Michelin Star Restaurants NYC (2026): The 12 We Recommend
The MICHELIN Guide's New York selection runs to 361 restaurants and only 69 carry a star. These are the twelve we recommend, ranked, with each room's tier stated the way the Guide states it.
What the MICHELIN Guide New York actually covers
The MICHELIN Guide's New York selection runs to 361 restaurants, and only 69 of them hold a star. Five hold three: Le Bernardin, Per Se, Eleven Madison Park, Jungsik and Sushi Sho. Fourteen hold two and fifty hold one. Another 77 carry a Bib Gourmand, the Guide's mark for value cooking, and the remaining 215 are Selected, the tier for restaurants the inspectors recommend without awarding a star.
That last distinction is where most New York lists go wrong. A restaurant can sit in the Guide, be written up by its inspectors and carry no star at all, and several of the hardest tables in the city are in exactly that position. Every tier below is stated the way the Guide states it.
Twelve picks, ordered the way we would send a guest rather than by star count: one room per kitchen, spread from Tribeca to the Upper East Side and across the river to Williamsburg, covering three-star tasting rooms, a modern counter, two Italian-American dining rooms, an omakase, a steakhouse, a seafood room and a view. We carry 28 Guide-listed New York restaurants in all. Last updated September 2026.
Le Bernardin
Le Bernardin has held three MICHELIN stars every year since the Guide arrived in New York in 2005, an unbroken run, and it opens this list on that record. Eric Ripert has run the Midtown kitchen since the mid-1990s on a single idea, that the fish is the star of the plate, and the menu moves from almost raw to barely touched to lightly cooked. Aldo Sohm keeps a 15,000-bottle cellar behind it.
Eleven Madison Park
Eleven Madison Park holds three MICHELIN stars for Daniel Humm's seasonal tasting, six courses in the dining room and four to five at the bar, in a hushed Art Deco room by Madison Square Park. Since October 2025 guests choose between dishes on select courses, the honey-lavender-glazed duck among them, and a fully plant-based menu remains an option. The bar takes walk-ins.
Jungsik
Jungsik became the first Korean restaurant in the United States to earn three MICHELIN stars in late 2024, and it holds them in the current guide. Chef-owner Jungsik Yim calls the cooking New Korean, and the Tribeca room serves one signature tasting the whole table shares: banchan, then striped jack with Oscietre caviar, mandoo filled with wagyu and foie gras, and galbi.
Atomix
Atomix holds two MICHELIN stars for a U-shaped counter wrapped around an open kitchen one level below the street in NoMad, where every course arrives on bespoke ceramics with a card explaining its ingredients. Junghyun Park's kitchen took the top spot on the inaugural North America's 50 Best list in 2025. It cannot work around vegan, vegetarian or celiac diets.
Sushi Nakazawa
Sushi Nakazawa holds one MICHELIN star for a two-hour omakase on Commerce Street with no a la carte ordering, built around Daisuke Nakazawa, the chef known from Jiro Dreams of Sushi. The Classic runs about twenty pieces of nigiri, through a tuna flight from lean akami to rich o-toro; the Chef's Menu opens with Ossetra caviar and A5 wagyu.
Daniel
Daniel holds one MICHELIN star and remains the Upper East Side room for the milestone occasion, with a soaring coffered ceiling, custom Bernardaud chandeliers and rotating museum-quality art in the former Mayfair Hotel. Eddy Leroux cooks a modern seasonal French menu as a three- or five-course prix fixe or a seven-course tasting. Jackets are strongly suggested.
Torrisi
Torrisi holds one MICHELIN star for Italian-American cooking given a fine-dining rewrite inside the landmark Puck Building, and the Guide's inspectors call it polished and genuinely warm at the same time. Rich Torrisi's menu runs from cucumbers New Yorkese to linguini with fifteen pink littleneck clams and duck alla Mulberry. Athletic wear is not permitted.
Sixty Three Clinton
Sixty Three Clinton holds one MICHELIN star and is the least famous room on this list. Sam Clonts cooks a seasonal tasting menu at $130 on the Lower East Side, drawn from a southeastern Arizona upbringing: Sonoran flavors, whole-animal butchery, a Breakfast Taco with ajitama and smoked trout roe, and a Choco Taco to finish.
Rezdora
Rezdora holds one MICHELIN star for Emilia-Romagna pasta in the Flatiron, and the regional pasta tasting is the reason to book it: dinner only, about two hours, the whole table taking part. Stefano Secchi learned the craft in Modena, and it shows in the gramigna with slow-braised sausage ragu in bianco. Dress is relaxed.
Don Angie
Don Angie is selected by the MICHELIN Guide rather than starred, and the record is worth stating plainly: it held one star in 2021 and 2022 and remains in the current New York guide without one. Angie Rito and Scott Tacinelli keep the West Village room small on purpose, and the Lasagna for Two, layered with Italian sausage bolognese and whipped robiolina, is still the headliner.
Peter Luger Steak House
Peter Luger Steak House is selected by the MICHELIN Guide, not starred, and has stood at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge since 1887. The kitchen revolves around USDA Prime beef, hand-selected and dry-aged on site before it goes under the broiler: the steak for two, three or four, the extra-thick sizzling bacon, the German fried potatoes. No credit cards, so bring cash or a US debit card.
Manhatta
Manhatta is listed in the MICHELIN Guide without a star, and it is here for the sixtieth floor of 28 Liberty Street: New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty through one wall of glass, the East River and the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges through the other. Michele Brogioni cooks three courses at $120 or four at $148, and the bar takes walk-ins.
Beyond the twelve
Twelve is a curation, not a census. The other sixteen Guide-listed New York restaurants we carry include more two-star rooms, more one-stars and a run of Selected tables that lost out on range rather than quality.
The MICHELIN Guide in our other cities
The Guide publishes a selection in 8 more of the cities we cover. Each of these lists is built the same way, checked against the Guide's own entries rather than against reputation, and says plainly which tier a room actually holds.
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