Le Bistrot de Jan, Cape Town
24 April 2026 LE BISTROT DE JAN Table Bay Hotel, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town When Von-Mari and I were chowing down at the OG Jan Michelin starred restaurant in Nice in April 2019, we said to ourselves, wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could have the privilege of eating Jan’s food in the comfort of our home town? Well, fast forward a few years, and there is the seasonal pop-up Jan restaurant at La Motte outside Franschhoek, always sold out within hours after booking opens (and eye wateringly expensive) and Kleinjan in the Kalahari. Both, so to speak, so near and yet so far. But wait, there’s also the, so to speak, neighbourhood eatery Le Bistrot de Jan almost snugly nestled inside the Table Bay Hotel in the Waterfront. We have friends who are pretty well acquainted with the Cape Town culinary scene, more so than Von-Mari and me, anyway. They’d compiled a short list of upmarket nosheries to take her sister to on a visit to the Ci...
