Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse à l'Hôtel de Paris

Le Louis XV is the restaurant that made Alain Ducasse: he won three Michelin stars here at 33, and it holds three stars in the 2026 guide. The kitchen, led by his long-time right hand Emmanuel Pilon, is Mediterranean and pared back to the produce. Its signature is Les Jardins de Provence, the vegetable menu Ducasse first served in Monaco in 1987. There is a terrace on the Place du Casino; Michelin puts it at its top price level, €€€€.

What followed is the Monte-Carlo the world knows. The Hôtel de Paris rose on the Place du Casino in the 1860s; the Salle Garnier, by Charles Garnier, the architect of the Paris Opéra, opened on 25 January 1879 with Sarah Bernhardt on stage; the Église Saint-Charles was completed in 1883. From 1898 to 1931 trams climbed its avenues.