Monaco Restaurants

  1. Huit et Demi

    Eight and a Half is a chic, clean-cut place with an industrial interior and pavement terrace filling an entire street running off rue Princesse Caroline. The fare is a mix of Italian (lots of pasta) and local (think bagna cauda , lamb with Sospel olives).

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  2. Il Terrazzino

    Dried sweet-corn cobs dangle from the ceiling of this colourful eating space where traditional Neapolitan fare fuses with Italian charm. Pea green and turquoise chairs grace the mellow conservatory-style terrace, but the best bit is the eat-as-much-as-want antipastibuffet.

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  3. L'Intempo

    Hotel restaurants in the principality are not second-best options, as this stunning eating space testifies. Take your pick from one of four dramatically different eating areas stuck in a glass tower on the seashore. Cuisine - some live - is Mediterranean.

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  4. La Rascasse

    It changed its name to Café Grand Prix but the punters just wouldn't have it. It does, after all, sit inside the Rascasse bend of the F1 Grand Prix circuit and throbs with drivers' girlfriends and support teams during the race. The restaurant is on the 1st floor, the bar is on the ground.

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  5. Le Castelroc

    Opposite the Palace with an entrance ensnared by T-shirt and souvenir shops it might be, but incredibly Le Castelroc is no tourist trap. Spilling out to an al-fresco terrace, its twin dining rooms are the best place around to try authentic Monégasque specialities such as barbadjuan (a spinach and cheese-stuffed doughnut) and pissaladière (onion and tomato tart; France's version is tomatoless).

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  7. Louis XV

    Reputed to be the Riviera's best restaurant, Ducasse's legendary Louis XV is the height of sophisticated dining. Set jewel-like inside the opulent Hôtel de Paris, the dining room, which looks as though it's been teleported from 17th-century Versailles, sparkles with gold. Nice-born head chef Franck Cerutti uses seasonal ingredients in his themed French menus, with dashes of Italy, Bavaria, Scotland and the Far East to keep things peppy.

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  8. Polpetta

    Craving down-to-earth dining? Then hike uphill to this disarmingly old-fashioned trattorianext to a garage where eggs and veg are delivered each morning by a man in a little white van. The doing of the Guasco brothers for 20-odd years, Sinatra among others loved Polpetta. We love its osso bucco.

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