Best Michelin-Starred Restaurants in Mendoza
Our guide counts 6 Michelin-starred restaurants in Mendoza, citywide, and 6 Michelin stars in total. Azafrán is in Godoy Cruz. Angélica Cocina Maestra, Zonda Cocina de Paisaje, and Brindillas are in Luján de Cuyo. Casa Vigil is in Chachingo, Maipú. Riccitelli Bistró is in Las Compuertas, Luján de Cuyo. Each latest Michelin award is a star for 2026. Sebastian Weigandt cooks at Azafrán, and Augusto García cooks at Zonda Cocina de Paisaje.
All six serve a tasting menu. Angélica Cocina Maestra also serves prix fixe, and Riccitelli Bistró also serves a set menu with estate wines and natural wine. Wine programs at Azafrán, Angélica Cocina Maestra, Casa Vigil, Zonda Cocina de Paisaje, and Riccitelli Bistró are exceptional, extensive and sommelier-led. Brindillas has an extensive sommelier-led list. Azafrán holds a Star Wine List. Angélica Cocina Maestra holds Wine Enthusiast Best Winery Restaurant.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding Michelin stars, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Angélica Cocina Maestra
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Angélica Cocina Maestra earned Mendoza its first Michelin star in 2025, operating from Cobos in Luján de Cuyo at the upper end of the city's creative dining tier. Chefs Josefina Diana and Juan Manuel Feijoo run a format grounded in regional produce and deliberate pacing, placing the restaurant alongside Casa Vigil and Azafrán in the small cohort of Mendoza tables where the cooking matches the wine country setting.
Azafrán
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Azafrán began as a deli on Avenida Sarmiento and evolved into one of Mendoza's most serious modern Argentine restaurants, earning consecutive Michelin Stars in 2024 and 2025 and a place on Latin America's 50 Best extended list. Under Chef Sebastian Weigandt, the menu reads as a considered argument for regional ingredients paired against a cellar that anchors the entire dining proposition.
Brindillas
1 Michelin star
Brindillas holds back-to-back Michelin stars (2024 and 2025) and sits among a small cluster of starred modern cuisine restaurants reshaping Luján de Cuyo's dining identity. Under chef Mariano Gallego, the kitchen applies contemporary technique to the Cuyo region's ingredients, drawing a reservation list that reflects Mendoza's rising profile as a serious fine dining destination.
Casa Vigil
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Tucked amid storybook vineyards at the foothills of the Andes, Casa Vigil distills the soul of Mendoza’s terroir into a quietly ornate dining experience. The kitchen composes seasonal, vineyard-driven menus that echo the cadence of the cellar—each course a dialogue with rare pours and coveted labels selected by Argentina’s most lauded winemaking talent. Sunlight filters through olive trees onto stone patios, the scent of wild herbs and warm earth perfuming the air as sommelier-led pairings trace the contours of altitude, soil, and time. For guests seeking an intimate immersion into the art of food and wine, Casa Vigil offers an atmosphere of understated elegance and polished hospitality where every detail—crystalline glassware, hand-fired ceramics, a whisper of smoke from the asador—has been tuned to sharpen the senses.
Riccitelli Bistró
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
At Las Compuertas, on the fringes of Mendoza's wine country, Riccitelli Bistró earned a Michelin Star in 2025 under chef Luc Mobihan, signalling a new tier of fine dining in Argentina's vineyard belt.
Zonda Cocina de Paisaje
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Zonda Cocina de Paisaje holds back-to-back Michelin stars (2024 and 2025) under chef Augusto García, placing it in a small tier of destination restaurants that have reshaped Mendoza's dining reputation. Located in Mayor Drummond, just outside the city centre, the restaurant works with the agricultural character of its surroundings, translating Cuyo landscape and produce into a focused, traditional menu.
Planning Michelin-starred restaurants in Mendoza
- How many Michelin-starred restaurants does this list include?
- This list has 6 restaurants, matching the citywide count of 6 Michelin-starred restaurants and 6 Michelin stars in total. They are Azafrán in Godoy Cruz, Angélica Cocina Maestra, Zonda Cocina de Paisaje, and Brindillas in Luján de Cuyo, Casa Vigil in Chachingo, Maipú, and Riccitelli Bistró in Las Compuertas, Luján de Cuyo.
- What is the latest Michelin award for these restaurants?
- Each restaurant on this list has a latest Michelin award of a star for 2026. Angélica Cocina Maestra in Luján de Cuyo and Riccitelli Bistró in Las Compuertas, Luján de Cuyo held a Michelin Plate before that star. Azafrán in Godoy Cruz, Casa Vigil in Chachingo, Maipú, Zonda Cocina de Paisaje in Luján de Cuyo, and Brindillas in Luján de Cuyo have Michelin stars from earlier years as well.
- Do the restaurants on this list serve tasting menus?
- All 6 restaurants on this list serve a tasting menu. Angélica Cocina Maestra in Luján de Cuyo also serves prix fixe. Riccitelli Bistró in Las Compuertas, Luján de Cuyo also serves a set menu. Azafrán in Godoy Cruz, Casa Vigil in Chachingo, Maipú, Zonda Cocina de Paisaje in Luján de Cuyo, and Brindillas in Luján de Cuyo serve the meal as a tasting menu.
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