Thirteen editions in, and Sunset Monaco has added the chef behind the world’s best restaurant to a lineup that already had Honey Dijon, Seth Troxler and Carlita on it. Plus a new beach club, a major art installation and a redesigned event space. The bar has been raised. The beach is the same.
The Monaco Grand Prix is many things to many people. For most, it is a race. For the people who have discovered Sunset Monaco, it is the supporting act. Sunset Monaco 2026 returns to the private beach of Le Méridien Beach Plaza from Friday, June 5 to Sunday, June 7 for its 13th edition, running noon to midnight across all three days of race weekend. The lineup is the best yet. And this year, for the first time, the event has added something that puts it in a different conversation entirely: a pop-up restaurant run by Mauro Colagreco, the chef behind Mirazur, which was named the best restaurant in the world by the World’s 50 Best in 2019.
The private beach format gives the event an intimacy that larger things cannot manufacture. You are not in a field. You are on the Mediterranean, in June, during the most concentrated week of automotive glamour on the calendar. The music is serious, the setting is genuinely beautiful and the crowd tends to know exactly why it is there. The fact that this is the 13th edition and it keeps getting bigger rather than smaller tells you something.
The Colagreco addition deserves a moment of context. Mirazur in Menton, twelve kilometres from Monaco, has held three Michelin stars since 2019 and was voted number one in the world by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants the same year. Colagreco is not a chef who lends his name to things casually. A pop-up table under a beach canvas during Monaco GP weekend, in the Principality he effectively neighbours, is the kind of collaboration that makes sense precisely because both things exist at the same level of ambition. Casa Sunset will be one of the harder reservations of the entire Grand Prix weekend. Plan accordingly.
La Petite Plage addresses something that any event running noon to midnight across three days needs: somewhere to decompress between sets without leaving the beach. The circular bar, secondary stage and juicery give it a genuine function beyond being a place to sit down, and the barefoot-on-sand quality of it is the right counterpoint to the main stage energy. The Fred Allard installation runs through the whole space rather than being cordoned off in a corner, which means the art is actually part of the event rather than a gesture towards one.
THE MUSIC LINEUP
The 2026 artist lineup is serious. Honey Dijon headlines, a DJ whose sets have the specific quality of making three hours feel like twenty minutes and who has, over the past five years, become one of the most important names in international electronic music. Seth Troxler, one of the most respected selectors anywhere, is confirmed alongside Carlita, whose melodic deep house sets have made her one of the most in-demand DJs in Europe. BLOND:ISH, Adam Ten, Luciano, Kenny Dope, Pawsa, Andhim, Josh Baker and Rony Seikaly complete a bill of over thirty artists across three days. As lineups go, this one does not have any obvious weak points.
REVMAG VERDICT
Thirteen editions in and Sunset Monaco has added the chef behind the world’s best restaurant, a new beach club, a major art installation and the best DJ lineup it has ever assembled. The private beach format, the Grand Prix backdrop and the Mediterranean setting have not changed because they do not need to. The only sensible response to Honey Dijon, Seth Troxler, Mauro Colagreco and a sunset over Monaco is to be there. Tickets and bookings at here. See you on the beach.
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