Amiens has a local culinary identity that most visitors miss: ficelle picarde (a crêpe filled with ham, mushrooms, and cream, baked with cheese on top) is the signature dish, appearing on menus throughout the city and best eaten in the Quartier Saint-Leu. Macarons d'Amiens — dense almond biscuits, nothing like their Parisian relatives — are the traditional sweet, made with honey and almond paste; the Jean Trogneux bakery on Rue des Trois Cailloux has been making them since the early nineteenth century and is the most famous address for them in the city.
The canal-side restaurants in the Saint-Leu district are the most atmospheric places to eat. In summer, the terraces facing the Somme channels fill up on weekend evenings, and a meal here after visiting the cathedral is a natural ending to the day.