A private chef in Nice.
Above the Baie des Anges, in a Belle Époque villa on Mont Boron or an apartment along the Promenade des Anglais, a Michelin-level chef composes a bespoke menu with the light of the bay in the room. No restaurant, no reservation, only your table and the sea below.
Chefs from starred kitchens, at home on the Baie des Anges.
Nice keeps some of the Riviera’s great tables, and our chefs come from kitchens of that rank, several with a star of their own. They cook that way in your villa, for one evening, with the bay for a backdrop.
The chefs and maîtres d’hôtel who run service in the great houses of Paris move down to the Riviera for the season. Each maître d’hôtel is auditioned and palace-trained. The welcome, the pacing, the quiet between courses: none of it is left to chance.
One bay, every cuisine.
On the Baie des Anges the evening can be anything you like. You set the register; we bring the chef who owns it, each from a great house, each with a signature of their own.
Haute gastronomie
The full grammar of a starred kitchen: a tasting menu, exact sauces, a plate that would sit among the great tables of Nice. A grand restaurant kept for you alone, the bay through the windows.
Niçois & Mediterranean
The city on the plate, lifted well above the beach-shack cliché: petits farcis and pissaladière reimagined, sea bass and gambas from the Cours Saleya market, stockfish done with a light hand, olive oil from the hills. A chilled Bellet within reach.
Cuisines of the world
A Japanese omakase at the counter, a white-truffle dinner from Piedmont just over the border, a Levantine table on the terrace. When the evening wants to travel, the chef takes it there.
Pastry & the sweet finale
A dedicated pastry chef for the last act: a soufflé to the minute, a dessert finished at the table, a last glass on the terrace as the Promenade lights come on.
From the Promenade to Mont Boron.
Wherever your address is around Nice, the chef comes to you. Belle Époque villa on the hill, apartment on the Promenade, seafront estate towards Cap Ferrat.
A sommelier, and the bottles to match.
Nice has a vineyard of its own, and our sommelier makes the most of it: a rare white Bellet to open, a chilled Bandol rosé on the terrace, a great white Burgundy with the fish, a Bordeaux or a Châteauneuf with the main, a Sauternes to close.
Name the register, discovery, prestige or a single grower you love, and we find it: rare vintages, magnums, cuvées that never see a list. Or we simply pour from the cellar your villa keeps. A glass of Champagne as the sun drops is a given.
Cook beside the chef.
The best hours on the Riviera are often spent at the stove. The chef makes your villa kitchen a studio for the afternoon: a wander through the Cours Saleya, a menu shaped together, a few techniques to keep, and a table you sit down to because it is yours.
A couple, a family, a group of friends between the beach and the pool. Aprons, knives, produce and a chef who shares it all the way the best ones do. What you cook is what you sit down to.
A dinner served, not only cooked.
A beautiful meal can be undone by a room left to itself. Add a maître d’hôtel and a service team and the evening runs on its own: apéritifs poured as the bay turns gold, plates carried in rhythm, glasses never empty, the kitchen invisible, the host finally seated among the guests.
Every maître d’hôtel earns their place before a single service and comes from the grand palaces. The pace, the welcome, the calm of a well-run room: yours to enjoy, not to manage.
Whatever the season asks for.
A private dinner is the heart of it. Around it, the house arranges the rest of the season.
Receptions
Cocktails & terrace parties
Passed canapés and live stations for a terrace full of guests above the bay, from a birthday to a summer gala.
Spectacle
Culinary entertainment
A live station, flames and blades at the pass, plating in front of the room. The meal becomes the night’s centrepiece, not a pause in it.
On the water
Sea & villa dining
The chef comes up to the villa or down to the boat at Villefranche, provisions in hand, for lunch at anchor or a dinner under the stars.
At scale
Full-service catering
Larger numbers, full logistics: kitchen, service, tableware and flowers. We bring the whole evening; you bring the guests.
Addresses that never reach a booking site.
No place of your own for the week, or simply the wish for somewhere exceptional? We open off-market addresses around Nice: Belle Époque villas on Mont Boron, apartments along the Promenade and seafront estates towards Cap Ferrat.
We source the address; the evening stays yours.
Explore our venuesBegin the conversation.
Tell us your date, your guest count and the evening you picture above the bay. We arrange the rest: the chef, the service, the table and, if you like, the villa.
Plan your Nice eveningFrequently asked questions
Do you cook in the Belle Époque villas and seafront apartments of Nice?
Yes. We cook in private villas on Mont Boron and Cimiez, apartments along the Promenade des Anglais, and seafront estates towards Villefranche and Cap Ferrat.
Can the chef shop the Cours Saleya market?
Yes. Many evenings begin at the Cours Saleya: the chef builds the menu around the morning’s catch and the best of the market before cooking in your villa.
Which areas around Nice do you cover?
Nice and Vieux Nice, Mont Boron, Cimiez, Cap de Nice and Fabron, and along the coast to Villefranche-sur-Mer, Beaulieu and Cap Ferrat.
We also compose evenings in Cannes, Antibes, Monaco and with a private chef in Paris. See our pricing for what shapes a quote.