Enrico Bartolini al Mudec ★★★ ★ 4.9
Enrico Bartolini al Mudec is a creative restaurant at the Mudec museum, Via Tortona 56, from the chef who won the 2023 Michelin Italy Mentor Chef Award.
Fine dining means different things in different kitchens. At Pujol in Mexico City it is heirloom-corn tasting menus on hand-thrown ceramic. At Maido in Lima it is Nikkei tasting menus mapping Peru's nine-thousand-foot altitude gradient onto raw fish. At Frantzen in Stockholm it is a 25-course Nordic walk through black truffle and reindeer broth. The cuisine differs; the structure is the same. A tasting menu, 8 to 18 courses, two-and-a-half to four hours at table, paired with a wine flight, served by a brigade that knows you by name by the second course.
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The global standard for ranking fine dining is the Michelin Guide. Three stars is the peak (currently 145 restaurants worldwide); two stars indicates serious destination cooking (over 470 worldwide); one star is excellent cooking that justifies a detour. Beyond Michelin: the World's 50 Best Restaurants list (ranked annually since 2002) and the regional best-of lists from Asia's 50 Best, Latin America's 50 Best, North America's 50 Best, et al. None of these lists agree; what they share is a working definition of fine dining as a chef-led, multi-course, advance-booked, kitchen-pacing-the-meal experience.
What this page is: TableJourney's editor-picked fine-dining restaurants across every city we cover. Each entry below carries the same editorial discipline we apply to every venue page on the site - operator name, address, what the kitchen does best, what to order, and how to book without losing the meal. Filtered to current operations; verified within the last six months.
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The best-scored fine dining place in each of 12 cities.
FYN ★ 4.9
FYN in the Cape Town City Bowl pairs Japanese technique with Cape ingredients, crowned the 2026 Eat Out Restaurant of the Year for a second time.
OrderThe eight course FYN Experience menu, with kelp and abalone, Cape Point tuna and Karoo lamb
Arpège ★★★ ★ 4.9
Arpège is a three-star restaurant at 84 Rue de Varenne where Alain Passard has cooked a cuisine entirely of the plant world since July 21st, 2025.
OrderBeechwood-smoked potatoes with wine sauce, or the chef's sushi fantaisie.
Lasai ★★ ★ 4.9
Lasai in Humaitá serves a single tasting menu built on produce from the chef's own gardens, and it holds two Michelin stars in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
OrderThe single tasting menu, led by vegetables from the chef's gardens in Itanhangá and Vale das Videiras
Taian Table ★★★ ★ 4.9
Taian Table at 161 Lane 465, Zhenning Road is centred on an open kitchen and a tasting menu that chef Stefan Stiller and his team make new every three months.
OrderOrder the seasonal tasting menu, an entirely new one every three months.
Le Palais ★★★ ★ 4.9
Le Palais, in Palais de Chine Hotel at No. 3, Section 1, Chengde Road, offers a Michelin Three-Star Cantonese dinner and refined Cantonese fare.
OrderPeking duck four ways, or Chinese spinach and salted egg dumplings at dim sum.
Belcanto ★★ ★ 4.9
Belcanto, by José Avillez, has two Michelin stars and offers contemporary Portuguese cuisine as a tasting menu or à la carte, at Rua Serpa Pinto 10A, Lisbon.
Mixtli ★ ★ 4.9
Mixtli is San Antonio's first Michelin-starred restaurant, where chefs Diego Galicia and Rico Torres build a rotating tasting menu around one Mexican region.
Mamani ★ ★ 4.9
Michelin one-star French bistro in Uptown's The Quad that earned its star 48 days after opening in 2025. Led by chef Christophe De Lellis. Book 30 days ahead.
Signum ★★ ★ 4.9
Signum in Molnlycke holds two Michelin stars and a Green Star for a tasting menu built around four elements: earth, fire, air and water. Book 4-8 weeks ahead.
Pavilion ★ 4.9
Nick Bognar's 18-course omakase sits in a glass pavilion behind Sado on The Hill, ranked the best restaurant in St. Louis by the Post-Dispatch since 2024.
Bern's Steak House ★ 4.9
Bern's Steak House in Hyde Park is the 1956 dry-aged steakhouse running the largest restaurant wine cellar in the world: 500,000 bottles, 6,500 labels.
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Enrico Bartolini al Mudec ★★★ ★ 4.9
Enrico Bartolini al Mudec is a creative restaurant at the Mudec museum, Via Tortona 56, from the chef who won the 2023 Michelin Italy Mentor Chef Award.
FYN ★ 4.9
FYN in the Cape Town City Bowl pairs Japanese technique with Cape ingredients, crowned the 2026 Eat Out Restaurant of the Year for a second time.
OrderThe eight course FYN Experience menu, with kelp and abalone, Cape Point tuna and Karoo lamb
Arpège ★★★ ★ 4.9
Arpège is a three-star restaurant at 84 Rue de Varenne where Alain Passard has cooked a cuisine entirely of the plant world since July 21st, 2025.
OrderBeechwood-smoked potatoes with wine sauce, or the chef's sushi fantaisie.
Lasai ★★ ★ 4.9
Lasai in Humaitá serves a single tasting menu built on produce from the chef's own gardens, and it holds two Michelin stars in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
OrderThe single tasting menu, led by vegetables from the chef's gardens in Itanhangá and Vale das Videiras
Taian Table ★★★ ★ 4.9
Taian Table at 161 Lane 465, Zhenning Road is centred on an open kitchen and a tasting menu that chef Stefan Stiller and his team make new every three months.
OrderOrder the seasonal tasting menu, an entirely new one every three months.
Le Palais ★★★ ★ 4.9
Le Palais, in Palais de Chine Hotel at No. 3, Section 1, Chengde Road, offers a Michelin Three-Star Cantonese dinner and refined Cantonese fare.
OrderPeking duck four ways, or Chinese spinach and salted egg dumplings at dim sum.
Belcanto ★★ ★ 4.9
Belcanto, by José Avillez, has two Michelin stars and offers contemporary Portuguese cuisine as a tasting menu or à la carte, at Rua Serpa Pinto 10A, Lisbon.
Mixtli ★ ★ 4.9
Mixtli is San Antonio's first Michelin-starred restaurant, where chefs Diego Galicia and Rico Torres build a rotating tasting menu around one Mexican region.
Mamani ★ ★ 4.9
Michelin one-star French bistro in Uptown's The Quad that earned its star 48 days after opening in 2025. Led by chef Christophe De Lellis. Book 30 days ahead.
Tatsu Dallas ★ ★ 4.9
Dallas's original Michelin-starred restaurant, retained its one star for the second consecutive year in 2025. Tasting menu $170 per person. At 3309 Elm St.
Signum ★★ ★ 4.9
Signum in Molnlycke holds two Michelin stars and a Green Star for a tasting menu built around four elements: earth, fire, air and water. Book 4-8 weeks ahead.
Hoze ★ ★ 4.9
Six oak counter seats, one Michelin star and a single daily omakase seating at 18:00 in Centrum, led by chef Jose Cerda. Tasting menu SEK 1,800-2,200.
Pavilion ★ 4.9
Nick Bognar's 18-course omakase sits in a glass pavilion behind Sado on The Hill, ranked the best restaurant in St. Louis by the Post-Dispatch since 2024.
Bern's Steak House ★ 4.9
Bern's Steak House in Hyde Park is the 1956 dry-aged steakhouse running the largest restaurant wine cellar in the world: 500,000 bottles, 6,500 labels.
Frederikshøj ★★ ★ 4.9
Frederikshøj in Aarhus holds two Michelin stars under Wassim Hallal, who has run the restaurant since 2009 in a former royal staff lodge overlooking the sea.
OrderThe full tasting menu is the only option; expect French-inflected technique applied to Jutland produce.
Mana ★ ★ 4.9
Simon Martin, formerly of Noma, opened Mana in Ancoats in 2018. One Michelin star since 2019. British produce, open kitchen, every table faces the pass.
Skof ★ ★ 4.9
Tom Barnes, formerly executive chef at Simon Rogan's L'Enclume, opened Skof in May 2024 on Federation Street. Michelin star inside ten months.
Flore ★★ ★ 4.9
Flore at De L'Europe is Bas van Kranen's two-Michelin-starred restaurant, an entirely dairy-free kitchen with a seasonal menu, dinner Wednesday to Saturday.
Lafleur ★★ ★ 4.9
Lafleur in Frankfurt's Palmengarten holds two Michelin stars for Andreas Krolik's Grands Produits menu and a fully vegan tasting line of equal rank.
OrderThe Ethical Vegan Cuisine menu, run at full two-star level
Parkheuvel ★★ ★ 4.9
Two Michelin stars since 1992 under chef Erik van Loo in Heuvellaan park. The lobster bisque and North Sea fish tasting menu define Rotterdam fine dining.
Steirereck im Stadtpark ★★★ ★ 4.9
Steirereck at Am Heumarkt 2A has a chic dining space divided into wings, where a six- or seven-course set menu runs alongside an à la carte selection.
OrderThe bread and cheese trolleys, renowned far beyond the city limits.
Azurmendi ★★★ ★ 4.9
Azurmendi is Eneko Atxa's 3 Michelin star restaurant at Barrio Legina in Larrabetzu, designed and built with sustainability as a fundamental priority.
Asador Etxebarri ★ ★ 4.9
Asador Etxebarri at Plaza de San Juan 1 in Axpe has only a midday service, either a tasting menu or à la carte for the whole table, for parties of 2 to 6.
Ox & Klee ★★ ★ 4.9
Ox and Klee in Cologne's Rheinauhafen Kranhaus holds two Michelin stars; Daniel Gottschlich's eight-course tasting menu is the city's most ambitious table.
OrderThe Ox nine-course tasting menu with the non-alcoholic Back to Zero drinks pairing
Geranium ★★★ ★ 4.9
Geranium is a creative restaurant in Fælledparken at Per Henrik Lings Allé 4, 8th floor, where the kitchen aims for gastronomic clarity and diversity.
Jordnær ★★★ ★ 4.9
Jordnær at Gentoftegade 29 in Gentofte cooks bold and creative dishes founded on seafood and vegetable produce, led by chef-owner Eric Kragh Vildgaard.
Alchemist ★★ ★ 4.9
At Refshalevej 173 C, Alchemist is an immersive six-hour-plus experience in Acts across several locations, including a planetarium-like dome.
Trèsind Studio ★★★ ★ 4.9
Trèsind Studio holds three Michelin stars on Palm Jumeirah, a 20 seat room in the St. Regis Gardens serving one tasting menu across the regions of India.
FZN by Björn Frantzén ★★★ ★ 4.9
FZN by Björn Frantzén at Atlantis The Palm in Dubai holds three Michelin stars, pairing Scandinavian technique with prime Japanese ingredients.
Goldee's Barbecue ★ 4.9
Goldee's Barbecue in Fort Worth is a Michelin-recognised pitmaster destination open only Friday through Sunday, and sells out early most days.
OrderBrisket, pork ribs, house-made sausage links, banana pudding.
Vrijmoed ★★ ★ 4.9
Two Michelin stars in central Ghent: chef Michaël Vrijmoed pushes Belgian produce through fermentation and global technique, with a dedicated Purs vegetarian.
OrderThe Purs vegetarian tasting menu, seven courses built around single seasonal vegetables.
Palace ★★ ★ 4.9
Palace, a pioneer of Finnish gastronomy since 1952, was the first Finnish restaurant to receive a Michelin star in 1987; Eero Vottonen heads its kitchen.
Kikunoi Honten ★★★ ★ 4.9
The defining three-Michelin-star kaiseki room in Kyoto. Third-generation Yoshihiro Murata runs Kikunoi Honten, a 1912 ryotei below Kodaiji. Priced at ¥¥¥¥.
Hyotei ★★★ ★ 4.9
An Edo-era teahouse at the gate of Nanzen-ji in Kyoto, restyled as a ryotei in 1837. Located in Northern Higashiyama. Led by chef Yoshihiro Takahashi.
Kitcho Arashiyama Honten ★★★ ★ 4.9
Three-Michelin-star kaiseki on the Hozugawa river bend in Arashiyama, Kyoto, run by chef Kunio Tokuoka in a sukiya-style garden tatami room.
Sanford ★ 4.9
Sanford on North Jackson is Milwaukee's fine-dining anchor since 1989; Justin Aprahamian, a James Beard Best Chef Midwest winner, leads the Surprise menu now.
Toqué! ★ 4.9
Toqué! opened in 1993; co-owners Normand Laprise and Christine Lamarche built a market-fresh cuisine rooted in Quebec that emphasizes local products.
OrderThe gastronomic menu, which changes daily according to produce arrivals.
Dakar NOLA ★ 4.9
Dakar NOLA is at 937 Leonidas St, New Orleans, LA 70118.
Flaveur ★★ ★ 4.9
Flaveur, run by Gaël and Mickaël Tourteaux at 25 Rue Gubernatis in Nice, serves fine and masterful cuisine with character and holds two Michelin stars.
Levadura de Olla ★ ★ 4.9
Levadura de Olla in Oaxaca is Thalia Barrios Garcia's Garcia Vigil room, Mexico's first regional Michelin star (2024, retained 2025) on the Andador.
Frantzén ★★★ ★ 4.9
Frantzén is a creative restaurant at Klara Norra Kyrkogata 26 with three Michelin stars since 2018, over three floors of a townhouse in central Stockholm.
OrderThe fixed menu, served the same at lunch and dinner, with alcoholic and non-alcoholic pairings.
Aira ★★ ★ 4.9
Aira is a 2-star Michelin restaurant at Biskopsvägen 9 by chefs Tommy Myllymäki and Pi Le, with a boathouse-inspired design and a waterside terrace.
OrderScallops with white asparagus, crème crue and caviar, or lamb with green asparagus, marjoram and mint.
Glam Enrico Bartolini ★★ ★ 4.9
Glam is Enrico Bartolini's restaurant in the luxury hotel Palazzo Venart on the Grand Canal in Santa Croce, designed to host up to 30 people.
Casa Perbellini 12 Apostoli ★★★ ★ 4.9
Casa Perbellini 12 Apostoli is a historic, elegant restaurant in Verona where Chef Perbellini achieved three stars, with three tasting menus.
The Kitchin ★ ★ 4.9
Tom Kitchin's Michelin-starred restaurant at 78 Commercial Quay in Leith, a contemporary Scottish kitchen celebrating the finest seasonal ingredients.
OrderThe Prestige surprise menu, which the Michelin Guide says offers the most complete experience.
Farala ★ ★ 4.9
Farala in Granada earned the citys first Michelin star in November 2025 under Cristina Jimenez, three menus rooted in Sacromonte and Albayzin heritage.
PRU ★ 4.9
PRU at Trisara holds One Michelin Star and a Green Star, serving a seasonal tasting menu of Thai produce at a kappo-style counter by the open kitchen.
Melisse ★ 4.9
Melisse is the 14-seat tasting counter hidden behind Citrin in Santa Monica, a two-Michelin-star room from Josiah Citrin and chef partner Ken Takayama.
OrderThe full tasting menu; the kitchen builds it around the week's market
Restaurant Krug ★ ★ 4.9
Restaurant Krug on Trumbiceva obala in Split is an intimate restaurant where guests sit around a 12-seat counter at the open kitchen and eat a 9-course menu.
OrderThe full nine-course menu, served to those arriving after 8.30pm.
Evvai ★★★ ★ 4.9
Evvai in Pinheiros serves a single tasting menu, Oriundi, fusing Brazilian and Italian technique under chef Luiz Filipe Souza in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
OrderMoqueca branca with squid and pupunha palm heart
Tuju ★★★ ★ 4.9
Tuju occupies a three-storey Pinheiros townhouse near the Museu da Casa Brasileira, where chef Ivan Ralston builds a seasonal menu from Sao Paulo produce.
OrderSeasonal tasting menu built around the current climate cycle
JAN ★★★ ★ 4.9
Jan Hartwig's eponymous JAN in Munich's Maxvorstadt holds three Michelin stars; the chef-led tasting reworks German classics into precision plates.
Tohru in der Schreiberei ★★★ ★ 4.9
Tohru Nakamura's three-star Tohru in der Schreiberei in Munich's Altstadt cooks a German-Japanese tasting in the city's oldest townhouse, up a wooden stair.
Sushi Miyakawa ★★★ ★ 4.9
Three Michelin stars in the 2017 Hokkaido guide, the only sushi at that tier in Hokkaido. Seven seats, two seatings (17:00 and 19:30), omakase only.
OrderThe omakase: aged tuna progression and Hokkaido uni nigiri are the season-defining courses.
Joel Robuchon ★★★ ★ 4.9
Joel Robuchon at MGM Grand in Las Vegas is the late chef's only US restaurant, the only three-Michelin-star kitchen in Nevada and a tasting-menu room.
Commis ★★ ★ 4.9
Commis is Oakland's only two-Michelin-star restaurant. Chef James Syhabout runs a ten-course tasting on Piedmont Avenue with Thai-Chinese influences.
Sorekara ★★ ★ 4.9
Sorekara on New Broad Street in Baldwin Park holds two Michelin stars in the 2026 Florida guide, with a tasting menu rooted in Japanese technique.
Atelier Crenn ★★★ ★ 4.9
Atelier Crenn in San Francisco is Dominique Crenn's three-Michelin-star Cow Hollow flagship, a poetry-of-cuisine vegetable-and-seafood tasting in 30 seats.
Odette ★★★ ★ 4.9
Julien Royer's three-Michelin-star restaurant in National Gallery Singapore. World's 50 Best No. 25 in 2025; layered tasting menus with Asian inflections.
Les Amis ★★★ ★ 4.9
Three-Michelin-star French haute cuisine at Shaw Centre under Chef Lepinoy. Deep wine cellar; Singapore's most classically oriented fine-dining room.
Restaurant Zen ★★★ ★ 4.9
Bjorn Frantzen's three-Michelin-star Bukit Pasoh shophouse. Japanese craft and Scandinavian precision in a 23-seat room. No. 1 in Singapore by La Liste 2025.
Disfrutar Tasting Room ★★★ ★ 4.9
Disfrutar in Barcelona's Eixample is the three-star Castro-Xatruch-Casanas tasting room that elBulli alumni opened in 2014, World's 50 Best No. 1 in 2024.
Turk Fatih Tutak ★★ ★ 4.9
Two Michelin stars, a Green Star and a 12-course seasonal tasting menu of chef Fatih Tutak's reworked Anatolian cooking, served to 30 guests a night in Şişli.
Pujol ★★ ★ 4.9
Pujol in Mexico City is Enrique Olvera's two-Michelin-star Polanco tasting room on Tennyson, the kitchen that built modern Mexican fine dining around mole.
OrderThe Mole Madre Mole Nuevo at the dining-room table; taco omakase at the bar.
Quintonil ★★ ★ 4.9
Quintonil in Mexico City is Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores' two-Michelin-star Polanco tasting room on Newton, the kitchen ranked number three.
OrderThe full tasting menu; the charred avocado tartare is the signature.
Huniik ★ ★ 4.9
Roberto Solís's Huniik on Calle 60 facing Parque Santa Ana Mérida holds one Michelin star plus the 2026 Mexico Guide Service Award in November.
La Barra de Huniik ★ ★ 4.9
La Barra de Huniik is Roberto Solís's chef's-counter sibling room beside Huniik on Calle 60 Mérida, holding its own Michelin star in the 2026 guide.
Alo ★ ★ 4.9
Alo on the third floor at 163 Spadina has held a Michelin star since the 2022 inaugural guide, chef Patrick Kriss leading Toronto's defining contemporary.
Cúrate ★ 4.9
Cúrate is a Spanish tapas bar at 13 Biltmore Ave in Asheville, pairing an all-Spanish wine list with craft cocktails, pintxos and daily paella lunch specials.
OrderPintxos and tapas with a glass from the all-Spanish wine list, sherry or vermouth.
Husk ★ 4.9
Husk in Charleston opened in 2010 under Sean Brock and rebuilt Southern fine dining on heritage grains and hyper-local produce. Located in Downtown.
OrderThe cast-iron cornbread, plus whatever the wood grill is running.
FIG ★ 4.9
Mike Lata and Jason Stanhope's FIG in Charleston has anchored the city's fine-dining scene since 2003. Both chefs hold James Beard Best Chef Southeast awards.
OrderThe fish stew, plus the bone-in pork chop with whatever seasonal sauce is up.
Counter- ★ ★ 4.9
Sam Hart's Counter- on West Morehead is the only Michelin-starred restaurant in North Carolina, with a one-star and a Green Star earned in 2025.
OrderThe full multi-course tasting; themes rotate every three months.
Frasca Food and Wine ★ 4.9
Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder is Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson's James Beard-winning Friulian dining room since 2004, a 40-minute drive.
William Frachot ★★ ★ 4.9
William Frachot holds two Michelin stars at Chapeau Rouge in Dijon, pairing Burgundy terroir with reworked oeufs en meurette and river fish.
OrderThe reworked oeufs en meurette with river fish that anchors his tasting menus.
Il Gallo d'Oro ★★ ★ 4.9
Il Gallo d'Oro holds two Michelin stars at The Cliff Bay in Funchal, where Benoit Sinthon has run the kitchen since 2004 on an Iberian line.
OrderThe tasting menu, built around Madeiran produce and Iberian sourcing.
Campagne ★ ★ 4.9
Campagne in Kilkenny holds one Michelin star in the 2026 guide, Garrett Byrne earning the recognition every year since 2014 with exemplary French technique.
OrderTasting menu showcasing seasonal Irish produce with French technique and precise saucing.
AM par Alexandre Mazzia ★★★ ★ 4.9
AM par Alexandre Mazzia in Marseille's 8e holds three Michelin stars on a 24-seat counter set, the kitchen built around fish, smoke and African-Mediterranean.
OrderThe set tasting only, around 40 to 50 small plates served in successive waves over a long evening.
Le Petit Nice Passedat ★★★ ★ 4.9
Le Petit Nice Passedat in Marseille's 7e holds three Michelin stars on the Anse de Maldorme cove, the Passedat family on this rock since 1917 and Gerald.
OrderThe Ma Bouille Abaisse, Gerald Passedat's three-service reading of the city's canonical dish.
Amaru ★ 4.9
Amaru holds three Good Food Guide hats, Melbourne's highest. Clinton McIver's 34-seat Armadale room runs a single tasting menu built on Australian produce.
Brae ★ 4.9
Brae in Birregurra holds three Good Food Guide hats and features in the World's 50 Best list. Dan Hunter grows most of what the kitchen cooks on the farm.
Osteria Francescana ★★★ ★ 4.9
Osteria Francescana in Modena is Massimo Bottura's three Michelin star dining room on Via Stella, built on a tasting menu of reworked Emilian classics.
OrderThe tortellini in 36 month Parmigiano Reggiano sauce and the Jazz Duck.
Yoshitomo ★ 4.9
Chef David Utterback, a two-time James Beard Best Chef: Midwest finalist, applies rigorous fish-ageing technique to Benson's most acclaimed sushi counter.
Kashiwaya Osaka Senriyama ★★★ ★ 4.9
Kashiwaya Osaka Senriyama in Osaka holds three Michelin stars and a Michelin Green Star for sustainability, with chef Hideaki Matsuo drawing.
La Cime ★★ ★ 4.9
La Cime holds two Michelin stars; chef Yusuke Takada refracts classical French through Kagoshima citrus, Satsuma chicken, and Osaka seafood at Kawaramachi.
DINS Santi Taura ★ ★ 4.9
DINS Santi Taura is Palma's one-star Mallorcan kitchen inside Hotel El Llorenç, running a single tasting menu drawn from island recipe archives.
OrderThe set Mallorcan tasting menu, which changes with the island growing season.
The Kitchen ★ ★ 4.9
The Kitchen is Michelin-starred fine dining on Broadway, centered on a six-course prix fixe menu of seasonal ingredients presented as live culinary theater.
OrderThe six-course prix fixe, with the limited reserve wine pairing or a seasonal cocktail or mocktail pairing.
Arzak ★★★ ★ 4.9
Arzak cooks in the house that Juan Mari Arzak's grandparents built in 1897, where Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena now share the kitchen.
OrderThe tasting menu at 315 € per person, or the version with wine pairing, served only for the entire table.
Akelarre ★★★ ★ 4.9
Akelarre opened in 1970 on Monte Igueldo, overlooking the Bay of Biscay, and Pedro Subijana's restaurant has held three Michelin stars since 2007.
OrderOne of the two tasting menus, Aranori or Bekarki, each priced at 395€.
Canlis ★ 4.9
Canlis in Seattle is the city's enduring fine-dining room: chef Aisha Ibrahim runs a five-course tasting that draws on her Filipino heritage and Pacific.
Mingles ★★★ ★ 4.9
One of South Korea's three-Michelin-star restaurants, where chef Mingoo Kang weaves jang (fermented pastes) and cho (vinegars) into contemporary modern.
Zilte ★★★ ★ 4.9
Zilte, Viki Geunes's three-Michelin-star restaurant in Antwerp, builds its menu on fish, crustaceans and shellfish; menus run from €210 to €340.
OrderThe menu: fish, crustaceans and shellfish form its basis, complemented by terroir products from Zilte's trusted suppliers.
Don Julio ★ ★ 4.9
The defining Palermo Soho parrilla. Latin America's 50 Best #1 in 2020 and 2024, #3 in 2025; one Michelin star and a Green Star in the 2024 BA guide.
Indian Accent ★ 4.9
Indian Accent opened in 2009 and reset modern Indian cooking in Delhi; it runs from The Lodhi hotel and ranked No. 7 in CNT India's 2025 Top 50 restaurants.
OrderThe six-course chef's tasting menu, each course paired with wine.
Chapter One by Mickael Viljanen ★★ ★ 4.9
Mickael Viljanen's two-Michelin-star basement on Parnell Square in Dublin, the city's most polished tasting room, French technique on luxury Irish produce.
OrderWhatever Viljanen is building on the surprise tasting menu, paired with the by-the-glass wine flight.
ARCO by Paco Pérez ★ ★ 4.9
ARCO by Paco Pérez is a fine dining restaurant with a Michelin star, run by Paco Pérez on floor 33 of the tallest building of Olivia Business Centre.
The Table Kevin Fehling ★★★ ★ 4.9
Kevin Fehling's The Table in Hamburg's HafenCity holds three Michelin stars and seats 20 at one cherry-wood table facing the open kitchen on Shanghaiallee.
OrderThe full tasting; pairings worth the upgrade.
Haerlin ★★★ ★ 4.9
Christoph Rueffer's three-Michelin-star Haerlin at the Fairmont Vier Jahreszeiten in Hamburg holds five Gault Millau toques on classical French.
OrderThe seven- or nine-course tasting; the seasonal langoustine course is the signature.
100/200 Kitchen ★★ ★ 4.9
Thomas Imbusch and Sophie Lehmann's 100/200 Kitchen on Brandshofer Deich in Hamburg holds two Michelin stars and the Green Star for radical-regional sourcing.
OrderThe full tasting; everything is sourced inside a 250-kilometre Hamburg radius.
Demi ★ 4.9
Gavin Kaysen's Demi in the North Loop runs a 20-seat tasting-counter dining room in Minneapolis since 2017. James Beard Outstanding Restaurateur 2023.
Indigena by Owamni ★ 4.9
Sean Sherman's Indigena by Owamni inside the Guthrie Theater runs the country's pre-eminent Indigenous tasting kitchen in Minneapolis since June 2026.
Spoon and Stable ★ 4.9
Gavin Kaysen's flagship in the old North Loop livery has run modern-American fine dining in Minneapolis since 2014. James Beard Best Chef Midwest 2018.
180° by Matthias Diether ★★ ★ 4.9
180 by Matthias Diether in Noblessner holds two Michelin stars in 2026, run by German chef Diether with a single set tasting menu in a small waterfront room.
OrderThe full tasting menu; the kitchen runs a single set menu with no a la carte.
Central ★ 4.9
Central in Barranco is Virgilio Martinez and Pia Leon's flagship at Pedro de Osma 301, the Lima house that took World's #1 Restaurant in 2023.
OrderThe Mundo Mater tasting menu, an altitude journey from Pacific coast to Andean peaks.
Maido ★ 4.9
Maido at Calle San Martin 399 in Miraflores is Mitsuharu Tsumura's Nikkei tasting room, named The World's Best Restaurant 2025 in Turin on 19 June.
OrderThe full Nikkei Experience tasting menu, Pacific coast to Peruvian Amazon in 14 courses.
Masque ★ 4.9
Varun Totlani's Masque runs a 10 course foraged-ingredient tasting in a former Mumbai textile mill in Lower Parel. Ranked No. 15 on Asia's 50 Best 2026.
Al Forno ★ 4.9
Johanne Killeen's Al Forno on South Water Street invented grilled pizza in 1980. Wood-fire kitchen, baked pasta, Providence's most enduring fine-dining room.
OrderA grilled pizza Margherita and the baked penne with tomato cream.
L'Assiette Champenoise ★★★ ★ 4.9
L'Assiette Champenoise is Arnaud Lallement's three-Michelin-star table in Tinqueux, on the edge of Reims, cooking Champagne produce with caviar and lobster.
OrderThe blue lobster, one of three signature plates, with a jus made from the heads.
The Grey ★ 4.9
The Grey, in a restored 1938 art deco Greyhound Bus Terminal at 109 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, serves Port City Southern food by Chef Mashama Bailey.
ECK Restaurant ★ 4.9
ECK Restaurant above the Devin vineyards looks down on the Danube bend at Devin Castle, with Daniel Tilinger as Falstaff Chef of the Year 2026.
OrderThe six-course seasonal tasting with the non-alcoholic ferment pairing; the views are part of the meal.
Noor ★★★ ★ 4.9
Noor is Paco Morales's three-star kitchen in Córdoba, rebuilding the food of the caliphate from Andalusi manuscripts in a plain eastern shopfront.
OrderWhichever full menu is running; the room does no carte.
Gia ★ ★ 4.9
Gia holds one Michelin star for chef Sam Tran's tasting menu of traditional Vietnamese cuisine, at 61 Van Mieu across the road from the Temple of Literature.
OrderThe single tasting menu, which draws on the finest seasonal ingredients.
Langbaan ★ 4.9
Earl Ninsom's regional Thai tasting counter in Portland, hidden behind sister restaurant Phuket Cafe with 33 seats and two seatings a night.
Aubergine ★★ ★ 4.9
Aubergine holds two Michelin stars inside L'Auberge Carmel at Monte Verde and 7th, where Justin Cogley cooks an eight-course coastal tasting menu.
OrderThe $285 tasting is the only menu; add the wine pairing when you book.
Maaemo ★★★ ★ 4.9
Maaemo at Bjorvika in Oslo holds three Michelin stars under Esben Holmboe Bang, the only Norwegian room ever to hit that tier in the modern guide.
Aniar ★ ★ 4.9
Aniar in Galway has held one Michelin star since 2012; JP McMahon serves tasting menus on foraged herbs, cured west-coast fish and Connacht smoked meats.
OrderThe tasting menu, which changes with each day's wild and local produce from Connacht
Chez Panisse Restaurant ★ 4.9
Michelin 1 Star + Green Star. Alice Waters' 1971 prix fixe restaurant: one menu per evening, market-determined, no choices. Reserve a month ahead at 09:00 PT.
Caprice ★★★ ★ 4.8
Caprice at the Four Seasons Hotel in Central serves harmonious, high-calibre French fare under chef Guillaume Galliot, with impressive harbour views.
OrderA prix-fixe menu and the dazzling selection of cheeses.
Sushi Shikon ★★★ ★ 4.8
Sushi Shikon, on the 7th floor of the Landmark Mandarin Oriental, has held three MICHELIN stars from 2014 to 2026, with chefs at a hinoki counter.
OrderDouble uni sushi, with bafun uni stirred into the vinegared rice and topped with murasaki uni.
Seta by Antonio Guida ★★ ★ 4.8
Seta, at Via Andegari 9, is a two Michelin-starred restaurant helmed by chef Antonio Guida, with an inventive and contemporary approach to Italian cuisine.
OrderOne of the three tasting menus: the chef's classics, seasonality or a single featured ingredient.
Osaka ★ 4.8
Osaka on Via Anfiteatro serves traditional Japanese cooking in a renovated room designed by the Japanese architect Ishiyama Yukio, open since 1999.
OrderRamen, gyoza or sukiyaki, typical dishes of the Land of the Rising Sun beyond sushi and sashimi.
Xin Rong Ji (Xinyuan South Road) ★★★ ★ 4.8
Xin Rong Ji on Xinyuan South Road, Beijing, holds three Michelin stars for Taizhou cooking and East China Sea fish, plus a baby duck sold only at this branch.
OrderPre-order the 28-day-old baby Peking duck, sold only at this branch, and the duck stew with fish maw and taro.
Charleston ★ 4.8
Charleston is Cindy Wolf's Harbor East flagship, a 2025 James Beard winner for its beverage program, where you build a Lowcountry menu course by course.
OrderBuild the menu around the cornmeal-fried oysters and shrimp and grits.
La Colombe ★ 4.8
La Colombe sits above Constantia at Silvermist Estate, one of Cape Town's most decorated fine dining rooms on the current Eat Out three star list.
OrderThe Chef's Menu, from the signature Tuna 'La Colombe' to coal fired lamb
Alinea ★★ ★ 4.8
Alinea in Lincoln Park is praised for its innovative approach to modernist cuisine and is one of only 14 restaurants in the U.S. holding three Michelin stars.
Core by Clare Smyth ★★★ ★ 4.8
Core by Clare Smyth is at 92 Kensington Park Road, London W11 2PN. Open since August 2017, it won three stars in the 2021 Michelin Guide and five AA Rosettes.
OrderPotato and Roe or Lamb Carrot, Smyth signatures on the Core Classics tasting menu.
DiverXO ★★★ ★ 4.8
DiverXO, at Calle de Padre Damian 23 in Madrid, earned its first, second and third Michelin star and is the only restaurant in Madrid with that recognition.
OrderThe tasting menu, since the site says it works only with a tasting menu and has no carta.
Atomix ★★ ★ 4.8
Atomix is Chef Junghyun Park and Ellia Park's restaurant on East 30th Street, with a chic bar and a subterranean dining counter for its Korean tasting menu.
Épicure ★★★ ★ 4.8
Épicure is the three-Michelin-star restaurant of Le Bristol Paris, where Chef Arnaud Faye serves contemporary French cooking in which the vegetable is king.
OrderThe eight-course tasting menu, which can be ordered as late as 9.00pm for dinner.
Oro ★★ ★ 4.8
Oro in Leblon cooks over live fire for chef Felipe Bronze, with two Michelin stars and tasting menus that draw on Brazil's regions in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe Criatividade menu, the longer of the two fire-cooked tasting menus
Casa 201 ★ ★ 4.8
Casa 201 serves an eight-course French tasting menu from chef João Paulo Frankenfeld in a Jardim Botânico house, with one Michelin star in Rio de Janeiro.
OrderThe eight-course tasting menu, which has included raviolo nero with scallops and cauliflower
La Pergola ★★★ ★ 4.8
La Pergola is the restaurant of Rome Cavalieri, led by Heinz Beck and the only three-star Michelin restaurant in Rome, at Via Alberto Cadlolo 101.
Fu He Hui ★★ ★ 4.8
Fu He Hui is a vegetarian restaurant in Zen-inspired rooms serving only set menus that change every season to make use of the best local ingredients.
OrderOrder from the seasonal set menu, which includes some authentically recreated recipes from the past.
Tairroir ★★★ ★ 4.8
Tairroir is a Taiwanese restaurant at 6F, No. 299, Le Qun 3rd Road in Zhongshan District, and its own site says it won three Michelin stars in Taiwan in 2026.
logy ★★ ★ 4.8
logy serves a tasting menu at 4,750 TWD per person, with cuisine shaped by its Japanese and Taiwanese heritage and a 12:00 and 18:30 sitting.
OrderThe tasting menu, with a wine pairing at 4,750 TWD per person.
Aska ★★ ★ 4.8
Aska is a two-Michelin-star Nordic tasting menu room in South Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where chef Fredrik Berselius serves 12 to 14 courses for $375.
Dewakan ★★ ★ 4.8
Dewakan holds two Michelin stars and a Green Star in Kuala Lumpur for chef Darren Teoh's single tasting menu, built on indigenous Malaysian ingredients.
OrderThe evolving foraged tasting menu, the restaurant's only option each night.
Henrique Sa Pessoa ★★ ★ 4.8
Henrique Sá Pessoa, at Páteo Bagatela in Lisbon, holds two Michelin stars and has three tasting menus: Encontros, Clássicos and Costa a Costa.
Den ★★ ★ 4.8
Den in Tokyo's Jingumae is Zaiyu Hasegawa's modern kaiseki room, Asia's 50 Best No. 1 in 2022. The DFC fried chicken and donabe rice are the through-line.
Sukiyabashi Jiro Honten ★ 4.8
Sukiyabashi Jiro Honten in Tokyo's Ginza is the 10-seat counter made famous by Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Yoshikazu Ono runs it; concierge bookings only.
Paradiso ★ 4.8
Denis Cotter's vegetarian flagship on Lancaster Quay since 1993, with a six-course market-and-farm tasting menu and one of Ireland's best organic wine lists.
Cattleack Barbeque ★ 4.8
A Michelin Bib Gourmand BBQ operation open just 3.5 days per week, serving Akaushi Wagyu brisket and Duroc pork with Texas Monthly Top 50 recognition.
Bhoga ★ ★ 4.8
Bhoga in Gothenburg is a one-Michelin-star Nordic restaurant where the menu shifts daily around local farms and season. Tasting menus in five.
n/naka ★ ★ 4.8
n/naka offers a California exploration of the art of kaiseki, a dining experience rooted in harmony, seasonality and artistry, at 3455 Overland Ave.
Vicia ★ 4.8
The Gallinas' vegetable-forward Central West End room is the most decorated restaurant in St. Louis, a 2026 James Beard Outstanding Restaurant finalist.
Kosen ★ ★ 4.8
Kosen on Palm Avenue in Tampa Heights holds a Michelin star for Chef Andrew Huang's 12-seat 20-plus course omakase, with Toyosu-sourced fish weekly.
Koya ★ ★ 4.8
Koya on West Platt in Hyde Park holds a Michelin star for Chef Eric Fralick's 8-seat omakase, with bluefin tuna and uni flown from Tokyo's Toyosu market.
Substans ★ ★ 4.8
Substans on the 11th floor of Pakhusene in Aarhus Ø holds one Michelin star under chef-owner Rene Mammen, serving a New Nordic tasting menu above the bay.
OrderThe 16-course evening menu; the bread course with cultured butter signals the kitchen's technique level.
Takao Takano ★★ ★ 4.8
Takao Takano is an elegant, pared-back restaurant at 33 Rue Malesherbes in Lyon, a hit with diners since day one for original, deftly crafted dishes.
OrderThe seared Breton langoustine, or the Bresse squab with green asparagus, guanciale and Vaucluse truffle.
Where The Light Gets In ★ 4.8
Sam Buckley's Stockport tasting-menu room holds a Michelin Green Star for sustainability. Five-course set from the kitchen's own Cheshire farm.
Morcilla ★ 4.8
Morcilla on Butler Street in Lawrenceville is Justin Severino's Spanish room in Pittsburgh. Charcuterie, sherry and tapas from a James Beard semifinalist.
OrderThe charcuterie board and a flight off the sherry list.
Saint Peter ★ 4.8
Saint Peter is a seafood restaurant at 161 Underwood Street, Paddington, with three hats in the Good Food Guide and a bar for drop-in meals.
Sixpenny ★ 4.8
Sixpenny is in a historic building erected in 1907 on Percival Road, Stanmore, with a Main Dining Room and a Private Dining Room overlooking the kitchen.
Ciel Bleu ★★ ★ 4.8
Ciel Bleu on the 23rd floor of Hotel Okura Amsterdam is Arjan Speelman's two-Michelin-starred restaurant, dinner Tuesday to Saturday, arriving 18:30 to 20:00.
Restaurant 212 ★★ ★ 4.8
Restaurant 212 is a two-Michelin-starred canal house on the Amstel, where Richard van Oostenbrugge and Thomas Groot cook in an open kitchen.
Locavore NXT ★ 4.8
Locavore NXT is the Lodtunduh tasting room near Ubud, Bali, run by Eelke Plasmeijer and Ray Adriansyah, and the one Bali name on the Asia's 50 Best 2026 list.
RAUSCH ★★ ★ 4.8
RAUSCH on Reuterweg won two Michelin stars in the 2026 guide for Jochim Busch's Frankfurt tasting menus built around salt, smoke, vinegar and fat.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu, built around fermentation and smoke
the dune ★★ ★ 4.8
the dune at The Florentin hotel in Frankfurt took two Michelin stars in 2026, six months after opening, for Niclas Nußbaumer's precise tasting menus.
OrderThe four-course tasting menu with pairings from a 900-bottle cellar
FG Restaurant ★★ ★ 4.8
Two Michelin stars under Francois Geurds in Katshoek, the most experimental kitchen in Rotterdam with theatrical presentations and unexpected ingredient.
Fred ★★ ★ 4.8
Two Michelin stars for Fred Mustert's Boompjes restaurant with sweeping Maas views. Open dinner only; closed sun-mon. Tasting menu on request.
AnnaLena ★★ ★ 4.8
AnnaLena is a two Michelin-starred tasting menu restaurant steps from Kitsilano Beach, open Tuesday to Sunday evenings, with dining room and bar seating.
St Lawrence ★ ★ 4.8
St Lawrence is a Michelin-starred Québécois and French restaurant at 269 Powell Street, opened by chef J-C Poirier in 2017 and open Wednesday to Sunday.
Published on Main ★ ★ 4.8
Published on Main is a Michelin-starred restaurant at 3593 Main Street, run by chef and partner Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson and open nightly from 5pm to 11pm.
Restaurant Amador ★★★ ★ 4.8
Amador, run by Juan Amador, serves a modern, refined menu in a brick-vaulted room with a lovely terrace and lounge area and a well-coordinated team.
OrderThe red mullet served with escabeche stock, Amela tomato and razor clam.
Konstantin Filippou ★★ ★ 4.8
Konstantin Filippou, a native Styrian with Greek roots, puts fish and seafood in the spotlight of his evening tasting menu, in a minimalist room.
OrderThe sardine, mussel remoulade, beer radish, from the evening tasting menu.
Wilsons ★ ★ 4.8
Wilsons on Chandos Road holds Bristol's newest Michelin star plus a green star, feeding its dining room from the restaurant's own market garden.
OrderThe set lunch, £35 on Wednesday to Friday, off the smallholding's morning pick.
Le Chalet de la Foret ★★ ★ 4.8
Le Chalet de la Forêt, at Drève de Lorraine 43, was renewed by Pascal Devalkeneer after twenty-seven years, returning to exceptional produce.
Bozar Restaurant ★★ ★ 4.8
Bozar Restaurant holds two Michelin stars and serves chef Karen Torosyan's artisanal gastronomic cuisine inside the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Stand ★★ ★ 4.8
Stand is a modern restaurant at Székely Mihály utca 2 in Budapest with a fine dining degustation at dinner and, from October, a three-course Saturday lunch.
OrderThe gulyás soup, the venison or the somlói dessert.
KOLLÁZS Brasserie and Bar ★ 4.8
KOLLÁZS is a Michelin-recommended brasserie at Széchenyi István tér 5-6, in the Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, overlooking the Chain Bridge.
Veritas ★ 4.8
Veritas on West Gay Street downtown is Chef Josh Dalton's Columbus tasting-menu room, the city's reference fine-dining counter since the 2017 move.
Don Artemio ★ 4.8
Don Artemio in Fort Worth brings refined northern Mexican cuisine to W 7th St, a 2023 James Beard finalist celebrating heritage dishes of northern Mexico.
OrderBirria de res, chiles en nogada, traditional mole negro with duck.
OAK ★ ★ 4.8
One Michelin star and 24 seats in a Ghent medieval lane: Marcelo Ballardin fuses Italian-Brazilian roots with North Sea ingredients and Asian technique.
OrderThe dinner seven-course menu, where the international combinations are given fullest expression.
Grön ★★ ★ 4.8
Grön is a two-Michelin-star restaurant with 16 seats and an open kitchen, where owner Toni Kostian serves a set menu of Finnish and Nordic produce.
OrderThe set menu, which evolves with the season; what grows now determines it.
Bloempot ★ 4.8
Bloempot is Florent Ladeyn's converted carpentry workshop in Lille, cooking Flanders produce hard and plating it plainly on brutalist ceramics.
OrderRed cabbage steak with concentrated meat jus and a cherry quenelle.
Mastard ★ ★ 4.8
Chef-owner Simon Mathys devises an unabashedly original carte blanche menu at Mastard, centered on produce from the terroir, with five services a week.
OrderThe scallop on a salsify purée, with a crab emulsion and spinach infused with a reduced jus.
Sabayon ★ ★ 4.8
Sabayon is a 16-seat micro-restaurant in Pointe-Saint-Charles by Patrice Demers and Marie-Josée Beaudoin, with a 6 course tasting menu and tea time.
OrderThe 6 course tasting menu, or the 3 course Tea Time on Friday and Saturday afternoon.
Saint-Germain ★ ★ 4.8
Saint-Germain serves a ten-course tasting menu in a 100+ year old Bywater shotgun house, with a dining room of five tables and a garden out back.
Commander's Palace ★ 4.8
Commander's Palace, run by the Brennan family since 1974, serves New Haute Creole cuisine and has earned seven James Beard Foundation Awards.
Tierra del Sol ★ 4.8
Tierra del Sol on Reforma is Olga Cabrera's three-floor Oaxaca room, named Mexico's Restaurant of the Year for 2026, with a rooftop comal of tetelas.
Nonesuch ★ 4.8
Nonesuch in Oklahoma City earns James Beard recognition for tasting menus rooted in Oklahoma fermentation and prairie preservation traditions.
Sushi Sho ★ ★ 4.8
Sushi Sho is a tiny white-tiled counter restaurant at Upplandsgatan 45 where chef-owner Carl Ishizaki serves an omakase to all diners at the same time.
OrderThe signature soy-cured egg and the sake tasting menu.
Maeve ★ ★ 4.8
One Michelin star in the 2025 Netherlands guide. Tommy Janssen's tasting menus blend Japanese technique with Dutch terroir; vegetables lead every course.
Nineteen18 ★ ★ 4.8
Vilnius's longest-standing Michelin-starred room in Senatorių Passage. Vita Bartininkaitė took the kitchen in 2026 after Andrius Kubilius left for Deep Roots.
OrderThe full tasting menu; the Lithuanian-only wine pairing is the way to taste it.
Restaurant Martin Wishart ★ ★ 4.8
Restaurant Martin Wishart is at 54 The Shore in Leith, run by Edinburgh-born chef Martin Wishart, a proud Scot who likes to use Scottish produce.
Timberyard ★ ★ 4.8
Timberyard is a Michelin starred restaurant at 10 Lady Lawson Street, opened by the Radford family in 2012 in the main warehouse of an old timberyard.
OrderAt dinner, choose the four or seven course tasting menu.
Bar FM ★ 4.8
Bar FM in Granada is Francisco Martin and Rosa Macias 1985 Motril-fish counter, listed in the 2026 Michelin Guide and praised by Ferran Adria and Jose Andres.
Anan Saigon ★ ★ 4.8
Anan Saigon serves Chef Peter's modern New Vietnamese Cuisine in a tall, thin tube house, with two tasting menus and a full A La Carte menu.
OrderThe Saigon Tasting Menu, with Bún Chả Bourdain and Hà Nội Turmeric Fish.
Antiqvvm ★★ ★ 4.8
Antiqvvm is a 2 Michelin Star restaurant in Porto led by chef Vítor Matos, serving creative Portuguese cuisine with views over the Douro River.
OrderOrgânico (vegetarian) or Ensaios Sensoriais, the two tasting menus.
Citrin ★ 4.8
Citrin is Josiah Citrin's modern Californian flagship on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, a Michelin-starred dining room built on market produce.
OrderThe prix fixe, built around Santa Monica farmers market produce
Pasjoli ★ 4.8
Pasjoli on Main Street is Santa Monica's French bistro benchmark, lately loosened up with a bigger bar menu and its famous tableside pressed duck restored.
OrderTableside canard a la presse, or the cordon bleu chicken wings at the bar
D.O.M. ★★ ★ 4.8
D.O.M. in Jardins, Sao Paulo, is Alex Atala's tribute to native Brazilian ingredients, a menu he has built since 1999 around Amazonian produce.
OrderTasting menu built around native Amazonian ingredients
Py-R ★★ ★ 4.8
Py-R below Rue de Metz near Pont Neuf is chef Pierre Lambinon's two Michelin star dining room with brick-vaulted ceilings and a daily tasting menu.
Spondi ★ ★ 4.8
Spondi, awarded with Michelin stars since 2002, serves contemporary French cuisine in Pangrati, near the Panathenaic Stadium, with a Discovery tasting menu.
OrderThe langoustine with fermented pine honey, kaffir lime and curry, or the cheese trolley.
Marble Room Steaks and Raw Bar ★ 4.8
Marble Room on Euclid Avenue in a restored 19th-century National City Bank vault since 2017, anchors downtown Cleveland's prime steakhouse tier with USDA.
Enoteca Pinchiorri ★★★ ★ 4.8
Enoteca Pinchiorri opened in 1972 as a modest wine shop with a kitchen, in a seventeenth-century palazzo on Via Ghibellina, and is now a great restaurant.
Sushi Sakai ★ 4.8
Daigo Sakai's edomae sushi counter in Nishi-Nakasu. Three Michelin stars in the 2019 Kyushu special edition, after holding one star in 2014.
Tantris ★★ ★ 4.8
Tantris has anchored Munich fine dining in Schwabing since 1971; Benjamin Chmura now cooks the two-star tasting menu in the original room, only at dinner.
Lazy Betty ★ ★ 4.8
Chefs Ron Hsu and Aaron Phillips' Candler Park tasting room in Atlanta opened 2019 and earned a Michelin Star in 2023 for an inventive seasonal prix-fixe.
OrderThe full chef's tasting menu with the wine pairing.
Sorn ★★★ ★ 4.8
Sorn in Bangkok's Sukhumvit 26 is the world's first three-Michelin-star Thai restaurant (promoted in the 2024 Guide Thailand), a family-style sharing tasting.
Rutz ★★★ ★ 4.8
Marco Mueller's Rutz in Berlin Mitte holds three Michelin stars on a Brandenburg-led tasting; the wine cellar runs to 1,200 references with a Riesling focus.
Mateo Bar de Tapas ★ 4.8
Multiple James Beard Best Chef Southeast semifinalist Matt Kelly built his name here. Mateo is NC's definitive Spanish tapas restaurant, driven by wood-fire.
Yui Edomae Sushi ★ 4.8
Yui Edomae Sushi in Las Vegas is chef Gen Mizoguchi's seven-seat Arville Plaza omakase room, Edomae-style sushi with fish flown from Toyosu Market daily.
Sun Moon Studio ★ ★ 4.8
Sun Moon Studio in West Oakland earned a Michelin star in 2025. Alan Hsu and Sarah Cooper run a twelve-seat ingredient-driven tasting on Union Street.
Kadence ★ ★ 4.8
Kadence on Winter Park Road in Audubon Park is an eight-seat Edomae sushi counter from Mark and Jennifer Berdin, with a Michelin star since 2022.
Camille ★ ★ 4.8
Camille on New Broad Street in Baldwin Park is the first Michelin-starred Vietnamese restaurant in the United States, an eight-seat tasting room.
La Degustation Boheme Bourgeoise ★ ★ 4.8
La Degustation Boheme Bourgeoise has held a Michelin star since 2012, building tasting menus from a 19th-century Czech cookbook in a quiet Old Town dining.
OrderThe eleven-course menu with the Moravian wine pairing.
Augurio ★ 4.8
Augurio is chef Angel Vazquez's Pueblan dining room on 9 Oriente, added to the 2026 Michelin Guide selection and built around a six-mole tasting in Puebla.
Poole's Diner ★ 4.8
Poole's Diner is a modern diner at 428 S McDowell St in Downtown Raleigh serving reimagined comfort food, with a menu that changes weekly and sometimes daily.
Saison ★★★ ★ 4.8
Saison in San Francisco is a three-Michelin-star hearth-driven tasting in SoMa, with live-fire seafood and California game over an oak fire.
Benu ★★★ ★ 4.8
Benu in San Francisco is Corey Lee's three-Michelin-star modern Korean American tasting in SoMa, with a 14-seat counter and a 30-course pace through three.
Adega ★ 4.8
Adega is San Jose's sole Michelin-starred restaurant, where chefs craft a seasonal Portuguese tasting menu paired with 500+ Iberian wines in Alum Rock.
OrderWinter multi-course tasting menu with Portuguese wine pairing ($159 per person)
OCD ★ 4.8
OCD in Jaffa seats 19 around an open kitchen for Raz Rahav's tasting menu of 16 to 20 plates, blending Israeli and Jewish flavours with haute cuisine.
Del Cambio ★ ★ 4.8
Del Cambio in Turin has fed royal Piedmont since 1757. Diego Giglio cooks Piedmontese modern from the table Cavour used to watch Palazzo Carignano.
Epoka ★ 4.8
Epoka offers a Short History and a full History tasting menu, drawn from historic Polish cookbooks, inside the Raffles Europejski hotel in Warsaw.
Pollen ★ ★ 4.8
Pollen holds Avignon's Michelin star in the 2026 guide: chef Mathieu Desmarest cooks a weekly surprise menu from an open kitchen on Rue Joseph Vernet.
OrderThe Carte blanche menu, a surprise sequence that changes each week with local producers' supply.
Lasarte ★★★ ★ 4.8
Lasarte in Barcelona's Eixample is the three-star Berasategui-Casagrande Basque-Catalan tasting room inside Hotel Monument on Passeig de Gracia.
ABaC ★★★ ★ 4.8
ABaC in Barcelona's uptown Tibidabo is Jordi Cruz's three-star tasting room with a tree-shaded garden terrace and the longest menu of the city's top tier.
O Ya ★ ★ 4.8
Tim and Nancy Cushman's O Ya on East Street in the Leather District runs a 20-seat contemporary Japanese omakase in Boston since 2007. Located in South End.
Oleana ★ 4.8
Ana Sortun's Inman Square room runs a tasting-menu Eastern Mediterranean kitchen in Cambridge since 2001. James Beard Best Chef Northeast 2005.
Agnes ★ 4.8
Agnes, at 22 Agnes Street in Fortitude Valley, is built entirely around the concept of cooking on an open fire: no electricity, no gas, just fire.
Joy ★ 4.8
Joy is a small set-menu restaurant run by chef Sarah Baldwin at Shop 7, 694 Ann Street, on Bakery Lane in Fortitude Valley.
Kaiamo ★ 4.8
Kaiamo is a Romanian restaurant at 30A Emil Pangratti Street serving only tasting menus of 9, 11, 15 or 20 courses, in a Carte Blanche format.
OrderThe Carte Blanche tasting menu, where the chef chooses the dishes.
Restaurant Four Seasons ★ 4.8
Four Seasons Dorobanți is a Lebanese fine dining restaurant on Calea Dorobanților serving mezze, falafel and fatoush with spices from Lebanon.
OrderA feast of Lebanese mezze, which the site suggests starting with an arak.
March ★ 4.8
March in Houston is the Goodnight Hospitality tasting-menu room on Westheimer, chef Felipe Riccio's six- or nine-course Mediterranean menus rooted in one.
OrderThe full nine-course menu with June Rodil's wine pairings. Anything less misses the regional arc.
Neolokal ★ ★ 4.8
Chef Maksut Aşkar's Michelin-starred kitchen inside SALT Galata, reviving forgotten Anatolian ingredients on a tasting menu that won the 2026 Michelin.
Maximo Bistrot ★ ★ 4.8
Maximo Bistrot in Mexico City is chef Eduardo Lalo Garcia's one-Michelin-star Roma Norte room on Alvaro Obregon, seasonal Mexican cooking with French bistro.
OrderThe seasonal tasting; whatever vegetable arrived that morning from the farm.
K'u'uk ★ 4.8
Pedro Evia's K'u'uk in Itzimná Mérida runs an 11-course modern Yucatecan tasting menu inside a restored mansion near the Monumento a la Patria.
Palazzo Petrucci ★ 4.8
Palazzo Petrucci is a restaurant overlooking the sea at Posillipo, with just 36 covers, where Lino Scarallo's cooking centres on tasting menus.
Zahav ★ 4.8
Zahav in Philadelphia is Michael Solomonov's modern Israeli room, James Beard's Outstanding Restaurant in America 2019 and the city's most-booked tasting.
OrderThe Mesibah lamb shoulder feast for the table, with hummus tehina to start.
Canabota ★ ★ 4.8
Canabota, at Calle Orfila 1 in Seville, calls itself a restaurant stripped of corsets and a luxury fishmonger, and cooks the sea over embers.
OrderThe tasting menu, with the cooking and the embers in front of you.
Sushi Masaki Saito ★ ★ 4.8
Sushi Masaki Saito on Avenue Road runs an edomae omakase counter on a 200-year hinoki bar, Michelin one-star in the 2026 guide after two stars 2022-2024.
Edulis ★ ★ 4.8
Edulis on Niagara Street has held a Michelin star in the 2022 through 2025 guides, chefs Tobey Nemeth and Michael Caballo cooking seafood and wild mushrooms.
Ricard Camarena Restaurant ★★ ★ 4.8
Ricard Camarena Restaurant in the Bombas Gens cultural complex in Valencia holds two Michelin stars and a Michelin Green Star, cooking a vegetable-first menu.
Minibar by Jose Andres ★★ ★ 4.8
Minibar by Jose Andres in Washington DC is the chef's two-Michelin-star 12-seat counter on E Street, a 20-course modernist tasting menu pulled.
La Saletta ★ 4.8
Gian Luca Chessa runs La Saletta on Via Fratelli Kennedy in Alghero, where the Radici menu puts vegetables first and Riviera stays with local fish.
OrderThe Radici menu, where Sardinian vegetables lead instead of the fish.
Luminosa ★ 4.8
Luminosa is a hyperlocal Italian restaurant at 20 Battery Park Ave in Asheville, with a wood-burning oven at its heart and a zero-waste kitchen.
OrderHandmade pizza from the wood-burning oven, or house made pasta such as bucatini with summer squash.
The Market Place ★ 4.8
The Market Place has been a fixture on Historic Wall Street in downtown Asheville since 1979, with Chef William Dissen and an ingredient driven menu.
OrderThe seasonal menu, built on ingredients and artisan products from within 100 miles of the restaurant.
KIN ★ 4.8
KIN is chef Kris Komori's 28-seat prix-fixe room downtown, winner of the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Mountain 2023, with a five-course seasonal menu.
Maison Nouvelle ★★ ★ 4.8
Maison Nouvelle in Bordeaux's Chartrons is Philippe Etchebest's two-Michelin-star table on Rue Rode, opened December 2021 and confirmed at two stars.
De Jonkman ★★ ★ 4.8
De Jonkman at Maalse Steenweg 438 in Bruges holds two Michelin stars; chef Filip Claeys founded the NorthSeaChefs collective and works with lesser known fish.
OrderThe Marktmenu, served every day except Saturday evening, or the menu Het seizoen volgens Filip Claeys.
Boca ★ 4.8
Boca on East 6th Street downtown is David Falk's flagship Cincinnati dining room, modern American with luxury proteins and a deep wine cellar.
Beckon ★ 4.8
Beckon in Denver is Duncan Holmes's 18-seat chef's counter on Larimer in RiNo since 2018, a Michelin-recognised tasting room running an 11-course.
Sushi Den ★ 4.8
Sushi Den in Denver is Toshi and Yasu Kizaki's South Pearl sushi house since 1984, with fish flown daily from Toyosu Market via the brothers' Japanese supply.
Desarma ★ ★ 4.8
Desarma is Octávio Freitas's rooftop restaurant above Funchal, Michelin-starred since February 2024 and cooking menus of six, nine or twelve moments.
OrderThe Chef's Battle menu, nine moments built on Madeiran produce.
Peskesi ★ 4.8
Peskesi serves traditional Cretan cuisine in the restored mansion of Captain Polyxingis in central Heraklion, with produce from its own farm at Haraso.
Senia ★ 4.8
Senia in Honolulu Chinatown is chef Anthony Rush's fine dining tasting room of eight to ten courses, drawing on Hawaiian, Japanese and French training.
OrderChef's tasting menu, with the smoked ahi cigars and bone marrow course.
Sushi Sho Hawaii ★ 4.8
Sushi Sho Hawaii is chef Keiji Nakazawa's 16-seat edomae omakase counter at The Ritz-Carlton Residences Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, with a 30-plus course.
OrderThe full 30-plus course omakase; the otoro nigiri and aged Maui bonito are signatures.
Elvie's ★ 4.8
Elvie's holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for its Mississippi French menu of Gulf oysters, bouillabaisse, duck confit cassoulet, and house-baked pastries.
OrderRedfish meuniere at dinner, or oysters with duck fat frites at the marble bar
The Antler Room ★ 4.8
Nick and Leslie Goellner's Longfellow room in Kansas City is the chef's-counter pick of the city: Persian, Mediterranean and East Asian small plates.
Lady Helen at Mount Juliet ★ ★ 4.8
Lady Helen at Mount Juliet Estate has held one Michelin star since 2013, chef John Kelly serving modern Irish tasting menus 18km south of Kilkenny.
OrderSeasonal tasting menu built entirely on Irish produce from the estate and local suppliers.
610 Magnolia ★ 4.8
Edward Lee's 610 Magnolia in Louisville runs a weekly tasting menu in a converted Old Louisville Victorian, the chef's Southern-Korean flagship since 2003.
MeeshMeesh Mediterranean ★ 4.8
Chef Noam Bilitzer's MeeshMeesh in Louisville took a 2025 James Beard finalist nod for Levantine plates served from a NuLu kitchen on East Market Street.
Minamishima ★ 4.8
Minamishima earns three Good Food Guide hats for Edomae nigiri omakase: one set menu, 40 seats and one of Australia's tightest reservation systems.
L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon ★★ ★ 4.8
L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Miami is the Design District two-Michelin-starred French counter, the only two-star Robuchon room in the US, retained in 2025.
OrderLe caviar imperial and the pommes puree, signatures Robuchon refined over thirty years.
Hiden ★ ★ 4.8
Hiden in Wynwood is the eight-seat Michelin-starred omakase counter at 313 NW 25th Street, behind a passcode door, with fish flown from Tokyo twice a week.
OrderThe omakase is the only menu; sign on for the full course and let Okano set the pace.
Naoe ★ 4.8
Naoe on Brickell Key in Miami is Kevin Cory's five-seat omakase counter at 661 Brickell Key Drive, the only AAA Five-Diamond and Forbes Five-Star room.
OrderThe bento opener with Cory's family's heirloom soy sauce; the omakase follows.
Kaleja ★ ★ 4.8
Kaleja is Dani Carnero's one-Michelin-star restaurant in central Málaga, rebuilding Andalusian home cooking over live coals across two long tasting menus.
The Catbird Seat ★ ★ 4.8
The Catbird Seat, open since 2011, is led by chefs Tiffani Ortiz and Andy Doubrava atop the Bill Voorhees Building, and won with a Michelin Star in 2025.
OrderA seat at the U-shaped counter for the ever-evolving menu, rooted in seasonality and storytelling.
The Boiler Room ★ 4.8
Chef Tim Nicholson's James Beard-nominated kitchen changes its daily menu to reflect Nebraska farm availability, with an in-house charcuterie programme.
Johnny's Cafe ★ 4.8
The 2026 James Beard America's Classics winner, Johnny's Cafe has served hand-cut steaks in the same building beside the former Union Stockyards since 1922.
Koryu ★★ ★ 4.8
Two Michelin stars; chef Shintaro Matsuo builds Osaka-style kaiseki with Naniwa produce, richer dashi, and deeper umami than Kyoto counterparts.
Limu ★ ★ 4.8
Limu is a restaurant in the centre of Bagheria at Via Ciro Scianna 177, a few metres from the Arco del Padre Eterno, with the charm of the Torre Ferrante.
Marc Fosh ★ ★ 4.8
Marc Fosh holds one Michelin star in a 17th-century convent off Carrer de la Missió, cooking contemporary Mediterranean menus from Mallorcan produce.
OrderThe €69 ADN lunch menu, the cheapest way into a starred Palma dining room.
Au Jardin ★ ★ 4.8
Au Jardin holds a Michelin star in the 2026 guide, plating produce-led European tasting menus inside a corrugated warehouse at Penang's Hin Bus Depot.
Dill ★ ★ 4.8
Dill is a contemporary restaurant at Laugavegur 59 where you climb a spiral staircase to an open kitchen and cooking that is not showy or overcomplicated.
OrderFree-range Icelandic pork cheek with warm spiced cream, or belly with pine, cabbage and mushrooms.
Ox ★ ★ 4.8
Ox is a 17-seat restaurant at Laugavegur 28 where Chef Thrainn Freyr Vigfusson serves a multi course tasting menu of modern Icelandic cooking.
OrderThe multi course tasting menu, a modern rendition of traditional Icelandic cuisine.
Localis ★ ★ 4.8
Localis serves its tasting menu at the Chef's counter or in the dining room on S Street, where a wood fired oven enhances the flavors of many dishes.
OrderThe tasting menu, served at the Chef's counter or in the dining room.
Addison ★★★ ★ 4.8
Addison in San Diego is William Bradley's three-Michelin-star tasting room at Fairmont Grand Del Mar, the only three-star kitchen in Southern California.
OrderFull tasting menu, paired wine flight, optional caviar service.
Amelia by Paulo Airaudo ★★ ★ 4.8
Amelia by Paulo Airaudo is a tasting menu restaurant at Paseo de la Republica Argentina 4 in San Sebastian.
Jungsik ★★ ★ 4.8
The restaurant that coined New Korean fine dining, where chef Jung Sik Yim's avant-garde plating and Korean pantry ingredients earned two Michelin stars.
Au Crocodile ★ ★ 4.8
Au Crocodile is Strasbourg's grande-dame gastronomic room on Rue de l'Outre, holding one Michelin star under chef Romain Brillat near Place Kleber.
Most Restaurant ★ 4.8
Most is the tasting-only sister room behind Łukasz Budzik's Między Mostami in Wrocław, an intimate space at the back of the building with low-intervention.
OrderThe chef's tasting menu with the natural wine flight.
The Restaurant at the Dolder Grand ★★ ★ 4.8
Heiko Nieder's two-star Adlisberg dining room: modern European cuisine, Asian accents, multi-course tastings. Wed-Sat dinner; Thu and Fri lunch.
Hertog Jan at Botanic ★★ ★ 4.8
Hertog Jan at Botanic in Antwerp is Gert De Mangeleer's two-star room inside the Botanic Sanctuary, opened in 2021 after his three-star Zedelgem chapter.
OrderThe omakase tasting menu; the kitchen leans on the garden, beehives and greenhouse on the hotel grounds.
Uchi ★ 4.8
Uchi in Austin is Tyson Cole's James Beard-winning sushi room on South Lamar, the kitchen that codified modern Japanese in Texas, with omakase counter.
OrderThe omakase route at the sushi bar; the bar tasting flows in real time.
Aramburu ★★ ★ 4.8
16-18 course tasting in Pasaje del Correo, Recoleta. Two Michelin stars in 2024, the only Argentine restaurant at that tier; Relais and Chateaux since 2022.
Raga ★ 4.8
Raga is chef Gaggan Anand's homecoming restaurant in Delhi: a 22-dish tasting menu on Janpath Road next to Le Meridien, run day to day by chef Rydo Anton.
OrderThe full 22-dish tasting menu, including Gaggan's take on the Bombay sandwich.
Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud ★★ ★ 4.8
Patrick Guilbaud's two-Michelin-star room inside The Merrion hotel on Upper Merrion Street in Dublin, French technique on Irish produce since 1981.
OrderThe lunch menu surprise at a fraction of the dinner ticket, with the Merrion's wine cellar by the glass.
Liath ★★ ★ 4.8
Damien Grey's two-Michelin-star fourteen-seat counter inside Blackrock Market, Co Dublin, fifteen minutes by DART from the city, Ireland's hardest.
OrderThe tasting menu only; Grey serves no choice and the kitchen runs a fixed twelve courses.
Eliksir ★ 4.8
Eliksir says it was the first and only restaurant in Poland awarded a Michelin Green Star, in 2024. Its menu changes every 3 months, using seasonal products.
Cail Bruich ★ ★ 4.8
Cail Bruich, in Glasgow's leafy West End, offers Michelin-starred modern Scottish dining led by Executive Chef Lorna McNee, with tasting menus.
OrderOrder the tasting menu, which evolves with the rhythm of the Scottish seasons.
Unalome by Graeme Cheevers ★ ★ 4.8
Unalome by Graeme Cheevers offers one Michelin star contemporary fine dining at 36 Kelvingrove Street in Finnieston, led by Chef Patron Graeme Cheevers.
L'Etoile ★ 4.8
L'Etoile on Capitol Square, opened by Odessa Piper in 1976 and run by James Beard winner Tory Miller since 2005, is Madison's seminal farm-to-table flagship.
Maison Ronan Kervarrec, Le Saison ★★ ★ 4.8
Le Saison is Ronan Kervarrec's two-Michelin-star house in Saint-Grégoire, ten minutes north of Rennes, cooking Breton produce with classical precision.
L'Opossum ★ 4.8
L'Opossum in Oregon Hill is David Shannon's quirky French-Southern fine-dining room. James Beard Best Chef Mid-Atlantic semifinalist (2016) and Southern.
Takashi ★ 4.8
Takashi on Market Street, chef-owner Takashi Gibo's downtown sushi room since 2004, anchors Salt Lake's defining omakase at the bar with creative nigiri.
OrderOmakase at the sushi bar; rotating specials list on the chalkboard.
The Compound ★ 4.8
Mark Kiffin, 2005 James Beard Best Chef Southwest, owns The Compound on Santa Fe's Canyon Road; Chef Dale Kester runs the market-driven kitchen as head cook.
Sazon ★ 4.8
Fernando Olea won the 2022 James Beard Best Chef Southwest at Sazon, where the deeply researched moles and a New Mexican mole anchor the Santa Fe dinner.
NOA Chef's Hall ★ ★ 4.8
NOA Chef's Hall holds one Michelin star in the 2026 Estonia Guide, an intimate counter room inside the main NOA building at Ranna tee, with a seven-course.
OrderThe full tasting; the counter brings each course directly from the pass.
St. Elmo Steak House ★ 4.8
St. Elmo Steak House on South Illinois in Indianapolis since 1902. The canonical Hoosier steakhouse with the eye-watering horseradish shrimp cocktail.
Beholder ★ 4.8
Beholder is Jonathan Brooks' East 10th Street room in Indianapolis. The constantly-changing a la carte makes it the most-watched dining experience.
Little Pearl ★ 4.8
Little Pearl runs a four-course local-seafood tasting menu from a corner cottage on Olivia Street in Key West, with a deep cellar and three set seatings.
OrderThe four-course chef's tasting built on the local catch
J.C. Holdway ★ 4.8
J.C. Holdway on Union Avenue is Joseph Lenn's wood-fired Appalachian dining room since 2016, the top of Knoxville's chef-driven dinner tier.
OrderThe chef's wood-fired Appalachian protein of the week with a tasting-menu glass pairing.
Kjolle ★ 4.8
Kjolle in Barranco is Pia Leon's solo room at Pedro de Osma 301, sharing the building with Central; she holds the World's Best Female Chef award.
OrderThe Kjolle tasting menu, with Pia Leon's Andean-Amazonian plating across 8 courses.
Trishna ★ 4.8
Trishna runs the koliwada coastal fish program out of a small Kala Ghoda dining room since 1965. Butter pepper garlic crab, Hyderabadi fish tikka.
Antica Corte Pallavicina ★ ★ 4.8
Antica Corte Pallavicina, Massimo Spigaroli's castle farm on the Po near Parma, has held a Michelin star since 2011 and ages culatello in its cellars.
OrderThe culatello vertical, sliced across several ageings from the cellars below.
Persimmon ★ 4.8
Champe and Lisa Speidel run Persimmon out of a small Hope Street dining room. Seasonal French-leaning cooking; the city's most-booked special-occasion room.
OrderWhatever Champe is plating from the Rhode Island shellfish run, plus the long-standing foie gras course.
Gift Horse ★ 4.8
Ben Sukle's downtown raw bar where 2025 James Beard winner Sky Haneul Kim cooked until October 2025; new menu under Sukle and John Robinson.
OrderAn oyster flight across the nine Rhode Island growing regions; the kitchen's seasonal raw bar plates.
Can Bosch ★ ★ 4.8
Can Bosch has cooked Cambrils fish and seafood near the harbour since 1969, now led by chef Arnau Bosch with a Michelin star, along the coast from Salou.
OrderA rice dish made with Carnaroli from Molí de Rafelet in the Ebro Delta, the house speciality.
Husk Savannah ★ 4.8
Husk Savannah at 12 W Oglethorpe Ave serves modern Southern cuisine on heirloom ingredients, sourcing directly from local farmers and the waterways.
Common Thread ★ 4.8
Common Thread at 122 E 37th St is the sister restaurant of FARM in Bluffton, serving locally sourced foods in the Krouskoff House, built in 1897.
Tito and Pep ★ 4.8
Tito and Pep on East Speedway in midtown Tucson is the chef-driven seasonal kitchen with mesquite-fired vegetables and bone-in pork chops on wood.
Automatic Seafood and Oysters ★ 4.8
Automatic Seafood and Oysters in Lakeview earned Adam Evans the 2022 James Beard Best Chef South, with a Gulf-anchored menu in a renovated industrial space.
Irin. ★ 4.8
Lukas Hesko's twenty-seat Irin on Rudnayovo namestie behind St Martin's Cathedral cooks Slovakia's most compelling fine-dining tasting since 2022.
OrderThe full nine-course tasting; the non-alcoholic pairing matches the wine flight course for course.
İmam Çağdaş ★ 4.8
İmam Çağdaş is the benchmark kebab house of Gaziantep, running since 1887 and still judged on its Ali Nazik and on its havuç dilimi baklava tray.
OrderAli Nazik and a plate of havuç dilimi to finish.
Scoundrel ★ ★ 4.8
Scoundrel is chef-owner Joe Cash's French bistro on North Main, opened 2022. Awarded Greenville's first Michelin star at the inaugural Michelin Guide.
Bottiglieria 1881 ★★ ★ 4.8
Bottiglieria 1881 in Kraków is Poland's first two-Michelin-star kitchen, Przemysław Klima's neo-Polish tasting room in a Kazimierz townhouse with a deep wine.
JOHN Chef's Hall ★ ★ 4.8
JOHN Chef's Hall in Riga's Quiet Bay holds one Michelin star in the 2026 Guide, sitting six tables of ten guests in the former American Embassy on Ausekļa.
OrderThe €210 tasting menu, the only format offered; the €150 four-course is the trim-down.
Max Cekot Kitchen ★ ★ 4.8
Max Cekot Kitchen on Jelgavas in Pārdaugava holds one Michelin star, the first awarded in Latvia, with a 15-course seasonal menu Cekot rotates every two.
OrderThe 15-course set menu, the only format; the kitchen rotates new courses every three weeks.
Campo at Los Poblanos ★ 4.8
Campo at Los Poblanos serves Rio Grande Valley cuisine at 4803 Rio Grande Blvd NW, on a 25 acre farm, with a menu that follows the seasons of the farm.
Salon 1905 ★ 4.8
Salon 1905 sits in the Michelin Guide Belgrade Selection inside the Geozavod, a Baroque landmark. JRE member, seasonal Serbian tasting menus.
Hen of the Wood ★ 4.8
Burlington's flagship farm-to-table room. James Beard nominations across multiple years; chef Eric Warnstedt opened the Waterbury original in 2005.
Easy Bistro & Bar ★ 4.8
Easy Bistro & Bar is Chattanooga's special-occasion room, French-rooted seafood cooking in a 1900s Coca-Cola bottling hall, Michelin Recommended in 2025.
OrderThe raw bar tower, then hearth-roasted oysters.
Calliope ★ 4.8
Calliope is Chattanooga fine dining at its most current: Levantine tasting plates from 2026 James Beard semifinalist Khaled Albanna on MLK Boulevard.
OrderThe mezze course with whatever bread came off the fire.
Alcalde ★ ★ 4.8
Alcalde in Guadalajara is Paco Ruano's Avenida Mexico room since 2013, modern Mexican on porcelain plates and the Lafayette anchor for one-star Michelin.
Hibana by Koki ★ ★ 4.8
Hibana by Koki is a teppanyaki counter with 14 seats in the Capella Hanoi hotel basement, where chef Hiroshi Yamaguchi cooks rich, complex dishes.
OrderThe certified Kyori beef from Yaeyama, cooked teppanyaki style.
Tầm Vị ★ ★ 4.8
Tầm Vị is a vintage tea house at 4B Yen The in Hanoi with a lush courtyard, English-speaking staff, a photo menu and a two-storey expansion.
OrderThe chả ốc with herbs and vermicelli, or the crab soup with malabar spinach.
La Grande Table Marocaine ★ 4.8
La Grande Table Marocaine at the Royal Mansour is the only African restaurant in Les Grandes Tables du Monde, overseen by Helene Darroze in Marrakech.
Le Pigeon ★ 4.8
James Beard winner Gabriel Rucker's communal-table French in Portland, with a chef's tasting available at the counter for spontaneous diners.
Han Oak ★ 4.8
Peter Cho and Sun Young Park's prix-fixe Korean dinner in the Kerns neighbourhood of Portland, served at communal tables in a converted live/work space.
Fore Street ★ 4.8
Fore Street has been Portland's flagship wood-fired dining room since 1996, with a wood-burning oven, open hearth and turning spit at the kitchen's heart.
4 Sobe Gospodje Safije ★ 4.8
4 Sobe Gospodje Safije at Cekalusa 61 unites a restaurant, wine and cocktail bar, lounge and garden, cooking a fusion of modern and traditional BiH dishes.
Ahi ★ 4.8
Ahi cooks fire-led modern New Zealand tasting menus from Level 2 of Commercial Bay over the Waitemata in Auckland. Ben Bayly's kitchen; three-hat tier.
Palatial ★ ★ 4.8
Braga's only Michelin star (2025) at Palatial, where chef Rui Filipe reinterprets Minho tradition through contemporary French-influenced technique.
Chez Noir ★ ★ 4.8
Chez Noir keeps its Michelin star on 5th Avenue in Carmel, where Jonny and Monique Black cook a seafood-led prix fixe from Monterey Peninsula boats.
OrderThe $165 prix fixe; bar seats are the walk-in route when the room is booked.
Kai ★ 4.8
Kai at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass is Arizona's only AAA Five Diamond restaurant, cooking Pima and Maricopa ingredients on Gila River land.
OrderThe grilled tribal buffalo tenderloin with cholla buds and scarlet runner bean chile.
The Pullman ★ ★ 4.8
The Pullman at Glenlo Abbey Galway earned its Michelin star in 2026; Angelo Vagiotis serves seven Irish courses in two restored 1927 Orient Express carriages.
OrderThe seven-course tasting menu; wine pairing at €90 adds exceptional French and Irish bottles
T'ang Court ★★★ ★ 4.7
T'ang Court at The Langham, Hong Kong on Peking Road holds three MICHELIN stars for authentic Cantonese cooking by Executive Chef Wong Chi Fai.
OrderBaked stuffed crab shell with crab meat and onions, coated in crisp breadcrumbs.
King's Joy ★★ ★ 4.7
King's Joy, a courtyard house next to Yonghe Temple, holds two Michelin stars for its lacto-ovo vegetarian menus of over 10 courses in Beijing.
OrderBook one of the three lacto-ovo vegetarian menus of over 10 courses; each can be made vegan on request.
Salsify at the Roundhouse ★ 4.7
Salsify occupies the historic Roundhouse above Camps Bay, Cape Town, named Eat Out Restaurant of the Year in 2025 under chef Ryan Cole's kitchen.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu of local proteins, foraged herbs, ancient grains and preserves from earlier seasons
Smyth ★★★ ★ 4.7
Smyth in the West Loop is run by chefs John Shields and Karen Urie Shields, whose 30 years of experience include Alinea, Tru and Charlie Trotter's.
Oriole ★★ ★ 4.7
Oriole, a contemporary-American restaurant in the West Loop serving Noah Sandoval's tasting menu, has repeatedly earned two Michelin stars since 2016.
The Ledbury ★★★ ★ 4.7
The Ledbury at 127 Ledbury Road in Notting Hill was established in 2005 and serves a seasonal tasting menu with discovery and classic wine matchings.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu, with the discovery or classic wine matching.
Sketch ★★★ ★ 4.7
Sketch is at 9 Conduit Street, London W1S 2XG, and has five rooms: The Lecture Room and Library, The Gallery, The Glade, The Parlour and The East Bar.
OrderAfternoon tea, served in the Gallery or the Glade.
Coque ★★ ★ 4.7
Coque, at Calle del Marques de Riscal 11 in Madrid, has two Michelin stars and 3 Repsol suns, with Mario Sandoval running the kitchen and Rafael the cellar.
OrderThe tasting menu, which reinterprets the gastronomic memory of Madrid with avant-garde technique.
DSTAgE ★★ ★ 4.7
DSTAgE, at Calle Regueros 8, is Diego Guerrero's gourmet restaurant in the centre of Madrid, with two Michelin stars and a choice of tasting menus.
OrderThe tasting menu in its 16, 18 or 22 elaboration versions, with an optional wine pairing.
Le Bernardin ★★★ ★ 4.7
Le Bernardin is Chef Eric Ripert's Midtown restaurant, where seafood is the calling card and a sizeable à la carte menu sits beside the tasting experiences.
Sushi Noz ★★ ★ 4.7
Sushi Noz is Chef Nozomu Abe's Edomae sushi restaurant, with an 8-seat counter of 200 year old hinoki wood and a 6-seat counter built of Tamo Ash.
Plénitude ★★★ ★ 4.7
Plénitude is a French fine dining restaurant at Cheval Blanc Paris where sauce maker Arnaud Donckele cooks a voyage between Normandy and the Mediterranean.
OrderThe desserts by Maxime Frédéric, previously of the George V.
Il Pagliaccio ★★ ★ 4.7
Il Pagliaccio offers an intimate, refined experience in the center of Rome, with a path of 14 chapters for up to 6 diners in its private room.
Aroma ★ ★ 4.7
Aroma is a starred restaurant on the panoramic terrace of Palazzo Manfredi, where Chef Di Iorio's cooking is tied to the territory, at Via Labicana 125.
OrderMarinated octopus with red cabbage, or the tagliolini with pumpkin and gorgonzola.
T'ang Court ★★ ★ 4.7
T'ang Court at 99 Madang Road is a Two-Michelin-Starred restaurant where you dine on Cantonese dishes or enjoy a set menu amid lavish furnishings.
OrderOrder the wok-fried abalone and geoduck with Thai basil and fermented black beans.
Mabel Gray ★ 4.7
Mabel Gray is Chef James Rigato's restaurant at 23825 John R Rd in Hazel Park, with handwritten menus that rotate with the seasons and have no set menu.
OrderWhatever the rotating seasonal menu offers, as there is no set menu.
Selden Standard ★ 4.7
Selden Standard is a New American restaurant at 3921 2nd Ave serving small plates from a wood-fired oven, with wine, local brews and craft cocktails.
OrderSmall plates from the wood-fired oven, served in shareable portions.
Fifty Seconds ★★ ★ 4.7
Fifty Seconds is a two-Michelin-star restaurant 120 metres above ground in Lisbon, where the tasting menu offers flavours from all over the world.
Isidore ★ ★ 4.7
Isidore at Pullman Market earned a Michelin star and a Green Star in 2025, an elevated Texas room from the Emmer & Rye group built around local farms.
Nicosi ★ ★ 4.7
Nicosi is pastry chef Tavel Bristol-Joseph's dessert-only, phones-away tasting room behind Pullman Market, a multi-course menu that won a Michelin star.
Nihonryori RyuGin ★★★ ★ 4.7
Nihonryori RyuGin in Tokyo Midtown Hibiya is Seiji Yamamoto's three-Michelin-star kaiseki room. Asia's 50 Best lifetime list, holds No. 2 status in Japan.
Providence ★★★ ★ 4.7
Chef Michael Cimarusti's seafood-focused menu at 5955 Melrose Ave is complemented by professional, seasoned service run by partner Donato Poto.
Indo ★ 4.7
Nick Bognar marries Thai family cooking with serious sushi at this Botanical Heights room, the one that made him a James Beard Best Chef Midwest finalist.
Domestic ★ ★ 4.7
Domestic on Mejlgade in the Latin Quarter holds one Michelin star and a Michelin Green Star, serving 100 percent local produce from small Jutland suppliers.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu; the kitchen's fermentation and preservation techniques are the clearest expression.
Erth ★ ★ 4.7
Erth is a Michelin-starred Emirati restaurant at Al Hosn in Abu Dhabi, cooking modern dishes from Emirati flavours and produce from farms across the UAE.
OrderThe modern lamb machboos, then the Liwa dates batheeta that the Michelin Guide suggests to finish.
La Mere Brazier ★★ ★ 4.7
Eugénie Brazier opened the restaurant in 1921; the renovation gave the walls back their original tiles from the thirties and renewed the kitchens.
L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges (Paul Bocuse) ★★ ★ 4.7
L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges is a Michelin-starred restaurant and a family house since 1924, in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or on the banks of the Saône.
Fet-Fisk ★ 4.7
Fet-Fisk on Liberty Avenue in Bloomfield serves chef-driven Nordic seafood in Pittsburgh. A 2025 Bon Appetit best-new-restaurant and James Beard finalist.
OrderOysters and the open-faced smorrebrod, with a snaps or a low-intervention wine.
Bennelong ★ 4.7
Bennelong, in the Sydney Opera House, has a three-course menu in the Restaurant, a la carte at The Counter and Two Hats in the Good Food Guide 2026.
Charoupi ★ 4.7
Charoupi opened in Ladadika in 2017 bringing Cretan modernism to Thessaloniki's kitchen. Led by chef Manolis Papoutsakis. Tasting menu €55-80.
Mourga ★ 4.7
Mourga straddles the boundary between casual and fine dining: handwritten menus, organic-market sourcing, and a kitchen with genuine creative ambition.
Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao ★ ★ 4.7
Nerua at the Guggenheim Bilbao serves Josean Alija's local cuisine, which begins at the vegetable gardens, in the sea and in the farms of its surroundings.
Bulrush ★ ★ 4.7
Bulrush in Cotham has held Bristol's longest-running Michelin star since 2019, with George Livesey's foraged tasting menus in a snug converted shop.
OrderThe full tasting menu; the early-evening menu is the wallet-friendly route.
Comme Chez Soi ★ ★ 4.7
Comme Chez Soi, at Place Rouppe 23, has stayed in one family for a century: five generations pursuing a demanding, sincere and deeply human gastronomy.
Babel Budapest ★ ★ 4.7
Babel Budapest is a modern restaurant at Piarista köz 2 with a multi-course tasting menu and a wine pairing of only white wines and sparkling wines.
OrderThe casino egg and the guinea fowl with a steamed bun.
Maximilian Lorenz ★ ★ 4.7
Maximilian Lorenz in Cologne's Altstadt-Nord holds one Michelin star for modern Rhineland cooking that references regional tradition with precision.
OrderEight-course omnivore menu built around a whole animal or the six-course vegetable menu
Sahila ★ ★ 4.7
Sahila in Cologne's Altstadt-Süd holds one Michelin star for its pan-Asian tasting menu; intimate and one of Cologne's most personal fine dining rooms.
OrderThe seven-course menu pairing tikka masala with cauliflower alongside dakos with feta and olive
The Refectory ★ 4.7
The Refectory on Bethel Road, run inside a 19th century church since 1976, is Columbus's contemporary French tasting room with a 700-bottle Burgundy cellar.
Il Ristorante - Niko Romito ★★ ★ 4.7
Il Ristorante - Niko Romito is the chef's two Michelin star dining room inside Bulgari Resort Dubai on Jumeirah Bay Island, cooking modern Italian food.
Lonesome Dove Western Bistro ★ 4.7
Lonesome Dove Western Bistro in Fort Worth is Tim Love's flagship Stockyards restaurant with inventive game meats and ranch-driven tasting menus.
OrderTexas wild boar ribs, rabbit-rattlesnake sausage, Idaho rainbow trout with sweet potato-chorizo succotash.
Publiek ★ ★ 4.7
One Michelin star in a loft-style bistro on Ham street: Olly Ceulenaere champions lesser-known Belgian vegetables and local produce at every turn.
OrderThe five-course dinner menu, where the vegetable-led cooking is most focused.
Olo ★ ★ 4.7
Olo is an elegant yet enjoyably laid-back restaurant at Pohjoisesplanadi 5, Michelin-starred since 2011, using the best northern ingredients.
OrderThe sautéed reindeer with Lappish almond potato, which Michelin calls the chef’s signature.
Le Restaurant du Cerisier ★ ★ 4.7
Le Restaurant du Cerisier holds a Michelin star on Avenue du Peuple Belge in Lille, where Guillaume Barengo runs one set menu from an open kitchen.
OrderWhatever the single set menu is running that week.
Pureté ★ ★ 4.7
Pureté is Gérald Guille's Michelin-starred room on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille, a narrow dining room built around tasting menus and an open pass.
OrderThe five-course menu, the shortest way into this kitchen.
EsterEv ★ 4.7
EsterEv on South Kinnickinnic in Bay View, by chefs Dan Jacobs and Dan Van Rite, runs a four-course tasting menu since 2017 with optional beverage pairings.
The Immigrant Room ★ 4.7
The Immigrant Restaurant at the American Club in Kohler runs six themed dining rooms with a tasting menu and a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence.
Jardin des Sens ★ ★ 4.7
Jardin des Sens is the Pourcel twins' Michelin-starred room inside the Hôtel Richer de Belleval, frescoed ceilings over creative Mediterranean menus.
Le Chantecler ★ ★ 4.7
Le Chantecler is the MICHELIN-starred restaurant of Le Negresco, where chef Virginie Basselot, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, cooks high Mediterranean cuisine.
JAN ★ ★ 4.7
JAN, at 12 Rue Lascaris in Nice, is chef and owner Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen's restaurant, open five days a week for dinner with one seating per service.
Origen ★ 4.7
Origen in Oaxaca is Rodolfo Castellanos's Benito Juarez flagship since 2011, a Michelin-Guide-listed room where modern technique meets criollo corn and mole.
Ma Der Lao Kitchen ★ 4.7
Ma Der Lao Kitchen in Oklahoma City brings James Beard-nominated Lao cooking: papaya salad, laab gai, and sticky rice from chef Jeff Chanchaleune.
FnB ★ 4.7
FnB in Scottsdale is chef Charleen Badman's vegetable-forward kitchen in Craftsman Court, a 2026 MICHELIN Bib Gourmand with an Arizona-led wine program.
OrderThe grilled sweet potatoes with mustard vinaigrette, or the grilled cabbage, then the pecan tart.
Karel 5 ★ ★ 4.7
One Michelin star, set inside a 14th-century monastery. Leon Mazairac's four-to-six-course menus rotate quarterly around seasonal Dutch produce.
Local ★ ★ 4.7
Local is a restaurant in Venice Castello, tucked away between St Mark's Square and the Arsenale, inspired by Venice's gastronomic tradition and the seasons.
Venissa ★ ★ 4.7
Venissa is a restaurant in a small walled vineyard on the island of Mazzorbo, where chefs Chiara Pavan and Francesco Brutto serve mostly fish and vegetables.
Il Desco ★ ★ 4.7
Il Desco won its Michelin star in 1985 and has had it confirmed year after year, in the historic centre of Verona, a couple of steps from the Arena.
Antica Bottega del Vino ★ 4.7
Antica Bottega del Vino is an Italian restaurant at Vicolo Scudo di Francia 3, 37121 Verona, open daily 12:30-14:40 and 19:00-22:40.
Demo ★ ★ 4.7
Demo at Demoloftas holds a Michelin Green star alongside its main star. Tadas Eidukevičius cooks two short tasting menus in a monochrome dining room.
OrderThe full set tasting menu; the natural-wine pairing is excellent.
Deep Roots ★ ★ 4.7
Deep Roots on Trakų opened in 2026 as Andrius Kubilius's new tasting-menu room after his departure from Nineteen18, awarded a Michelin star in the same guide.
OrderThe full Deep Roots tasting menu; pairing leans Lithuanian small producers.
Damasqueros ★ 4.7
Damasqueros in Granada is chef Lola Marins Realejo room, the weekly Andalusian tasting that built her name and earned long-running Michelin Guide listing.
CieL Dining ★ ★ 4.7
CieL serves only a tasting menu, built on French cuisine while honoring the spirit of Vietnam and respecting local ingredients, in Thao Dien.
OrderThe tasting menu, the only menu format on offer.
Akuna ★ ★ 4.7
Akuna sits on the 9th floor of Le Meridien Saigon, where chef Sam Aisbett presents his most personal cooking inspired by eating across Vietnam.
OrderThe 06-course tasting menu, which is the only menu format offered for dinner.
LuluRouget ★ ★ 4.7
LuluRouget in Nantes is Ludovic Pouzelgues's Michelin-starred room on the Île de Nantes, running surprise menus built on La Turballe and Le Croisic fish.
Le Manoir de la Régate ★ ★ 4.7
Le Manoir de la Régate sits on the Erdre in north Nantes, where Mathieu Pérou holds a Michelin star and green star for menus rooted in river and garden.
Freia ★ ★ 4.7
Freia cooks in a rooftop greenhouse above the Malakoff car park in Nantes, where Sarah Mainguy earned a Michelin star for plant-led, Nordic-edged menus.
The Yeatman ★★ ★ 4.7
The Yeatman restaurant, at Rua do Choupelo in Vila Nova de Gaia, holds two Michelin stars under chef Ricardo Costa, with views over the Douro and Porto.
Zoi ★ 4.7
Zoi is an intimate restaurant on Split's Riva promenade, along the ancient palace walls, serving contemporary Mediterranean tasting menus with harbor views.
OrderThe ECHO seven-course tasting menu with its curated wine pairing.
Acte 2 Yannick Delpech ★ ★ 4.7
Acte 2 in a former Cote Pavee sawmill is Yannick Delpech's return after L'Amphitryon, a fifteen-cover one-Michelin-star room with an evening surprise menu.
Delta Restaurant ★★ ★ 4.7
Delta, a Michelin-starred restaurant on the fifth floor of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, serves one 12-course tasting menu.
Esthio Athens ★ 4.7
Esthio is a Michelin-listed restaurant at Dimitrakopoulou 7 in Koukaki, serving Balkan-Greek cuisine by chef Elvi Dimitris Zyba in a 1931 building.
OrderLamb sweetbreads (Giaourtotavas), octopus stew in handmade phyllo or the moussaka.
Pier W ★ 4.7
Pier W on a Lake Erie cliff in Lakewood since 1965 is the Select Restaurants flagship cantilevered above the water with daily-flown seafood and Sunday brunch.
Cordelia ★ 4.7
Cordelia on East 4th Street, chef Vinnie Cimino's Modern Grandma dining room since 2022, runs Midwest-leaning small plates and multiple James Beard Award.
Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura ★ ★ 4.7
At Gucci Osteria da Massimo Bottura, Takahiko Kondo blends Tuscan, Italian and international influences, in a room with hand-painted parquet flooring.
Aji Takebayashi ★ 4.7
Yuzuru Takebayashi's seasonal kaiseki counter in Akasaka, Fukuoka, held a Michelin star in the 2014 and 2019 Kyushu special editions before suspension.
Chisou Nakamura ★ 4.7
A Hakata kaiseki room with two Michelin stars in the 2019 Kyushu special edition, the high-water mark of Kyushu-style kaiseki by counter. Priced at ¥¥¥¥.
Strelec ★ 4.7
Strelec is in the Archer's tower of Ljubljana castle, where Chef Igor Jagodic prepares seasonal and micro-seasonal dishes from top-quality, local ingredients.
JAZ by Ana Ros ★ 4.7
JAZ by Ana Ros at Copova ulica 5a in Ljubljana opened in 2023 and is guided by the rhythm of the city's markets, with dishes designed for sharing.
Mujo ★ ★ 4.7
Chef Edward Schubert's West Midtown sushi counter in Atlanta opened 2021 and earned a Michelin Star in 2023 for an Edomae omakase, with rare sake.
OrderThe chef's omakase: two-hour, eighteen-course service at the eight-seat counter.
Omakase Table ★ ★ 4.7
Chef Leonard Yu's Omakase Table relocated to Buckhead Landing in 2025 and holds a Michelin Star since 2024 for a 20-course Edomae omakase with Koshihikari.
OrderThe 20-course chef's omakase at the eighteen-seat counter.
Le Du ★ ★ 4.7
Le Du in Bangkok's Silom is Chef Ton's modern-Thai counter, one Michelin star and a former No. 1 on Asia's 50 Best (2023, No. 36 in 2026). Family-friendly.
Nusara ★ ★ 4.7
Nusara in Bangkok's Tha Tien is Chef Ton's heritage-Thai room overlooking Wat Pho, named for his grandmother and ranked No. 5 on Asia's 50 Best 2026 (No. 6.
Tim Raue ★★ ★ 4.7
Tim Raue's two-star Asian-French room near Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie cooks the Peking duck the city is known for; lunch tasting at €178 is the easier entry.
Nobelhart und Schmutzig ★ ★ 4.7
Billy Wagner and Micha Schaefer's Berlin Kreuzberg counter tasting holds one Michelin star on radical-local sourcing inside Brandenburg's 200-kilometre ring.
Cheeni ★ 4.7
Eater NC's Restaurant of the Year with two James Beard Best Chef Southeast semifinalist nods for Preeti Waas, crossing South and North Indian traditions.
L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon ★ ★ 4.7
L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Las Vegas is the open-counter sibling at MGM Grand, a 36-seat counter set around the kitchen with Discovery and a la carte.
Burdell ★ 4.7
Burdell is Geoff Davis's Michelin Recommended soul food room in Oakland's Temescal. Collards and fried chicken alongside contemporary Southern plates.
Field ★ ★ 4.7
Field is Prague's most patient one-Michelin-star kitchen, a minimalist Old Town room where Radek Kasparek has built tasting menus around Czech farms.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu, paired by the floor team.
El Mural de los Poblanos ★ 4.7
El Mural de los Poblanos on 16 de Septiembre pours three moles at once in Puebla: the 26-ingredient house recipe, mole de Xico and mole de Quimixtlan.
Death and Taxes ★ 4.7
Death and Taxes is a contemporary restaurant in Downtown Raleigh dedicated to the technique of cooking with wood fire, from chef Ashley Christensen.
Brewery Bhavana ★ 4.7
Brewery Bhavana is a restaurant and taproom in Raleigh, North Carolina, with a dim sum menu, Belgian-inspired beers, a bookstore and a flower shop.
Hiba ★ 4.7
Hiba is chef Yossi Shitrit's fine-dining room on Menachem Begin, serving a seasonal tasting menu of ten to fifteen courses in two seatings a night.
Piano35 ★ ★ 4.7
Piano35 sits on the 35th floor of Renzo Piano's Intesa Sanpaolo tower in Turin. Marco Sacco's modern Italian and the bioclimatic greenhouse, one star.
Carignano ★ ★ 4.7
Carignano in Turin's Grand Hotel Sitea runs a single tasting from chef Davide Scabin since 2022. Three lengths at 140, 260, 400 euros, one star.
hub.praga ★ ★ 4.7
At hub.praga, in a century-old building east of the Vistula River, chef Witek Iwański offers two tasting menus and often serves the dishes himself.
Bez Gwiazdek ★ 4.7
Chef Robert Trzópek's Bez Gwiazdek serves a tasting menu of six dishes that spotlights a different area of Poland each month, with a vegetarian version.
Le Prieuré ★ ★ 4.7
Le Prieuré holds one Michelin star under chef Christophe Chiavola, serving creative cooking in a former cloister across the Rhône from Avignon.
OrderThe five-course menu, or the Pornic pigeon roasted over embers from the à la carte.
UNI ★ 4.7
Ken Oringer's UNI inside the Eliot Hotel runs a contemporary Japanese izakaya and omakase counter in Boston's Back Bay since 2002, expanded in 2016.
e'cco bistro ★ 4.7
e'cco bistro opened in 1995 and now sits at Haven in Newstead, cooking premium Australian seafood and seasonal produce with wood-fired technique.
The Artist ★ 4.7
The Artist is a modern restaurant at Calea Victoriei 147, opened in 2012 by husband and wife Paul and Mihaela Oppenkamp in an elegant historical villa.
Bludorn ★ 4.7
Bludorn in Houston is Aaron Bludorn's Gulf Coast fine-dining room on Taft Street, opened 2020, with a lobster pot pie that broke nationally and a serious.
OrderLobster pot pie. Whole branzino for two. The duck breast with stone fruit in season.
Mikla ★ ★ 4.7
Mehmet Gürs's rooftop room at the Marmara Pera, holding a Michelin star and a Gault Millau ranking on its New Anatolian Kitchen across a Golden Horn skyline.
Erling Jensen, The Restaurant ★ 4.7
Erling Jensen's eponymous East Memphis fine-dining room runs Danish-trained, French-leaning tasting plates from a Yates Road bungalow. Tasting menu $95.
OrderRack of lamb with the daily seasonal tasting starter.
Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen ★ 4.7
Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman's Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen in East Memphis runs Italian rooted in Southern ingredients from Brookhaven Circle since 2008.
OrderMaw Maw's potato gnocchi with red sugo.
Catherine and Mary's ★ 4.7
Catherine and Mary's is Ticer and Hudman's downtown Memphis room pairing Tuscan and Sicilian grandmother cooking with Southern produce in the Chisca on Main.
OrderWhatever pasta they are rolling that night plus the wood-roasted whole fish.
J Contemporary Japanese Restaurant ★ 4.7
J Contemporary Japanese Restaurant, at Via Agostino Depretis 24, pairs Japanese tradition with modern creativity in an elegant space of 450 square metres.
Royal Sushi & Izakaya (omakase) ★ 4.7
Royal Sushi omakase in Philadelphia is Jesse Ito's eight-seat Queen Village sushi counter behind the front izakaya, on North America's 50 Best 2025.
OrderThe full 18-course omakase; trust the counter on the order, do not request swaps.
Abantal ★ ★ 4.7
Abantal, at Calle Alcalde Jose de la Bandera 7 in Seville, holds a Michelin Star, and chef Julio Fernández Quintero gives Andalucian flavours a modern turn.
OrderOne of the two tasting menus, of nine or twelve courses, both with a wine-pairing option.
Flores Raras (formerly El Poblet) ★★ ★ 4.7
Flores Raras in central Valencia is Quique Dacosta's two-Michelin-star room (formerly El Poblet), now led by chef Carolina Alvarez with a Mediterranean.
Pineapple and Pearls ★★ ★ 4.7
Pineapple and Pearls in Washington DC is Aaron Silverman's Michelin two-star tasting-menu room on Capitol Hill's 8th Street, an all-inclusive ticket covering.
Al Tuguri ★ 4.7
Chef Francesco Pais now leads the kitchen at Al Tuguri in Alghero, running a seasonal tasting menu in three to seven courses, €40 to €75 a head.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu, seven courses at €75 or the shorter three-course run at €40.
Le Pressoir d'Argent Gordon Ramsay ★★ ★ 4.7
Le Pressoir d'Argent in Bordeaux's InterContinental hotel is the two-Michelin-star room where Gordon Ramsay's Bordeaux kitchen presses Breton lobster on one.
Mori ★ ★ 4.7
Mori is Busan's one-Michelin-star kaiseki room in Haeundae, run by Japan-trained chef Kim Wan-gyu and his Japanese wife, with a single seasonal course.
OrderThe single kaiseki course, built around that day's fish from the Busan markets.
Palate ★ ★ 4.7
Palate holds a Michelin star on Busan's Dalmaji Hill, where chef Kim Jae-hoon cooks contemporary French tasting menus with a free-spirited streak.
OrderThe dinner tasting course; lunch runs the same kitchen at a gentler price.
Vern's ★ 4.7
Vern's in Charleston runs a 30-seat tasting-style menu from a Bogard Street storefront since 2022. Led by chef Dano Heinze and Bethany Heinze.
OrderThe chef's choice tasting; a la carte runs handmade pasta and the protein of the day.
Omakase Experience by PrimeFish ★ 4.7
Omakase Experience by PrimeFish in Myers Park is a six-seat counter from Robin Anthony, a 2026 James Beard Best Chef semifinalist, with Toyosu-sourced fish.
OrderThe omakase counter; that is the only menu format.
Wildweed ★ 4.7
Pasta-forward Italian in Over-the-Rhine since 2024, cooking Ohio farm and forest produce, with a chef's counter tasting menu; on the NYT Restaurant List 2025.
Sotto ★ 4.7
Sotto on East 6th Street downtown is David Falk's subterranean Italian fine-dining room in Cincinnati, with hand-rolled pastas and wood-fired meats.
William ★ ★ 4.7
William is the Michelin-starred restaurant at Reid's Palace in Funchal, a blue and white room above the cliff named for hotel founder William Reid.
OrderThe tasting menu, read against the sea view from the cliff terrace.
Il Marin ★ 4.7
Il Marin at Genoa's Porto Antico holds a Michelin star; chef Marco Visciola cooks seafood tasting menus with cappon magro and pesto tortelli.
OrderSpaghetto Martini cocktail e caviale, or the cappon magro, both on the May 2026 menu.
Merastri ★ 4.7
Merastri serves Cretan cuisine in Heraklion since 1998, with olive oil and wine from its own estate and lamb slow-cooked in a wood-fired oven.
OrderTraditional wood-fired lamb (ofto style), which the menu calls its signature dish
Mugen Waikiki ★ 4.7
Mugen Waikiki is the Forbes Five-Star 34-seat fine dining room inside ESPACIO Waikiki, in Honolulu, where chef Colin Sato runs a five-course menu designed.
OrderThe full five-course tasting with wine pairing from the Wine Spectator Best Of collection.
Mayan Cafe ★ 4.7
Chef Bruce Ucan's Mayan Cafe in Louisville cooks Yucatecan plates with Kentucky farm produce in the East Market NuLu room with a year-round outdoor patio bar.
L'Erba del Re ★ ★ 4.7
L'Erba del Re in Modena is Luca Marchini's one Michelin star dining room on Via Castelmaraldo, a nine table restaurant built on historic Emilian recipes.
OrderThe tortellini in capon broth and the Modena style tagliatelle ragu.
Al Gatto Verde ★ ★ 4.7
Al Gatto Verde in Modena is Jessica Rosval's one Michelin star kitchen at Casa Maria Luigia, cooking live fire dishes from the estate's own farm produce.
OrderThe Fassona Piemontese beef and the Smoked Meat Carrello, a tasting of house-smoked meats.
Palodú ★ ★ 4.7
Palodú won a Michelin star in the 2026 guide, where Cris Cánovas and Diego Aguilar cook a market tasting menu four hands in central Málaga, with no head chef.
Locust ★ ★ 4.7
Locust is a Japanese restaurant at 2305 12th Avenue South, serving lunch and dinner from Friday to Sunday from menus that change regularly with the seasons.
Bye Bye Blues ★ 4.7
Bye Bye Blues in Mondello is led by Patrizia Di Benedetto, described on its own site as the first woman chef in Sicily to earn a Michelin star.
Zaranda ★ ★ 4.7
Zaranda is Fernando P. Arellano's Michelin-starred dining room at Hotel Es Princep in Palma, holding one star and a Repsol Sol for its Balearic tasting menus.
OrderThe Balearic tasting menu, built around island produce and Mediterranean fish.
Gēn ★ 4.7
Gēn is chef Johnson Wong's Michelin-listed tasting room in Penang, building menus from Malaysian produce and local fish down to their bones.
Canon ★ 4.7
Canon is chef Brad Cecchi's neighborhood restaurant on 34th Street serving sharable, seasonal cuisine, and in 2025 it earned its 6th Michelin Bib Gourmand.
OrderMichelin's inspectors point to roasted carrots with preserved black bean and smoky duck legs with honey.
Soichi Sushi ★ ★ 4.7
Soichi Sushi in San Diego is the one-Michelin-star University Heights omakase counter under Soichi Kadoya, serving Tokyo-style nigiri with local Pacific fish.
OrderThe full omakase; the local yellowtail and sea urchin courses if they're on the day's count.
Atoma ★ 4.7
Atoma in Seattle is the Wallingford Craftsman-house kitchen named Seattle Met's Restaurant of the Year 2024 and a James Beard New Restaurant semifinalist.
Sushi Kashiba ★ 4.7
Sushi Kashiba in Seattle's Pike Place is Shiro Kashiba's omakase counter: the chef who opened Seattle's first sushi bar in 1970, still running the pass at 86.
La Yeon ★★ ★ 4.7
On the 23rd floor of the Shilla Seoul, La Yeon serves royal-tradition Korean tasting menus against a panorama of the Han River basin, holding two Michelin.
1741 ★ ★ 4.7
1741 sits on the Quai des Bateliers facing the Palais Rohan, a one-Michelin-star room where chef Jeremy Page plates seasonal modern French menus.
Umami ★ ★ 4.7
Umami is a 16-seat, one-Michelin-star room on Rue des Dentelles where chef Rene Fieger cooks market French plates threaded with Asian flavours.
BABA ★ 4.7
BABA in Wrocław took a 2025 Michelin Bib Gourmand and reads more like a chef's table than a bistro: twenty seats, short menu, Beata Śniechowska front.
OrderThe chef's selection of five small plates, often the fifth course of the night.
IGNIV Zurich by Andreas Caminada ★★ ★ 4.7
Andreas Caminada's two-star sharing-format kitchen inside the Marktgasse Hotel beside the Limmat. Daniel Zeindlhofer runs the room; 17 GaultMillau points.
Widder Restaurant ★★ ★ 4.7
Stefan Heilemann's two-star room inside the Widder Hotel: classical French technique meets an Asian travelling notebook. 18 GaultMillau points.
The Jane ★★ ★ 4.7
The Jane in Antwerp moved in October 2025 from its chapel in the Groen Kwartier to a harbour-side address on Limastraat. Located in Eilandje.
OrderThe tasting menu; portions stay small, plating stays graphic, the pacing follows the open kitchen.
Hestia ★ ★ 4.7
Hestia in Austin is Kevin Fink's Michelin-starred live-fire dining room downtown, built around a 20-foot custom hearth and a tasting menu of wood-grilled.
OrderThe whole roasted duck for two and the hearth-cooked vegetable course.
Olamaie ★ ★ 4.7
Olamaie in Austin is Michael Fojtasek's Michelin-starred Southern dining room in a converted house near downtown, with a four-course prix fixe of modern.
OrderThe off-menu buttermilk biscuits with whipped honey butter, asked for at the start of the meal.
Trescha ★ ★ 4.7
15-course counter tasting for 11 guests in a remodelled Villa Crespo casona. Michelin star within a year of opening (2023); Best Young Chef 2024.
Josto ★ 4.7
Josto in Cagliari is Pierluigi Fais's Via Sassari dining room, an open kitchen working bottarga, mullet and Sardinian meat into minimal modern plates.
OrderThe tasting menu, bottarga and mullet included.
Blackitch Artisan Kitchen ★ 4.7
Chef Black's 16-seat Nimman counter builds a fermentation-led tasting menu from foraged and small-farm Thai produce, one of the north's most personal tables.
Baoshuan ★ 4.7
Baoshuan at The Oberoi in Delhi serves a Chinese menu created by London chef Andrew Wong, tracing dishes from Tang temple cooking to Suzhou tea houses.
OrderThe dim sum, then the regional Chinese dishes from the treasure-ships menu.
Harbinger ★ 4.7
The most ambitious vegetable-focused kitchen in Iowa, with a rotating daily menu shaped by what the market brings and Southeast Asian spice work.
Sztuczka ★ 4.7
Sztuczka, at Stara Stocznia 20/9 next to the Museum of the Second World War, was named Opening of the Year 2025 and is in the Michelin Guide 2026.
Heritage Tavern ★ 4.7
Heritage Tavern on East Mifflin, Dan Fox's farm-to-table dining room a block off Capitol Square since 2013, anchors Madison's chef-driven new-American tier.
Racines ★ ★ 4.7
Racines is Virginie Giboire's Michelin-starred room in Rennes, a fish-led tasting-menu restaurant rebuilt in 2020 a few steps off Boulevard de la Liberté.
Ima ★ ★ 4.7
Ima is Julien Lemarié's Michelin-starred Rennes restaurant, holder of a Green Star too, pairing Breton produce with Japanese technique over three menus.
Lemaire ★ 4.7
Lemaire inside the Jefferson Hotel is named for Etienne Lemaire, Thomas Jefferson's maitre d'. Patrick Willis runs the kitchen, the city's grande dame.
HSL ★ 4.7
HSL on East 200 South is chef-owner Briar Handly's downtown Salt Lake City room with wood-fire-driven New American cooking and a strong craft cocktail bar.
OrderWhichever wood-fired vegetable preparation the kitchen leads with plus a shared family-style entree.
Geronimo ★ 4.7
Geronimo's Canyon Road adobe, AAA Four Diamond and Forbes Four Star, has cooked French-Asian-American fusion in the 1756 building since 1991.
Fotografiska Restaurant ★ 4.7
Fotografiska Restaurant atop the photography museum holds a 2026 Michelin Green Star and Bib Gourmand, with the Young Chef Award given to head chef Gerli.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu; the rooftop herb garden and beehives feed the kitchen and the bar.
Vida ★ 4.7
Vida is Thomas Melvin's six-course tasting room on East New York Street in Indianapolis since 2016. The city's most ambitious table-service kitchen.
Cafe Marquesa ★ 4.7
Cafe Marquesa is the Marquesa Hotel's 50-seat dining room in Key West, where chef Travis Lee crisps yellowtail snapper and plates oysters nightly.
OrderCrispy yellowtail snapper with shoestring potatoes
Louie's Backyard ★ 4.7
Louie's Backyard stacks oceanfront decks above the Atlantic at Waddell Avenue in Key West, serving island fare with the Afterdeck bar right on the water.
OrderConch fritters on the Afterdeck, then the daily catch upstairs
Wasabi by Morimoto ★ 4.7
Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto's Mumbai restaurant runs sushi, sashimi, robata and omakase at the Taj. Black cod miso and toro tartare are the menu signatures.
Arbane ★★ ★ 4.7
Arbane is chef Philippe Mille's two-Michelin-star table in an 1874 townhouse on Rue Noël in Reims, cooking Champagne produce over vine shoots.
OrderThe Arbanothèque, seven bites for the seven Champagne grape varieties, opens every long menu.
Le Parc Les Crayères ★★ ★ 4.7
Le Parc Les Crayères is the two-Michelin-star dining room of the Crayères estate in Reims, where chef Christophe Moret cooks beside over 1,000 champagnes.
OrderThe Menu Signature at €270, the top of three set menus that start at €120.
Rincón de Diego ★ ★ 4.7
Rincón de Diego is Diego Campos and his son Rubén's Michelin-starred seafood house by the port in Cambrils, along the coast from Salou, with a modern carta.
OrderThe Mediterranean red lobster rice, which the Michelin inspectors name in their review.
Feast ★ 4.7
Feast on East Speedway in Tucson is chef Doug Levy's seasonal new American room, with rotating tasting menu and a long-standing wine reputation.
Bottega Restaurant ★ 4.7
Bottega Restaurant on Highland Avenue Birmingham is Frank Stitt's 1988 Italian sibling to Highlands, set in a Highland Park mansion with a wood-burning oven.
Colette ★ 4.7
Maxence Rouillon's Colette on Krizna serves head chef Lukáš Zluky's Carte Blanche tasting to 32 seats, scored 94 by Falstaff in the Slovakia 2026 guide.
OrderThe seven-course Carte Blanche; sommelier Antoine "Corto" Guichard pours both classic French and Slovak wines.
Choco ★ ★ 4.7
Choco is Kisko García's Michelin-starred dining room in Córdoba, a thirty-cover kitchen on a residential Poniente street that shuts for all of August.
OrderThe full author menu; the kitchen is built around it.
ReComiendo ★ ★ 4.7
ReComiendo in Córdoba is Periko Ortega's tasting-menu room out in Mirabueno, awarded its first Michelin star at the Málaga gala in November 2025.
OrderThe MeMoria tasting menu at €108, adding the Armonías Memento pairing for the full experience.
Topsoil Restaurant ★ 4.7
Topsoil runs farm-to-table from a Travelers Rest storefront on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. Listed in the Michelin Guide South Carolina selection.
The Anchorage ★ 4.7
The Anchorage runs eclectic small plates from a converted warehouse in the Village of West Greenville. James Beard Best New Restaurant semifinalist in 2018.
Nobel by Chef Shishkov ★ 4.7
Nobel inside Residence City Garden Hotel is Chef Tanyo Shishkov's Plovdiv table. Modern Bulgarian fine dining near Tsar Simeon Garden and the Town Hall.
Salt and Pepper ★ 4.7
Chef Nikolay Boroukov runs one of the few Plovdiv kitchens that takes fine dining seriously. Modern Mediterranean with original menus beyond the classics.
Pavaj ★ 4.7
Raycho Markov runs farm-driven Bulgarian cooking from his father's farm 20 km out; Pavaj is the Kapana flagship for the modern Plovdiv table.
Farm and Table ★ 4.7
Farm and Table serves a seasonal menu in the North Valley at 8917 4th Street NW, Tuesday to Saturday from 5 to 9pm, plus monthly multi course dinners.
Ristorante Lombardo ★ 4.7
Ristorante Lombardo on Hertel Avenue is North Buffalo's Tuscan-influenced anchor, family-owned since 1975 with handmade pastas and a deep wine list.
Twelve ★ 4.7
Twelve at Portland Foreside, opened 2022 by Prentice Hospitality and now led by Chef Hannah Ryder, runs a Maine tasting menu on Thames Street.
SPOT. ★ 4.7
SPOT. in Poznań holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand 2025 in the Wielkopolskie selection, with chef Jakub Hamankiewicz cooking modern Polish on biodynamic.
OrderWhatever the kitchen is doing with seasonal vegetables; the menu leans plant-forward.
Vine Bridge ★ 4.7
Vine Bridge in Śródka, Poznań is one of the country's smallest serious tasting restaurants, with chef Radosław Nejman running a new-Polish-cuisine kitchen.
OrderWhatever the chef plates that day; there is no fixed menu.
Metita ★ 4.7
Metita is Michael Meredith's Pasifika room at The Grand by SkyCity, Federal Street, Auckland. One Cuisine hat; Hotel Restaurant of the Year 2025.
Forest ★ 4.7
Forest is Plabita Florence's vegetarian tasting room at 243 Dominion Road in Mount Eden. Metro Restaurant of the Year 2024; one Cuisine hat.
ELEMI ★ 4.7
ELEMI is the James Beard Award semifinalist restaurant of chef Emiliano Marentes in east El Paso, centred on daily-ground heirloom corn masa and craft.
OrderChef's selection of masa-based dishes with heirloom corn tortillas, or the braised short rib taco
Kakibune Kanawa ★ 4.7
Kakibune Kanawa has farmed its own oysters since 1867 and serves them from a boat moored on the Motoyasu river in central Hiroshima, raw and in courses.
OrderThe kaki-zukushi oyster course, 9,000 yen on the Seto deck
Kenzo Restaurant ★ ★ 4.7
Kenzo has held its Michelin star since 2018 under Chef Kenji Miyaishi. The seasonal kaiseki menu pairs with Japanese sake and Kenzo Estate Napa Cabernet.
OrderThe kaiseki tasting menu with the full sake and wine pairing.
La Toque ★ 4.7
Ken Frank's La Toque held a Michelin star from 2008 to 2021. The five-course California tasting menu evolves weekly with Napa Valley farm deliveries.
OrderThe five-course tasting menu with wine pairing.
Kontrast ★★ ★ 4.7
Kontrast at Vulkan in Oslo is chef Mikael Svensson's two-Michelin-star Nordic room, with a strict producer list of small Norwegian farms and a wood-fire.
Statholdergaarden ★ ★ 4.7
Statholdergaarden in Oslo's Kvadraturen has held its Michelin star since 1998 with chef Bent Stiansen at the pass, under 18th-century stucco ceilings.
FnB ★ 4.7
FnB in Scottsdale is Charleen Badman's vegetable-forward room in Craftsman Court, where the chef won the 2019 James Beard Best Chef Southwest award.
OrderThe braised leeks with mozzarella, mustard and a sunny-side egg, a Food and Wine top-ten dish.
Kai Restaurant ★ 4.7
Kai Restaurant in Galway earned a Michelin Green Star in 2024; Jess Murphy posts a daily-changing menu from the Murphys Moycullen farm each morning.
OrderThe daily fish plate and whatever the farm delivered that morning
Chez Panisse Cafe ★ 4.7
A la carte upstairs at 1517 Shattuck: wood-fired pizza, rotisserie chicken, same farm sourcing. Lunch most days; no month-ahead reservation needed upstairs.
Shanghai Cuisine ★★ ★ 4.6
Shanghai Cuisine at Pacific Century Place holds two Michelin stars for modern Shanghainese cooking, with seasonal Jiangzhe produce, in Sanlitun, Beijing.
OrderOrder the xiao long bao, the qingtuan (mugwort sticky rice dumplings) and the red-braised pork belly.
Francie ★ ★ 4.6
Francie is a one-Michelin-star brasserie in a former bank on Broadway in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, known for handmade pasta and dry-aged crown of duck.
Restaurant Yuu ★ ★ 4.6
Restaurant Yuu is a one-Michelin-star French counter in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where chef Yuu Shimano serves an 18-seat tasting menu for $300.
Marrow in the Market ★ 4.6
Marrow in the Market is a butcher's brasserie at 2442 Riopelle Street in Eastern Market, with a butcher shop, a restaurant and two bars in a 1909 building.
OrderDry-aged steaks or signature sausages from the butcher counter that feeds the kitchen.
Akar ★ ★ 4.6
Akar earned a Michelin star in the 2026 guide for chef Aidan Low's Kuala Lumpur tasting menu, which pairs endemic Malaysian ingredients with Japanese methods.
OrderThe ten-course Mekar tasting menu, built around endemic Malaysian ingredients.
Beta ★ ★ 4.6
Beta holds a Michelin star in Kuala Lumpur for chef Raymond Tham's Tour of Malaysia tasting menu, which moves course by course through the country's regions.
OrderThe Tour of Malaysia tasting menu, showcasing regional specialties course by course.
Goldie ★ 4.6
Michelin Bib Gourmand seafood bistro with a daily-changing menu based entirely on the West Cork day-boat catch. The fin-to-gill approach produces dishes like.
Hayato ★★ ★ 4.6
Hayato at 1320 E 7th St has only one seating per night, where Chef Brandon Hayato Go handles every ingredient with care and explains every course in detail.
Hakkasan ★ ★ 4.6
Hakkasan is a Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant at Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, serving Peking duck and premium dim sum, with a Saturday dim sum lunch.
OrderPeking duck and the Chilean sea bass with honey, the two classics the Michelin Guide names.
Talea by Antonio Guida ★ ★ 4.6
Talea by Antonio Guida is a Michelin-starred Italian restaurant at Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi, serving family-style cucina di famiglia from its chef.
OrderOssobuco and vitello tonnato, plus the truffle bruschetta and spaghetti carbonara the hotel calls signatures.
One by Spork ★ 4.6
One by Spork on Penn Avenue serves a single tasting menu at an 18-seat chef's counter in Pittsburgh. Located in Bloomfield. Led by chef Christian Frangiadis.
OrderThere is one menu: the chef's tasting, with the optional beverage pairing.
Syrco BASÈ ★ 4.6
Syrco BASÈ in Ubud, Bali is chef Syrco Bakker's tasting restaurant built on traceable Indonesian produce, with a botanical cocktail bar and a chef's counter.
Rumari ★ 4.6
Rumari, at the highest point of Raffles Bali in Jimbaran, is where chef Gaetan Biesuz cooks progressive Indonesian food on an 80/20 local sourcing rule.
Trizoni Exclusive ★ 4.6
Chef Asterios Sousouras runs a hook-to-fork seafood table in Ladadika with daily supply from a network of dedicated fishermen. Tasting menu €75-100.
Joya's Cafe ★ 4.6
Joya's Cafe on High Street in Old Worthington is Avishar Barua's Bengali American Columbus room, a 2024 James Beard Best Chef Great Lakes semifinalist.
Reflet d'Obione ★ ★ 4.6
Laurent Cherchi cooks a Michelin-starred low-waste menu at Reflet d'Obione in Montpellier, seasonal plates built on Occitanie producers, starred since 2021.
La Réserve Rimbaud ★ ★ 4.6
La Réserve Rimbaud holds a Michelin star on the banks of the Lez in Montpellier, Charles Fontès plating Occitanie produce on a terrace over the water.
Course ★ 4.6
Course in Scottsdale is chef Cory Oppold's prix-fixe dining room on Shea Boulevard, a 2025 James Beard Best Chef Southwest semifinalist with a cocktail bar.
OrderThe Animal Fries add-on with caviar, creme fraiche and egg yolk, listed at $35 on the fall menu.
Acqua ★ 4.6
Acqua brings Sardinian technique to Kalim Bay above Patong, Phuket, where chef Alessandro Frau cooks pasta, wood-fired pizza and an Italian tasting menu.
Royd ★ 4.6
Royd seats twenty on Dibuk Road in Phuket for chef Suwijak Kunghae's six to eight course tour of southern Thai herbs, seafood and torch ginger.
Casa de Cha da Boa Nova ★★ ★ 4.6
Casa de Chá da Boa Nova is Rui Paula's most ambitious restaurant, built on the rocks at Leça da Palmeira, in a building declared a National Monument.
OrderRed Prawn/Broccoli/Kaffir Lime, "Chanel" Squid or John Dory/Endive, dishes the Michelin guide names.
Dvor ★ 4.6
Dvor is a Mediterranean restaurant on Put Firula in Split, led by chef Vesna Vukman, with a courtyard garden looking over Firule Beach and the Adriatic sea.
Sept ★ ★ 4.6
Sept on Rue Theodore Ozenne in Carmes is chef Guillaume Momboisse's one-Michelin-star urban gastronomy room, opened March 2023 with an open seafood kitchen.
María Dolores ★ 4.6
María Dolores serves chef Edgar Núñez's contemporary Mexican tasting menu in ATELIER Playa Mujeres, beyond Cancún's Hotel Zone, and is in the MICHELIN Guide.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu, which has included a beetroot course and a buñuelo topped with caviar.
Atto di Vito Mollica ★ ★ 4.6
Atto di Vito Mollica is the gourmet restaurant of Palazzo Portinari Salviati, in the Corte degli Imperatori, with vaults frescoed by Alessandro Allori.
Landerik ★ 4.6
Landerik looks for local producers and their stories in Slovenia's countryside, and its tasting menus tell the story of the Slovenian landscape.
Sushiya no Saito ★ 4.6
Ezomae omakase counter since 2000 at the south edge of Susukino. Two course menus, Kiwami and Miyabi, both lean on Hokkaido seafood with light aging.
OrderKiwami evening omakase with the aged tuna progression and uni-on-rice.
NanaSteak ★ 4.6
Matt Kelly's steakhouse at American Tobacco Campus has a tobacco-leaf bar inlay. Prime and dry-aged beef anchor a celebration-restaurant room.
Jamavar ★ 4.6
Jamavar is the candlelit signature restaurant of The Leela Palace Jaipur at Kukas, serving a Rajasthani set menu in a room of mirror work, by reservation.
OrderThe Jodhpuri gatta curry with masala baati, or the dal baati churma.
The Johri ★ 4.6
The Johri is an all-vegetarian restaurant in a 19th-century haveli in Johri Bazaar, Jaipur, pairing fusion plates such as soya keema baati with cocktails.
OrderThe soya keema baati, or the seekh kebab made with peas and edamame.
Dudley's on Short ★ 4.6
Dudley's on Short cooks seasonal contemporary American food on West Short Street, the downtown room Lexington books for anniversaries and Keeneland nights.
Coles 735 Main ★ 4.6
Coles 735 Main serves Cole Arimes' locally sourced New American cooking in a circa-1938 room on East Main, with meats cured in-house for Lexington regulars.
Levitate ★ ★ 4.6
Levitate earned its first Michelin star in the 2025 guide. Christian Chu builds long tasting menus where Nordic technique meets Asian flavour in a Vinohrady.
OrderThe full tasting menu, no a la carte.
Cultivo ★ 4.6
Cultivo runs a seasonal tasting menu in a Barrio de Santiago house in Puebla, a 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand built on zero-waste cooking and local growers.
Pastel ★ 4.6
Pastel sits inside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on Sha'ul HaMelech, where chef Teddy Kagan runs a seasonal kitchen with a terrace over the sculpture garden.
La Mirande ★ 4.6
La Mirande serves one tasting menu from chef Michele Donvito in an 18th-century salon behind the Palais des Papes in Avignon, Michelin Selected in 2026.
OrderThe single set menu, where each stage pairs a main preparation with two supporting ingredients.
Theodore Rex ★ 4.6
Theodore Rex in Houston is Justin Yu's Nance Street bistro, a Michelin-recommended relaxed fine-dining room, a sequel to his closed Oxheart with a tomato.
OrderTomato toast in summer. Whatever is on the blackboard with stone fruit in late summer.
Vetri Cucina ★ 4.6
Vetri Cucina in Philadelphia is Marc Vetri's 1998 Spruce Street Italian townhouse tasting menu, the city's defining hand-cut-pasta fine-dining room.
OrderSpinach gnocchi in brown butter; whole roasted baby goat for the table.
Sobretablas ★ 4.6
Sobretablas, at Calle Colombia 7 in a chalet in the Porvenir district of Seville, serves renewed Andalusian cooking led by Camila Ferraro and her kitchen.
OrderThe tasting menu, which walks through the kitchen's own way of understanding Andalusia.
La Salita ★ ★ 4.6
La Salita on Carrer de Pere III el Gran in Valencia's Russafa is chef Begona Rodrigo's one-Michelin-star room with three Repsol Suns, built around vegetable.
Jont ★★ ★ 4.6
Jont in Washington DC is Ryan Ratino's Michelin two-star tasting-menu counter above 14th Street, a 24-seat sister of Bresca with Japanese technique.
Musciora ★ 4.6
Danilo Delrio's Musciora in Alghero opens for dinner only on weekdays, walking guests through each course of its three Sardinian tasting menus.
OrderThe Vera Esperienza Musciora menu, narrated plate by plate at the table.
L'Observatoire du Gabriel ★★ ★ 4.6
L'Observatoire du Gabriel in Bordeaux's Place de la Bourse is the top-floor two-Michelin-star room above Chateau Angelus's Le Gabriel project.
Sans Cravate ★ ★ 4.6
Sans Cravate at Langestraat 159 in Bruges is a star restaurant where Henk and the team bring familiar dishes in a contemporary way, with a proud wine list.
OrderFamiliar dishes cooked in a contemporary way, with a bottle from the wine list, the restaurant's pride.
Zet'Joe by Geert Van Hecke ★ ★ 4.6
Zet'Joe at Langestraat 11 in Bruges is Geert Van Hecke's restaurant of refined, unique gastronomy, with dishes such as grey shrimp from Zeebrugge.
OrderDishes on the menus include partridge in vine leaf and navarin of brill and king crab.
Fiotto ★ ★ 4.6
Fiotto is a husband-and-wife Italian restaurant with one Michelin star on Dalmaji Hill in Busan, running a pasta-led tasting menu from a tiny kitchen.
OrderThe pasta courses built on vegetables from the owners' own family farm.
Barrington's Restaurant ★ 4.6
Bruce Moffett's Barrington's on Fairview Road has been Charlotte's old-guard New American room since 2000, set inside a small Foxcroft strip-mall storefront.
OrderThe chef's tasting when offered; the wood-fired entrees otherwise.
Origine ★ ★ 4.6
Origine is chef Tomofumi Uchimura's Michelin-starred room on Place Wilson in Dijon, threading Japanese technique through Burgundy produce and river fish.
OrderThe skrei cod in a miso and pain d'epices crust with cauliflower tempura.
CIBO ★ ★ 4.6
CIBO is Angelo Ferrigno's Michelin-starred dining room on Rue Jeannin in Dijon, cooking river fish and produce sourced within a 200km radius.
OrderThe evening seven-course tasting menu built entirely on producers within 200km.
San Giorgio ★ 4.6
San Giorgio in Genoa's Foce district holds a Michelin star and serves contemporary Mediterranean cooking, backed by a prize-winning wine list.
OrderThe crudo di gamberi with chard, green olives and Vermouth sauce, on the October menu.
Parasties ★ 4.6
Parasties cooks over an open wood fire in a listed neoclassical building from 1903 in central Heraklion, with produce from small farms and local producers.
Pulito Osteria ★ 4.6
Pulito Osteria in Belhaven is Jackson's Michelin Recommended Italian, with handmade pasta, wood-fired pizza, and a lively neighbourhood atmosphere.
OrderHouse-made tagliatelle with seasonal ragu, or the wood-fired clams with white wine
Novel ★ 4.6
Ryan Brazeal and Jessica Armstrong's East Crossroads tasting menu in Kansas City pairs chef-driven small plates with Jessica Armstrong's pastry.
Une Table au Sud ★ ★ 4.6
Une Table au Sud in Marseille's 2e holds a Michelin star above the Vieux Port quay, Ludovic Turac at the pass since 2010 with a Provencal-Mediterranean.
OrderThe lunch tasting at €95 for the best value reading of the kitchen.
Blossom ★ ★ 4.6
Blossom is Emi Schobert's one-Michelin-star table in Málaga's old town, folding Peruvian, Mexican and Argentine notes into long Andalusian tasting menus.
Bastion ★ ★ 4.6
Chef Josh Habiger's Bastion has two sides in Wedgewood-Houston: a casual cocktail bar open to the public and a 24-seat restaurant requiring reservations.
OrderThe set multi-course dinner, ever-evolving and determined by the chefs each week from what is available.
MEC Restaurant ★ ★ 4.6
MEC Restaurant at Via Vittorio Emanuele 452 shares a 16th-century palazzo with an exhibition on Steve Jobs; chef Carmelo Trentacosti cooks Sicilian recipes.
Fish Company ★ 4.6
Fish Company is in the old Zimsen building, built in the 19th century, serving gourmet cuisine seasonally influenced with ingredients from land and sea.
Char Steak and Lounge ★ 4.6
Char Steak and Lounge at the Strathallan on East Ave in Rochester holds the 2025 Wine Spectator Award of Excellence, the only such honor in greater Rochester.
OrderThe prime dry-aged steak with a wine pairing from the Spectator-recognized cellar.
Good Luck ★ 4.6
Good Luck on Anderson Ave in Rochester opened 2008 as one of the city's top rooms, writing menus around seasonal availability with a serious cocktail program.
OrderThe seasonal tasting menu or the cocktail pairing with whatever the kitchen is featuring.
Jeune et Jolie ★ ★ 4.6
Jeune et Jolie in Carlsbad is Eric Bost's one-Michelin-star French bistro on State Street since 2018, the nouvelle-French dining room flooded in shades.
OrderThe four-course prix fixe with the wine pairing; the seasonal canele dessert if it's on the menu.
STÓŁ na Szwedzkiej ★ 4.6
Grzegorz Firkowski's STÓŁ na Szwedzkiej in Wrocław is a culinary studio more than a restaurant: no fixed menu, the chef cooks what arrived that morning.
OrderWhatever the chef plates for you. The format only works if you let him drive.
Amano ★ 4.6
Amano is Vincenzo Sorvillo's Cagliari dining room on Via Sonnino, where five or seven plates are chosen off the Gran Carta and served as a tasting menu.
OrderThe seven-plate tasting menu at 100 euro.
Luigi Pomata ★ 4.6
Luigi Pomata cooks Carloforte tuna in Cagliari, three rooms and a port-facing terrace above Viale Regina Margherita, raw fish to open and red tuna to follow.
OrderRed tuna, raw then seared, the house speciality.
Cuisine de Garden ★ 4.6
A New Nordic-inspired garden restaurant in Hang Dong plating theatrical, foraged multi-course menus, one of Chiang Mai's true destination tasting rooms.
Alba ★ 4.6
Jason Simon's East Village flagship was nominated for a James Beard Restaurant Award in 2010 and voted Best Restaurant in Des Moines two consecutive years
Graze ★ 4.6
Graze on Capitol Square, Tory Miller's American gastropub next door to L'Etoile since 2010, sources about 80 percent of its food locally with Capitol views.
The Roosevelt ★ 4.6
Chef Leah Branch is a 2026 James Beard semifinalist for Best Chef Mid-Atlantic at The Roosevelt. Southern cuisine honoring Virginia culinarians.
Pago ★ 4.6
Pago on 900 East, Scott Evans' 45-seat farm-to-table flagship in 9th and 9th since 2009, codified Salt Lake's seasonal local-ingredient tier.
OrderWhatever the kitchen is featuring from local farms plus a glass off the by-the-glass wine program.
Ahime ★ 4.6
Ahimè is a restaurant near the Mercato delle Erbe that changes its menu regularly, does not divide it into courses and keeps vegetables as the main element.
OrderThe home-made bread and the fennel with coconut and green pepper sauce.
Emilia ★ 4.6
Emilia on Market Square, chef Matt Gallaher's Emilia-Romagna-inspired Italian dining room since 2016, runs handmade pasta and hand-pulled mozzarella.
OrderWhichever pasta the kitchen is rolling that night, plus a hand-pulled mozzarella plate to share.
Lilou Brasserie ★ 4.6
Lilou Brasserie on South Gay Street, the Aaron Thompson and Jessica King French brasserie in the old Sapphire space, runs full-day French service.
OrderSteak frites at dinner or a Saturday jazz-brunch plate with the daily happy-hour pour.
Inkiostro ★ ★ 4.6
Inkiostro holds Parma's Michelin star in 2026: Calabrian chef Salvatore Morello threads global technique through food-valley produce on Via San Leonardo.
OrderThe long tasting menu, with a serious cellar in support.
Charro Steak Del Rey ★ 4.6
Charro Steak Del Rey on East Broadway in Tucson is the El Charro family's mesquite-grilled steakhouse, with carne asada and a Sonoran wine list.
Crow's Nest ★ 4.6
Crow's Nest is Anchorage fine dining: 20th floor of Hotel Captain Cook, sommelier-led wine programme and Chef Cameron Richardson driving Alaska seafood.
RARE Italian ★ 4.6
RARE Italian dry-ages its steaks in-house at College and Mountain in Fort Collins, pairing them with handmade pasta and a farm-fed seasonal menu.
Kebapçı Halil Usta ★ 4.6
Kebapçı Halil Usta charges fine-dining money for one thing in Gaziantep, küşleme, and shuts the grill once the day's lamb tenderloin has gone.
OrderKüşleme, ordered by weight rather than by portion.
Langouste ★ ★ 4.6
Marko Deric leads Langouste, Belgrade's first Michelin Star (awarded January 2025), on Kosancicev Venac. Five-course fish, meat or eight-course combination.
Honey Road ★ 4.6
Cara Chigazola Tobin (formerly chef de cuisine at Ana Sortun's Oleana in Cambridge MA) and Allison Gibson have been finalists for multiple James Beard Awards.
Alleia ★ 4.6
Alleia is Chattanooga's candlelit Italian dining room on E. Main Street, where Daniel Lindley's kitchen hand-rolls pasta and fires Neapolitan pizza.
OrderHandmade gnocchi, then the wood-fired duck for two.
+61 ★ 4.6
Cassandra Karinsky and Sebastian de Gzell's +61 in Marrakech's Gueliz blends Sydney technique with Moroccan and Mediterranean produce under chef Andrew Cibej.
Central Provisions ★ 4.6
Central Provisions at the top of Fore Street, opened 2014 by Chris and Paige Gould (Beard nominee), with rotating small plates of crudo and pork belly.
Kibe Mahala ★ 4.6
Kibe Mahala at Vrbanjusa 106 serves Bosnian national dishes, among them spit-roasted lamb, with wines from Bosnia and Herzegovina and views over Sarajevo.
Rice ★ 4.6
Rice is a rice house on the Sierra Cortina estate above Benidorm, in Finestrat, cooking seven rices plus fideuà and rossejat, with grilled red prawns first.
OrderArroz de gamba roja y corvina for two, after a grilled red prawn each.
1700 Steakhouse ★ 4.6
1700 Steakhouse inside Hotel Paso del Norte in downtown El Paso serves prime dry-aged beef under chef Andres Padilla, in the 1912 hotel's restored marble.
OrderPrime dry-aged ribeye with bordelaise sauce
Ambar Restaurante ★ 4.6
Ambar Restaurante in the Plaza Hotel Pioneer Park is El Paso's most ambitious dining room with an open wood-grill kitchen and 1,100-plus agave spirits.
OrderWood-grilled whole fish with heirloom corn tortillas and an agave flight
Quiessence at The Farm ★ 4.6
Quiessence at The Farm at South Mountain is Dustin Christofolo's seasonal tasting room, plating produce picked hours earlier from the on-site garden.
OrderThe weekly tasting menu, built around whatever the garden cut that morning.
Magdalena ★ 4.5
Magdalena inside the Ivy Hotel is chef Scott Bacon's seasonal American bistro, plating a changing canape board and Chesapeake plates in a stone mansion.
OrderWhatever lands on the changing canape board, then a seasonal main.
Cinghiale ★ 4.5
Cinghiale in Harbor East is Tony Foreman and Cindy Wolf's northern Italian enoteca, pairing house-made pasta and magret of duck with a deep Italian list.
OrderA plate of house-made pasta and the magret of duck.
Farmgate Cafe ★ 4.5
Cork's most important lunch counter above the English Market, serving the city's native dishes with produce bought from the stalls below each morning.
Root ★ 4.5
Root cooks vegetable-first small plates from a shipping container at Wapping Wharf, Bristol, and holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand in the 2026 guide.
OrderWhatever the kitchen does with hispi cabbage that week, plus one fish plate.
Cattlemen's Steakhouse ★ 4.5
Cattlemen's Steakhouse in Stockyards City Oklahoma City has served USDA prime beef and cowboy breakfasts to ranchers and visitors since 1910.
Cafe Monarch ★ 4.5
Cafe Monarch in Old Town Scottsdale is a family-owned prix-fixe room with a four-course dinner, an eight-course tasting and a Wine Spectator-honored list.
OrderThe eight-course tasting menu, or the four-course dinner menu; the caviar menu is listed separately.
Hemel en Aarde ★ 4.5
Michelin Guide listed. Five to seven inventive courses inside the former Nox Hotel gentlemen's club, with a natural-wine cellar bar beside the dining room.
Harry's ★ 4.5
Harry's Prime Steakhouse & Raw Bar on Boulevard Kukulcán km 14.2 in Cancún serves USDA Prime, Black Onyx and Kobe cuts beside Nichupté Lagoon.
OrderA Prime steak from the tableside cart, then the Ocean Platter of oysters, shrimp, sashimi and hamachi ceviche.
Sushi Hidetaka ★ 4.5
Chef Hidetaka trained at the Michelin-starred Sushi Zen before opening this eight-seat cypress counter in Susukino. Led by chef Hidetaka Yamada.
OrderAged tuna nigiri progression; the room runs two-week, three-week and five-week-aged cuts.
The Sarvato ★ 4.5
The Sarvato serves a set Rajasthani tasting menu inside the City Palace in Jaipur, for dinner only between September and April, by reservation only.
OrderThe set tasting menu, with the wine pairing (₹3,500 plus taxes) if you want it.
ItalX ★ 4.5
ItalX rolls scratch-made pastas in Lexington's City Center, chef Jonathan Lundy's Italian room with reimagined small plates and a sommelier-built wine list.
Le Papillon ★ 4.5
Le Papillon has anchored San Jose fine dining since 1977 with a Michelin-recognized French tasting menu using organic and sustainable ingredients.
Order3-course or 4-course tasting menu with California and French wine pairings
La Foret ★ 4.5
La Foret is a Michelin-recognized French institution in San Jose's Almaden Valley, serving classic European cuisine in a historic 1840s creekside building.
OrderPoached lobster with French-inspired butter sauce
George Restaurant ★★ ★ 4.5
George Restaurant at Grand Hotel Parker's is the first two Michelin star restaurant of 2026 in Naples, with an enchanting view over the Gulf of Naples.
The Avery Bar and Brasserie ★ 4.5
The Avery Bar and Brasserie is chef Cal Elliott's room, where a James Beard semifinalist builds braised meats and handmade pastas around Idaho seasonality.
Walker's Drive-In ★ 4.5
Walker's Drive-In is Jackson's top upscale restaurant, with 45-day-aged beef, Nantucket scallops, and Southern-accented New American cooking.
Order45-day aged prime filet, or the Redfish Anna with classic accompaniments
The Restaurant at 1900 ★ 4.5
The Restaurant at 1900 in Mission Woods, on the Kansas side of Kansas City, runs a tasting-menu programme inside a renovated 1967 Modernist building.
Sood by Chef Ton ★ 4.5
Sood by Chef Ton brings the Bangkok chef behind Le Du to a 150-year-old Farquhar Street building, Penang's loudest and latest new Thai dining room.
Aposto ★ 4.5
Award-winning restaurateur Tony Lemmo's restaurant occupies a meticulously restored 1880 Victorian mansion with herbs grown in an on-site garden feeding
Brett ★ 4.5
Brett is a Michelin-recommended modern European restaurant at 321 Great Western Road, Glasgow, with an open kitchen and a produce-driven menu.
OrderThe mushroom XO linguine, which the Michelin Guide calls a must.
I Portici ★ ★ 4.5
I Portici is the restaurant of Executive Chef Nicola Annunziata at Via Indipendenza 69, awarded 1 MICHELIN Star in the 2026 MICHELIN Italia Guide.
OrderThe tasting journeys of Chef Nicola Annunziata, dedicated to theatrical works.
Casa Mazzucchelli ★ ★ 4.5
Casa Mazzucchelli, at Via Porrettana 291 in Sasso Marconi, is set in the Bologna hills and joins high-level cooking with pizza, bread and leavened baking.
OrderThe wild boar with red wine babà and sage mayonnaise, and the freshly baked bread.
Al Vedel ★ 4.5
Al Vedel in Colorno near Parma pairs an elegant dining room with the Podere Cadassa cellars, where the family ages its own culatello below the inn.
OrderCulatello di Zibello in three ages, then anolini in brodo.
La Morera de Pablo & Ester ★ 4.5
La Morera de Pablo & Ester is a Michelin Selected room by Plaça de la Pau in Salou, cooking sea-and-mountain plates under a big mulberry on its terrace.
OrderThe mar i muntanya dishes, the kitchen's signature pairing of sea and land on one plate.
South Restaurant and Coffeehouse ★ 4.5
South Restaurant runs Anchorage's strongest modern-American room outside downtown, with seared Alaska scallops, chorizo empanada and craft cocktails listed.
Hot and Hot Fish Club ★ 4.5
Hot and Hot Fish Club at Pepper Place is the Chris Hastings flagship since 1995, with the chef-counter tomato salad that became a Birmingham signature.
The Cache at Ginger and Baker ★ 4.5
The Cache at Ginger and Baker is the steak room in Fort Collins' restored Feed and Grain building on Linden Street, above the pie counter and market.
The Still Whiskey Steaks ★ 4.5
The Still Whiskey Steaks pours over 100 whiskies with elk steak and risotto on North College Avenue in Fort Collins, log-cabin room, flannel-clad staff.
Mutfak Sanatları Merkezi ★ 4.5
Mutfak Sanatları Merkezi is the Gaziantep municipality's culinary centre, cooking a weekly set menu from geographical-indication regional produce.
OrderThe set menu, which changes with what the region is harvesting.
3 Pavāru Restorāns ★ 4.5
3 Pavāru Restorāns sits inside the 18th-century Jacob's Barracks on Torņa in Old Town, listed in the Michelin Selected guide for 2026 with a tight modern.
OrderThe six-course set menu, the kitchen's primary format and best value entry.
The Artichoke Cafe ★ 4.5
The Artichoke Cafe at 424 Central Ave SE serves New American cuisine with locally grown produce, seasonally changing dishes, handmade pasta and fresh seafood.
Iva New Balkan Cuisine ★ 4.5
Chef-owner Vanja Puskar opened Iva in March 2019 on Svetog Save in Vracar. The 2026 Michelin Bib Gourmand for refined Balkan cooking, fair prices.
Marble + Rye ★ 4.5
Marble + Rye on Genesee Street downtown is the Mike Dimmer and Christian Willmott cocktail-and-dining room with a dry-aged burger and small plates.
Frankie's ★ 4.5
Jordan Ware (formerly Hen of the Wood) opened Frankie's in April 2024 in the former Penny Cluse Cafe; named to Eater's Best New Restaurants the same year.
Hueso ★ 4.5
Hueso in Guadalajara is Alfonso Cadena's bone-walled installation on Efrain Gonzalez Luna, a Colonia Americana tasting-menu room and a Mexico-Guide listed.
Le Tobsil ★ 4.5
Le Tobsil in Marrakech's R'mila medina runs the canonical Moroccan tasting: 11 to 13 salads, pigeon pastilla, lamb tagine, in a candle-lit Gnaoua-music riad.
Modra Kuchnia ★ 4.5
Modra Kuchnia in Jeżyce, Poznań is a small basement room on Mickiewicza, run by Szymon (kitchen) and Dorota (front), with a tight modern Polish menu.
OrderRoast duck with the modra kapusta that gives the room its name.
Mala Kuhinja ★ 4.5
Mala Kuhinja, serving Fusion cooking, is at Tina Ujevica 13, 71000 Sarajevo.
Inato Bistrô ★ 4.5
Michelin Bib Gourmand 2025. Chefs Miguel Rodrigues and Tiago Costa present a menu as acts I to VII, blending Portuguese classicism with modern invention.
Seventh & Dolores Steakhouse ★ 4.5
Seventh & Dolores Steakhouse brings a modern American steakhouse to its namesake Carmel corner, one of the village's few kitchens open until 22:00.
OrderA dry-aged cut from the board, split between two people.
Yakiniku Furusato Danbara Honten ★ 4.5
Yakiniku Furusato in Hiroshima buys whole Sakakiyama carcasses and grills the results in Danbara, a butcher's grill rather than a chain yakiniku.
OrderThe chef's four-cut lean selection of Sakakiyama beef
Carabao ★ 4.5
Napa's first Filipino fine-dining from French Laundry-trained Jade Cunningham. The 12-course menu updates Philippine classics with Napa Valley produce.
OrderFull tasting menu, Tuesday through Saturday dinner only.
Ox + Anchor ★ 4.5
Ox + Anchor is the modern steakhouse inside Hotel San Luis Obispo, plating dry-aged beef and coastal seafood five nights a week beside the Palm Theatre.
OrderA dry-aged cut with a bottle of Edna Valley Pinot Noir.
BERD'S Arome Locale ★ 4.5
BERD'S Arome Locale in Chișinău is the fine-dining room at Moldova's first design hotel on Cantemir, working Moldovan produce in a refined modern idiom.
OrderThe Moldovan tasting menu with the BERD'S Castel Mimi wine pairing.
Chandler's Prime Steaks and Fine Seafood ★ 4.4
Chandler's at Hotel 43 is the Treasure Valley's only Forbes Recommended restaurant, pairing prime steaks and jet-fresh seafood with live jazz nightly.
Etra ★ 4.4
Etra sits inside Palazzo Doria De Fornari on Piazza De Ferrari in Genoa, a dinner-only art gallery restaurant whose two tasting menus follow the exhibitions.
OrderOne of the two tasting menus, which change with the exhibition on the walls.
Mr. Dominic's at the Lake ★ 4.4
Mr. Dominic's at the Lake on Lake Ave serves Chicken French and Italian-American fine dining with patio views of Lake Ontario. Named Best Chicken French 2025.
OrderThe Chicken French, the dish Rochester's Italian-American restaurants made famous, executed at its most refined here.
Le Grand Lanna ★ 4.4
The showcase Lanna restaurant of the Dhara Dhevi resort, a teak nobleman's house serving refined northern Thai dishes amid antique carvings and gardens.
Simon and Seafort's ★ 4.4
Simon and Seafort's runs the Cook Inlet view downtown since 1978 with USDA prime steak, fresh Alaska halibut, weekend brunch, private rooms and a sustained.
Copernicus ★ 4.4
Copernicus inside Hotel Copernicus on Kraków's Kanonicza is the most decorous fine-dining room in the Old Town: gothic vaulted ceiling, Polish-French tasting.
Szara Gęś ★ 4.4
Szara Gęś on Kraków's Rynek Główny runs a Polish carte in the Cloth Hall-facing dining room. The kitchen leans on Polish poultry and game; seasonal goose.
Tappo Italian ★ 4.4
Tappo Italian on Ellicott Street downtown is the Pegula family's Italian-American room, with handmade pastas, veal saltimbocca and an urban dining floor.
Magno Brasserie ★ 4.4
Magno Brasserie in Guadalajara is the French brasserie on Jose Guadalupe Zuno under chef Paul Bentley, a Colonia Americana wood-oven room for porchetta.
FarmBar ★ 4.4
Chef Lisa Becklund's James Beard semifinalist kitchen sources entirely from Oklahoma farms and ranches, rotating a short menu of elevated seasonal plates.
D-Vora ★ 4.4
D-Vora serves creative Mediterranean plates with Nikkei touches on the RH Canfali hotel's sea-view terrace in Benidorm's old town, with tasting menus.
OrderArroz a la llanda with monkfish, squid and red prawns, after a bay-fish tiradito.
Palatial Vigna ★ 4.4
The wine-bar counter inside Palatial with paired small plates from the same Michelin-starred kitchen. Easier to book than the main restaurant.
Sensui ★ 4.4
Sensui is the Hilton Hiroshima's Japanese floor, splitting kaiseki, teppanyaki and sushi across three counters, with private tatami rooms behind them.
OrderThe seasonal kaiseki course with a Hiroshima sake flight
Iyasare ★ 4.4
Michelin Guide. Japanese technique with California ingredients: sashimi, wagyu tartare and seasonal small plates. Calm Fourth Street dining room. Lunch daily.
The Lark ★ 4.4
Most ambitious room in the Funk Zone. Seasonal sharing menu across farm, ocean, and ranch. Women-owned, Michelin Guide listed, in the fish market building.
Salcioara ★ 4.4
Salcioara in Chișinău is the higher-end Moldovan traditional room on Strada Pușkin, working village recipes with organic produce in a folk-decor room.
OrderSlow-roasted lamb with mămăligă, brânză and a Fetească Neagră pour.
Navíos ★ 4.3
Navíos sits on a dock over Nichupté Lagoon at Boulevard Kukulcán km 19.5 in Cancún and cooks Mexican fusion seafood, from ceviche to catch of the day.
OrderChile xcatic stuffed with fish ceviche over passion-fruit sauce, then the tuna tartare.
Ristorante Rinuccini ★ 4.3
Ristorante Rinuccini has anchored The Parade since 1989, the Cavaliere family importing Italian ingredients and building a cellar of over 12,000 bottles.
OrderHomemade pasta with seasonal sauce; the wine cellar holds over 12,000 bottles from Italian vineyards.
Juniper ★ 4.3
Seasonal New American tasting plates in a sleek downtown room, with hyper-local Oklahoma farm sourcing and a carefully curated natural-leaning wine list.
Boston Title and Abstract ★ 4.3
Tulsa's underground speakeasy-style restaurant hidden behind an unmarked alley door on Boston Avenue, serving contemporary European plates in a moody.
Casa Toni ★ 4.3
Casa Toni has cooked fish and shellfish in Benidorm since 1992, from bay red prawns and almadraba salazones to arroz del senyoret and fideuà for two or more.
OrderBay red prawns from the plancha, then arroz del senyoret for the table.
Alex Madonna's Gold Rush Steak House ★ 4.3
Alex Madonna's Gold Rush Steak House barbecues steaks over an oak pit inside the pink-on-pink Madonna Inn, San Luis Obispo's 1958 roadside fantasia.
OrderAn oak-pit steak, then a slice of pink champagne cake from the bakery case.
Granada Bistro ★ 4.2
Granada Bistro serves French and Mediterranean farm cooking off the 1922 Granada Hotel lobby, the most handsome dining room in downtown San Luis Obispo.
OrderSeasonal farm plates with a glass from the short, sharp wine list.
Bouchon Santa Barbara ★ 4.2
Wine Country cuisine and Channel seafood downtown since 1998. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence since 2002. Garden patio under string lights, 50 seats.
Olio e Limone Ristorante ★ 4.1
Italian fine dining since 1999 under chef Alberto Morello, with a Sicilian-influenced menu. Over 230-label wine cellar, Wine Spectator Award since 2002.
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How fine dining works
How to read Michelin stars
One star: a very good restaurant in its category, worth stopping for. Two stars: excellent cooking, worth a detour. Three stars: exceptional cooking, worth a special journey. A Bib Gourmand (not a star, separate award) marks restaurants offering good food at moderate prices - generally under 40 dollars for a 3-course meal. The Michelin Green Star (since 2020) marks sustainability leaders. New stars are announced annually in regional ceremonies (Paris in March, New York in October, Tokyo in November). Stars can be removed without explanation, so verify the current count via the restaurant's own site before traveling.
How to book a Michelin tasting menu
Three-star and famous-chef two-star tables book 30 to 120 days ahead. Some (Sukiyabashi Jiro in Tokyo, Sublimotion in Ibiza, El Bulli in its day) operated wait lists measured in months. Most modern fine-dining restaurants now book through OpenTable, Resy, Tock (which specializes in pre-paid tasting menus), or the restaurant's own reservation system. When the system opens the next 90 days at midnight local time, top tables fill in minutes. Cancellations within 48-72 hours typically forfeit a per-person deposit (50-300 dollars is common). Dietary restrictions must be flagged at booking - kitchens build the menu around the guest. Show up on time; the menu paces the table.
What to expect at the table
An amuse bouche on arrival. Bread service partway through (the bread program at top restaurants is now an event in itself). A pacing of small to large to small again as the courses move toward the sweet end. Wine pairings are 8 to 14 pours on the standard flight, with a non-alcoholic flight available at most places now. Bills land at $200 to $1500 per person depending on city and tier. The service ratio is one server per 2-4 guests at the higher end. Dress codes vary by city: jacket required at the old-guard European 3-stars; smart casual everywhere else.
Fine-dining destinations worth the trip
Tokyo holds more Michelin stars than any other city (over 200), followed by Paris, Kyoto, Osaka, and New York. For tasting-menu travelers: Copenhagen (Noma 3-star, plus the entire post-Noma alumni circuit), Lima (Central, Maido, Kjolle, the modern Peruvian trio), Mexico City (Pujol, Quintonil, Sud 777), Bangkok (Gaggan Anand, Sorn, R-Haan), Singapore (Odette, Les Amis, Burnt Ends), and San Sebastian (Arzak, Akelarre, Mugaritz - the highest concentration of Michelin stars per capita in the world). For value-vs-tier: the Tokyo lunch sittings at 1-star and 2-star restaurants run 30-50 percent of the dinner price; Hong Kong has a similar lunch-as-tasting-menu economy.
Frequently asked: fine dining
What's the difference between fine dining and a tasting menu?
Fine dining is the category - chef-led, multi-course, advance-booked, kitchen-pacing-the-meal. A tasting menu is the standard FORMAT fine-dining kitchens serve: 8 to 18 small courses designed as one composed meal. Most modern fine-dining kitchens offer only tasting menus; older European 3-stars still hold a la carte alongside.
How far ahead should I book a 3-star Michelin restaurant?
30-120 days. Tokyo's most famous 3-star tables can require 6 months (or a hotel concierge with relationships). Paris and New York 3-stars typically open 60-90 days. The reservation system opens the same time of day every day, just rolling forward one day at a time.
Are Michelin stars the only ranking that matters?
No. The World's 50 Best Restaurants list, Asia's 50 Best, Latin America's 50 Best, and national press critics (Pete Wells at the NYT, Bloomberg's restaurant reviews, Gault et Millau) all matter to different audiences. For travelers: cross-reference at least two sources. Michelin is the most globally recognizable; 50 Best is closer to what fellow chefs vote for.
What does a fine-dining meal cost?
$200-$400 per person for one-star tasting menus in most cities. $400-$800 at two-star. $800-$1500 at three-star (the higher end is Tokyo and Paris). Wine pairings add 50-100 percent. Lunch sittings at lunch-serving fine-dining restaurants run 30-50 percent of dinner.
Can I get fine dining as a vegetarian?
Yes - almost every modern fine-dining kitchen now offers a parallel vegetarian or vegan tasting menu, often as deep as the meat program. Flag the dietary restriction when booking, not on arrival. Restaurants like Eleven Madison Park (NYC) have gone fully plant-based. Tokyo and Kyoto have a Buddhist tradition (shojin ryori) that predates the modern vegan movement.
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