Fnac Nice

More than 100 shops, cafés and restaurants right on the tram line, with strollers to borrow at the welcome desk.

Five floors of fashion, accessories and beauty behind red-ochre Turin-style arcades, with a kids' space on level 2 and a restaurant looking over Place Masséna.

A large local bookstore is a good place to pick up French picture books or something for the flight home.

Local dishes and Italian cooking on a 30-seat terrace, with coloring kits for kids.

Brunch all day: pancakes, French toast, rösti and an açaí bowl, with ube and matcha lattes.

Pizzas from a wood-fired oven on full view since 1956, with a terrace on a pedestrian street and a brightly colored room upstairs.