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Cédric Grolet at Le Meurice
Cédric Grolet at Le Meurice — the most consequential single pastry chef of the contemporary era, his trompe-l'oeil fruit sculptures and the small Paris…
Vol. I · No. 6 · The Dining desk
Dining
The restaurants and chefs we travel to eat at.
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Pic Valence: Anne-Sophie Pic's Three Stars in the Rhône Valley
Maison Pic in Valence — the only three-Michelin-star kitchen in the world led by a female chef, four generations of the Pic family on the same building…
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Mugaritz: Andoni Luis Aduriz's Two Stars and the Provocation Menu
Mugaritz in Errenteria, fifteen minutes outside San Sebastián — Andoni Luis Aduriz's two-Michelin-star kitchen, the most deliberately provocative single…
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Mirazur Menton: Mauro Colagreco's Three Stars and the Lunar Garden
Mirazur in Menton — Mauro Colagreco's three-Michelin-star room above the French-Italian border, built around four rotating menus tied to the lunar calendar.
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Jean-Georges Manhattan: Two Stars and the Third-Star Campaign
Jean-Georges at One Central Park West — Vongerichten's flagship two-Michelin-star, the city's longest-running French-Asian three-star and the centre of his…
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Sushi Saito Tokyo: The Eight-Seat Counter at Ark Hills
Takashi Saito's eight-seat counter at Ark Hills South Tower in Roppongi — the most reservation-resistant sushi room in Tokyo and, for many of the people who…
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SingleThread Healdsburg: Three Stars, Three Keys, One Farm
SingleThread in Healdsburg holds three Michelin stars and three Michelin Keys — a kaiseki-inspired tasting menu, a five-room inn, and a working farm under…
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Virgilio Martínez: Central, Mil, and Mater Iniciativa Beyond Lima
Virgilio Martínez's three-property Peruvian ecosystem — Central in Lima (World's 50 Best No.
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Eleven Madison Park 2026: Daniel Humm's Second Reinvention
Daniel Humm pulled meat from the Eleven Madison Park menu in 2021, ran a fully plant-based three-star programme for four years, and brought proteins back as…
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Attica Melbourne: Ben Shewry's Native-Ingredient Kitchen at Twenty
Attica in suburban Ripponlea, Melbourne — Ben Shewry's twenty-year-old kitchen organised around Australian native ingredients, ranked 95 points by La Liste…
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Alchemist Copenhagen: Rasmus Munk's Six-Hour Holistic Cuisine
Alchemist in Copenhagen — Rasmus Munk's two-Michelin-star holistic-cuisine project, fifty impressions across six hours in a converted warehouse on…
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Frantzén Stockholm: Eighteen Years In, Still Sharpening
Björn Frantzén's Stockholm flagship — Sweden's only three-Michelin-star kitchen, the centre of a global empire now running across three continents.
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Per Se NYC: Thomas Keller's Time Warner Three Stars Twenty Years On
Per Se on Columbus Circle — Thomas Keller's three-Michelin-star New York flagship, opened February 2004 and continuously starred since the New York guide…
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Le Bernardin: Twenty Years of Three Stars Under Eric Ripert
Le Bernardin in Midtown Manhattan — Eric Ripert's seafood three-star, the longest continuously held three Michelin stars in New York City since the guide's…
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Reale Castel di Sangro: Niko Romito's Three Stars in Abruzzo
Reale in the Abruzzo mountains — Niko Romito's three-Michelin-star kitchen housed in a sixteenth-century monastery, plus the Bulgari hotel programme he runs…
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Geranium Copenhagen: The Eighth Floor After the Meat Stopped
Rasmus Kofoed removed meat from the Geranium menu in 2022 — four months after the restaurant was named the World's 50 Best No.
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Asador Etxebarri: A Night in Axpe with Bittor Arginzoniz
Asador Etxebarri in Axpe, Bizkaia — Bittor Arginzoniz's wood-fire shrine, ranked No. 2 in the World's 50 Best for two consecutive years. A field review.
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Maido Lima: Mitsuharu Tsumura's Nikkei Counter at No. 1
The Miraflores Nikkei restaurant of Mitsuharu Tsumura — named the World's Best Restaurant at the 50 Best ceremony in Turin on June 19, 2025 — is in its…
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Don Julio Buenos Aires: Pablo Rivero's Parrilla in the Hall of Fire
Don Julio in Buenos Aires' Palermo district — Pablo Rivero's parrilla, three-time No.
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Disfrutar Barcelona: The Hall of Fame Year
The Barcelona kitchen of Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch, and Mateu Casañas — the three former elBulli chefs whose Calle Villarroel room was named the World's…
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Den Tokyo: Zaiyu Hasegawa's Two Stars and the DenTucky Box
Den in Tokyo's Jingumae district — Zaiyu Hasegawa's two-Michelin-star modern kaiseki, ranked No.
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The Fat Duck Bray: Blumenthal's Three Stars at Thirty
The Fat Duck in Bray-on-Thames — Heston Blumenthal's three-Michelin-star multi-sensory tasting room, celebrating thirty years in 2025 and continuing under a…
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Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught — the only three-Michelin-star restaurant inside a three-Michelin-Key hotel in London, and one of only two London kitchens…
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Osteria Francescana: Bottura's Modena Three Stars and the Gucci Florence Project
Osteria Francescana in Modena — Massimo Bottura's three-Michelin-star Italian flagship, ranked No.
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Masa NYC: Takayama's Counter at Two Stars in 2026
Masa at Columbus Circle — Masa Takayama's twenty-two-year-old sushi counter, demoted from three to two Michelin stars in the 2026 New York guide.
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Pierre Gagnaire Paris: Thirty Years of Three Stars on Rue Balzac
Pierre Gagnaire on rue Balzac — the three-Michelin-star Paris flagship of the chef Michelin named Mentor Chef of the year 2026 — three decades of conceptual…
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Atelier Crenn San Francisco: Fifteen Years on Fillmore
Dominique Crenn's flagship in Cow Hollow — the only three-Michelin-star restaurant in the United States held by a female chef on the menu, and the room that…
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The French Laundry Yountville: Keller's Three Stars at Thirty-Two
The French Laundry in Yountville — Thomas Keller's Napa Valley flagship, continuously held three Michelin stars since 2007 and the founding kitchen of the…
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Quintonil Mexico City: Jorge Vallejo's Polanco Counter
Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores opened Quintonil in the Polanco district of Mexico City in 2012, took two Michelin stars in the inaugural 2024 Mexico…
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Arpège Paris: Alain Passard's Vegetable Three Stars Go Fully Plant-Based
Arpège in the 7th arrondissement — Alain Passard's three-Michelin-star vegetable kitchen, which announced in July 2024 a fully plant-based menu and…