Sorry for not being in touch lately – been hanging out and about in Nice. Here’s my photo to prove it!
After a long, hot and frustrating trudge west along the Promenade des Anglais checking out various beachside establishments we descended on the Blue Beach Bar & Restaurant and were more than pleasantly surprised by the warm welcome. Although our waiter resembled Peter Stringfellow‘s simple cousin he was adequately dressed (thank God) and brought us our reasonably priced, reasonably tasty food and wine in reasonable time: amazing, and in stark contrast to Lido Plage. For me, the filets de rouget (red mullet) au thym:
et pour lui, les tagliatelles au basilic (do you really need a translation?), toothsome albeit tepid, which was actually ok on such a warm afternoon:
plus, of course, the de rigeur bottle of Côtes de Provence rosé. All at not-so-shocking-after-all prices, at least for the Côte d’Azur….
… and that old devil Nicolas Sarkozy lurking in the underground area only added to the charm of the afternoon.
Blue Beach bar & restaurant, 31 Promenade des Anglais, Nice 06000 – opposite the Negresco
Gastroplod 
Pretty good post. I just came by your blog and wanted to say
that I’ve really liked reading your posts. Any way
I’ll be subscribing to your blog and I hope you post again soon!
Thank you so much for your kind comments, Mary. I hope I post again soon too! Been distracted lately but Nice may have sorted me out…
Cool blog you have and Congrats. on the Foodie Blogroll!
Oops – I think I missed something on the 15th! Thank you for swinging by, I hope to post something new one of these old days…