A'Trego
Eats of the Week — Monaco
Philippe Starck built a restaurant on the rocks at Cap d'Ail and pointed it at the sea. The Principality is fifty metres to your right. The Mediterranean is directly below. The food is exactly as good as it should be.
There is a moment, just after you climb the stairs at A'Trego and step onto the terrace, when the Mediterranean opens up in front of you and you realise that this is one of those places that earns its reputation entirely on its own terms. No casino. No Grand Prix. No borrowed glamour. Just the sea, the rocks, and a table with a view that would make a grown adult put their phone away and simply sit with it.
A'Trego sits at the Port de Cap d'Ail, technically in France, practically in Monaco — the border is a short walk east and the principality's skyline is visible from the terrace. The restaurant was designed by Philippe Starck, which explains the industrial-nautical interior: rough-hewn wooden benches, wicker chairs, polished cement-finish metal tables, and a chandelier that looks like it was salvaged from a very stylish shipwreck. Starck's fingerprints are everywhere, and they are exactly the right fingerprints for this location.
The kitchen runs a Provençal-Mediterranean menu that changes with the season and the chef's mood. The burrata is presented in a hollowed tomato on a bed of rocket with a dropper of pesto — a dish that sounds simple and tastes like someone has been thinking about it for a long time. The black truffle pizza is closer to a gourmet flatbread, thick and rustic with a white sauce that sits somewhere between béchamel and crème fraîche. The Charolais beef tartare is studded with Parmesan and olives marinated in oil, lightly touched with pesto, and finished with arugula. The chickpea fries are worth ordering even if you don't think you want them.
The Details
- Location
- Port de Cap d'Ail
On the Monaco border, French Riviera - Design
- Philippe Starck
Industrial nautical, 170 seats - Cuisine
- Provençal-Mediterranean
Seasonal, locally sourced - Reservations
- +33 (0)4 93 28 58 22
- @atregorestaurant
Gerald's Scorecard
The exterior from the port road · The terrace, feet from the water
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The Room Philippe Starck Built
The interior of A'Trego is what happens when a world-class designer is given a waterfront building on the French Riviera and told to make it feel like a place where interesting people want to spend time. Starck chose an intentionally rough-hewn aesthetic — industrial metal tables finished to look like polished cement, wooden benches alternating with wicker chairs, a chandelier that belongs in a very good dream about the sea.
The 170-seat restaurant has both an indoor dining room and a large terrace that sits directly over the water. On the terrace, the tables are weathered wood and the menus are cork-encased — a small detail that reinforces the nautical theme without being heavy-handed about it. The welcome aperitif is Prosecco, which is exactly the right call for a restaurant that sits between France and Italy and has the good sense to acknowledge both.
The glassed-in veranda is the sweet spot — sheltered from the wind, open to the view, with the sea visible on three sides. On a clear evening, with the lights of Monaco reflecting off the water to the east and the last of the Riviera sun dropping behind the cliffs to the west, it is one of the finest rooms on the coast.
The Food
The kitchen at A'Trego is known for its meats, though the vegetable dishes are worth your attention too. The Provençal-Mediterranean menu draws on centuries of coastal tradition — French technique, Italian influence, Spanish proximity, and the produce of a region that has been feeding people well since before anyone thought to write it down.
The deceptive simplicity of the plating is the point. A burrata presented in a hollowed tomato with a dropper of aromatic pesto is not a complicated dish. It is a perfect one. The chickpea fries — crisp exterior, unexpectedly soft interior — are the kind of thing you order once and then spend the rest of the meal thinking about. The Charolais tartare is Mediterranean in spirit: Parmesan, olives, pesto, arugula, and a confidence that the beef does not need to be hidden behind anything.
A Provençal Château de Berne rosé is the correct wine. This is not a suggestion.
Monaco harbour at dusk — fifty metres east of A'Trego's terrace
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The K2MATCH Investor Lounge — 8th Edition
March 4–6, 2026 · Monaco · Hosted by Badr Moudden
A'Trego is the kind of venue that attracts people who are serious about what they do and relaxed about how they do it. Which is exactly why it makes sense that the K2MATCH Investor Lounge — now in its 8th Edition — chose Monaco as its permanent home and the Riviera as its backdrop.
K2MATCH is the platform that Badr Moudden and Alexandros Dohn built to connect ambitious startups with the investors who are ready to back them. The Investor Lounge is the live version of that platform: a curated evening of startup pitches, investor Q&A, and the kind of networking that happens when you put the right people in a room with good drinks and a view of the sea.
The 8th Edition runs across three days. The pre-event on March 4th is an intimate get-together — drinks, finger food, twenty seats, the kind of conversation that happens before the formal pitches begin. The main event on March 5th at Columbus Hotel Monte-Carlo runs from 18:00 to 22:30: startup pitches, five minutes each, followed by five minutes of Q&A, then networking with drinks and finger food until the room decides it's time to move on. The after-dinner on March 6th is the debrief — dinner, drinks, forty seats, and the deals that get made when the pressure is off.
Badr Moudden has been running this event since the beginning. He brings 36 years of B2B experience, a genuine belief that authentic connections are the foundation of successful business, and the kind of energy that makes a room feel like something is happening. "Monaco will remain the lighthouse of our Investor Lounge series," he has said. He means it.
Just Gerald is proud to celebrate both the venue and the event. A'Trego is where the Riviera does what it does best: it makes you feel like you are exactly where you are supposed to be. The K2MATCH Investor Lounge is where the next wave of ambitious ventures gets its first serious audience. The two belong together.
Event Details
- Pre-Event
- March 4, 2026
From 19:00 · 20 seats
€90 per person - Main Event
- March 5, 2026
18:00–22:30
Columbus Hotel Monte-Carlo
23 Av. des Papalins, Monaco
Investor registration required - After-Dinner
- March 6, 2026
From 19:00 · 40 seats
€120 per person - Register
- k2match.com →
K2MATCH Investor Lounge — startup pitches and networking in Monaco
Badr Moudden
Co-Founder & CEO, K2MATCH · Managing Director, MyBizUP Consulting
Badr Moudden has spent 36 years in B2B strategy and business development. He co-founded K2MATCH with Alexandros Dohn to solve a problem he had seen repeatedly: ambitious startups and the investors who should back them were not finding each other efficiently. The Investor Lounge is his answer to that problem — a curated, in-person event that values authentic connection over transactional networking.
Eight editions in, Monaco remains the lighthouse. The Investor Lounge now runs three times a year, drawing business angels, family offices, VCs, and PEs alongside a carefully selected cohort of startups and scaleups. Badr's philosophy — that the basis for successful business is authentic connection and lasting relationships — is visible in every detail of how the event is run.
Just Gerald is glad to have him in the room.
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The glassed-in veranda — sheltered, open, and pointed at the sea
Gerald's Verdict
A'Trego is the kind of restaurant that makes you feel like you've earned something. Not because it's difficult to get to — it isn't — but because it rewards the decision to go. The view is extraordinary. The food is honest and well-executed. The room is one of the best Starck has ever put his name to. And the fact that it sits on the Monaco border, with the Principality visible from your table and the Mediterranean audible below your feet, gives it a context that no amount of interior design can manufacture.
The K2MATCH Investor Lounge choosing Monaco as its permanent home is not a coincidence. Monaco is a city-state built on the idea that ambition, money, and the right location can produce something remarkable. Badr Moudden and his team understand that. The 8th Edition is going to be a good one.
A'Trego: 25/25. Go. And if you're an investor or a founder — register for the Lounge while there are still seats.
Gerald's Scorecard — A'Trego Monaco
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