Tag Archives: Nice

Romance in the Old Town

Le Tire Bouchon - review by Kari Clouston
Located on rue de la Prefecture, the Old Town’s designated posh road, you can discover one of the areas most recommended restaurant - Le Tire Bouchon. Perfectly positioned with the glamorous Palais du Justice, 30 seconds to the left and Caprioglio’s family run ‘cave a vin’ 20 seconds […]

Financial Times marks Nice as investment hotspot

The financial Times in its weekend edition on Saturday the 3rd of November has concluded that Nice’s new tram way system (one of the largest infrastructure projects in Europe) has opened up whole swaths of Nice to the canny investor. Quoting founding director and CEO of Totally Riviera, Dennis Broadfield, the FT continues - “Broadfield […]

“This is the Age of the train…”

…So said Jimmy Saville in the 1980’s in a huge (although obviously low budget) TV ad campaign for British Rail.
But - unlike most of Britian’s current rail services - it seems Jimmy was early, by about 25 years. Only now are we really beginning to see some big, fast shiny developments in European rail travel […]

Pure Bliss…the bar

Bliss bar - review by Kari Clouston
Nicely hidden down one of the many twisting alleys in the Old Town, ‘Bliss’ has lifted the classy lounge notch that little higher. This new trendy and contempory lounge bar, open now for just under a month, is becoming the new hang-out for the sophisticated Parisian crowd in […]

Frank Schaap

I’m not sure if this legendary Piedmont bluesman from Kentucky is still based in Nice but if he is and you’re there, you should move heaven and earth to catch a set. I think he had a residency at Johnnie’s Bar - I saw him a couple of times at the Bar des Oiseaux […]

Lawyers hangout - but it’s actually good

Indyana restaurant – Review by Dennis Broadfield
Indyana is a quality restaurant off the tourist trail, populated, especially at lunch, by local lawyers, stylish businessmen and women, and chic fashonista’s trying to make an impression. In many other restaurants this melange would spell style-over-substance, with a predictably self-conscience menu, but not here. I have regularly visited […]

“I suppose it had to happen..”

…but those of us who know and love the Part des Anges in the Rue Gubernatis have been trying too keep it under the radar for some time. Now Time Out have gone and put it in their latest guide to the Riviera.
If it wasn’t already hard enough to get a table (lunch and dinner, […]

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