Monaco Travel Guide

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Cuisine

Restaurants in Monaco offer a wide choice of food. Service and standards are excellent. Cuisine is similar to France.

National specialties:
• Barbagiuan (a type of pastry filled with rice and pumpkin).
• Fougasse (fragrant orange flower water pastries decorated with nuts, almonds and aniseed).
• Socca (chick-pea flour pancakes).
• Stocafi (dried cod cooked in a tomato sauce).

Tipping: Hotel and restaurant bills generally include a 15% service charge; however, where this is not added it is customary to leave a 15% tip.

Nightlife

Monaco is not a particularly vibrant place for night owls. Restaurants shut quite early in comparison to European capitals and there are only a few night clubs, all housed in the city's James Bond-esque casinos. Jimmy Z's, located in the Sporting Club is a Monte Carlo establishment, where rich young things flock to the dance floor in designer heels. The world-famous Monte Carlo Casino is another grand complex worth visiting, if not for a drink and dance, then just to look at. Casinos put on nightly shows, cabarets and the like - all thoroughly entertaining, if a tad OTT.