La Piazzetta - Le Cannet

We had a terrass table overlooking Cannes and the sea. The piazza is beautiful with old treas, a fountain, nice white suspended lamp globen. The restaurant itself is cosy and indoors would certainly be ok. We paid Eur 16 for a glass of Nero d'Avola, fax fillet served as we asked for, perfect fries and a fresh sallad, a good espresso afterwards. Perfect and smiling service. Sounds very much ok? It was!

La Piazzetta is one of the oldest restaurants in Cannes. The decor inside is very traditional and worth seeing. It is behind the Cannes Hotel de Ville and across the road. It is much more than a Pizza restaurant and serves some very good Mediterranean dishes. And all the usuals, moules chips, Aioli on Fridays etc. but, also some fine cuisine. The plat du jour is good value and there are a couple of choices every day. You need arrive by 12h30 or the daily specials will have gone. There is a nice eating area outside which is covered when the weather is cold and it is long enough that you can dodge the smokers. We often eat there in the winter.

The restaurant is in a lovely setting in the square in the old town surrounded by other restaurants. Sadly the setting is where most of the positives end. Most things on the menu were not available including drinks. I felt a bit sorry for the only staff member serving but they didn’t help themselves in not being proactive with what was available. When we finally did get some food it was average at best. You would think that a pizza restaurant would do better than serve short crust pastry base and must have had a over order of carrots as they appeared on all pizzas. Maybe we went on a bad day as this is supposed to be one of the oldest restaurants so they must get things right sometimes.

We had been for coffee in the morning by bus from Cannes and decided to go back again in the evening for dinner. Although quite the service and food were excellent. I had a pepperoni pizza and my wife had Escalopes with mushroom sauce and fresh spaghetti both were excellent. I would imagine a great place to eat out in the summer when you could sit outside on the square.

This plaza in Le Cannet is used by several restaurants all seem to be nice. We chose La Piazzetta considering small children always like pizza and lasagna, and itlsian food is also popular for us. The menu was nice, offering antipasti, pasta and secondi. My tipp for the gourmet among you: try the Tagliata de Manzo, really really nice ! Enjoy.