Principality of Monaco

Monaco

The driver’s guide

The addresses I give my own passengers on the Rock: the starred tables, the Monte-Carlo institutions, Monegasque home cooking, the gardens, the beaches and the nights of the Principality. Each one with its phone number, its website and directions.

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taxi on request
Where to eat

Restaurants

Monaco holds 14 Michelin stars within barely two square kilometres — the highest density in the world. Alongside those tables you will find institutions that have lasted for decades, and the Monegasque cooking you will only find up on the Rock.

Photo Wikimedia Commons — CC0

The 2026 Michelin stars

Nine starred tables, fourteen stars between them, one of them newly awarded in 2026. Six belong to the Société des Bains de Mer.

Three Michelin stars
Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse
Hôtel de Paris, place du Casino
The only three-star table in the Principality, and one of the great dining rooms of the world. Mediterranean cooking built on the idea of "naturalness", under Emmanuel Pilon and Alain Ducasse.
BOOK WELL IN ADVANCE
Two Michelin stars
Blue Bay Marcel Ravin
Monte-Carlo Bay, Larvotto
The Martinique-born chef weaves the Caribbean into the Mediterranean. Cooking drawn from his own memory, and deeply personal.
EVENINGS ONLY
Two Michelin stars
L'Abysse Monte-Carlo
Hôtel Hermitage
Yannick Alléno's Japanese table with master sushi chef Yasunari Okazaki. Two stars, awarded in 2025.
Photo Håkan Dahlström from Malmö, Sweden — CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Two Michelin stars
Les Ambassadeurs by Christophe Cussac
Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo
Mediterranean cooking in the Belle Époque setting of the Métropole. Two stars since 2024.
Michelin star
Le Grill
Hôtel de Paris, 8e étage
On the eighth floor of the Hôtel de Paris, under a roof that slides open to the sky. Grilled dishes and a view over the Rock, by Dominique Lory.
OUTSTANDING VIEW
Michelin star
Pavyllon Monte-Carlo
Hôtel Hermitage — 1 Square Beaumarchais
Yannick Alléno's counter restaurant: you eat facing the cooks, with the Hermitage gardens behind them.
Michelin star
La Table d'Antonio Salvatore
au Rampoldi, Carré d'Or
Twelve seats and no more, hidden inside Rampoldi. The chef from Basilicata serves Italian cooking of the highest order.
12 SEATS ONLY
Michelin star
Robuchon Monaco
Esplanade du Portier — quartier Mareterra
A tribute to Joël Robuchon's legacy by chef Jonathan Larrieu. First star awarded in 2026.
NEW IN 2026CLOSED SUNDAY AND MONDAY
Michelin star
Elsa Marcel Ravin
Monte-Carlo Beach, avenue Princesse Grace — Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
The restaurant of the Monte-Carlo Beach, built around sustainable fishing — the menu follows whatever came out of the water that morning. Note that it stands across the border, in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
ON THE FRENCH SIDE

The institutions

No star, no label, but everyone in Monaco knows them — and visitors will ask for them by name.

An institution
Café de Paris Monte-Carlo
place du Casino
Founded in 1868, the legendary brasserie facing the Casino. Crêpe Suzette is said to have been invented here. People come at any hour, for a coffee as readily as for a meal.
SINCE 1868
Photo Mister No — CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
An institution
Rampoldi
Carré d'Or — 3 Avenue des Spélugues
Opened in 1946 in the Carré d'Or, a few steps from the Casino. The Principality's historic Italian address, refurbished without losing its soul.
SINCE 1946
An institution
Beefbar
port de Fontvieille — 42 Quai Jean-Charles Rey
Born in Monaco before spreading around the world. Beef is treated here as a luxury product, in a smart warehouse setting on the harbour.
MEAT
An institution
Nobu
Fairmont Monte-Carlo
The Japanese-Peruvian restaurant of Nobu Matsuhisa and Robert De Niro, at the Fairmont, overlooking the Grand Prix hairpin.
EVENINGS ONLY
An institution
Buddha-Bar Monte-Carlo
Place du Casino
Inside the old Casino theatre, under a Belle Époque glass roof. Asian cooking and a late-evening mood.
LATE NIGHTCLOSED SUNDAY
An institution
Cipriani Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo — 1 Avenue Princesse Grace
The Venetian house behind Harry's Bar, now in Monaco. Bellini and carpaccio exactly as they should be.
Fine dining
Song Qi
Larvotto — 7 Avenue Princesse Grace
The Principality's fine-dining Chinese restaurant, interior designed by Philippe Starck.
An institution
Maya Bay
Avenue Princesse Grace
Japanese and Thai in two separate dining rooms, a safe bet for twenty years now.
The institutions
COYA Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo
Peruvian cooking, a pisco bar and music — the table that turns into a night out.
FASHIONABLEAPRIL TO OCTOBER
The institutions
Amazónico Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo
A rebuilt Amazon jungle, South American cooking and wood-fire grilling.
FASHIONABLEEVENINGS ONLY
The institutions
Les Perles de Monte-Carlo
port de Fontvieille — Quai Jean-Charles Rey
An oyster farmers' hut on Fontvieille harbour: oysters, sea urchins and the day's catch, at a reasonable price by Monaco standards.
SEAFOODNO FUSSDINNER WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAYBOOK AHEAD
The institutions
Quai des Artistes
port Hercule — 4 Quai Antoine 1er
The Parisian-style brasserie of Port Hercule, open late. Where the yacht crews meet.
BRASSERIELATE NIGHT
An institution
Yoshi
Hôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo
The Japanese restaurant conceived by Joël Robuchon, in a zen garden designed by Didier Gomez, at the Hôtel Métropole. Michelin-starred for fifteen years, up to the 2025 guide. In July and August, dinner service only.
EVENINGS ONLY IN SUMMER

Monegasque cooking

Barbagiuan, stocafi, socca, fougasse: the real local cooking is served up on the Rock, and only in a handful of houses.

Monegasque cuisine
U Cavagnetu
Monaco-Ville, le Rocher — 16 Rue Comte Félix Gastaldi
In the lanes of the Rock, an institution since 1967, run by the same family across three generations. Barbagiuan, stocafi, stuffed vegetables.
SINCE 1967
Monegasque cuisine
Castelroc
place du Palais
The Monegasque table facing the Palace, refurbished in 2026: stocafi, barbagiuan, pissaladière. Lunch is served every day, but dinner from Thursday to Saturday only.
FACING THE PALACEDINNER THURSDAY TO SATURDAY
Monegasque cuisine
La Montgolfière
Monaco-Ville — 16 Rue Basse
Henri Geraci's small house on rue Basse, up on the Rock: some twenty covers, local cooking with an Asian touch. Booking essential.
CLOSED WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAYBOOK AHEAD
Monegasque cuisine
Pizzeria Monégasque
La Condamine — 4 Rue Terrazzani
A 1974 house reopened in 2024 as "by Mimmo", on rue Terrazzani, a stone's throw from the Condamine market. The neighbourhood pizza, without ceremony.
CLOSED SUNDAY AND MONDAY

🚕 I drive you there — and I come back for you after the meal. No parking to hunt for in Monte-Carlo.

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