Mauro Colagreco's terraced restaurant above Menton on the Italian border, its menus driven by the restaurant's own gardens and the lunar calendar. World's best in 2019.
By Dimitris Stathopoulos
The cooking
Fruit, root, leaf and flower days shape what arrives, produce picked steps from the pass, the sea in view throughout. Cooking that follows the land and the moon rather than a fixed card.
Why it is in VANE
A restaurant grown, almost literally, from its own hillside. The Riviera's most site-specific great table.
Where
Above Menton, on the French-Italian border
Kitchen
Chef Mauro Colagreco
Style
Riviera, garden-driven
Format
Menus by the lunar calendar
Best for
A long lunch with the sea below
VANE selection. Chosen with a critic's eye and judged independently. It's here because we judged it, not because it paid.
On this profile: a researched profile, drawn from the restaurant's own record and reporting, not a claim of a first-hand visit. Where we have eaten there, the review says so.
Image: original VANE artwork; photography to follow.
