Best Burgers in Nice: Old Town to Port

To find the best burgers in Nice, start in Vieux-Nice and around the port, then head north to Libération and the streets off Avenue Jean-Médecin. Those are the areas where the city’s restaurants and evening crowds concentrate, and where a burger counter shares the street with socca stalls and pizza ovens.

Nice already has a famous round-bun sandwich. The pan bagnat is a crusty roll soaked in olive oil and filled with tuna or anchovies, raw vegetables, hard-boiled egg and small Niçoise olives, and it sets the bar for any burger in town. Niçois cooking leans on olive oil, basil and vegetables rather than butter or cream. Street food here is eaten outdoors, on a terrace or along the Promenade des Anglais.

Burgers in Nice: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Vieux-Nice and the Cours Saleya, the Port Lympia area, Libération around its market, and the centre between Place Masséna and Nice-Ville station.
• Local street food: socca (a thin chickpea pancake), pissaladière (an onion tart with anchovies) and pan bagnat.
• Getting around: three tram lines cross the city, and line 2 links the port to the airport.
• When locals eat: lunch from noon, dinner from about 7.30 pm, with terraces full late into summer nights.
• Currency: euro (EUR).
• What our guides check: that a venue is open, its full address, a dated menu price and a dated rating with its review count.

Every guide we publish on Nice is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. To compare with other cities, browse our burger restaurant guides by city.