Condamine Market: Monaco's food hall on the Place d'Armes

The market on the Place d'Armes

The Marche de la Condamine sits on the Place d'Armes, at the foot of the Rock and a two-minute walk from Port Hercule. It has been trading on this spot since 1880 and the Mairie describes it, without much exaggeration, as the popular heart of Monaco: a country of 39,000 people with no farmland of its own still keeps a working food market, and this is it.

It is run by the Mairie de Monaco, not by a private operator, and it opens every single day of the year — Sundays included. There is no market day and no closing day.

Opening hours

The single most common error about this market is quoting one set of hours. There are three, by trade:

If you are coming for fruit and vegetables, come before midday. If you are coming to eat, the kitchens serve lunch every day and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. Tables cannot be, and need not be, reserved.

What is happening to the hall right now

Since 15 January 2026 the interior of the hall is closed for a full restructuring. The Mairie announced the works as lasting 13 months; reopening is expected in early 2027. Plan around this if you are visiting Monaco before then, and disregard any description of the market's interior published before 2026.

The market itself has not closed. The traders have been rehoused in a purpose-built temporary village on the Place d'Armes:

• ten fully fitted wooden kiosks for the food trades
• a 17 x 10 m marquee with 65 covers for the remaining businesses
• a 12 x 6 m marquee for the organic grocer Solis Bio
• roughly 300 seats in total

Eighteen of the twenty-one operators made the move. Two took retirement and the bar Le Zinc was not renewed, so the line-up is slightly shorter than it was in 2025. For the duration of the works the Mairie is covering pitch fees, utilities and professional equipment for every trader — which is why the market has kept its full character rather than thinning out.

Mayor Georges Marsan framed the temporary village as a condition of the project rather than an afterthought: the point of the exercise was that the market should keep living while its building is rebuilt.

Who trades there

The Mairie publishes the official trader list for both municipal markets. At the Condamine it covers, among others:

Butchers and charcuterie — Boucherie Olivier (93 15 00 70), Martini Boucherie, Le Petit Charcutier (97 77 39 72).

Fish — Chez Rinaldi (93 30 24 38), and Vidal'Ostra for oysters and seafood platters.

Cheese, bread and pasta — Le Coin du Fromager; the bakery-patisserie SAM Costa (93 30 94 72) and Art Cake Studio; La Maison des Pates Cesano & Fils for fresh pasta, which also trades at Monte-Carlo.

Prepared food — Truffle Gourmet for rotisserie, pizza and pasta (97 77 19 19); Le Comptoir for pizza and pissaladiere (97 98 09 90); Japan Articles Trading for sushi.

Grocers — Solis Bio for organic (97 98 11 11), plus MC Food and Glad10.

Growers, greengrocers and flowers — several fruit-and-vegetable stalls, some resellers and some actual growers (Brunengo, Decadi, Raina), the honey producer Denis Morieux, and the florists Narmino and Gerini.

Phone numbers are those published by the Mairie for its delivery scheme; several of these traders deliver themselves rather than through the municipal service.

Eating at the market

This is the practical reason most visitors end up here. The food stalls cook to order at prices that have nothing in common with the rest of Monaco, and the seating is communal and unbooked.

The dishes worth ordering are the local ones rather than the international ones:

• Barbagiuan — the Monegasque national snack, a fried pastry parcel of chard and ricotta
• Socca — a thin chickpea-flour pancake from the Nice–Ventimiglia coast, eaten hot with pepper
• Pissaladiere — onion, anchovy and olive tart
• Fresh pasta, cooked on the spot, and wood-fired pizza

Go early for lunch. Between roughly noon and 1.30pm the tables fill with office workers from the Condamine and the port, and during Grand Prix and E-Prix week they fill from mid-morning.

More on the dishes themselves in the Monegasque food and cuisine guide and on the market's produce in the food markets guide.

Getting there and getting your shopping home

The Place d'Armes is at the bottom of the hill between Monaco-Ville and the port, so most people walk to it — from the port, the station or the Rock. Parking is underground and paid; there is no useful free parking anywhere nearby.

If you live in Monaco you can skip the carrying altogether. The Mairie's Service du Domaine Communal – Commerce, Halles et Marchés delivers market purchases to your home free of charge, every day except Sunday from 7.30am to 2pm, for residents of the Principality. The Condamine delivery line is +377 93 30 63 94.

Also worth reading

• Monaco's markets: how the system works
• Farmers markets and organic food
• The La Condamine district
• Grocery shopping and supermarkets