The World's Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink
Updated May 17, 2026
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Rank 1. Per Se
Thomas Keller's dining room floats above Central Park with the kind of spacious calm rare in this city, each table wrapped in its own sphere of privacy. The French kitchen moves with the seasons, turning pristine ingredients into refined gestures—"Oysters and Pearls" and an elaborate dessert anchor a menu that feels assured without strain. Service glides with genuine warmth, making formality feel like an embrace.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
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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.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 1. The French Laundry
Thomas Keller's Yountville kitchen applies classical French precision to impeccable ingredients in a dining room engineered down to the counter height. A progression might unfold from salmon tartare in a delicate cornet through butter-poached lobster and herb-roasted lamb to a chocolate gâteau finale. This is restaurant craft at its most exacting.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
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Rank 1. SingleThread
The Connaughtens' kitchen sits amid vineyards and their own farm, drawing on both for kaiseki-inflected cooking that opens with a botanical still life of small bites. Donabe vessels transform seafood and vegetables into delicate studies in restraint; knife work and plating speak a precise, Japanese-influenced language. What emerges is deeply personal—rooted in place, shaped by years abroad, uninterested in noise.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
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Rank 1. Eleven Madison Park
Eleven Madison Park is a temple of control where everything—the suits, the glassware, the vegan roll with its gossamer crust—bears the obsessive stamp of Daniel Humm's vision. A tonburi quenelle mimics caviar; a radish tostada gleams with pumpkin seed butter. The kitchen's plant-based luxury is audacious and complete, though animal proteins remain available for those who ask.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
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Rank 1. Le Bernardin
A Midtown room where diamond necklaces catch the light and Eric Ripert's kitchen moves with quiet confidence through pristine seafood—yellowfin tuna pounded thin over foie gras toast, salmon with horseradish emulsion—finished by a dark chocolate tart that tastes like technique perfected. French classicism with global reach, no tasting menu required.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 1. Benu
A tasting menu of deliberate, intricate construction begins with precise small bites and escalates through dishes like faux shark's fin soup and steamed shellfish cake before reaching the roasted quail, carved tableside and glazed with maple and soy. Corey Lee's kitchen works with patient precision, each course reimagined nightly, suggesting a chef determined to exhaust the possibilities of technique in service of flavor.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
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Rank 8. Saison
A warehouse with a roaring hearth at its center, where chef Richard Lee balances playfulness and precision—opening with composed bites like tuna tartlette with strawberry, moving through rabbit saddle with morels or antelope ribeye with blueberries and black truffle croissant. The wine program spans all budgets with genuine warmth, and the whole enterprise feels like a private club where refinement and rusticity coexist without friction.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 8. Jean‑Georges
Vongerichten's flagship overlooks Central Park with the confidence of a chef who has earned it. The egg toast with caviar arrives as prologue to a menu that pivots between French discipline and global improvisation—tomatillo with lemon verbena, black truffle with za'atar—each plate proposing a conversation between technique and audacity. This is cooking that knows what it is.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 8. Gabriel Kreuther
Cream-colored banquettes and fine art frame the dining room at this Grace Building mainstay, where a boisterous bar anchors the ground floor and classical French technique meets global inspiration. The warm kugelhopf with chive fromage blanc and seasonal bass with wax bean ragout speak to a kitchen that honors tradition without apology, abetted by an old-school cheese trolley and a focused collection of Alsatian wines.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 8. Atelier Crenn
Crenn's white-walled atelier channels a painter's precision, each seafood course glazed in silken sauces that speak to her Breton roots and California present. A grandmother's brioche and vegetables from Sonoma orchards anchor the pescatarian tasting menu in something tactile and real, even as desserts from Juan Contreras push toward pure invention.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 8. Alinea
Grant Achatz orchestrates dinner as theater—vapor drifts across the table, hidden flavors emerge from diminutive courses, and tableside pyrotechnics render the plate obsolete. The evening oscillates between whimsy and precision, each course a small rupture in expectation, culminating in dessert painted directly onto bare wood.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 8. 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 8. Kumiko
Julia Momosé's dining bar pairs an exceptional Japanese spirits collection with sharp-uniformed servers who radiate genuine warmth across a room designed for lingering. The kitchen matches that precision—butter cabbage with ramp miso and katsuobushi, grilled Arctic char in shio koji beurre blanc—each plate calibrated as carefully as the cocktails beside it.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2026 · 3 Pins
- Spirited Awards
- 2025 · Winner · World's Best Bar
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 15. 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 15. COAST
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2022 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Northeast · William Rietzel
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Rank 15. 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 15. 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 15. Daniel
A coffered dining room hung with Rosenquist paintings and Bernardaud porcelain chandeliers, where Upper East Side formality persists in artichoke ravioli with barigoule consomé and black cod arranged with the precision of a still life. Boulud's kitchen trades in classical French technique and pristine ingredients—the kind of place that measures its success in hushed conversations and anniversaries marked, not trends chased.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 15. Cara
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 15. Atomix
In a Murray Hill brownstone, Junghyun Park channels Korean culinary tradition through technically assured contemporary cooking—black banana topped with monkfish liver and perilla leaves, langoustine over truffle gel and honey nut squash foam. The dark, earth-toned room and sunken counter cultivate an intimacy that matches the kitchen's precision, each dish arriving as evidence of a chef thinking rigorously about flavor and texture.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #12 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 15. 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 15. White Barn Inn Restaurant
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 15. Blue Hill
On a Hudson Valley farm, Dan Barber orchestrates a tasting menu that treats vegetables as protagonists—radishes with browned butter, turnips with poppy seed, squash rendered to concentrated essence—interrupted by the occasional roasted retired dairy cow. The dining room holds the ritual formally: fine linens, crystal, a progression of small revelations that circles back to the site's dairy origins, ending in a dessert of milk forms and poached quince.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 15. Mugen
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
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Rank 15. Jungsik
A dining room of studied restraint—dark wood, spare angles, downtown cool—frames Chef Yim Jung Sik's tasting menu, where Korean tradition splinters into something altogether new. Raw fish arrives beside kimchi and bone broth; octopus crisps under gochujang; each course unfolds with such precision and invention that you find yourself nodding involuntarily at the plate.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #35 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 15. The Bar Room at the Modern
The dining room floats within MoMA's architectural clarity, all clean lines and sculptural views. Here the kitchen constructs dishes of deliberate restraint—a seed cracker gilded with aged cheddar and butternut squash butter, turbot roasted on the bone in parmesan cream—each component audible in conversation. It is a place that understands that luxury, at its best, whispers.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 15. Atlas
Inside the St. Regis, Chef Freddy Money's restaurant pairs rotating fine art with a seasonal American menu enriched by European technique—lobster with smoked paprika butter, sherry-caramelized sweetbreads, Australian wagyu—all delivered in a room designed for celebration rather than restraint.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 15. La Mer
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
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Rank 15. Quince
In a refreshed early 1900s room in Jackson Square, Chef Michael Tusk builds menus from his partner farm's seasonal bounty with surgical precision: silky broth married to guanciale and clam, agnolotti tender with white asparagus, lamb from the fireplace scattered with favas and edible flowers. The cooking is restrained and confident, letting each ingredient declare itself.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 3 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 31. 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 31. Joel Robuchon Restaurant
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Wine Enthusiast
- The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
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Rank 31. 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 31. Tanière³
Behind a locked door in a 17th-century cellar, François-Emmanuel Nicol orchestrates a 15-course progression through Quebec's boreal forest, each plate rooted in a specific terroir and producer. Matsutake, spruce, wild blueberry, and foraged roots become the grammar of a meal that reads less like dinner than an edible argument about place.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- 50 Best
- 2025 · Art of Hospitality Award
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Rank 31. Handshake Speakeasy
Behind an unmarked door in Juárez, bartenders orchestrate drinks with precision and restraint, letting high-quality spirits and technique speak for themselves. The space feels like a deliberate counterpoint to louder nightlife—intimate, focused, built on the principle that a cocktail properly made needs no fanfare.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #2 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 2026 · Rémy Martin Legend of the List Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2026 · 2 Pins
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Rank 31. 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 31. Aurelia at Castle Hill
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Wine Enthusiast
- 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 31. 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 31. Restaurant Guy Savoy
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Wine Enthusiast
- The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
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Rank 31. 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 41. 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 41. 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 41. Masa
The roar of Columbus Circle dissolves into silence at a hinoki counter where Masa Takayama orchestrates omakase with balletic precision. Truffles and caviar accent each piece—foie gras nigiri, abalone so tender it dissolves—gestures that walk the edge between refinement and indulgence. It's an experience that feels less like dinner than ceremony.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Japanese Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 41. Quintonil
Jorge Vallejo's dining room in Polanco hums with youthful energy, its modest entrance opening onto a space where Oaxacan herbs and insects arrive with both subtlety and showmanship. Seasonal tasting menus pivot between guajillo-glazed mussels and playful finales—coconut sorbet studded with caviar—where tradition and technique coalesce into something genuinely generative.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #3 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- MexBest
- 2025 · Mejor Servicio: Ganador · Premios MexBest
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Rank 41. Aquavit
Emma Bengtsson orchestrates a lean, contemporary vision of Nordic cooking in a sleek dining room where every detail—from the slate platters to the torched North Sea cod with mussel foam—reads as deliberate. Duck breast and compressed leg meat arrive tableside with beet jus; dessert might pivot to green apple and fennel with smoked crème fraîche. Precision and restraint feel like the point.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- James Beard Awards
- 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Emma Bengtsson
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Rank 41. 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 · Comeback of the Year
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Rank 41. Oriole
A converted freight elevator ushers you into this former warehouse, where an open kitchen and striking ceiling collage set the stage for Chef Noah Sandoval's disciplined tasting menu bridging French and Japanese traditions. Delicate canapés—foie gras with pickled strawberries, capellini threaded with black truffle—demonstrate a kitchen that knows when to restrain itself, while polished service moves quietly through the room.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- The Infatuation
- Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
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Rank 41. NAOE
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Miami New Times
- 2023 · Best Restaurant When Someone Else Is Paying · Best of Miami New Times
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Rank 41. 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 41. KAI
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- James Beard Awards
- 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Hospitality
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Rank 41. 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 41. 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 41. Gary Danko
The dining room glows with the formality of another era: dark-suited servers, a towering cheese trolley, an wine list of serious depth. Chef Danko's prix-fixe menu lets you build your own path through French-inflected cooking with global detours—or surrender to his tasting menu. Since 1999, the place has remained a steady draw for occasions that call for ceremony and restraint.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Wine Enthusiast
- The Wine Restaurant Hall of Fame
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Rank 41. Equator Coffees
- Sprudgie Awards
- 2025 · Honoree · Sustainable Cafe or Coffee Roaster
- 2025 · Honoree · Sustainable Cafe or Coffee Roaster
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Rank 55. Topper's
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 55. Xal (la Casa De La Playa)
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 55. Allegory
A converted townhouse on K Street houses a bar where the drinks are as deliberately conceived as the decor—each cocktail a small argument about flavor and technique, each room a chapter in a larger story about who belongs here. The bartenders work with purpose and wit, mixing drinks that taste like they were made by people who read philosophy before bed. This is a speakeasy that takes its role as civic mirror seriously, which somehow makes it more fun.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2 Pins
- 50 Best
- 2026 · Siete Misterios Best Cocktail Menu Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards
- 2024 · Top 4 Finalist · World’s Best Cocktail Menu
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Rank 55. César
César Ramirez sustains a demanding precision night after night, refining raw ingredients—Danish hiramasa, North Sea turbot, California quail—into harmonious compositions at his minimal downtown seafood counter. The sauces are masterly, the service eager, and the open kitchen makes clear why this restrained space commands such focused attention.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #98 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 55. 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 55. Tlecān
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #23 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 2025 · Eli Martínez Bello · Bartenders' Bartender Award
- Spirited Awards
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 55. 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 55. Olivella
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 55. The Ocean Room
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 55. 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 55. Twenty-Eight Atlantic
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
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Rank 55. 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 55. 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 55. The Dining Room at Victoria & Albert’s
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Time Out
- The 20 best restaurants in Orlando
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Rank 55. 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 55. Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare
A grocery store conceals this intimate counter where Natmessnig and Prins orchestrate a rapid succession of refined small plates—delicate tarts, a scallop crowned with caviar in vin jaune, oysters in aguachile—from behind spotlit glass. The walnut bar leaves no room for kitchen theatrics to falter, only for precision to land.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 55. Lazy Bear
A warehouse dressed as a hunting lodge stages nightly tastings that toggle between nostalgia and ambition—oysters arrive two ways, one bright with gooseberry, another charred and glazed; butter-soft A5 ribeye meets oxtail and sour cherry tart with architectural precision. The cooking trades subtlety for swagger, and it lands.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #25 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 55. Jean-Georges Philadelphia
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 5 Stars
- Philadelphia Magazine
- 2024 · Meyer Lemon Gelée · Most Memorable Bites
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Rank 55. 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 55. The Elderberry House
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 55. Atera
Counter dining at chef Ronny Emborg's spare, uncluttered room in Tribeca unfolds with quiet precision—shigoku oysters paired with kiwi and cucumber, halibut suspended in buttery shrimp bisque—while a spirited playlist keeps the intimate experience from settling into reverence. The menu travels globally through numerous delicate courses that balance restraint and abundance with equal finesse.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
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Rank 55. Salt
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
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Rank 55. 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.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #60 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 78. Saga
A dining room suspended above the city, wrapped in peach velvet and green marble, opens onto a terrace for aperitifs before the meal proper. Hokkaido scallops arrive with shaved fennel and vadouvan butter; Australian lamb carries spiced jus and frothed herbs. The closing ritual—a Moroccan tea service with small sweets—feels less like dessert than benediction.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #33 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 78. 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 78. Kaito del Valle
An all-women operation drawing from Japanese izakayas and kawaii aesthetics, this cocktail bar channels playful irreverence through its drinks and design—a space where whimsy collides with technique, mixing equal parts charm and unflinching craft.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Latin America & Caribbean
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 78. 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 78. 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 78. Cyrus
Douglas Keane's relaunched Cyrus occupies a stark glass pavilion among Sonoma vineyards, its dining progression moving from lounge champagne through kitchen counter seats to the dining room's globally inflected courses. Farm vegetables meet Asian spice and careful plating here—a place that treats dinner as deliberate theater, each room a stage.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- Wine Enthusiast
- 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
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Rank 78. 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 78. Dayglow
- Sprudgie Awards
- 2024 · Finalist · Notable Roaster
- 2023 · Honoree · Best New Cafe
- Eater
- The Best Coffee Shops in New York City
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Rank 78. Sip & Guzzle
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #39 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 2026 · #1 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Food & Wine
- 2025 · The 10 Top Bars in the US
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Rank 78. Bacchanalia
Dark wood and Edison bulbs frame a dining room where Georgia produce takes center stage across a four-course prix fixe with theatrical touches—dishes emerge on carts, beneath glass cloches—and genuine choice. A crab fritter has anchored the menu since opening; a grapefruit soufflé with pistachio crumble and rose cream closes it with restraint and precision. Handsome without pretense.
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 78. Le Pavillon
A soaring glass dining room in a gleaming new tower, all warm light and architectural confidence, where the bar itself becomes theater under a blown-glass chandelier. Boulud and Nacev's carte pivots on seafood and vegetables rendered with global inflection—spaghetti alla chitarra gilded with caviar, cauliflower sharpened by Aleppo pepper and local beans.
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide
- 4 Stars
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
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Rank 78. Sons & Daughters
Harrison Cheney's tasting menu moves through fermented vegetables, foraged mushrooms, and carefully butchered seafood with the precision of Nordic technique and the warmth of British comfort—a quail egg wrapped in sausage, rutabaga noodles glossed in pork fat and brown butter. Service matches the cooking's generosity.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: California · Harrison Cheney
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Rank 78. 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 78. Origin Bar
A hotel bar in the lobby that treats its mandate—comfort and conviviality—as seriously as craft. The drinks arrive with a sense of play, and the room itself, all warm surfaces and attentive staff, feels less like a transit lounge than a living room where strangers quickly become acquaintances.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – APAC *
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – APAC
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Rank 78. 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 78. 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 78. Superbueno
- 50 Best
- 2025 · #12 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 2026 · #9 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- VinePair
- 2023 · Bar Program of the Year · The Next Wave Awards
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Rank 78. Thunderbolt
Inside a converted warehouse on West Temple, bartenders conduct rigorous experiments with syrups and infusions, then pour the results into drinks that taste effortless. The precision doesn't announce itself—it arrives in a coupe glass alongside conversation, as if technique and ease were the same thing.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2 Pins
- 50 Best
- 2025 · Sustainable Bar Award
- 2026 · #92 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 78. 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 78. Mixtli
Galicia and Torres build tasting menus around Mexico's fractured geography and deep past—one night Oaxaca, the next pre-Columbian, the next the hot lands. Their fine-dining technique animates regional traditions with cerebral precision, each plate a small argument about flavor and history, plated with care that matches the cook's obvious reverence for the source material.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2024 · Nominee · Outsdanding Restaurant
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Rank 78. 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 78. BEKEB
In a spare room lit by candlelight, a woman-led team mixes cocktails rooted in Mexican plant knowledge with the precision of a contemporary kitchen—each drink a small study in bitter, floral, and aromatic balance. The service moves quietly, the drinks arrive at exactly the right temperature, and there is nothing decorative about any of it.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Hotel Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
- 50 Best
- 2026 · #24 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 78. 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.
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 2 Stars
- AAA
- 2026 · Four Diamonds
- World Culinary Awards
- 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Italian Cuisine Restaurant
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Rank 78. 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 78. 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 78. 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 78. Auro
Auro unfolds within the Four Seasons' Wine Country compound, where floor-to-ceiling windows frame both the open kitchen and surrounding vineyards. The cooking mines California's gardens and Mexico's spice lexicon with equal conviction—wagyu arrives with mole, sea bream with aguachile—while hospitality and light conspire to make the meal feel inevitable rather than merely expensive.
- AAA
- 2026 · Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide
- 2026 · 1 Star
- James Beard Awards
- 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Professional in Beverage Service · Derek Stevenson
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Rank 78. 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 78. Bar Pompette
A Parisian café has materialized on College Street, all marble counter and bentwood chairs, where the cocktail program pairs French precision with flavors that shouldn't work but do—curry leaf with rum, masala chai with cognac and cinnamon. The bar team executes these unlikely combinations with such clarity and restraint that even the most baroque drinks slide down easy. Jazz on Sundays, garden patio in season, service that remembers you.
- 50 Best
- 2025 · Art of Hospitality Award
- 2025 · #55 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 2026 · #8 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 78. 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 78. El Gallo Altanero
A narrow room in Guadalajara's Obrera neighborhood where the bartender moves with scholarly precision through an agave collection that rivals museums. The drinks are built on deep knowledge of mezcal and tequila—terroir and production method matter here as much as balance and flavor. This is where agave becomes something to study, not just consume.
- 50 Best
- 2026 · Altos Bartenders' Bartender Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars · Freddy Andreasson
- 2025 · #71 · World's 50 Best Bars
- Spirited Awards
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Latin America & Caribbean
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Rank 78. 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 78. The Cambridge Public House
A narrow room on Rue de Poitou where the bartenders move with purpose and genuine warmth. The cocktails are precise and unhurried—each one built from a clear idea rather than baroque technique. It feels less like a destination bar and more like the living room of people who happen to know what they're doing with spirits and ice.
- The Pinnacle Guide
- 2 Pins
- Spirited Awards
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – Europe
- 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Cocktail Bar – Europe *
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Rank 78. Schmuck
A narrow corner bar on the Lower East Side where the bartenders move with unhurried precision, building drinks that taste like they've been thought through for months. The space itself feels lived-in—wood, dim light, the kind of place where regulars and newcomers drink shoulder to shoulder without fanfare. Schmuck trades in quiet confidence over flash.
- 50 Best
- 2026 · Three Cents Best New Opening Award 2026 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- 2025 · #59 · World's 50 Best Bars
- 2026 · #4 · North America's 50 Best Bars