Above Menton
Mirazur clings to a terraced hillside above Menton, on the French side of the Italian border, the Mediterranean spread out below. Mauro Colagreco cooks here, and in 2019 the restaurant was named the world's best.
Its terraced gardens are not decoration: they set the menu, and the sea sets the mood. Few great tables are this literally rooted in their ground.
By the moon
The menus follow the lunar calendar, with fruit, root, leaf and flower days shaping what arrives, much of it picked steps from the pass. Cooking that answers to the garden and the moon rather than a fixed card.
It is the Riviera's most site-specific great table, and among its most beautiful rooms.
The garden sets the menu; the sea sets the mood.
A restaurant grown, almost literally, from its own hillside. A long lunch with the Mediterranean below.
VANE selection. Chosen with a critic's eye and judged independently. It's here because we judged it, not because it paid. This is a researched profile, not yet a first-hand VANE verdict; where we have eaten there, the review says so.
Image: Setting, Menton old town and harbour. Photo: Berthold Werner, Wikimedia Commons (public domain)
