Must-see restaurants in Nîmes

  • Vincent Croizard – Le Restaurant

    Nîmes

    From its discreet façade on a quiet side street, you'd never guess that this restaurant is home to an impossibly romantic lamplit courtyard garden and…

  • Les Halles

    Nîmes

    With over 100 stalls in 3500 sq metres, Nîmes’ covered market is the best place for supplies. Look out for local specialities including picholines – a…

  • Aux Plaisirs des Halles

    Nîmes

    Market-fresh dining – veal, beef, chicken, fresh fish – is the order of the day here, served with an excellent choice of Languedoc wines. The mains are…

  • La Petite Fadette

    Nîmes

    Tartines (open-face toasted sandwiches) such as ham and tomato or fig jam and goat’s cheese, as well as huge salads, are specialities of this cosy salon…

  • La Marmite

    Nîmes

    The menu changes almost daily depending on what the chef considers the best local produce at the nearby Halles, and specials – always flavoursome – are…

  • Le Nocturne

    Nîmes

    Late-opening Le Nocturne is a fine place to dine on rich southwestern flavours. Duck and beef dominate the menu, but there are also appetising fish and…

  • L’Imprévu

    Nîmes

    Tucked away in the corner of place d’Assas, this fine-dining bistro has a sheltered interior courtyard and a terrace. There’s a good choice of seafood,…

  • Le Carré d’Art

    Nîmes

    Open since 1989, this long-standing institution is still going strong. The setting is elegant, in an abstract-art-adorned 19th-century townhouse with a…

  • Croquants Villaret

    Nîmes

    This family boulangerie (bakery) makes 25 kinds of bread, cakes and other sweet treats such as caladons (honey and almond-studded biscuits). They also…

  • Mercadante

    Nîmes

    Sicilian brothers Fabio and Salvo Mercadante serve the classic flavours of their homeland at their little den overlooking a busy thoroughfare. Expect…