Monte-Carlo · Monaco
Gillian McKeith's guide to healthy restaurants in Monte-Carlo.
Written by Gillian McKeith
Monaco is a small principality with an enormous number of expensive restaurants, and expensive is not the same thing as good for you. 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.
8 restaurants in Monte-Carlo
Open in full directory
Avenue 31
$$Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Easy Mediterranean menu with vegetable plates, grain bowls and salads.
Blue Bay Marcel Ravin
$$$$Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Caribbean-Mediterranean tasting menus built around the hotel's own kitchen garden.
Elsa
$$$$Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Certified-organic Mediterranean cooking on the water at Monte-Carlo Beach.
L'Hirondelle
$$$$Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Wellness-focused restaurant at the Thermes Marins spa serving healthy Mediterranean cuisine with sea views.
La Note Bleue
$$Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Feet-in-the-sand beach kitchen with dependable vegetable and salad plates.
Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse à l'Hôtel de Paris
$$$$Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Ducasse's three-star Riviera temple, where the vegetable garden runs the menu.
Maya Bay
$$$Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Thai and Japanese cooking with a strong vegetable and tofu list.
Song Qi
$$$Monte-Carlo, Monaco
Contemporary Chinese with a long, properly considered vegetarian menu.
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
Eating a particular way in Monte-Carlo
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.
Other city guides
Browse every UK city guide and filter by vegan, vegetarian or wholefood.
- Healthy restaurants in London
- Healthy restaurants in Bristol
- Healthy restaurants in Brighton
- Healthy restaurants in Manchester
- Healthy restaurants in Edinburgh
- Healthy restaurants in Glasgow
- Healthy restaurants in New York
- Healthy restaurants in Los Angeles
- Healthy restaurants in Paris
- Healthy restaurants in Berlin
- Healthy restaurants in Birmingham
- Healthy restaurants in Leeds
- Healthy restaurants in Oxford
- Healthy restaurants in Cambridge
- Healthy restaurants in Cardiff
- Healthy restaurants in York
- Healthy restaurants in Newcastle
- Healthy restaurants in Liverpool
- Healthy restaurants in Belfast
- Healthy restaurants in Amsterdam