Franchin

Dîner à deux.
Avocat /​crevettes /​baratta: insipide
Foie gras: pâteux, gommeux et sans goût.
Souris d’agneau: Souris d’agneau d’assemblage avec un os bien propre (en plastique? sans doute récupéré à chaque plat) avec de la viande enroulée autour; une sauce avec un fond en sauce tout prêt. Boulgour insipide et sans goût. Bref, à éviter pour ceux qui aime la cuisine authentique.

Short menu — all excellent. Well worth hunting out.
We plan to go back tomorrow night.

We stumbled on this restaurant when we were looking for a nice dinner for our last night in Nice. We had researched a few places in Unilocal but didn’t find them while walking around and found this menu. The menu board out front reads «French cooking. No pizza. No pasta.» It was perfect since we were burned out on pizza and wanted a hearty meal. The menu was appealing with plenty of main dish options that sounded wonderful. Another bonus while reading the menu board was that all the dishes had an English translation underneath the French description.
We ordered a bottle of wine to start. We were looking for a Provence red wine and the server recommended one. When I tasted it, it was very fruity but it mellowed out a bit once opened. The only downside to this part of our experience was the price. We paid 37 euros for the bottle and when we got home found out it retails for close to 6 euros. Needless to say we felt ripped off.
The food was amazing though. We started with a warmed goat cheese salad. The goat cheese was laying over a bed of mixed greens with tomatoes and a light vinaigrette dressing. For our entrees, my boyfriend ordered the fish special. It was a turbot fish over a bed of mixed vegetables and puréed sweet potatoes with a Au Beurre Nantais sauce. It was very good and the perfect portion to not be stuffed. I ordered the lamb shank dish. The lamb shank was served with mashed potatoes and green beans. It was very good and the price was just right. I was not able to eat it all but my boyfriend finished most of it off. We finished feeling perfectly full.
The dessert was amazing. It was a warmed chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream. The server informed us that all the desserts were handmade except the ice cream. It was phenomenol.
We recommend this restaurant for anyone looking for a pleasant experience that lives up to what the menu says… French cooking!!!