Full Description
Pocket-sized, full-colour guide to Nice, ideal for an active short break
Nice Sunflower Walk and Eat pocket guide is designed to add another dimension to your walking holiday in Nice.
This pocket-sized full-colour guide is designed for walking in Nice with a gastronomical touch, using public transport. Besides Nice itself, the book describes walks and excursions in the most beautiful coastal and inland areas easily reached by public transport - from the Esterel in the west to Cap Martin in the east and from the coast north to the Alps. Even non-walkers will appreciate the recommendations for restaurants in Nice, Cap Ferrat, La Turbie, Menton, Théoule-sur-Mer.
In Nice Sunflower Walk and Eat guide you'll find:
Detailed, easy-to-follow descriptions of fairly straightforward walks with large-scale maps
Excursions include one by train and one by bus with walks from each
Recommended restaurants en route serving local dishes with sample menus included
Essential holiday information including planning your trip, logistics on arrival, local markets and specialities, glossary of local food terms and a restaurant mini-vocabulary
Advice on natural local foods suitable for those with food intolerances
Street map of Nice, information on markets and locally produced food as well as free downloadable GPS tracks
Whether you fly out for a weekend, week or a fortnight, with this book you'll have in your hand enough walks, excursions, restaurants and recipes to last throughout - so you can choose the most appealing. For each suggested restaurant there is a photograph of the décor and one of their dishes, plus sample menu, price guide, opening times and a recipe for one of their specialities. All recipes have been tried, tested and enjoyed by the authors so we think you'll enjoy them too!
Contents
PLAN OF CENTRAL NICE inside front cover
INTRODUCTION 4
the walks 5
the excursions 5
the restaurants 6
the recipes 6
planning your visit 7
when to go 7
where to stay 8
what to take 8
planning your walks 10
verifying timetables in advance 12
on arrival 14
city bus/tram pass 14
tourist information 15
shopping for self-catering 16
markets 17
WALK 1 • on the rooftops of nice 20
restaurants: café de turin and rené socca in nice 26
recipes: socca and petits farcis (stuffed vegetables) . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
WALK 2 • mont chauve d'aspremon 32
restaurant: various in aspremont 39
recipe: roast leg of lamb with juniper, garlic and rosemary 41
WALK 3 • peillon and peille 42
restaurant: auberge de la madone in peillon, la voûte in peille 48
recipe: christmas-day pheasant (in brandy cream sauce) 49
WALK 4 • around cap ferrat 50
restaurants: various around cap ferrat, taverne masséna
and chez freddy in nice 55
recipes: cassoulet, potato cake, chocolate cake 58
WALK 5 • to the esterel 62
restaurants: marco polo in théoule 66
recipes: chicken with tarragon and cream, bourride (fish stew) 67
WALK 6 • la turbie and èze 70
restaurants: le café de la fontaine in la turbie,
le nid d'aigle in èze 76
recipe: caramelized rabbit with lemon 78
WALK 7 • ste-agnès and castellar 80
recipe: menton lemon tarte 87
WALK 8 • cap martin 88
restaurants: la grotte and l'olivier in roquebrune; 91
le big boss in menton
recipes: turbot or halibut, in wine or à la provençale 92
EXCURSION 1 • train des pignes 94
MAP OF THE NICE HINTERLAND 96
restaurants: various in annot , including café du commerce . 101
recipe: daube à la provençale (beef stew in red wine) 102
restaurant: balthazar in nice 103
WALK 9 • above puget-théniers 104
restaurant: le vauban in entrevaux, maison du pays in puget 108
recipe: lamb stew with chestnuts 109
WALK 10 • grès d'annot 110
recipe: osso bucco nice-style 115
EXCURSION 2 • gorges du cians 116
WALK 11 • above beui 120
restaurant: hotel l'escapade in beuil 125
recipes: various chestnut recipes, blettes (chard) à la provençale 126
WALK 12 • cime de l'arpiha 128
restaurant: les trois vallées at the col de turini 132
recipe: venison steaks with blackberry sauce 133
EAT GF, DF 134
eating in restaurants 135
self-catering 136
gf, df shopping 137
gf, df cooking; conversion tables 138
GLOSSARY (menu items, shopping terms) 140
INDEX 143
IN THE RESTAURANT (pocket vocabulary ) inside back cover
