Le Safari

Une terrasse très sympa avec beaucoup d’animation le midi et de bonnes spécialités nicoises. J’y retournerai pour gouter les pizzas qui sont très appétissantes.

Had dinner here. Fun heated outdoor seating area. Wait staff great with English. Great food, wine was good too. Good spot for people watching during the evenings.

I had the most amazing service and meal here! I got the fish soup and was blown away by the complex flavors and textures. I highly recommend it. My waiter was so kind and knew I was traveling (obviously a tourist) and brought me a guide book and asked me back for the next time I visit Nice. I plan on coming back!

This place was amazing! High quality food! Really tasty. The stuffed pork (stuffed with vegetables) was so good. Stuffed veggies (stuffed with meat) so good, should of ordered a whole order, not half. Great service despite the fact that it was packed. Nice location. Local recommended we go there.

Safari is reported by the locals as THE spot to get something delicious… no matter what you order.

Loved! We can’t stop thinking about the perfect, tender meat in the stew and the simple pesto pasta. Salads were on point too! If I was staying longer in Nice, I would have gone back!

This restaurant was highly recommended by our Tour Guide. She said it is quite common to order several things and share. When we arrived there were many open tables. When we were asked where we wanted to sit we walked over to a table for two and the hostile lead waiter said no and walked away from us. (It was a table for two where we were wanting to sit, so not taking up a table for four!) Frustrated we weren’t sure what to do and he came back to us and pointed to other tables that were not where we wanted to be. After sitting where he wanted us to be we were asked by our server if we were ready to order. We ordered two things and said we were going to share. Our server, acting annoyed said she would have to ask. walked over to the angry waiter, he looked at us and shook his head no. We had to order another first course salad… we felt uncomfortable with the anger in the air… Seems sharing is only for the locals. we felt very discriminated. However, when the food arrived, it was wonderful. Petites Farcis were perfect, daub Bourguignon was tender and delicious and was served over delicate spinach and cheese ravioli accompanied with a rich beef reduction… if the servers could only get over themselves, it would have been a perfect evening.

I wouldn’t say the service was good, which is different from many other reviews. The staff were way too busy to notice the needs of every table. And they seemed friendly only to the regular. The food was not that bad but compared to its price, I just don’t think it’s worth it. Won’t recommend to friends.

We had our last dinner in Nice here.
The service was great and the staff was working hard. The wine selection was not as robust, but the food was great!
I had the risotto which was great with two massive shrimp. My wife had the gnocchi which was well prepared but we didn’t think as good as the risotto. Our waitress spoke fantastic English, but I don’t know if that holds true for the rest of the staff.
The calamari was great!
Desert here was average but when we ordered a crème brûlée and they said they were out the waitress went to another restaurant and got us one!
Thanks for the great experience! C’est tres bien!

Adresse recommandée par une «locale» et vraiment une bonne adresse. Nous avons déjeuné dans la salle du fond, fraîche et vaste, au calme !
Cuisine niçoise délicieuse, colorée et généreuse. Service agréable … Un vrai plaisir !

I love the meals here. They are focused on «cuisine de la région» so this from Nice town and Provence Region. All I have eaten is tasty and I can recommend it to anyone. Only the staff is sometimes to slow even when there was no crowd.

Samedi dernier, de passage à Nice et l’occasion de déjeuner avec notre fils qui y travaille en début d’après midi car il finissait tard sa matinée de travail.
Il nous avait retenu une table au Safari, Cours Salaya, qui est certainement le meilleur avec son voisin immédiat (même patron) des restaurants du cours.
Il y a du monde mais encore de la place, ils servent en continu l’après midi en cette saison, bien pratique pour les nombreux touristes.
Accueil aimable et efficace. L’ambiance est estivale et sympathique avec des tables de niçois et de touristes mélangées.
On commence par un excellent rosé de St Julien d’Aille (Praetor) car le soleil tape sur la banne qui nous protège.
Ici la spécialité c’est poisson et fruits de mer… Donc 3 jolis et excellents plats de poisson pour nous 3: fusilli aux calamars, spaghetti crevettes et coque et fritures de sardines et anchois.
Un petit café gourmand bien sympathique pour conclure et le tour est joué.
Un excellent déjeuner! Nous reviendrons!

This place is conveniently next to the market full of antiques and used goods. Good view, I suppose. It’s also about a block from the beach. The reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is because the wait from getting seated to ordering to the food actually arriving was about an hour or more. Maybe it’s just how they typically eat in France, but we were definitely impatient. Also, we had so much left over since we couldn’t finish and we asked them to box it. They took our plates to the back and said they don’t do boxes. I was so frustrated since there were so much left over, but they were kind enough to accommodate us in the end. I got the shrimp scampi pasta and man! It was so good! Authentic and yummy!

Had a very nice lunch. Some nicoise and wine. Service was great! Our server was Melissa. Not that touristy for a high tourist area.

Located overlooking the flower market, Le Safari was just not up to the hype I had heard and read about it. While the servers were very accommodating– the food just wasn’t good and with so many places competing for my money, I wish I had spent it somewhere else.
We went with a larger sized group and given we had reservations, we were seated on the patio right away. This was the best part of the evening as we could people watch to our hearts content.
The wine was quite good so that was a plus. But the appetizer plate which was a combo of a few things including a really bitter undercooked artichoke salad.
I had some kind of beef stew served over ravioli and one in our group had the lamb chops. The lamb chops were not of high quality (a bit stringy) and my beef stew was also tasteless.
And for dessert– my apple tartin was bland and soggy– all I all not a great experience.
If you go– try something else on the menu as the steak and frites the next table over was enjoying looked pretty good.
Nice accommodating servers– too bad the food wasn’t as good.

The food and location is good. However, they put water in our bottle the house Rose. It was so obvious. We told them about it (after we got our food of course) and they replaced it. For a restaurant in a very touristy area, one would think they would be more tolerable of visitors.

We got the black (from squid ink) spaghetti seafood dish for lunch. These dishes were huge so we split it and they had no issues.
Location was superb and waitstaff was excellent. The dishes and wine were excellent.
I would be coming back to this place.

We got a table in the middle of the road outside of the restaurant — and we thought that the waiter will forget us amongst the crowd. Surprisingly, he was attentive, did not get our order wrong, and took care of us.
The lamb here was heavenly and the fish soup was good too. I had the fixed price menu that I had 4 choices each for a 2 course meal (plus one desert). The price was more than reasonable. Good food, good atmosphere, and good price — how can you beat that!
PS. the wine is cheaper than coke… go for the wine!

trop cher pour qu’est que c’est.

We went here based on the reviews and at our hostel’s recommendation. The food was ok, nothing really special but not bad. I had a pizza and my husband had the seafood pasta. Nothing I would go out of the way for or send people out of the way for.

Excellente cuisine mais côté service ça dépend sur qui on tombe !

Beautiful location. Nicoise salad, lamb, and gelato. YES. gelato. After a month tasting gelato all over Italy I still remember this was my favorite. Lovely ambiance, staff were delightful. Would not have changed a thing.

Un bon restaurant. Des prix moyens mais ça peut valoir le coup.

Delicious, authentic taste of what French Riviera cooking should be. There are a lot of touristy restaurants in this part of Nice, but this was my favorite restuarant while on my own dime (not work’s). I had a delicious local fish — (I’m not able to recall the name) tender, flakey and flavorful white fish and the portion was quite generous.
My waiter was running around like crazy — he was left solo to take care of about 12 tables outside. He did a fantastic job, and never forgot about my table for one.
Everything on the menu sounded good, and the surrounding tables’ food made me wish I had a bigger appetite. If I find myself in Nice again, I will make it a point to have a meal here.

Typique attrape touriste niçois, vous payez le lieu pas la qualité des plats.

This is a great place to watch people «faire une promenade» in the Cours Saleya while munching on your fritto misto. Service is friendly and there are quite a few selections on the menu. You shouldn’t walk away hungry!

An excellent address when you are in the Old Nice for a real taste of the cuisine Nicoise. I have never been desapointed by the food there. The products are always fresh and well prepared.
The Merda di Can are great. So are the gnocchi. If you have the chance to have grilled squid and purple artichokes or Monkfish a la Nicoise on plat du jour … Go for it !
Good wine selection. Great service.
Nothing to say really, but good things.

Le Safari est une vraie institution de Nice. Planté sur le Cours Saleya, Gaston et son équipe vous accueille chaleureusement et bruyamment dans ce Safari qui n’a de sauvage que son nom.
Des plats simples, du bon rosé et c’est parti pour une soirée niçoise… Même si il y a beaucoup d’étrangers, cette adresse reste un lieu sûr pour goûter les fameux raviolis à la daube… Excellent.
Un poil cher tout de même, mais on est ici pour l’ambiance et on est bien servi ! :)
Grande terrasse couverte très agréable l’été.
Il est préférable de réserver, surtout le weekend.

Certainement le meilleur
Le Safari est une référence à juste titre. Nous y retournons très régulièrement car après avoir essayé tant d’autres, c’est toujours celui-​ci qui nous semble le mieux: idéalement placé sur le cours Saleya, décor très sympa, cuisine de qualité et constante, service généralement agréable. Juste un bémol à propos du service, lors de mon dernier passage (récent) pour un dîner d’affaire, j’ai eu à regretter un certain relâchement du service (propos tenu juste au dessus de nos têtes et peu flatteurs pour l’établissement, désinvolture du serveur difficile à prendre pour de l’humour…) Je venais juste de dire à mes invités que c’était LE resto Niçois. Dommage… D’autre fois c’est l’accueil qui est parfois grognon, mais là ça passé pour du folklore.

Certes le meilleur resto du cours saleya mais c’est pas difficile vu le nombre de cantines attrape-​touristes !
On y mange cependant bien, mais à eviter en été !!!

Super convivial et de la cuisine fraiche
1 super ambiance, je suis très étonné de lire qu une personne dise que les poivrons était en boîte j’en ai pris et c’était vraiment des frais, tous étaient frais les poissons super j’ai pris 1mixte de poisson grillé (petit loup, daurade, rouget et calamar tous était frais et bon ma femme à pris 1 épaule d’agneau de lait avec des patates (au four à bois c’était 1 régal peu être 1 peu trop copieux moi qui n’aime pas gaspiller), juste 1 bémol sur les desserts bon mais pas très originaux. En tous les cas 1 Resto à conseiller.

Bön restaurant sur le cours, un des meilleurs, j’y retournerai volontiers !

Un de mes préféré du cours saleya, bonne cuisine niçoise, service selon le serveur de la saison, plus ou moins chaleureux.

Possibly the best restaurant on the Cours Saleya (though we didn’t by any means go to them all). There are a lot of tourist traps around that area, but Safari is a real find. It has genuinely good quality French food (and indeed, a lot of French customers when we were there) and excellent Italian food if you want a break from French food. The service was a little slow, but all part of the atmosphere.

Souvent bondé, mais la cuisine y est excellente, spécialités niçoises. Les raviolis à la daube sont extras. J’ai trouvé également le personnel sympa

J’adore !!
Cet excellent resto situé près de la place Saleya propose toutes les spécialités niçoises à se damner! C’est toujours bondé de monde, mais le service est super efficace et les serveurs toujours disponibles. Les plats sont succulents. Si vous faites une petit tour à Nice, allez y !!

Plus jamais !
En venant manger sur le Cours Saleya, il est évident qu’en plus du plat, il faut payer le cadre. La terrasse est jolie, les serveurs sympathiques, l’intérieur sympa, mais que dire de la cuisine… Si les pizzas avaient l’air honnête pour leur prix (environ 10 €), il n’en était rien de la soi-​disant assiette de spécialités niçoises. Un poivron à l’huile semblant tout juste sorti de son bocal, une rondelle de tomate et sa tranche de mozza, une bouchée de tourte aux blettes sèche et fade, du mesclun aux saveurs bien lointaines que celui que l’on peut trouver au marché situé à 5m du lieu, un bout d’artichaut, un petit farci tiède et mou et un mini beignet imbibé d’huile. Autant dire quelques micro-​portions qui né reflètent en rien la diversité et la qualité de la cuisine niçoise, le tout pour 18 €, sans corbeille de pain ni même carafe d’eau amenée. Un repas avalé en 10 minutes et une adresse qui mérite d’être oubliée en autant de temps.

On y mange bien, le service est correct, mais le cadre est quelconque.
C’est une brasserie améliorée.
L’ambiance grande cantine contraste avec l’addition.

Restaurant correct pour le cours Saleya vu qu’il n’y a que des endroits à touristes
Cuisine niçoise de qualité mais sans plus et pas donné vu l’endroit.

C’est sûr, c’est une institution, c’est sur le cours, c’est touristique et un peu cher mais au fond, nous né devrions pas trop tirer sur la Civette à cause de cela, parce que c’est bien le seul restaurant de spécialités niçoises de tout le cours Saleya et qui maintient une bonne qualité depuis longtemps.
Une valeur sûre en somme.
Bien sûr, on peut critiquer les farcis trop farcis ou les beignets dans l’huile Mémé les fera toujours mieux.
Mais au fond, nous les niçois, nous sommes tous les mêmes, on aime bien se pavaner aux terrasses du cours avec nos lunettes de soleil griffées. alors pour moi le safari est un incontournable de la culture de cette ville entre les touristes et notables locaux.