The Best Pan Bagnat In The World is, like the Best Socca In The World, a niçois specialty and its source location is a matter of opinion amongst the locals.

The Best Pan Bagnat In The World has all the right ingredients just like the ride that precedes it. Packed inside is a salade niçoise - hard boiled eggs, tuna, tomato, onion and radish. Anchovies are an optional extra for those with a taste for the sea.

The Best Pan Bagnat in The World wasn't always so famous. In the 19th century, it was the meal of the poor, prepared with stale bread then softened under a trickle of water to embellish a raw salad. In the local Niçois dialect, "pan bagnat" means "wet bread".

The Best Pan Bagnat In The World is now no longer bathed in water but instead generously drizzled with olive oil. Prepared with care and love with raw vegetables from the Marché de la Libération, it is the king of sandwiches.

The Best Pan Bagnat In The World feeds the hunger after climbing through the olive groves of Parc du Vinagrier, out past the Eze observatory and up the glorious gravel of the Route Stratégique to Col d’Eze itself.

The Best Pan Bagnat In The World is street food that started out as a snack for workers and fishermen. Purchased from the Tintin kiosk on Place de Général de Gaulle, beside the Marché Libération the Best Pan Bagnat In the World should be eaten portside, with feet hanging over the water just outside Café du Cycliste.

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