The grandest dining room in Monaco and perhaps the Mediterranean in terms of food and flair, this 3-star Michelin dining room by Alain Ducasse located inside Hotel de Paris in Monte-Carlo. Inspired by Grand Siècle at Versailles, muted-colors give way to heavy gold leafing and modernized Louis chairs among walls strewn in swags of ornate drapery as marble busts look upon all this edible hedonism with distinguished glare. At tables set in numerous crystal glasses and culinary accouterments like chairs for ladies' purses, an enforced dress code yields a stylish if older clientele of business elite, posh visitors and gourmand splurges.
The Food
Haute couture Riviera cuisine by Alain Ducasse is offered in a seasonal prix fixe menu with specialties that include flattened Mediterranean sea bass studded with marjoram with spiny artichokes and anchovy fritters or Pyrenean baby lamb seasoned with Espelette pepper with roasted radicchio, fennel and offal.
Last Word
After 25-years at Hotel de Paris, Alain Ducasse continues to forge culinary roads at 3-star Michelin eatery worthy of modern-day kings.
