Monaco's nine Michelin-starred restaurants, one by one

In Monaco, six of the nine Michelin-starred tables belong to hotels run by the Société des Bains de Mer. The 2026 guide counts 14 stars across nine restaurants, and it was presented right here, at the Grimaldi Forum, on 16 March. I’ve sorted them by what each one actually publishes about prices, opening times and bookings, because that’s where the lists doing the rounds tend to go wrong.

The only three-star and its three two-star neighbours

Le Louis XV, in the Hôtel de Paris, is the country’s only three-star restaurant. The cooking is signed by Alain Ducasse and Emmanuel Pilon, and it’s also the house that explains its prices best. The Friday and Saturday Riviera Lunch costs €230 without drinks and the Agape menu €420. The full picture, with opening times and the dress code, is in my Le Louis XV guide.

Three very different houses hold two stars. L’Abysse is Yannick Alléno’s Japanese restaurant in the Hôtel Hermitage, with a twenty-cover room and a ten-seat pale wood counter where sushi master Naoki Kikuchi works the fish by season and by the day’s catch. Les Ambassadeurs, in the Hôtel Métropole, is Christophe Cussac’s Mediterranean cooking, from a former Joël Robuchon protégé, built on a rule of three flavours per plate, with bread and dessert trolleys the guide singles out. And Blue Bay, at the Monte-Carlo Bay, is Marcel Ravin’s cooking between his native Martinique and the Mediterranean, with vegetables from the hotel’s own kitchen garden.

The five one-star restaurants

Le Grill sits on the Hôtel de Paris’s eighth floor, with a sliding roof, views to the Italian coast and chargrill cooking by chef Dominique Lory. Pavyllon, also by Alléno and also in the Hermitage, cooks in front of a counter with low-sugar desserts, and along with Le Grill it’s the only starred table open for lunch and dinner every day.

Elsa, by the same Marcel Ravin with Domenico D’Antonio running the kitchen, serves seafood at the Monte-Carlo Beach. Two things to know. The guide lists it under Monaco, but the address is Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, in France, and the SBM only gave its hours until 27 September 2026, with no reopening date.

Robuchon Monaco is the big news, the Principality’s only new star in 2026. It sits on the Esplanade du Portier, overlooking boulevard du Larvotto and the Japanese Garden, and every main course comes with Robuchon’s famous mash. The local press names Jonathan Larrieu as chef; the restaurant’s own website doesn’t. Rounding off the list, La Table d’Antonio Salvatore, inside Rampoldi, serves creative Italian food at just five tables in the former cigar lounge.

What does a starred meal in Monaco cost?

Here’s the awkward bit. Of the nine, only three publish a menu price. Robuchon Monaco has a six-course menu at €175 and a seven-course one at €225, with tax and service included. Les Ambassadeurs lists its tasting menu at 295 on the Métropole’s menu, which doesn’t print a currency symbol. And Le Louis XV has the €230, €300 and €420 of its set options.

The rest don’t publish prices on their pages, and I won’t fill the gap with third-party figures. My advice is to ask for the menu when you book and decide with it in front of you. If you’d like to eat well in Monaco without a three-figure menu, I’ve ranked the options from cheap to lavish in where to eat in Monaco. As for the Beefbar on Fontvieille harbour, it’s in the guide’s selection without a star, as I explain in Beefbar Monaco.

How I’d book without surprises

Each house handles its own bookings. The six SBM restaurants take them through the SBM website or by phone, Les Ambassadeurs by email or phone through the Métropole, Robuchon on its own number and La Table d’Antonio Salvatore through a Rampoldi form with sittings between 19:00 and 20:30. Paying a third party for a booking the house gives you for free makes no sense.

I’d check the days first. Les Ambassadeurs closes on Tuesday and Wednesday, Blue Bay only opens Wednesday to Saturday, L’Abysse and Robuchon rest on Sunday and Monday, and Le Louis XV only serves lunch on Friday and Saturday. If your trip falls early in the week, Le Grill and Pavyllon won’t let you down. And a warning about old lists. Yoshi, the Japanese restaurant at the Métropole, is still in the 2026 guide, but it has lost its star.

As for dress, Le Louis XV and Le Grill require a jacket at dinner, and Les Ambassadeurs asks for smart town clothes. If you’re dining at the Hôtel de Paris, the Hermitage or the Métropole, staying in the same hotel means the evening ends at the lift, and what the most classic of the three offers is in my Hôtel de Paris guide.