Les Sardines Farcies

Like Nina around the corner, Adrienne Issautier and her husband Jo are well-known characters in old Nice. Together they run the Lou Balico restaurant while Adrienne’s sister cooks all the local specialities at their original café on rue Pairolière.

This delightful dish of crispy fresh sardines is delicious with any small fish-mackerel, herring or tiny bream are all very good. It is lifted out of the ordinary by Adrienne’s highly decorative method of stuffing the sardines to look lik