Les Viviers - Nice

This is a fabulous restaurant, a warm welcome, excellent service, a varied menu and food beautifully cooked and presented. What more can one ask for?

We came with great expectations. Recommended by Michelin, and very good reports here. Chef once meilleur ouvrier de France. Opened nearly 10 minutes past 12. Service attentive, this was the best. Wine list could be better. Pricing reasonable. A bottle which is sold for €75 in La Pinede (robber barons in Cap d‘Ail) is €43 No choice of salads. Escalope de foie gras good, but this hot dish is served on marinated salmon, thus spoiling the latter. Carre d‘Agneau turned out to be three slim ribs of a miniature lamb, which is half of the carre. Sauce salty and not convincing. Turbot expensive, not served on the bone, and far from good. A sobering experience. Altogether on the level of a 3 star hotel restaurant. It could be a hedonist’s temple under the guidance of a good chef.

Already at the time of booking, I should have suspected that there was a problem, because it is the same number for 2 restaurants and each time I was falling at the brasserie trying to pass the gourmet restaurant to me but without success. After 4 calls, we were finally able to book. The restaurant was full and only 2 people to serve, but considering the speed at which the dishes were coming out, they were probably not enough in the kitchen. We had to wait 30 minutes to order and more than an hour to have the appetizers. So we ate bread, a lot of bread... After an hour and a half the starter arrived and the main course followed quite quickly behind but it wasn't really hot and not really hungry anymore because of the bread. For the wines, nothing to say it's acceptable, we took by glass and they offered us 1 glass each to apologize for the wait. The staff is friendly but overwhelmed. it's a pity because I think it's a good restaurant but I won't go back there.

The quality of the food and the service is excellent! I tasted the best bouillabaise (fish soup) in this restaurant.

I went with my family and we were all impressed. Th food was excellent, among the finest in our trip in France. The star of my meal today was the Ravioli Langoustine. En pointe!