The World's Top 100 Restaurants
Updated May 17, 2026
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Rank 1. Addison
William Bradley's refined California cooking at Addison balances playful invention with technical precision, as seen in sesame rice crowned with caviar or chicken liver churros that feel both whimsical and elegant. Each course—from oysters with pickled strawberry to caviar-studded chawanmushi—demonstrates a kitchen in command of flavor, texture, and the pleasure of surprise.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 2. The Inn at Little Washington
Patrick O'Connell's restaurant in rural Virginia feels preserved in amber—a maximalist dining room where roaming bread carts and theatrical presentations evoke a vanished era of formality. The menu moves between garden vegetables and refinements like tomato-cured hamachi and lobster mousse, each plate announcing itself with quiet confidence.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 3. Blue by Eric Ripert
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · Caribbean's Best Fine Dining Hotel Restaurant
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Rank 3. White Barn Inn Restaurant
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 3. La Mer
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 3. COAST
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- James Beard Awards
- 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · William Rietzel
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Rank 3. Smyth
The open kitchen at this chic West Loop tasting room showcases Shields and Urie-Shields' boundary-pushing approach to seasonal produce, some grown on-site. A kelp tart with pea butter and trout roe, or foie gras doughnuts with crab, exemplify their restless creativity.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #4 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 3. The Restaurant at Justin
Chef Rachel Haggstrom works the orchard and gardens surrounding this winery restaurant to compose a single tasting menu of exacting restraint. Snapper arrives shingled with potato, duck glistens with its own reduction—each plate argues that the best ingredient is the one grown a few steps away.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 3. Aubergine
In a historic hotel on Carmel's main drag, Justin Cogley orchestrates a tasting menu that marries classical discipline with contemporary flair—think cabbage tacos layered with caviar and braised treviso, or dry-aged beef brushed with wagyu XO. The dining room hums with understated refinement, and the wine list rewards close attention. It's cooking that feels rooted in place yet stubbornly its own.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 10. Restaurant Guy Savoy
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Wine Enthusiast
- The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
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Rank 10. Providence
Michael Cimarusti's tasting menu at Providence draws from pristine wild-caught seafood and classical technique, each course arriving with the fastidiousness of a jeweler arranging stones. A soft-poached egg trembling with uni, a lobster mousse tartare set in crab beurre blanc—the meal never falters in its commitment to clarity and restraint.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- 50 Best
- 2025 · Michael Cimarusti · Chefs' Choice Award
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Rank 10. Asador Etxebarri
In the Basque hills, a chef tends his grill with the precision of a surgeon and the patience of a monk. Everything—fish, meat, vegetables—passes over wood and embers, emerging with a dark crust and an interior of pure smoke and salt. The wine list reflects the sommelier's restless curiosity about what pairs with fire.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · The World’s Best Sommelier Award 2025 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants · Mohamed Benabdallah
- 2025 · #2 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 10. María Dolores By Edgar Núñez
A hotel dining room where live music drifts across the balcony and servers move with practiced grace. Chef Edgar Núñez's contemporary Mexican menu ranges from tempura shrimp tacos to mole coloradito with quail—regional dishes rendered refined without losing their nerve. The cooking respects Mexico's culinary geography while advancing it.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · Latin America's Best Restaurant
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Rank 10. Joel Robuchon Restaurant
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Wine Enthusiast
- The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
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Rank 10. Restaurant POTONG
A chef working in the old mercantile quarters of Bangkok draws on Thai and Chinese traditions to create food that feels both rooted and restlessly inventive—dishes that arrive as small revelations, each one a small argument about what this cuisine can become.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · The World’s Best Female Chef 2025 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants · Pichaya 'Pam' Soontornyanakij
- 2025 · #13 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 2026 · #25 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 10. Aurelia at Castle Hill
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Wine Enthusiast
- 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 10. WING
From the 29th floor of a Central office tower, WING presents Chinese fine dining untethered from tradition—dishes that interrogate the form while maintaining its rigor, paired with service of near-ceremonial precision. The kitchen works without constraints, each plate a small argument about what Chinese cooking can become.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · Gin Mare Art of Hospitality Award 2025 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 2025 · #11 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 2026 · #2 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 18. Ever
On a hushed corner of Fulton Market, Curtis Duffy orchestrates an austere dining room where every element—light, spacing, plating—answers to a larger vision. The food arrives as disciplined architecture: technically assured, visually composed, each plate a study in structure and restraint.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Fine Dining Experience
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Rank 18. Restaurante Ha'
Tucked within Hotel Xcaret, this restaurant applies French technique to Mexican ingredients with uncommon confidence, as in a mushroom beignet crowned with cauliflower crisps in truffle-mint cream. Gaytán's tasting menu pivots on bold combinations—seared beef with potato mille-feuille and house-cured ikura among them—that announce a kitchen with genuine identity.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 18. Don Alfonso 1890
Forty stories above Toronto, floor-to-ceiling windows frame the city and waterfront while Davide Ciavattella's eight-course tasting menu commands the view. Wild-rose tagliatelle with eel gelato sits alongside seared duck and porchetta with honey glaze—a vision that layers Amalfi Coast tradition with local precision. This is a room built for occasions that demand a certain formality.
- 50 Top Italy
- 2025 · #10 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Fine Dining Experience
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Rank 18. Cocina de Autor Los Cabos
The terrace at this oceanfront dining room in the Grand Velas hotel overlooks a koi pond, a serene perch for watching the Baja coast while the kitchen pursues ambitious flavor work: bluefin tuna with uni and ginger, spiny lobster under basil. The tasting menus are global in reach and unafraid of risk, which means the cooking lands brilliantly more often than not.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 18. Toqué!
Normand Laprise's three-decade commitment to seasonal Quebec ingredients and French technique yields playful, colorful dishes—fluke crudo with fir-tree mousse, whelks reimagined—that feel entirely of place. The glass-walled wine cellar, stocked with seven hundred selections, frames a dining room where a seven-course tasting menu unfolds with the generosity and precision of a chef still discovering what his region can give.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- 50 Best
- 2025 · Normand Laprise · Icon Award
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Rank 18. Emeril's
A dining room with plush banquettes and an open kitchen invites you into contemporary Creole cooking that honors decades of tradition while charting new ground. BBQ shrimp tarts and deep-flavored gumbo arrive alongside golden cornbread and French butter—dishes that feel both familiar and startlingly alive. This is cooking suffused with personality and refinement, delivered by a service team that moves through the room with genuine warmth.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- Esquire
- 2025 · Rising Star of the Year · E.J. Lagasse
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Rank 24. Fiola
Stone walls and retro glamour frame Fiola's elegant dining room, where servers guide you through a menu that marries Roman tradition with Venetian flavors and playful modern invention. Duck-filled pasta squares arrive in their own jus; lamb plays against red pepper gel and eggplant caponata. Regional Italian cooking here feels both grounded and restless.
- 50 Top Italy
- 2025 · #6 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 24. Botanist
Within the Fairmont Pacific Rim's elegant staircase sits a dining room where local sourcing meets boundary-testing technique: hand-cut tagliatelle with wild mushrooms, lamb with Sicilian pistachios and chipotle, the kitchen's confident language. The adjacent bar conducts its own experiments—a Raincouver topped with edible cloud, a Marine Martini built from kombu and sea asparagus—where nature becomes the organizing principle.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2026 · 2 Pins
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Spirited Awards
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Canada
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Rank 24. Olivella
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 24. Le Cirque
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- The Las Vegas Review Journal
- The Hall of Fame
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Rank 24. Topper's
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 24. Xal (la Casa De La Playa)
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 24. Salt
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 24. The Ocean Room
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 24. DaNico
A historic bank vaults into fine dining: dark walls, linen, plush seats, and irreverent art strike an unlikely balance between formality and playfulness. Chef Daniele Corona's Italian cooking—anchored by Ontario produce and refined with almost kaiseki precision—reveals itself in details like spaghettoni boiled in mushroom extract and crab finished tableside with Sicilian olive oil.
- 50 Top Italy
- 2025 · #3 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 24. Twenty-Eight Atlantic
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 24. Herons
Set within a luxury hotel on wooded grounds, Herons harnesses produce from its own farm for Chef Steven Devereaux Greene's carefully composed plates that carry echoes of the Lowcountry—shrimp and grits among them. The wine program, developed with partner vineyards, deserves its own attention, and desserts like blackberry panna cotta arrive with the same precision as the savory courses.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Southeast · Steven Devereaux Greene
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Rank 24. minibar by José Andrés
A single door opens onto José Andrés's culinary laboratory, where guests perch at a curved counter to watch small plates arrive as puzzles—chicharron masquerading as something else, cauliflower studded with caviar. Whimsy and surprise drive each course toward a finale of fried ice cream donuts, the kind of playful confidence that makes dinner feel like collaborative theater.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- Washingtonian
- 2025 · #44 · 100 Very Best Restaurants
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Rank 24. Odette
Inside the National Gallery, a chef trained in French kitchens composes dishes of disciplined elegance—roasted fish with precise seasoning, vegetables cut and cooked to speak for themselves. The room itself is spare and attentive, letting the food hold the conversation. This is fine dining stripped of ceremony, arrived at through years of craft.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #25 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 2026 · Asia's Best Sommelier Award 2026, sponsored by VIK · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants · Lesley Liu
- 2026 · #19 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 24. The Dining Room at Victoria & Albert’s
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Time Out
- The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 24. Pujol
Enrique Olvera's dining room thrums with the energy of a place that has earned its renown: sharp-suited servers navigate a contemporary space filled with diners drawn by seasonal tasting menus that bind tradition and invention—scallop ceviche with egg salad, grilled Baja rockfish with butternut squash and sherry foam—before culminating in mole madre, a dish that reads as a statement on Mexican culinary heritage.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #60 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 24. Jean-Georges Philadelphia
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Philadelphia Magazine
- 2024 · Meyer Lemon Gelée · Most Memorable Bites
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Rank 40. Gramercy Tavern
A mahogany-lined institution where the bar seats are fought over at lunch and the dining room glows at night. The seasonal American cooking—pappardelle, impeccable proteins—speaks plainly but with confidence, matched to wood-paneled surroundings and service that knows when to hover and when to recede. A place equally at home with a first date or a closed business deal.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 40. Celele
In the walled quarter of Cartagena, Celele channels the Caribbean through a prism of Colombian soil and tradition. The kitchen works with native ingredients and the producers behind them, composing dishes that feel both rooted and inventive. It's cooking that honors place without nostalgia, built on genuine respect for what grows and who tends it.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · Sustainable Restaurant Award 2025 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 2025 · #48 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 40. Le Chique
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- MexBest
- 2024 · Fine Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- 2023 · Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 40. True Laurel
A narrow bar on Alabama Street where the bartender treats each drink as a small architectural problem: how to build something balanced and bright from what the Bay Area's farms are currently offering. The cocktails arrive spare and considered, built around produce that changes with the season rather than the spec sheet. A place that takes seriously the idea that a drink is a dish.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2 Pins
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #64 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 2026 · #14 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 40. Mírate
An open-air bar in Los Feliz where Mexican spirits and modern cocktail technique meet without pretension. Mírate stocks agave producers most places ignore and builds drinks with precision—think clarified lime, layered textures, precise dilution. The crowd is neighborhood-rooted, the mood convivial, the whole enterprise pleasingly uninterested in hype.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2 Pins
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #93 · World's 50 Best Bars
- VinePair
- 2023 · Food & Beverage Program of the Year · The Next Wave Awards
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Rank 40. Sinatra
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Italian Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 40. Acquerello
Suzette Gresham's A-frame dining room has sheltered ambitious Italian cooking since 1989, where handmade pastas and pristine seafood arrive with equal finesse and daring. The mignardises cart alone—stacked with housemade chocolates and caramels—suggests a kitchen that understands generosity as a form of rigor.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Italian Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 40. Caruso’s
Chef Massimo Falsini orchestrates a seafood-forward, Italian-inflected prix-fixe from within the Rosewood Miramar Beach, where leather booths face the Pacific and the kitchen mines Santa Barbara's waters and its own garden for uni, abalone, and spot prawns. The ramp sauce pools beneath pasta; the strawberry dessert arrives as a study in restraint and ripeness—the setting is secondary to what reaches your plate.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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Rank 40. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
In Miami's Design District, L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon assembles its signature counter kitchen beneath rosewood and leather, where a bread basket arrives before seared scallops in cilantro broth give way to lamb in eggplant cups. The execution is precise, the plating theatrical, and the final chocolate sensation justifies the pilgrimage.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best French Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 40. Wing Lei
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Condé Nast Traveler
- The 25 Best Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 40. 1919 Restaurant
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · Caribbean's Best Landmark Restaurant
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Rank 40. Lilac
In a corner of the Tampa EDITION, John Fraser's Lilac commands its own sleek space, where an open kitchen clad in emerald tile looks onto a compact dining room. The contemporary prix-fixe menu draws from Mediterranean sources—French onion bread, grilled octopus with pork belly and succotash, baba au rhum—built on a plant-forward foundation that feels more disciplined than restrictive.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 40. Pearl Morissette
On the top floor of a Scandinavian-inflected barn surrounded by its own vineyards and gardens, Daniel Hadida and Eric Robertson compose tasting menus that marry classical technique with modern European sensibility, drawing on ingredients foraged and grown steps away. Guinea hen with wild chanterelles, line-caught halibut with lemon thyme—each plate reflects a kitchen that has learned to think like the land it inhabits.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #3 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best
- 2026 · #1 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 40. Jewel of the South
A hushed shrine to the craft cocktail, where the bartenders move with the precision of surgeons and each drink arrives as a small act of restraint. The balance of spirit, citrus, and bitters feels studied but never showy—a place that helped shape what serious drinking looks like in North America.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #44 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 2026 · Roku Industry Icon Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars · Chris Hannah
- 2026 · #6 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 40. Enigma
A former El Bulli chef orchestrates an evening of theatrical excess in a darkened Barcelona room, where dishes emerge as puzzles and provocations—edible installations designed to unsettle and delight. The cooking reshapes familiar ingredients into unfamiliar forms; technique dissolves the boundary between food and spectacle. It is less a meal than a manifesto.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · Estrella Damm Chefs’ Choice Award 2025 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants · Albert Adrià
- 2025 · #34 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 40. Le Du
A narrow Bangkok dining room where the chef works with Thai ingredients across the seasons, building dishes of restraint and clarity rather than the expected brightness. Preparations turn on precision—delicate cooking, judicious seasoning—and a willingness to let vegetables and aromatics speak without competing for attention. The approach feels less like reinvention than careful listening.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #30 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 2026 · Inedit Damm Chefs’ Choice Award 2026 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants · Thitid 'Ton' Tassanakajohn
- 2026 · #36 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 56. Cress on Oak Creek - L'Auberge de Sedona
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 56. Osteria Giulia
Candlelight softens cream walls and blond oak at Chef Rob Rossi's assured dining room, where a poised staff moves with quiet confidence. The menu pivots on Liguria's seafood traditions—vitello tonnato arrives ethereal, snow crab tagliolini gleams with bottarga—while a deep Italian wine list and exceptional cocktails complete an experience of real refinement and warmth.
- 50 Top Italy
- 2025 · #50 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Italian Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 56. The Grill Room
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 56. Frasca Food and Wine
Downtown Boulder's sleek dining room channels the Alpine reaches of northeastern Italy, where Friuli's distinctive seafood and pasta traditions meet sourced Colorado ingredients. The cjalson—spinach pasta pockets with pea and potato—exemplifies the restaurant's clean, purposeful approach to a region most Italian fine dining overlooks.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2025 · Winner · Outstanding Restaurant
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 56. Rare Steakhouse
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 56. Café Boulud
A corner room on the Upper East Side with Art Deco polish hosts classical French cooking refined through seasonal technique and global inflection. Black sea bass wrapped in potato, vegetables in delicate balance, a tarte Tatin that knows its purpose—Paumier's kitchen executes the fundamentals with quiet confidence.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- Forbes Travel Guide
- Recommended
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Rank 56. The Steakhouse at Agua Caliente Casino
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 56. Masque
In a converted mill space, Masque reinterprets Indian classics through an uncompromising modern lens, each plate a small argument with tradition. The kitchen's restless inventiveness and the staff's attentiveness suggest a place that takes its own ambitions seriously.
- 50 Best
- 2026 · Art of Hospitality Award 2026 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- 2025 · #68 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 2026 · #15 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 56. The Belvedere
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 56. The Mansion Restaurant
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 56. The Chairman
The Chairman occupies a perch above Wellington Street where Cantonese tradition meets a willingness to question it. The kitchen treats its classical foundations—the stocks, the knife work, the respect for ingredient—as a starting point rather than a constraint, producing dishes that feel both rooted and restless. What emerges is cooking that honors the past while refusing to be imprisoned by it.
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Rank 56. Sepia
A former print shop on Jefferson Street holds a dining room where exposed brick and floor-to-ceiling wine racks frame Chef Andrew Zimmerman's restless intelligence. His brioche with black truffle and leek velouté, his sablefish with barbecue spice and smoked apple, suggest a cook equally at home in Southeast Asia, Korea, and the American South.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Hospitality
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Rank 56. Atlantis Steakhouse
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 56. Harrimans Virginia Piedmont Grill
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Northern Virgina Magazine
- 2025 · The 50 Best Restaurants in Northern Virginia
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Rank 56. Cocina de Autor
Chef Nahúm Velasco's tasting menu unfolds within the hushed luxury of Grand Velas, each course a studied collision of textures and flavor: spider crab with jackfruit, smoked bacon against raw tuna, Jerusalem artichoke foam threaded with huitlacoche. The ocean view is incidental to the real spectacle—a restless intelligence at work in the kitchen, turning out dishes that surprise without performing.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- MB100
- 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
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Rank 56. Via Carota
A narrow room of whitewashed brick and farm tables fills nightly with diners seeking the comfort of Italian cooking executed with genuine care. Deep-fried olives stuffed with sausage and a risotto cacio e pepe heavy with pecorino establish the tone—indulgent, straightforward, and entirely without pretense. Via Carota traffics in the pleasure of repetition, the kind of place where knowing what to order makes the meal better.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #18 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards
- 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 56. STARS
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 56. Geronimo
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 56. Onjium
Onjium traces the lineage of Korean royal court cuisine with the precision of a historian and the restraint of a craftsman, each dish a studied act of preservation. The kitchen reads like a living archive, where technique and ingredient speak to centuries of palace dining without ever announcing their importance.
- 50 Best
- 2026 · Asia's Best Female Chef Award 2026 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants · Cho Eun-hee
- 2025 · #57 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 2026 · #14 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 56. Chez Philippe
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 56. The Pines Modern Steakhouse
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 56. Capa
From the 17th floor of the Four Seasons, Capa surveys Orlando with the confidence of a place that doesn't need to choose between spectacle and substance. The menu roams Spanish tradition—gambas gleaming with garlic and paprika, bone-in ribeye cooked to order, gazpacho deconstructed into sorbet and meringue—each plate executed with enough polish to justify the views and the occasion.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- Recommended
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 56. Wildflowers
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 56. Mezcal
On the Montage's terrace overlooking the Pacific, Mezcal constructs a menu from Mexican regional markets and a wine list drawn entirely from within the country. Squash blossoms with black bean purée, lamb birria crowned with cilantro foam, and prickly pear sorbet served in its own skin demonstrate cooking that honors its sources without performance.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- MB100
- 2024 · Mexico's Best 100 Restaurants
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Rank 56. Galit
Inside a modest storefront, Zach Engel's modern Middle Eastern cooking unfolds through a prix-fixe of diners' choosing, opening with creamy hummus, warm pita, and pickles that establish the evening's warmth. The falafel carries unexpected brightness, wines from the Levantine region flow with purpose, and the whole operation hums with genuine hospitality.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 56. TOCA
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · Canada's Best Hotel Restaurant
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Rank 56. Mon Lapin
Bare tables, lively noise, the kind of ease that lets a kitchen play without pretense. Mon Lapin pivots on small, startling gestures—leeks presented like mussels, habanada peppers cradling baccalà, pappardelle with ragù bianco and chestnuts—each dish a minor act of restraint and precision. Eight years in, it remains neither neighbourhood spot nor destination, but somehow both.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · North America's Best Sommelier Award · Vanya Filipovic
- 2025 · #2 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best
- 2026 · #2 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 56. Dōgon
Inside the Salamander Hotel, Kwame Onwuachi's Dōgon presents small and large plates that blur African and Caribbean traditions with Washington swagger—the hoe crab arrives in its shell with shito and plantain cakes, the rum cake darkened by charred gooseberries. Each dish arrives composed and purposeful, the wine list equally considered, the whole operation bent on flavor over convention.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Condé Nast Traveler
- 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #37 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 56. Kalaya
Chutatip Suntaranon's Fishtown dining room—all palm fronds and modern art—channels Southern Thai cooking from her mother's coastal province, where turmeric and tamarind build layers of heat and depth. Crispy rice cakes give way to wok-fried barramundi and caramelized pork belly, each dish rooted in authentic technique rather than accommodation.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · North America's Best Female Chef Award · Chutatip 'Nok' Suntaranon
- 2025 · #7 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 56. Positivo Sand Bar
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 56. The Immigrant Restaurant
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef · Nicolas Blouin
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Rank 56. Moon Rabbit
Kevin Tien's Moon Rabbit, now in a sleek F Street space, merges Cajun and Vietnamese traditions through dishes like mochi beignets with eel and quail stuffed with duck sausage over tomato rice. The desserts—particularly a vegan pandan panna cotta with seaweed and chocolate—confirm his instinct for balancing opposing flavors with genuine skill.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · North American's Best Pastry Chef Award 2025 · Susan Bae
- 2025 · #17 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards
- 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Susan Bae
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Rank 88. Mizumi
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Condé Nast Traveler
- The 25 Best Restaurants in Las Vegas
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Rank 88. Canoe
A sleek tasting room suspended above the city, where the kitchen's ambition matches the view. Wild Pacific halibut arrives with Savoy cabbage and champagne cream; lamb saddle comes paired with its braised shoulder. Service operates with the precision of a practiced institution, and the tarte au sucre closes the evening with quiet confidence.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Yolan
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- James Beard Awards
- 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Noelle Marchetti
- Wine Enthusiast
- 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 88. Aria
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Hospitality
- Wine Enthusiast
- 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 88. Fauna
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #17 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
- MexBest
- 2025 · Fine Dining: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- 2023 · Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 88. The Restaurant at Winvian Farm
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Rank 88. La Petite Maison (LPM) Dubai
The dining room recalls the Côte d'Azur with its unhurried grace, while the bar stakes its reputation on drinks that balance precision with mischief. La Petite Maison draws crowds for a reason: it executes both registers with the ease of a place that knows exactly what it is.
- Spirited Awards
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Middle East & Africa *
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – Middle East & Africa
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 1 Pin
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Rank 88. Deuxave
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Boston Magazine
- 2025 · Best French Restaurant · Best of Boston
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Rank 88. Burdell
Geoff Davis's Temescal restaurant, named for his grandmother, serves soul food refracted through a contemporary lens—collard greens spiked with berbere, fried chicken brined in pickle, halibut crudo with buttermilk and grapefruit. The wine list is notably thoughtful, the kind of place where fried chicken and champagne feel inevitable.
- Food & Wine
- 2025 · #1 · The Top 15 US Restaurants
- 2024 · Restaurant of the Year
- 2024 · Roast Duck · Best Dishes Our Editors Ate This Year
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Rank 88. Vernick Food & Drink
A two-story brownstone where classical French training meets seasonal ingredient-driven cooking: fritto misto and blue crab arrive on toast, creamy scallops pair with nutty morels, and spiced lamb chops get a jolt from eggplant chutney. The room feels intimate despite its footprint, the service is polished, and there's a counter seat to watch the kitchen work.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Greg Vernick - Vernick Philadelphia
- 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
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Rank 88. CUT by Wolfgang Puck
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Eat. Talk. Repeat.
- Steakhouse – On the Strip: John · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
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Rank 88. Pao by Paul Qui
Beneath a gold dome crowned with a Damien Hirst unicorn, Paul Qui's dining room commands the Faena with theatrical grandeur and a short menu that pivots across Asian influences with ease. Scallop aguachile with black lime and roasted bass with chili patis prove the place earns its architecture through cooking that swings from sweet to spicy without hesitation.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Ai Fiori
Ai Fiori commands the second floor of the Langham with floor-to-ceiling windows and marble surfaces that catch the Fifth Avenue light. The kitchen works Italian fundamentals—Hiramasa crudo with sunflower seed cream, sagne pasta braised with rabbit and mint—with enough precision to justify the formal room's theatrical sense of occasion. Service glides without fussiness; linens feel substantial; the place knows exactly what it is.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Animalón
Under a centuries-old oak tree in Valle de Guadalupe, Javier Plascencia orchestrates contemporary Mexican cooking that feels both grounded and theatrical—beer-braised barbacoa arrives wrapped in banana leaf, smoked in pig's bladder, unveiled at table. Each course unfolds with similar precision: tomato broth enriched with chocolate and clams, a single pour that resolves sweet, savory, and heat in one sip.
- MexBest
- 2023 · Chef Promesa: Ganador · Premios MexBest · Óscar Torres
- 2025 · Best of the Best: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 88. Alcalde
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #51 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- MexBest
- 2023 · Mejor Servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
- 2024 · Mejor servicio: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 88. Khâluna
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Ann Ahmed
- Eater
- 2022 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 88. Alma
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Hotel Restaurant
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Alex Roberts
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Rank 88. Primo
Inside a JW Marriott, a copper kitchen glows behind an open counter where contemporary cooking balances Italian and Mediterranean restraint. Grilled octopus arrives with pecan romesco; cacio e pepe and roast chicken in parmesan broth read as comfort without apology. The cooking is assured and unfussy, the room a study in muted elegance—a hotel restaurant that knows its purpose and executes it well.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Rosetta
Elena Reygadas's Rosetta in Roma Norte draws crowds craving Mexican cooking remade through global technique—cabbage tacos with pistachio puree and a sweet potato tamal with buttermilk sauce exemplify her appetite for unlikely flavor pairings. Dishes arrive meant for sharing, each one a small argument about what Mexican food could become.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #46 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- MexBest
- 2024 · Fine Dining: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 88. Element 47
Element 47 sits within the Little Nell Hotel, steps from Aspen's slopes, its sleek dining room warmed by fireplace glow and lined with a serious wine collection. The kitchen shifts gracefully between lunch's comforting tortilla soups and salads and dinner's more ambitious roast duck and Wellington, each plate executed with approachable confidence. It's a place that doesn't insist on itself, yet rarely disappoints.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Canlis
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Food & Wine
- 2023 · Best New Chefs · Aisha Ibrahim
- Wine Enthusiast
- The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
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Rank 88. Baan Lao
In a quiet riverside village known for casual seafood, chef-owner Nutcha Phanthoupheng has built an intimate Thai dining room where river views and white-gloved service frame her meticulous royal cuisine. Each of the eighteen tasting menu courses—from hand-shaped dumplings to tom yum reductions—shows the precision of someone who studied privately in Bangkok before opening her twenty-seat restaurant.
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Restaurant
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #12 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best
- 2026 · #24 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 88. Michael Mina
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- The Infatuation
- The Best Restaurants In Las Vegas
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Rank 88. Maido
Mitsuhiro Tsumura's tasting menu draws on Amazonian ingredients and Japanese technique with the precision of someone who has spent decades refining a singular vision. Each course arrives calibrated—a study in restraint and flavour. This is cooking that rewards close attention and patience.
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Rank 88. Jeune et Jolie
The dining room glows in pale rose, light streaming through windows onto tables where Chef Eric Bost's nouvelle-French cooking unfolds with precision. Grilled leeks meet buttermilk and black truffle; roasted duck arrives with parsnips; the milk bread alone justifies the visit. A cocktail program of genuine craft steadies the elegant mood.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- The New York Times
- 2025 · Fraise · The 14 Best Restaurant Desserts We Ate Across the U.S.
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Rank 88. CORE Kitchen & Wine Bar
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Tucson Foodie
- Where I Eat in Tucson
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Rank 88. Knife & Spoon
Inside the Ritz-Carlton, Chef John Tesar's chophouse unfolds across a modernist room of weathered wood and coastal tones, open kitchen visible beyond the dimly lit dining floor. Dry-aged beef from 44 Farms anchors the menu alongside inventive detours—ube cacio e pepe, pristine seafood—while an assured cocktail program and attentive service sustain the indulgence throughout.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Maito
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · Latin America's Best Restaurant
- 2025 · Winner · Panama's Best Restaurant
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #18 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 88. The Kitchen
Chef Kelly McCown presides over The Kitchen's raucous dining room with the authority of a carnival barker, urging guests to circulate, peek into the kitchen, and demand seconds of whatever moves them. The monthly menu pivots through Central Valley produce—think seared scallops with citrus and cauliflower, sweet potato cannelloni in brown butter—with pleasure, not restraint, as its governing principle.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 88. Spago
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- ʻAipono Awards
- 2025 · Honorable Mention · Best Dessert
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Rank 88. Dakar NOLA
Chef Serigne Mbaye draws on Harlem and Senegal in a cottage on Magazine Street, where two seatings move unhurried through compositions of Gulf fish and West African spice. The tasting menu unfolds with okra soup sharpened by crab and tamarind, each plate grounded in local farms and the steady warmth of co-owner Dr. Afua Richardson.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #6 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards
- 2024 · Winner · Best New Restaurant
- 2023 · Nominee · Emerging Chef · Serigne Mbaye
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Rank 88. Mystic
A glass pavilion cantilevered over Halifax Harbour frames Chef Malcolm Campbell's eight-course tasting menu, where smoked egg yolk and wild sea flora give way to lobster ravioli kissed with local saffron. The kitchen's restraint—each plate a study in Atlantic ingredient harmony—is matched by Sommelier Samuel Melanson's conversational wine guidance, which favors regional producers alongside established classics.
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · World's Best New Restaurant
- Air Canada
- 2025 · #1 · Best New Restaurants
- Canada's 100 Best
- 2026 · #16 · Best Restaurants
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Rank 88. Khufu's Restaurant
The dining room frames the plateau like a stage set, and from your table you can watch the Giza pyramids hold their ancient geometry against the sky. Chef Karim Ibrahim works in a contemporary register—refined technique applied to Egyptian ingredients and traditions—with dishes that feel both rooted and restless. It's a restaurant that understands the power of its setting but refuses to let the view do all the work.
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Rank 88. Garrison
The open kitchen at Garrison channels live fire into dishes that transcend steakhouse convention: kanpachi crudo with seared avocado and Espelette pepper, leek tart with goat cheese and bacon jam, wagyu ribeye sided by hasselback potatoes in saffron rouille and Béarnaise. What could feel like hotel dining instead reads as deliberate, composed cookery.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Laurie Raphaël
In Old Quebec's waterfront quarter, Raphaël Vézina works with regional game and seafood—spot prawns with pear and burnt citrus, scallops from the Magdalen Islands—in composed modern dishes that balance technique with a restless sense of possibility. The room, all beige tones and bubble lights, settles you into something like calm before the cooking disrupts it.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- Tastet
- 2025 · 101 Must-Try Restaurants in Quebec
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Rank 88. The Club Grill
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Rank 88. Osteria Francescana
In Modena, two chefs channel relentless invention into dishes that move between tradition and abstraction—a tortellini en brodo that tastes of memory, a plate that deconstructs itself across the table. The kitchen's reach extends beyond the dining room into community work that questions what a restaurant can be. This is cooking as both art and argument.
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Rank 88. Charleston
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2024 · Semifinalist · Outsdanding Hospitality
- 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
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Rank 88. Valle
Chef Roberto Alcocer's modern Mexican kitchen overlooks Oceanside Pier from within the Mission Pacific Hotel, drawing inspiration from Baja California's wine country in both its tasting menu and cellar. Dishes like mushroom tetela with goat cheese and corn chowder ice cream topped with trout roe demonstrate a chef confident enough to surprise without losing sight of flavor. A fireplace warms the dining room where service moves with practiced grace.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- Esquire
- 2023 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 88. Louix Louis
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- Recommended
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · Canada's Best Hotel Restaurant
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Rank 88. Lautrec
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 88. COTE
Simon Kim's steakhouse fuses Korean beef reverence with American steakhouse grandeur, its dark, moody dining room anchored by a visible aging room downstairs. Meats arrive raw for inspection before tableside grilling, their umami deepened by kimchi and ssamjang in a ritual that feels both ceremonial and convivial.
- World's Best Steak Restaurants
- 2025 · #10 · The List
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2023 · Nominee · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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Rank 88. Maizajo
Upstairs from a standing-room taqueria, Maizajo's dining room pairs industrial chic—I-beams and rebar furniture—with Santiago Muñoz Moctezuma's precise corn cookery, announced by house tostadas and habanero salsa. A blue corn tostada crowned with tuna and black sesame oil sits alongside a poblano tamal sweet with achiote and stewed greens, each plate revealing the grammar of the kernel.
- Condé Nast Traveler
- 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- MexBest
- 2025 · Mejor Taquería: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- 2024 · Experiencia de maíz: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 88. Commander's Palace
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Wine Enthusiast
- The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
- James Beard Awards
- 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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Rank 88. Kasama
Tim Flores and Genie Kwon cook Filipino food with striking originality in a spare room, each dish—mussel adobo, shrimp-paste peanut sauce—arriving as both homage and reinvention. The desserts, particularly a corn semifreddo that riffs on mais con yelo, are equally inventive, suggesting a kitchen where tradition and technique speak the same language.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #31 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 88. Pleincœur
A chef from Normandy has installed himself in the 17th arrondissement with the region's butter, seafood, and methodical approach to technique. The dining room feels deliberately understated—all pale wood and careful proportions—which only sharpens focus on plates that move between rustic and refined without announcing the shift. This is cooking that knows its lineage and doesn't need to shout about it.
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Rank 88. Brennan's
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2023 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service · Braithe Gill
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Rank 88. L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Eat. Talk. Repeat.
- Celebratory Dinner Spot: Ash · Where to Eat in Las Vegas
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Rank 88. Tatiana by Kwame Onwuachi
At Lincoln Center, Tatiana commands a room of dark wood and deliberate glamour where the pre-theater crowd mingles with the curious; Chef Kwame Onwuachi's West African-inflected menu—egusi dumplings, a towering pot of braised oxtail—reads like an edible autobiography, grounded and generous.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- The Infatuation
- Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
- James Beard Awards
- 2024 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 88. Xiquet
Danny Lledó's sparse third-floor dining room channels Valencia through a wood-fired hearth and smoker, moving from delicate preparations like dill-cured bonito with ajo blanco toward the hearthside rice dishes that anchor his menu. The kitchen's restless creativity—turbot with smoked trout roe, rabbit and mushroom rice—rests on a foundation of carefully sourced ingredients and the disciplined hand of someone committed to Spanish tradition without genuflecting to it.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- The Rammys
- 2025 · Finalist · Service Program of the Year
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Rank 88. Vicia
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurant
- 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Michael Gallina, Tara Gallina, and Aaron Martinez - Take Root Hospitality
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Rank 88. March
March sequences you through Mediterranean regions with studied precision, opening in a lounge for cocktails before the striking dining room unveils each course as a small act of culinary theater. The hospitality disarms any pretension; what emerges is refinement without smugness, each plate a document of regional obsession that rewards your attention.
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · World's Best Mediterranean Cuisine Restaurant
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Nominee · Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service · June Rodil
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Rank 88. Valter's Osteria
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Italian Cuisine Restaurant
- James Beard Awards
- 2024 · Semifinalist · Outsdanding Hospitality
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Rank 88. Scaramouche
Descend into what feels like a basement and emerge into a dining room suspended above the Toronto skyline, where Keith Froggett's classical French kitchen has held steady since 1983. Foie gras terrine with sour cherry, rabbit loin wrapped in bacon—the menu trades novelty for rigor, each plate an argument for why some things need not change.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Cosme
Dark-walled Cosme draws a crowd to its handsome bar, where seasonal cocktails flow freely before diners settle into roomy tables beneath soft light. The concise menu pivots on Mexican technique—uni tostadas with bone marrow, scallops cooked al pastor, duck carnitas—each dish assured in its construction. It reads pricey, but the kitchen's restraint and precision suggest conviction rather than mere elegance.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · United States' Best Restaurant
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Rank 88. Teodoro
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Rank 88. Villa Torél
Inside Santo Tomás winery, surrounded by lavender and citrus, Alfredo Villanueva cooks Mexican food inflected with French refinement—horse mackerel crudo on blue corn tostadas, pastrami lengua with rice. The patio dining is best in season, and desserts arrive with the same casual sophistication as the savory plates.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #16 · Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants
- MexBest
- 2023 · Casual Dining: Ganador · Premios MexBest
- 2025 · Mejor Experiencia de Vino: Nominados · Premios MexBest
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Rank 88. Myriel
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Food & Wine
- 2024 · Best New Chefs · Karyn Tomlinson
- 2025 · The Top 15 US Restaurants
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Rank 88. Rezdôra
A Flatiron dining room devoted to the pasta traditions of Emilia-Romagna, where handmade anolini and gramigna arrive in their plainest, most persuasive forms. The cooking here trusts simplicity—fried gnocco with cured pork, ragù finished with Parmigiano—and asks nothing more of you than appetite and respect for the region's canon.
- 50 Top Italy
- 2025 · #5 · The Best Italian Restaurants In The World
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: New York State · Stefano Secchi
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Rank 88. Fearing's
Inside the Ritz-Carlton, Chef Dean Fearing's dining room reads traditional steakhouse but operates by its own rules. A Lone Star mosaic of raw tuna, wagyu, salmon, and barbecued eel arrives like stained glass; baklava s'more pivots toward pistachio marshmallow and burnt rosemary ice cream. American cooking with Southwestern swagger, built on surprise.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · Selected Restaurant
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Rank 88. Bresca
Bresca sits on 14th Street amid gold leaf and a living moss wall, trading bistro anonymity for a warmth that feels both neighborhood and occasion-worthy. Chef Ryan Ratino's cooking—a foie gras negroni, lamb pappardelle—arrives casual yet artful, with service that knows when to vanish.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
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Rank 88. The Wolf's Tailor
Chef Taylor Stark builds a multicourse narrative from global influences and local Colorado ingredients, opening with canapés that telegraph his kitchen's resourcefulness and closing with dishes like bison loin glazed in dried shrimp caramel. The beverage program matches the food's ambition—cocktails and wines composed with equal rigor and intelligence.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- James Beard Awards
- 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurateur · Erika Whitaker and Kelly Whitaker - ID EST
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Emily Thompson