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Le Louis XV

Address: Hôtel de Paris, Pl. du Casino
Phone: 377/92-16-30-01
www.alain-ducasse.com

Price range: $$$$
Cuisine: French, Mediterranean
Location: Monaco

Write a review | Avg. member rating: 5.0/5

Fodor's Review:

Louis Quinze to the initiated, this extravagantly showy restaurant stuns with neo-Baroque details, yet it manages to be upstaged by its product: the superb cuisine of Alain Ducasse, one of Europe's most celebrated chefs. With too many tokens on his Monopoly board, Ducasse jets between his other, ever-growing interests leaving the Louis XV kitchen, for the most part, in the more-than-capable hands of chef Franck Cerutti, who draws much of his inspiration from the Cours Saleya market in Nice. His absence is no great loss. Glamorous iced lobster consommé with caviar, and risotto perfumed with Alba white truffles slum happily with stockfish (stewed salt cod) and tripe. There are sole sautéed with tender baby fennel, salt-seared foie gras, milk-fed lamb with hints of cardamom, and dark-chocolate sorbet crunchy with ground coffee beans or hot wild strawberries on an icy mascarpone sorbet—in short, a panoply of delights using the sensual flavors of the Mediterranean. The decor is magnificent—a surfeit of gilt, mirrors, and chandeliers—and the waitstaff seignorial as they proffer a footstool for madame's handbag. In Ducasse fashion, the Baroque clock on the wall is stopped just before twelve. Cinderella should have no fears.

Credit Cards: AE, DC, MC, V
Closed: Closed late Nov.-late Dec., late Feb-mid-Mar., and Tues. and Wed. (except Wed. evenings) late June-late Aug.

Member Reviews and Ratings

Reviewed by robandmarina from LA on 5/1/07
It's hard to call a $200 per person dinner - before wine and tip - a bargain. But it was. We've eaten at almost twenty three-Michelin-star retaurants; this is high end of that lofty range. The food was extravagant and exquisite. The service unobtrusive and impeccable. The atmosphere over-the-top (yes, they have the requisite 20-foot gilt-and-painted ceiling, and foot-stools for the ladies purse and for your camera to rest). I've been to the restaurant five times, and have never been less-than-ecstatic about the experience.