Troubadour Restaurant, Èze Village
Tucked inside a 15th-century stone house on Rue du Brec, Le Troubadour has been feeding travellers and locals since 1968, serving honest Provençal cooking — daube de boeuf, socca, fresh goat's cheese — in a vaulted dining room that feels like eating inside history.
What to Order
The lamb slow-cooked with herbs de Provence and the pan-fried sea bass with ratatouille are benchmarks of the Riviera kitchen done without pretension. The cheese board leans heavily on local chèvre from the arrière-pays (Provençal hinterland), paired well with the house selection of Bellet and Bandol wines.
Lunch on the small terrace is the sweet spot: shaded by a stone arch, you get a sliver of sea view between the rooftops while the village is still quiet enough to hear the cicadas. Book ahead even for lunch in summer — the dining room holds fewer than 30 covers.
Context and Character
Le Troubadour is one of the few genuinely independent restaurants left inside the village walls; most others have been replaced by tourist-facing crêperies or overpriced terraces. The cooking here is rooted in the kind of grandmother-recipe tradition that the Riviera is quietly losing.
Prices are honest for the location: a two-course lunch with a glass of wine sits around €35–45 per person. Dinner is more elaborate and slightly pricier, with a menu that changes seasonally based on what the owner sources from Nice's Cours Saleya market.
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