Where to eat at and around Le Méridien Beach Plaza
You are on the Larvotto seafront at the eastern end of Monaco, on the strip where the principality eats by the water, so nothing below needs a car. The hotel has more tables than most: Le Café Lacoste runs 9am to 2am, L'Intempo does Italian dinner from 7pm, Sen is a Japanese speakeasy by the Kodera family open Tuesday to Saturday, Muse serves lunch under the pines from May to September, Alang is the bar on the sand from April to September, and Smakelijk, a Belgian brasserie, hosts the Sunday brunch out of season. Five minutes on foot in either direction along Avenue Princesse Grace covers everything from a pizza on the public beach to two Michelin stars.
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Within ten minutes on foot
- 4 min walk
Family beach restaurant since 1975 · €€
The public beach's canteen, run by the same family since 1975: pizzas from a wood-fired oven, salads, burgers and sandwiches, with 100 seats inside and 250 on the terrace by the water. Its own site gives continuous service every day of the year from 11:30 to 22:00, which makes it the answer at four in the afternoon, and rents a lounger and parasol for 35 euros, 50 in the front row, on the days the hotel's own beach is full.
Walk inPlage du Larvotto
- 4 min walk
Beach restaurant with live music · €€€
The Larvotto beach restaurant that turns into a music club after dark: Mediterranean cooking with detours, risotto, a Thai salad, salmon ceviche, fish and a rib-eye, then live jazz, soul, funk and Brazilian sets and DJs in the evenings. Its own site gives 9am to 10pm daily, so it is also the nearest breakfast outside the hotel. Book a table on the sand at the weekend and a lounger if you want the day as well.
Reserve aheadPlage du Larvotto, Avenue Princesse Grace
- 5 min walk
Italian-leaning Mediterranean, all day · €€€
The dependable room on the avenue opposite the beach, open from noon to 22:30, with a weekday business lunch and drinks through the afternoon, dinner from 19:30. The menu is the Riviera's Italian side done properly: pappardelle with veal ragout, linguine with lobster or bottarga, a lobster roll, miso black cod and burrata with strawberry and pistachio. It is where to eat when you want to be near the hotel without being in it.
Reserve ahead31 Avenue Princesse Grace
- 5 min walk
Peruvian dining and pisco bar · €€€€
The loud, late one, inside the Sporting complex two doors along: ceviches and Peruvian-inspired Latin American cooking with a pisco bar and live music that carries the room from dinner into the night. Its own site gives Tuesday to Sunday, 7pm to 2am, for both the restaurant and the bar, with Monday closed. Go for the second half of the evening as much as the first, and book, because Monaco's summer crowd does.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out26 Avenue Princesse Grace
- 5 min walk
Two-star Caribbean-Mediterranean tasting menus · €€€€
Two Michelin stars in the current guide, and the most serious kitchen you can walk to from the hotel in five minutes. Marcel Ravin cooks the Martinique of his grandmother through Mediterranean produce, calalou and blaff among them, with menus renewed every three weeks and a terrace over the sea at the Monte-Carlo Bay. Its own site gives Wednesday to Saturday, 7:30pm to 9:30pm, closed Sunday to Tuesday, and a table needs booking well ahead.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out40 Avenue Princesse Grace, Monte-Carlo Bay
Breakfast
Breakfast is not included on the standard rate. The hotel's dining page lists it for a fee at Le Café Lacoste and at L'Intempo, so check what your rate includes before you book; the price itself is on the hotel's overview page. Guests report a generous buffet and a room that is overrun in peak weeks and conference weeks. The nearest alternative is La Note Bleue on the beach, four minutes away and open from 9am every day; Marlow at Mareterra serves breakfast from 8:30, about thirteen minutes along the front.
What to skip
The front-row lounger at any beach club on Larvotto in July and August, where the sunbed is priced for the view and so is the lunch. The public beach is free, the water is the same, and the hotel's own beach comes with the room.
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Questions people ask
Good questions about Le Méridien Beach Plaza
Where can I eat near Le Méridien Beach Plaza?
You are on the Larvotto seafront at the eastern end of Monaco, on the strip where the principality eats by the water, so nothing below needs a car. The hotel has more tables than most: Le Café Lacoste runs 9am to 2am, L'Intempo does Italian dinner from 7pm, Sen is a Japanese speakeasy by the Kodera family open Tuesday to Saturday, Muse serves lunch under the pines from May to September, Alang is the bar on the sand from April to September, and Smakelijk, a Belgian brasserie, hosts the Sunday brunch out of season. Five minutes on foot in either direction along Avenue Princesse Grace covers everything from a pizza on the public beach to two Michelin stars. Miami Plage, 4 min walk. La Note Bleue, 4 min walk. Avenue 31, 5 min walk.
Our verdict
Book it for the beach and a sea-view balcony in summer. For any other kind of trip, another hotel in this edit will serve you better.
Last checked: September 2026