Déjeuner

By 11.45 am the market people are dropping their Prices & shouting louder, anticipating their lunch. The few remaining tourists who want to eat in the winter sunshine read the chalked menus in the Cours Saleya restaurants, which are not as cheap as they look. The vast épicerie on the corner of the Place St. François spills the last of its wares onto passing pedestrians; and Monsieur Ermenegildo Chiodo, who for 30 years has sold the best porchetta in Nice, pulls down the shop shutters to leave for the Pizzeria Julian, known to everyone in the quarter as Chez Nina.