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Zia hides behind the busy streets of Rome's Trastevere, where chef Antonio Ziantoni builds innovative, contemporary Italian cuisine on solid classical foundations — the quail with sage and carnation flowers is a signature; price level €€€.
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Plates London in Shoreditch, London is a fully plant-based restaurant where Kirk Haworth applies classical technique to inventive vegan cooking; its signature maitake mushroom with black bean mole helped it become the first fully plant-based restaurant to earn a star in the GB & Ireland guide (2025).
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A Contemporanea, Creativa restaurant in Rome. Housed in the historic Villa Laetitia with an ornate dining room and garden views, its signature dish features egg with buffalo taleggio and black truffle.
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Smoked Room, inside the Hyatt Regency Hesperia at Paseo de la Castellana 57 in Madrid, is Dani García's roughly 14-seat fire omakase restaurant that seasons everything with smoke and embers; it currently holds two MICHELIN stars.
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MAE Barcelona, at Sant Elíes 22 in Barcelona, serves creative cuisine in the €€€ bracket. Founded by three partners from Costa Rica, Colombia and Spain around the concept of "syncretism" (Sincretismo), it earned one MICHELIN star in 2025.
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Aürt is a modern-cuisine restaurant at Paseo del Taulat 262-264 in Barcelona; the MICHELIN Guide Spain 2022 list awarded it one star, and it remained in the starred lists of the 2024 and 2025 editions.
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Pulejo sits in Rome's Prati district, a restaurant named after its chef-patron's surname, serving contemporary Italian creative cuisine that weaves Lazio flavours with the chef's past experiences in a romantic, softly lit space; price level €€€€.
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One White Street occupies a 19th-century townhouse in Tribeca, New York, run by chef Austin Johnson and sommelier Dustin Wilson; it serves contemporary cuisine and has held one MICHELIN star since 2022.
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Kabuki, located at Avenida Presidente Carmona 2 in Madrid, is listed with Japanese cuisine (Japonesa); per the MICHELIN Guide Spain & Portugal 2022 it is a one MICHELIN star restaurant in Madrid.
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OMA is a lively, hugely fun Greek and Mediterranean restaurant near Borough Market in London, known for charcoal-grilled dishes and sharing plates; it holds one MICHELIN Star (2025).
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A Moderna, Creativa restaurant in Rome. Its rooftop terrace overlooks the Colosseum and ancient Roman landmarks, and the restaurant sits inside the Palazzo Manfredi hotel. Chef Giuseppe Di Iorio builds four tasting menus from Roman tradition, Campanian flavours and contemporary creations.
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Sushi Ichimura is a Japanese Edomae-style omakase restaurant in New York's Tribeca, where chef Eiji Ichimura presides over a 10-seat cedar counter; it was listed as a One Star restaurant in the 2024 MICHELIN Guide New York.
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Sen Omakase, located in Madrid's Chamartín district, is chef Steven Wu's kaiseki-driven omakase of some 30-plus courses unfolding across four spaces and closing with a matcha tea ceremony; it holds one MICHELIN star.
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Lasarte, located at Mallorca 259 in Barcelona, is a creative-cuisine restaurant in the €€€€ price bracket. Built on Martín Berasategui's culinary lineage and interpreted by chef Paolo Casagrande, it also offers Il Milione, a private dining experience inspired by Marco Polo's travels.
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Mauro Colagreco at Raffles London at The OWO sits on Whitehall in London, on the ground floor of the Raffles hotel created from the Old War Office; its modern cuisine puts over 70 varieties of British produce centre stage, and it holds one MICHELIN Star (2025).
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Pipero Roma sits on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II opposite the Chiesa Nuova church in Rome, where chef Ciro Scamardella creates modern, seasonal cuisine with Campanian ingredient accents; price level €€€€.
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Gofio, located at Caballero de Gracia 20 in Madrid, offers Canary Islands regional cuisine creatively reinterpreted by chef Safe Cruz through three tasting menus; it is on the Madrid one-star list of the MICHELIN Guide Spain 2025.
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Akrame, a creative-cuisine restaurant by chef Akrame Benallal near La Madeleine in Paris's 8th arrondissement, set in a black-dominated contemporary space; it appears in the starred list of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025 for Paris.
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A Giapponese, Asiatica contemporanea restaurant in Milan and a benchmark for Japanese cuisine in Italy; two tasting menus — latest creations and signature dishes — present a contemporary fusion of Japanese, Asian and European elements through wagyu gyoza, sushi, sashimi, tempura and robatayaki.
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Aida is a small Japanese restaurant tucked away in a lane of Paris's 7th arrondissement, its whitewashed facade easily missed, with just eight teppanyaki counter seats; it appears in the starred list of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025 for Paris.
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A creative restaurant in Milan; the archived MICHELIN profile lists its address as via privata della Bindellina, Milano 20155, with cuisine marked as Creativa. Chef Tommaso Arrigoni reinterprets Milanese traditions with modern technique, set around a Zen-style garden.
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Pur', inside the Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme in Paris' 2nd arrondissement, serves creative modern cuisine by chef Jean-François Rouquette and is listed in the Paris starred list of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025.
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A modern-cuisine restaurant on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris's 8th arrondissement, on the MICHELIN starred list. One of the Paris outposts of the L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon brand, with counter seating facing the kitchen brigade in a hushed atmosphere.
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A modern and creative-cuisine restaurant at 28 rue de la Tour-d'Auvergne in Paris's 9th arrondissement holding one MICHELIN star; the two women chefs Anne and Clio celebrate seasonal market produce in a single tasting menu, listed among the starred restaurants of the MICHELIN Guide France 2022.
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A Japanese/sushi restaurant on the Montmartre hillside in Paris's 18th arrondissement, price level €€€€. Light woodwork and an origami-style ceiling frame a two-variation omakase run by Chizuko Kimura and sushi master Takeshi Morooka; listed in the 2025 Paris starred list.
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Ogata occupies a private mansion at 16 rue Debelleyme in Paris's 3rd arrondissement (Le Marais), created by designer Shinichiro Ogata, offering traditional omakase-style Japanese cuisine; listed among the starred restaurants of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025.
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Le Gabriel, inside La Réserve Paris in the 8th arrondissement, is a three-MICHELIN-star restaurant listed as creative cuisine at €€€€; chef Jérôme Banctel unfolds Brittany and world travels through his "Virée" and "Périple" menus. Open Monday to Friday.
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A modern-cuisine restaurant on the right bank of the Seine in Paris's 16th arrondissement, holding Michelin stars, set aboard an Art Deco yacht facing the Eiffel Tower. Chef Frédéric Anton selects signature creations such as curry-scented crab and langoustine ravioli.
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Plénitude, inside the Cheval Blanc hotel in Paris' 1st arrondissement, is chef Arnaud Donckele's celebrated "nouvelle cuisine classique" table with three MICHELIN stars, listed in the Paris starred list of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025.
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A Japanese restaurant near square Louvois in Paris's 2nd arrondissement, price level €€€€, with just 8 seats. The chef works with ultra-fresh produce with surgical precision and restrained use of soy and wasabi; listed in the 2025 Paris starred list.
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A creative-cuisine restaurant in the Latin Quarter of Paris's 5th arrondissement, on the MICHELIN starred list. Chef Atsushi Tanaka serves an avant-garde, artistic cuisine from a minimalist space through a single seasonal tasting menu.
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An Italiana contemporanea, Moderna restaurant in Milan, a pillar of the city's dining scene for over sixty years; chefs Alessandro Negrini and Fabio Pisani celebrate Italy's products and territories in a contemporary key, with Aimo's iconic spaghettoni with spring onion, chili, olive oil and Ligurian basil.
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A fish and seafood restaurant in Paris's 7th arrondissement, founded by Jacques Le Divellec in 1983 and now run by Mathieu Pacaud, with a menu that follows the tide; listed in the MICHELIN Guide and on the 2025 France star list, currently temporarily closed.
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A Creativa, Italiana contemporanea restaurant in Rome. Riccardo Di Giacinto takes Lazio's and Italy's classic dishes apart and reassembles them—think Carbonara, lamb and tiramisu presented in creative form.
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A modern-cuisine restaurant at 16 avenue Hubert-Germain in Paris's 16th arrondissement, run by Marseille-born chef Jean-Louis Nomicos, who led the kitchens of Lasserre for many years; listed among the starred restaurants of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025.
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A modern-cuisine restaurant at 79 rue de la Tour in Paris's 16th arrondissement holding one MICHELIN star; the chef, who spent eighteen years at Hiramatsu, serves precise, season-driven French menus that change daily.
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A modern-cuisine restaurant near the Louvre in Paris's 1st arrondissement, holding Michelin stars. The kitchen weaves subtle Japanese notes into its cooking — koshihikari rice with roasted scallops, umeboshi with Racan pigeon — with a locavore focus.
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A legendary restaurant on Place de la Madeleine in Paris's 8th arrondissement, operating since the mid-19th century with its Majorelle woodwork intact, now led by a new team under Cyril Lignac and listed among the starred restaurants of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025.
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Le Faham, in the Batignolles area of Paris's 17th arrondissement, is listed by the MICHELIN Guide as modern cuisine at €€€; chef Kelly Rangama and pastry chef Jérôme Devreese named it after the faham, an orchid endemic to Réunion, and serve vibrant yet restrained cooking.
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Pierre Gagnaire, on rue Balzac in Paris' 8th arrondissement, is famed for its exploratory cuisine d'auteur; three MICHELIN stars since 1996, it is listed in the Paris starred list of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025.
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A Creativa, Mediterranea restaurant in Rome. Chef Daniele Lippi conceives his cooking in a broad Mediterranean sense, with menus that explore the sea and the land respectively, closing with desserts.
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A creative-cuisine restaurant at 41 rue de Montpensier in Paris's 1st arrondissement, facing the Palais-Royal, where chef Matan Zaken hosts guests around a single communal table in a vaulted cellar; listed among the starred restaurants of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025.
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Agapé, in Paris's 17th arrondissement, is a modern-cuisine restaurant led by chef Yoshi Nagato in a cosy, intimate setting; it appears in the starred list of the MICHELIN Guide France 2025 for Paris.
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A creative-cuisine restaurant in Paris's 7th arrondissement where Normandy-born chef David Toutain serves an imposed surprise menu of personal, technique-driven cooking; listed in the MICHELIN Guide and on the 2025 France star list, price range €€€€.
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Sur Mesure par Thierry Marx is located in the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Paris's 1st arrondissement, where chef Thierry Marx showcases creative cuisine; the MICHELIN Guide France 2023 awarded it two stars.
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A creative-cuisine restaurant in Paris's 16th arrondissement holding one MICHELIN star. Chef Pascal Barbot set up in the legendary former premises of Joël Robuchon's Jamin, with a cuisine blending Asian influences and plant-forward elements.
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A Moderna, Biologica restaurant in Milan holding a MICHELIN star; Norbert Niederkofler brings his sustainability ethos to Milan with three tasting menus spanning ethics, lake fare and vegetables, sourcing everything within an hour of the city, and terraces overlooking the Duomo and Castello Sforzesco.
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Le Clarence, in an 1884 hôtel particulier in Paris's 8th arrondissement, is a two-MICHELIN-star restaurant listed as creative cuisine at €€€€; chef Andrea Capasso pairs land and sea and unfolds themes through a procession of "satellite" bites. Open Tuesday to Saturday.
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A creative and modern-cuisine restaurant near Oberkampf in Paris's 11th arrondissement, holding Michelin stars. Named after the scent of freshly ploughed earth, it is home to Sarthe-born chef Maxime Bouttier's refined, season-led tasting menu in a two-storey townhouse.
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Louis is a modern-cuisine restaurant on rue de la Victoire in Paris's 9th arrondissement, listed as a one-star restaurant in the MICHELIN Guide France 2022.