Monte-Carlo · Monaco
Gillian McKeith's guide to healthy restaurants in Monte-Carlo.
Written by Gillian McKeith
If you are vegan or vegetarian in Monaco, good luck. They have not got a clue. The kitchens here are built around meat and fish, and plant-based usually means a disappointing salad while someone else eats properly. Meat eaters, on the other hand, do very well indeed. What I look for here is the kitchen garden, the organic certificate and the chef who can build a menu around vegetables without treating it as a favour.
Elsa at Monte-Carlo Beach is certified organic and sits on the water, which makes it the first address I give anyone. Blue Bay works from the hotel's own kitchen garden and cooks Caribbean and Mediterranean food with real intelligence. Le Louis XV lets the vegetable garden lead the menu, which from a three-star Riviera dining room is more radical than it sounds. L'Hirondelle at the Thermes Marins spa is built around wellness, and Avenue 31 and La Note Bleue give you honest vegetable plates, grains and salads without the theatre.
The standard is the same on the Riviera as it is anywhere else: purity, wholesomeness, organic where it can be managed, and plenty of fresh vegetables, pulses, grains and seeds. Nobody here has bought their place on this page.
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Eating well in Monte-Carlo: your questions
- Which Monte-Carlo restaurant is certified organic?
- Elsa at Monte-Carlo Beach. It holds organic certification for its Mediterranean cooking and sits directly on the water, so you get the sourcing and the view in one sitting.
- Where in Monaco can I eat from a kitchen garden?
- Blue Bay uses the hotel's own garden for its Caribbean and Mediterranean menus, and Le Louis XV at the Hotel de Paris builds its cooking around the vegetable garden. Produce grown nearby and picked recently always tastes of more.
- Is there anywhere healthy in Monaco for a light lunch?
- L'Hirondelle at the Thermes Marins is designed around wellness, and La Note Bleue on Larvotto beach does dependable salads and vegetable plates with your feet more or less in the sand.
- Are these Monaco restaurants vegan?
- Mostly not, and I make no apology for it. The guide is plant-forward, not plant-only. These kitchens cook vegetables and fish with skill, and several will build you an entirely plant based menu if you ask.
- Do Monaco restaurants pay to be listed?
- No, and money would be the fastest way to be left out. I choose each one on sourcing, freshness and how much real produce arrives on the plate.
Every Monte-Carlo restaurant in the Gillian McKeith Restaurant Guide
Every Monte-Carlo kitchen in the guide, with my notes on each.
- Avenue 31
- Blue Bay Marcel Ravin
- Elsa
- L'Hirondelle
- La Note Bleue
- Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse à l'Hôtel de Paris
- Maya Bay
- Song Qi
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About the author
Written by Gillian McKeith
I'm Gillian McKeith: television presenter, creator of the global hit show You Are What You Eat, writer, nutritionist, and the editor behind this guide. Every Monte-Carlo entry here is chosen and written by me. I judge kitchens on the things that actually matter: real ingredients, honest sourcing, vegetables cooked with care, and food you feel better for eating.
Nothing on this page is a paid placement. Restaurants cannot buy a recommendation, and any listing marked as sponsored is labelled as such. If a kitchen slips, it comes out of the guide.
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