You are at the eastern end of Monaco on the Larvotto peninsula, with the beach on one side of the avenue and the Sporting complex on the other. The hotel holds a two-star restaurant, an all-day bistro and a waterfront bar, and within ten minutes on foot along avenue Princesse Grace is most of the useful eating on this side of the principality, from a beach pizzeria to a starred dining room at Monte-Carlo Beach. You do not need a car; for the old town and the casino square you need a taxi, the bus or the hotel shuttle.
The tables at this hotel that are a reason to come, and how hard they are to get.
Ravin's Martinique-meets-Riviera cooking earned the resort two stars, and the open kitchen and bay terrace make it the one serious reason to eat in at a hotel that is otherwise about the lagoon. Dinner only, four nights a week, so check the days before you plan around it.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out
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Thai and Japanese, since 2006 · €€€
Two hundred metres back along the avenue, and the nearest serious kitchen to the hotel door: a Thai side and a Japanese side under one roof, open since 2006. Its own site gives service every day from noon to 11pm without a break, with a business lunch on weekdays and an afternoon menu from 2pm to 6pm, which makes it the answer when you come off the lagoon at five and want more than a pizza. Expensive, like everything on this avenue, but the continuous hours are rare in Monaco.
Reserve ahead24 avenue Princesse Grace
One-star Mediterranean at Monte-Carlo Beach · €€€€
Nine minutes on foot past the border into France, in the 1929 hotel at the tip of the bay, its 1930s look revisited by India Mahdavi, is Marcel Ravin's second starred table: one Michelin star in the 2026 guide, Ravin as executive chef, Domenico D'Antonio in the kitchen, seafood and vegetables on a terrace over the water. It is seasonal: its own page gives Tuesday to Saturday, lunch 12.15pm to 1.45pm and dinner 7.15pm to 9.45pm, running until 27 September. Book it for a lunch when Blue Bay is dark.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks outMonte-Carlo Beach, avenue Princesse Grace, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
Family beach restaurant, since 1975 · €€
The unpretentious one on Larvotto beach, family-run since 1975 and rebuilt with the Renzo Piano promenade. Its own site gives continuous service seven days a week from 11.30am to 10pm, all year, with wood-fired pizzas, salads and burgers, and it prices its sunbeds in public: 35 euros with a parasol, 50 in the front row. For a child who wants pizza and a swim in the sea rather than the lagoon, this is nine minutes away and costs a fraction of the hotel.
Walk inPlage du Larvotto, avenue Princesse Grace
Italian classics facing Larvotto beach · €€
Across the avenue from the beach, the all-day Italian that Monaco uses as a canteen: burrata, tartares, pappardelle with veal ragout, linguine with lobster or bottarga, pinsa. Its own site gives noon to 10.30pm without stating days, with lunch specials from noon and the dinner menu from 7.30pm. It is where to eat when you want a plate of pasta and a bottle at a normal hour without a reservation drama, and the terrace is the place to watch the avenue do its thing.
Reserve ahead31 avenue Princesse Grace
Italian seafood and all-day caffè · €€€
The smarter of the beach restaurants, Italian and seafood-led, with a beach club in summer and a Caffè that runs all year. Its own site gives the Caffè daily from 8.30am to 7pm, lunch daily from noon to 3.30pm and dinner Monday to Saturday from 7.30pm to 10.30pm, so it is closed on Sunday evening. The Caffè at 8.30am is also the nearest answer to a 48 euro hotel breakfast: coffee and something light on the promenade, ten minutes from the door.
Reserve aheadPlage du Larvotto, avenue Princesse Grace
Breakfast is not included in the standard rates. The hotel's own practical information page prices it at 48 euros per person per day, an American buffet in the Calypso area, taxes and service included, with children of five and under free and six to eleven at half price; on the room pages only the Diamond Suite Eleven lists it among the inclusions. Guests report a buffet that is short on variety and crowded in July and August. The in-house alternative is L'Orange Verte, which its own page opens at 8am; the nearest outside one is La Rose des Vents Caffè on Larvotto beach from 8.30am, ten minutes on foot. From October to May the hotel also runs a Sunday champagne brunch in the Calypso area from 12.30pm to 3pm.
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Questions people ask
You are at the eastern end of Monaco on the Larvotto peninsula, with the beach on one side of the avenue and the Sporting complex on the other. The hotel holds a two-star restaurant, an all-day bistro and a waterfront bar, and within ten minutes on foot along avenue Princesse Grace is most of the useful eating on this side of the principality, from a beach pizzeria to a starred dining room at Monte-Carlo Beach. You do not need a car; for the old town and the casino square you need a taxi, the bus or the hotel shuttle. Maya Bay, 3 min walk. Elsa Marcel Ravin, 9 min walk. Miami Plage, 9 min walk.
Blue Bay. Ravin's Martinique-meets-Riviera cooking earned the resort two stars, and the open kitchen and bay terrace make it the one serious reason to eat in at a hotel that is otherwise about the lagoon. Dinner only, four nights a week, so check the days before you plan around it.
Our verdict
The right Monaco hotel for anyone who wants a resort holiday with the principality as a backdrop. Sea view or nothing.
Last checked: September 2026