In the evening it was again time for food-opera. This time we had dinner at Alain Ducasse Le Louis XV Monte Carlo, the first and only Michelin 3-star restaurant in Monaco.
The restaurant is located in the Hotel de Paris. After we made our way through the barriers (police was very helpful) we were greeted at the entrance and doorman took care of our car.
We were escorted to the restaurant and got a table at the window. The restaurant is – let´s say – golden and were recently renovated.



It´s a matter of taste if you like the design, it´s at least not understated
We could choose between a la carte, Jardins de Provence menu and Gourmet menu. As the Jardins de Provence menu didn´t contain meat we opted for this one, it was 240,00 € per person. While the courses came by surprise were able to choose our dessert from the menu.


First they brought bread with vegetables and olives which looked great.


Taste was OK but not as gregarious as the visual appearance.

Some very nice vegetarian canapés with olive-paste



Now it was time for the first Monaco-aria. They braught hot stones with raw fish on it, poured water over it and took a cap over it. This way the fish cooked. You can say whatever you want but they really try hard to offer a show....


They didn´t offer a bread wagon, they had a bread and a butter/ oil station.....



The bread came beside the butter with a surprisingly good (generally not a fan of French oil) olive oil from Grasse


The bread was of good quality but not as good as the bread at Joel Robouchon



Interesting cutlery


First course with several vegetables

The dish was very tasty!

Second course, the obligatory green asparagus

Also very good

Next a bowl with morels and rice from the famous cook pot

This was the way such a dish must be! Outstanding!

Next I was a little bit confused, they serve gnocchi with asparagus, salad, peas and mushrooms

Well, asparagus again and somewhat wired in a 3-star restaurant but after I tried it I couldn´t find anything to complain about. Again a delicious dish.

Some ice to refresh....


Next came the cheese wagon.


As we hadn´t a menu we wasn´t sure if it´s included. As my company had already enough she declined and only I took a selection.


Already before again an aria started and a cook chopped salad at the butter station. That´s the result:

Later I learned that the cheese was part of the menu but to be fait it wouldn´t have been such a great idea to eat 2 cheese-plates.

Napkin


Time for dessert! First the warm mango and passion fruit soufflé with pink pepper sorbet.

I´m not a fan of pink pepper sorbet but the soufflé was delicious

Soft chocolate cake with cocoa and nib

Also very good

Again a tea-wagon

This time it wasn´t included.......

Some more sweets


nuts


chocolates


and ice-cream.


In the end we got a “present”, a nice cake



During the whole evening service was top notch and without any failure.

We had a very good dinner which came at 514,00 € (no alcohol, only water). If I compared it to our dinner at Joel Robouchon it offered without question the better food and the better service. If you want the best performance quality-wise go for Alain Ducasse. If you consider value I would opt for Joel Robouchon as the difference in quality doesn´t justify the price-difference in my eyes. Which restaurant I would return? Hard to say, in best case both. Otherwise I guess Louis XV.