Bistrot de Pays, friendliness and local products

Thanks to the “Rando Bistrot” operation, the meeting of local products and its inhabitants offers a journey full of authentic flavors and scents, maintaining and enhancing the quality of services in villages with less than 2000 inhabitants while promoting rural identity.

Located away from major tourist flows, the café/bar is the last or one of the last businesses in some villages.

In a department where rural areas cover 80% of the territory, maintaining multipurpose cafés/bars (bread depot, grocery store, tourist information, cultural events, postal point, banking services) by promoting their economic, tourist, and social function is essential to preserve life and activity in the villages.

The General Council of the Alpes-Maritimes has been committed since 2009, alongside Italian partners, to implementing the “PIT TOURVAL” project, a cross-border cooperation ALCOTRA 2007-2013 initiative aimed at the economic development of the rural area and diversification of the Franco-Italian tourist offer.

Thanks to the cross-border “Tourval café” project, tourism professionals in the high country have been supported and qualified to join the national brand “Bistrot de Pays”.

This brand now brings together more than 250 establishments in France, with about ten located in the Alpes-Maritimes and around thirty in Italy.

The Tourist Map of Country Bistros in the Alpes-Maritimes.

1. Bernadette Nicolas Communal Inn

06470 Sauze
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.05.57.70

1. Mercantour Relay Maryse Cossa

Route de Nice Le Crois
06470 Beuil
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.02.35.94

1. The Mill Inn Manuel Pin

Place Récipiou
06420 Roubion
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.02.09.06

1. Coustet Inn Yohann THIOME

06260 Saint Léger
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.05.11.90

1. Communal Inn Danielle Vadon and Patrick Morbo

06710 Massoins
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.02.78.38

1. The Panissiers Bistro Luc Relier

Grand Place
0420 La-Tour-sur-Tinée
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.02.08.40

1. Calendal Inn Éliane Rossini

1, rue du Mont Saint Martin
06910 Aiglun
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.05.82.32

1. St Michel Inn Caroline Gary and Marc Neu

06510 Les Ferres
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.58.80.87

1. Baouroux Inn Sophie and Norbert Coudeyras

06750 Caille
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.60.32.10

10. Sophie’s Bistro Sophie Boin

Place Neuve
06140 Coursegoules
Phone: +33 (0)4.93.59.11.19