Cipriani Monte Carlo, Venetian classics in the Mirabeau building

Cipriani is one of those names that has taken Venice around the world, and in Monaco it has had a dining room since 2012 at the top of avenue Princesse Grace. What interests me about it is simple. It publishes its menu with prices, something few places at this level bother to do in the Principality. Here’s where it is, what to order, what it costs and what to know before you book.

A dining room dressed as a yacht

The restaurant fills the ground floor of the Mirabeau building at 1 avenue Princesse Grace, easy to spot by its glass frontage. Inside, the brief was a luxury yacht. Brown leather armchairs, mahogany walls, polished steel, mirrors, marble floors, painted trompe-l’oeil portholes and banquettes with blue, red and white striped cushions.

Downstairs there’s the main room and a smaller, more private one called the Veneziana Room. Upstairs is The Living Room by Cipriani, a private space meant for dinner and lingering afterwards. A series of black-and-white photographs by Vanessa Von Zitzewitz hangs on the walls. I like that it doesn’t try to look Monégasque; it’s Cipriani, with its usual look, and it knows it.

What should you order at Cipriani Monte Carlo?

The menu has a section of timeless dishes from the house tradition, and that’s where I’d look. The Baked White Tagliolini alla Cipriani, gratinated with ham, at €40; the Cipriani beef carpaccio with salad, €45; vitello tonnato, €35; and for something more Venetian, pasta e fagioli for €21 or calf’s liver alla veneziana with polenta for €45. There’s even a Japanese suggestions section, with seared salmon sashimi and fried Dover sole, which I’d happily do without in an Italian.

Beyond that it’s classic Italian cooking done properly. Pastas between €34 and €42, from cacio e pepe to tagliolini al pesto; a risotto alla milanese that takes twenty minutes; fish and meat between €42 and €75, from Dover sole alla mugnaia to peppered beef fillet. Every dessert, individual tiramisù, vanilla ice cream made to order or focaccia with mascarpone, is €20.

How much will dinner at Cipriani Monaco set you back?

Going by the June 2026 menu, a starter, a main and a pudding easily clear €100 a head before you open a bottle. Share a starter and stick to pasta and you’ll come in well under that. At the other end sit the Danubian caviar at €620 for 100 g and a 400 g grade 5 wagyu entrecôte for two at €175.

It’s expensive, and I won’t pretend otherwise. But you’re paying somewhere that tells you the price up front, which I find honest in a city where plenty of smart places keep it hidden. One practical warning, they don’t take American Express, and they print that on every page. The rest of my tips for paying without extra charges are in money in Monaco.

Booking, hours and what to wear

It opens every day, 12:00 to 14:30 for lunch and 19:00 to 23:45 for dinner, and Visit Monaco says it does so all year, not just in season. Lunch can be booked online; for dinner the restaurant asks you to ring +377 93 25 42 50 or email [email protected].

The only dress rule it publishes is no shorts for men. I’d go in long trousers and proper shoes, the rule that never lets you down in Monte-Carlo. If you’d rather stay in, Cipriani delivers from 19:00 to 21:30 and does takeaway too.

Fitting it into your day

Visit Monaco places it five minutes’ walk from the Grimaldi Forum, so it’s the obvious dinner if you’ve a conference, a ballet or a concert there. It’s also a stroll down the coast from Casino Square and from the start of Larvotto beach.

If you’re after starred cooking instead, the comparison is in Monaco’s Michelin-starred restaurants. And to see Cipriani alongside everything else in town, cheap to splurge, I’ve set it all out in where to eat in Monaco.

So, is Cipriani worth it?

To me Cipriani is Monaco’s most predictable luxury Italian, in the good sense. You know what you’ll eat, what it’ll cost and how you’ll be looked after. It isn’t a discovery or chef-driven cooking, and anyone chasing surprises will be bored. But for a long lunch with the tagliolini and a pudding, it’s one of the pricey tables I’d genuinely pay for, knowing exactly what I’m paying.