You are on the Place du Casino, so you are already in the middle of where Monaco eats out: the hotel holds Monaco's only three-star table and a one-star on the roof, the Café de Paris is across the square, and everything else worth the walk is within nine minutes on foot along the Avenue des Spélugues or down to the Hermitage. You do not need a car, and for the Larvotto restaurants a taxi is a three-minute indulgence rather than a necessity.
The tables at this hotel that are a reason to come, and how hard they are to get.
Monaco's only three-star table, in a gilded room that has been the point of the hotel since 1987. It is a meal to plan a trip around, not to add on: dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday only, lunch Friday and Saturday, and a jacket is required at dinner. Book the moment you book the room.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out
The eighth-floor room with the roof that slides open on summer nights and a view that runs to Italy. Simpler food than downstairs, starred all the same, and the one to choose if you want the setting more than the ceremony.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out
One of the few hotel bars anywhere with live musicians every single night. Go for the last drink after the casino; it is an institution in its own right, not a lobby bar with a piano.
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Grand brasserie on the square · €€
The 150-year-old brasserie across the square, and the answer at any hour: its own page gives 8am to 1am every day of the week, terrace, bar and all. The kitchen does the brasserie classics in the French manner, children are welcome and so are dogs. The terrace is the cheapest seat on the Place du Casino from which to watch the cars, and the reason to go is exactly that; nobody comes for the plate. Book for the terrace at lunch in season.
Reserve aheadPlace du Casino
Latin-Asian rooftop with orchestra · €€€
On the roof of the Café de Paris building, the loud one: a rainforest-styled room with sushi, grilled meats and fish, a live orchestra on the terrace and a club called Selva underneath. Its own site gives 7pm to 2am Sunday to Wednesday and 7pm to 3am Thursday to Saturday, a smart-elegant dress code with no sportswear or open shoes for men, only children over ten after 7pm and over-18s only in the bar, lounge and club. Go for the night, not the dinner.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outPlace du Casino
Pizzeria since 1938, open late · €
The principality's canteen for night owls since 1938, 150 metres up the hill from the hotel. Its own site gives noon to 6am Monday to Saturday and noon to midnight on Sunday, Neapolitan pizzas at 18 to 27 euros and burgers with fries at 22 to 23, which in this postcode counts as charity. It is the place to go at four in the morning, and the place to go when the idea of a jacket at 9pm has lost its charm.
Walk in11 Avenue des Spélugues
One-star counter dining, Hermitage · €€€€
Yannick Alléno's counter restaurant in the Hermitage behind the hotel, one star in the 2026 guide, with the kitchen open in front of you and a terrace over the harbour and the old town. Its own page gives lunch from noon to 2.30pm and dinner from 7pm to 10.30pm every day, last orders at 2pm and 10pm, and calls itself fine dining without the formality, which is the point: no stated dress code, children welcome, and a starred kitchen at the bar.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outSquare Beaumarchais, Hôtel Hermitage
Les Ambassadeurs by Christophe Cussac
3 min walkTwo-star dinner at the Métropole · €€€€
The other serious table within three minutes of the door: two stars in the 2026 guide for Christophe Cussac's Mediterranean cooking in a Jacques Garcia room of bronze, ivory and gold at the Métropole, up the Avenue des Spélugues. The hotel's own page gives dinner only, Thursday to Monday, 7.30pm to 10.30pm, and asks for elegant evening attire. There is a chef's table in the kitchen for the food-obsessed. If Le Louis XV is booked out, this is the alternative.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out4 Avenue de la Madone, Hôtel Métropole
Chinese fine dining, since 2014 · €€€
Riccardo Giraudi's Chinese dining room on the Avenue Princesse Grace, black marble and green velvet by Humbert and Poyet, and the one evening near the hotel that is neither French nor Italian nor a show. Its own site gives lunch from noon to 2.30pm every day and dinner from 7.30pm to 11pm Sunday to Thursday, to 11.30pm on Friday and Saturday. Nine minutes on foot down towards Larvotto, or three by taxi if it is raining or you are in heels.
Reserve ahead7 Avenue Princesse Grace
Breakfast is not included on the room-only rates and the hotel's practical-information page prices it at 68 euros a person a day for the signature buffet, served in the hotel restaurant or in your room, or 65 euros for the Cédric Grolet breakfast, Wednesday to Sunday only. It is included on rates sold with breakfast and in every Diamond Suite. A handful of guests report that the room the buffet is served in feels like a function room rather than a dining room. The alternative is a minute away: Cédric Grolet's own counter on the hotel's patio, entered from the Avenue des Beaux-Arts, opens at 9.30am from Wednesday to Sunday for pastry and coffee, and the Café de Paris across the square opens at 8am.
Ten hotels, each here for a different reason.
The iconHôtel de Paris Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo · From about €600
The all-rounderHôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo · From about €492
The intimate oneHôtel Métropole Monte-Carlo
Monte-Carlo · From about €400
The romantic oneMonte-Carlo Beach
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin · From about €400
The resortMonte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort
Larvotto · From about €250
The smart moneyColumbus Hotel Monte-Carlo
Fontvieille · From about €180
The F1 oneFairmont Monte Carlo
Monte-Carlo · From about €250
The beach oneLe Méridien Beach Plaza
Larvotto · From about €220
The design oneThe Maybourne Riviera
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin · From about €700
The hideawayCap Estel
Èze · From about €650
Questions people ask
You are on the Place du Casino, so you are already in the middle of where Monaco eats out: the hotel holds Monaco's only three-star table and a one-star on the roof, the Café de Paris is across the square, and everything else worth the walk is within nine minutes on foot along the Avenue des Spélugues or down to the Hermitage. You do not need a car, and for the Larvotto restaurants a taxi is a three-minute indulgence rather than a necessity. Café de Paris Monte-Carlo, 1 min walk. Amazónico Monte-Carlo, 1 min walk. Tip Top, 3 min walk.
Le Louis XV - Alain Ducasse. Monaco's only three-star table, in a gilded room that has been the point of the hotel since 1987. It is a meal to plan a trip around, not to add on: dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday only, lunch Friday and Saturday, and a jacket is required at dinner. Book the moment you book the room.
Our verdict
If the address is the point of the trip, book it. If it is not, the Hermitage does the same Monaco with less noise.
Last checked: September 2026