full by the time we left. It isn't very big -- maybe 10 tables -- but our server was handling the whole place, and two chefs were running the entire kitchen. Nonetheless, she was very charming and helpful, and provided a great night to end our trip.

Wonderful! Unique! Gluten free heaven! We had dinner at L'atelier last night. It was excellent. Besides fresh fish the specialty of the house is a naturally gluten free socca with your choice of different main dishes on top. I ordered the fresh tuna tartare which was cut similar to poke and marinated in a sesame ginger delight. Fresh greens were dressed similarly, and both were arranged masterfully with shaved cheese on top. Every bit of it melted in my mouth. My husband ordered the socca with smoked salmon rolled with French cheese, and it while it looked similar the flavor was not similar to mine; yet equally delicious. (Socca is a chick pea flour crepe.) A great wine was suggested, and it was a perfect pairing. We saw people sharing these as a first course but chose not to. We ate it as a main. Great second, third, and dessert choices, too! We were told the pasta is made in house. Very nice people attended to us, too.