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La Tasquería, at Modesto Lafuente 82 in Madrid and run by chef Javi Estévez, is known for contemporary renditions of offal cookery across three tasting menus; per the 2022 annual list it is a one MICHELIN star restaurant in Madrid.
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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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A Japanese restaurant in New York City where chef Isao Yamada builds seasonal kaiseki-based tasting courses, awarded one MICHELIN star in 2025.
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Located in Munich's Hotel Bayerischer Hof, Atelier serves modern creative cuisine under Kevin Romes. It holds two MICHELIN Stars in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide Germany.
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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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Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare is a contemporary restaurant at 431 W. 37th St. in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, led by chefs Max Natmessnig and Marco Prins. Awarded two MICHELIN Stars in 2025, it is known for its walnut counter chef's-table experience wrapping around the kitchen.
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Sushi Nakazawa is a Japanese sushi restaurant at 23 Commerce St. in Manhattan's West Village, where the chef presents an omakase sequence at a sleek, contemporary ten-seat counter; it holds one MICHELIN Star (2025).
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A Japanese omakase/kaiseki restaurant in New York, listed with one star in the MICHELIN Guide New York 2023; its former Thompson Street location is now operated by Soba Ulala while Hirohisa prepares to relocate.
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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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A French restaurant set in a modern farmhouse in North Salem, New York, where chef Andrea Calstier crafts a tasting menu inspired by the south of France and Marseille; awarded one MICHELIN star in 2025.
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63 Clinton is a contemporary restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side led by chef Samuel Clonts, known for a precise, restrained tasting menu; it holds one MICHELIN Star in the 2025 MICHELIN Guide New York City.
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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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Uberto Restaurant, a Contemporary restaurant at the World of Quercus resort in Gay, Georgia, is open only on weekend evenings and holds one MICHELIN star in the 2026 guide.
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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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Gorse in Cardiff, run by chef Tom Waters, serves modern British cooking built on Wales's rich local larder; in 2025 it became the first restaurant in the city to win a MICHELIN Star.
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Located above the Dallmayr delicatessen in Munich, Alois - Dallmayr Fine Dining is led by Rosina Ostler's creative modern cuisine. It holds two MICHELIN Stars in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide Germany.
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A contemporary American restaurant on East 20th Street in Manhattan, New York, an iconic NYC dining destination with one MICHELIN star in 2025, offering an atmosphere that balances formality and ease.
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Hestia is a contemporary American restaurant in downtown Austin, Texas, centered on live-fire cooking around a roughly 20-foot hearth in its open kitchen, holding one MICHELIN Star in the 2026 guide.
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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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A contemporary French restaurant in Tribeca, Manhattan, New York, where chef Mitsunobu Nagae blends French technique with Japanese sensibility; awarded one MICHELIN star in 2025.
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Werneckhof Sigi Schelling near Munich's English Garden is run by chef Sigi Schelling, known for her light, pared-down contemporary French cuisine; it holds one MICHELIN Star in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide Deutschland.
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César is a contemporary seafood restaurant at 333 Hudson St. in Manhattan, New York, where chef César Ramirez presides over the kitchen himself. Awarded two MICHELIN Stars in 2025, it is known for top-tier seafood sourced worldwide and masterful sauces.
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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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Mark Poynton at Caistor Hall sits within a Georgian country house hotel in Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk, where chef Mark Poynton serves seasonal menus built on French classics; it won a MICHELIN Star in 2025.
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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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Oiji Mi is a contemporary Korean restaurant in Manhattan's Flatiron district, New York, run by chef Brian Kim, offering a multicourse prix fixe menu and holding one MICHELIN star since 2022.
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Housed in a historic building in Munich's Englischer Garten, 1804 Hirschau serves modern seasonal cuisine under a farm-to-table philosophy. It holds one MICHELIN Star in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide Germany.
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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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A French contemporary restaurant at the base of the Grace Building by Bryant Park in New York City, holding two MICHELIN stars in 2025 and known for the smoked sturgeon and sauerkraut tart and an old-school cheese trolley.
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Fabrik is a fully plant-based restaurant on Windsor Road in the Tarrytown neighborhood of Austin, Texas, sourcing produce from local Texas farms and holding one MICHELIN Star in the 2026 guide.
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A Japanese sushi restaurant on West 13th Street in Manhattan, New York, where chef Masatomo Soma serves omakase at a twelve-seat counter; awarded one star in the 2025 MICHELIN Guide New York City.
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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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Opulent Chinese restaurant in Downtown Dubai with a Regency-style Parlour and a club-like Library room; listed in the MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2026 selection.
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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.