“This solarium is magic!” Inventory perfectly summarized by Laure Giometti. The hotel director The Pérouse11 quai rauba-capeù in Nice, is very happy to reveal your latest jewel: a rooftop. Unique in its kind. Stripped. Shifted from the seafront while dominating it.
Open two evenings a week, this recently inaugurated terrace roof is a test. Operational until the end of August, but with the promise to repeat the formula next summer.
This suspension esplanade, between sea and sky, backed by the castle hill, is the ultimate stage of the rocket leading this perched hotel, on the roof of the world.
A world that the establishment with 53 rooms and suites, built in 1936 – sold in 2021 to a French investment fund dedicated to the hotel industry – nevertheless flee since. Far from the city and its tumult …
Laure Giometti, director of the La Pérouse hotel and the chef, in the Mediterranean setting of the Terrasse Le Patio restaurant.Photos Cyril Dodergny.
A first Gault & Millau hat
A maze of corridors and bridges leads to the restaurant The patioopen every day, noon and evening and even in the afternoon to snack or have a drink.
Located at 1is Staff of the hotel, but in reality, culminating by the configuration of the establishment, at six levels above the Big Blue.
“All the decoration has changed”indicates the manager. A renovation on the theme of the sea, entrusted to Virginie Friedmann and Delphine Versace.
The tandem has directed a dozen artisans and artists to hatch this unique, Mediterranean decor, where nothing was entrusted to chance.
Whether it is the interior bar lined with shells glued to one to one according to a moving visual choreography, the second outdoor sandstone bar carved with marine patterns, or trays of enameled lava tables decorated with drawings freely inspired by Cocteau’s work.
On these circular tables, surrounded by Gracile wrought iron foundations, the chief Damien Andrews, present at The Pérouse Since 2023, deposits his specialties staged in a new kitchen.
Deeply imbued with the 17 years spent alongside Chef Patrick Ringeard, with whom he won a Michelin star twice at Port Palace from Monaco and to Cap Estel In Eze, this young Parisian with distant Scottish roots, takes place his culinary approach. Very local.
Each season, a variation. The chef likes local vegetables: artichokes, peas …
This summer, a nugget flourished in the creative spirit of this young disciple of Escoffier: the zucchini flower with ricotta and tonka bean, zucchini ice cream with verbena oil and parmesan crumble.
“This dish, I worked a lot. There are a lot of techniques to reach this flower stuffed with sheep bush accompanied by an ice cream with zucchini.” An enthusiast. A Toqué. Which brought back the first Gault & Millau toque to this solar patio.
The roof terrace only opens on Friday and Saturday. In the evening. Photos Cyril Dodergny.
“Here, no DJ, no music”
And therefore, even more above lemon trees, at 6e floor corresponding to a R+12 from zero level, there is this rooftop.
The latter has always existed, but it was unused due to a lack of direct access. An elevator has solved the problem for “Having this view that deserves”insists Laure Giometti.
There, in the middle of the molten bruises, we are in the edge. Some wicker seats, rare high tables. What feast for a dozen guests per service. No more. It is limited. Voluntarily.
The roof terrace only opens on Friday and Saturday. In the evening. For an extraordinary aperitif, a dinner at altitude (fish brazier on Friday and meat on Saturday, always orchestrated in live By Damien Andrews), an after in the light of the candles. This will be so until the end of August. Before “To climb crescendo next season”.
A few more weeks to experience the change in light deriving towards the flamboyant oranges. But in silence. “Here, no DJ, no music, no noise. We come to the rooftop for his serenity and his sight.”
A place outside the time on which the finger of the divine arose …
