FridayArrive & settle
SaturdayThe dinner ★
SundayDay trip
Friday
Arrive, orient, leave the day-trips for after the dinner
Getting in from NCE
T2 tram from the airport → Port Lympia in ~25 min, €1.70.[21] No taxi needed.
Where to stay
Vieux Nice from ~$160/night — walking distance to JAN. Carré d'Or for quieter boutique hotels.[24]
Friday evening
Stroll the Promenade des Anglais at sunset. Dinner at La Merenda in Vieux Nice (no phone — walk in to book the next day's table).
Optional: full day-trip Friday
Èze Village or Cap Ferrat both work as a Friday excursion — you want to arrive at Saturday's dinner pleasantly tired, not rushed.
Saturday
Stay in Nice — walk, eat light, arrive at JAN at 19:30 ready for 3+ hours
08:30
Provençal produce, flowers, a pissaladière slice from a stall. Tue–Sat 06:00–17:00.[10] The canonical Nice morning.
10:30
2–3 h loop: Place Rossetti, Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate, Palais Lascaris.[11] JAN is on Rue Lascaris — scout the walk for tonight.
13:00
Chez Pipo — socca lunch
13 rue Bavastro, port. Wood-fired chickpea galette, €4–€8. Light enough that you arrive at JAN hungry; unmistakably Niçoise.
14:00
Promenade des Anglais
7 km UNESCO seafront walk west toward Hôtel Negresco. Free public beach sections every ~300 m — sea ~23 °C in June.[22] Pebble, not sand.
16:30
Free elevator opposite Castel Beach, 10:00–17:25 (hours unreliable).[12] 360° views over Baie des Anges. Back down by 18:15.
18:15
Aperitivo + change
Rosé at a Cours Saleya terrace or Place Rossetti gelato. Smart casual: collared shirt; dress or smart trousers — elegant but unpretentious. Walk to Rue Lascaris (~10 min from Place Masséna).
19:30
Restaurant JAN
Chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen · 12 Rue Lascaris, Old Port · first South African chef to earn a Michelin star in France[9]
Seats
~20 covers · one sitting per service[1]
Duration
3–3.5 hours end to end[4] — plan nothing after
Book at
janonline.com · deposit required · confirm 48 h before[1]
Lead time
3–4 weeks for Saturday dinner[1] · returned slots appear closer to the date
Hours
Dinner Tue–Sat 19:00–22:00[7] · Lunch Fri–Sat 12:00–14:00
Contact
+33 4 97 19 32 23[5] · reservation@restaurantjan.com
MARIA — the cheese interlude: mid-meal, the entire table crosses the street to a dedicated room named after the chef's grandmother — 91 plates of cheese, condiments, and preserves, one for each year of her life. Portrait paintings of the women in his family, a chandelier salvaged from the Paris Métro, a South African gin bar on the mezzanine.[8] Reviewers call it the evening's emotional high point. Do not skip it.
Biltong & braaibroodje
Mullet ceviche · Nice seawater · dill
Tuna · sago · rooibos
Scallops · caviar · lemon meringue
Bobotie (deconstructed)
Sago pudding · lychee · rose
Vegetarian menu on request
Sunday
Pick one — you can't do all of them well in a day
⚠ Monaco Grand Prix weekend: If your Saturday is June 6, 2026 — qualifying is that day, race is Sunday June 7.[19] Skip Monaco entirely both days. Every bus and train through Monaco is jammed; all Monaco hotels are sold out months ahead. Do Èze village return or Cap Ferrat instead.
🏊
Fishing port, "Rue Obscure" vaulted street, sandy Plage des Marinières. Walk the Cap Ferrat coastal path to Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild (€18).[18]
Skip if you don't walk on rocky coastal paths
🏛
Antibes + Cannes
Musée Picasso at Château Grimaldi (Picasso worked here in 1946). Cap d'Antibes coastal path. Lérins Islands ferry from Cannes Quai Laubeuf, 15-min crossing.[17]
Cannes is wall-to-wall crowds in June
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Menton
Belle Époque pastel town at the Italian border. Cocteau Museum, citrus-tinted Old Town, Plage des Sablettes. Sit right-side on the train for sea views.[17]
Feels more Italian than French Riviera
- Villefranche €2.10 · 5 min
- Monaco €4.40 · 20 min
- Antibes €5.20 · 25 min
- Cannes €7.90 · 40 min
- Menton ~€6 · 40 min
- Single €1.70 · 74 min
- 10-trip €15
- 24h pass €7
- T2 airport → centre €1.70
- Bus #5 → Matisse/Chagall Cimiez
- Days 24–27 °C
- Sea ~23 °C
- Nights 17 °C
- Sunshine ~12 h/day
- Rain days ~4 in month
- MAMAC closed until ~2028
- Monaco June 6–7 GP jammed
- Bus #600 to "Èze" wrong Èze
- Potato in niçoise tourist remix