Top 10 Best Michelin Star Restaurants in the World

Led by Swiss chef Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park in Manhattan's Flatiron district has held 3 Michelin stars since 2012 and was named World's Best Restaurant in 2017. In 2021 it became New York City's first plant-based restaurant to hold 3 Michelin stars — a radical transformation that generated global culinary debate. EMP's reimagining of classic New York dishes and its gallery-like setting overlooking Madison Square Park, near 40,000 daily visitors, make it one of the most discussed restaurant reinventions in modern culinary history.

Thomas Keller's The French Laundry in the Napa Valley town of Yountville has held 3 Michelin stars continuously since the California guide launched in 2006, and was named the World's Best Restaurant in 2003 and 2004. The 9-course prix fixe menu — never repeating an ingredient within a tasting — costs $350 per person and operates from a converted 1900 laundry building with only 16 tables. Keller is the only American chef to simultaneously hold 3 Michelin stars at two different restaurants (The French Laundry and Per Se in New York).

Chef Mauro Colagreco's Mirazur in Menton, France, earned its 3rd Michelin star in 2019 and was named World's Best Restaurant in 2019. Located on the French Riviera with Mediterranean and Italian border views, the restaurant sources from its own biodynamic garden, coastal terraces, and the sea. Colagreco — an Argentine chef trained in France — was the first non-French chef to receive 3 Michelin stars in France, and his lunar farming calendar menus, aligned with root, flower, fruit, and leaf days, have made Mirazur a culinary pilgrimage destination. Mirazur's biodynamic garden provides 80% of its produce.

Chef Virgilio Martinez's Central in Lima, Peru, was named World's Best Restaurant in 2023 and earned its first Michelin stars in 2024. Central's tasting menu explores Peru's extraordinary biodiversity through "altitudes" — courses themed around specific ecosystems from the Amazon (sea level) to the Andes above 4,000 metres — using over 200 ingredients sourced from 30+ ecosystems. Central's success has catalysed Lima's emergence as one of the world's most significant culinary capitals.

Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester in London's Mayfair has held 3 Michelin stars since 2010, and Ducasse himself holds more Michelin stars than any chef in history with a total of 20 stars across his global restaurant empire. He is the only chef to simultaneously hold 3 Michelin stars in three different cities (Paris, London, and Monaco), and his Monaco flagship Le Louis XV was the first restaurant outside France to receive 3 Michelin stars in 1987. Ducasse's kitchens have trained generations of the world's most influential chefs. With 20 stars total, The Dorchester's menu costs $280 per person, 20% cheaper than The French Laundry's tasting menu.

Chef Eric Ripert's Le Bernardin in Midtown Manhattan has held 4 New York Times stars for over 30 consecutive years — the longest streak of any New York restaurant — and 3 Michelin stars since the New York guide launched in 2006. Founded in Paris in 1972 by Gilbert and Maguy Le Coze before relocating to New York in 1986, the restaurant specialises exclusively in seafood prepared with classical French technique. Le Bernardin's longevity — maintaining the maximum rating across two continents for over 35 years — is unmatched in fine dining history and with a 100% retention rate of its 3 Michelin stars since 2006.

Chef Rasmus Kofoed's Geranium in Copenhagen received its 3rd Michelin star in 2016 — becoming Denmark's first restaurant to reach the maximum rating — and was named World's Best Restaurant in 2022. Located on the 8th floor of the Faelledparken stadium with views over Copenhagen's parks, Geranium's 18-20 course menu focuses on Nordic ingredients presented with crystalline visual precision.