Brasserie Saleya - Nice

We enjoyed a nice simple lunch here having walked from villefranche via the coastal path and the port of Nice. Service was good friendly and attentive. I had the Niçoise salad and my wife had one of the specials of the day melon...and parma ham. Reasonable value including a bottle of local rose wine given location etc.

As a solo dinner the service was bad, every other table shown specials. I got just the menu.Ordered a seabass dish at €23 which in all honesty was an insult to the fish. Gorgeous veg on the side but I can cook better and the French say the English can't cook. Serves me right for picking a tourist hotspot, on a positive great people watching spot!

I ate here twice with my mother and we were very impressed. The service was exceptional, which is more than can be said for some other restaurants in that area. The food is very good and the staff were very helpful in making adaptations for me being vegetarian. I would highly recommend it. The staff are lovely.

70 euros is too much for three drinks, two pizzas and a half kilo of mussels. It might be forgivable if the quality were good but the pizza was flaccid and the mussels frankly odd tasting. Inedible in fact - we left half of them. We should have taken warning from the fact that there were hardly any other customers, while other places nearby were buzzing. We ate well elsewhere in Nice, and at good value - this was a duff choice.

We come to Nice every few weeks and always try to fit in a visit to the Saleya. Amidst the plethora of pizza and pasta places in the beautiful market it stands out for a thoughtful menu of well-cooked dishes that are a bit different. The staff are really welcoming and go out of their way to be helpful. Tonight we had salmon en croute with a dill and lemon sauce and a nice bottle of Sancerre. We can definitely recommend this as a great place to people-watch on a summer's evening, and we like it even more in the cooler seasons, when the cosy interior is just as welcoming.