Best Michelin-Starred Restaurants in Dubai
Our guide counts 20 Michelin-starred restaurants in Dubai citywide, holding 27 Michelin stars in total. Palm Jumeirah and Jumeira have the largest shares of this list. The cooking runs from modern Indian and modern French to Japanese omakase, historic British dishes, Portuguese cooking, and a contemporary Middle Eastern bistro.
Trèsind Studio and FZN by Björn Frantzén, both in Palm Jumeirah, hold three Michelin stars. Five restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards: FZN by Björn Frantzén, Ossiano, and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Palm Jumeirah, Al Muntaha in Umm Suqeim, and Hakkasan Dubai in Palm Jumeirah. Hakkasan Dubai pours sake as well as wine. Orfali Bros in Jumeira holds a Michelin star for small plates. 11 Woodfire in Jumeira holds a Michelin star for grilling over oak, hickory, and hay.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding Michelin stars, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
11 Woodfire
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred wood-fire kitchen operating out of a Jumeirah villa, 11 Woodfire ranks #28 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and carries a Opinionated About Dining placement for 2025. Chef Brando Moros builds his menu across meat, seafood, and vegetables, treating each with the same precision over oak, hickory, and hay coals. Dinner service runs from 6 pm on Mondays; Tuesday through Sunday opens at noon.
Al Muntaha
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Perched on the 27th floor of the Burj Al Arab, Al Muntaha holds a Michelin star and a position in the La Liste global rankings, pairing contemporary French cuisine under Chef Saverio Sbaragli with a wine list of 1,455 selections and 9,000 bottles in inventory. The cellar draws heavily from France, Italy, California, and Champagne, overseen by Wine Director Samuel Lacroix. Few dining rooms in Dubai place this much emphasis on both kitchen credentials and list depth simultaneously.
Alici Restaurant
1 Michelin star
Alici holds a Michelin star at Borgo Santandrea, a clifftop hotel just outside Conca dei Marini on the Amalfi Coast. Chef Crescenzo Scotti draws from the coastal flavours of Amalfi, Naples, and his native Ischia, with Amalfi lemon threading through much of the menu. Dinner is served on a terrace with a majolica floor overlooking the sea, and the setting is as deliberate as the cooking.
Armani-Ristorante Dubai
1 Michelin star
Located at lobby level inside the Burj Khalifa, Armani/Ristorante Dubai is MICHELIN Guide-selected and 76 points on La Liste's 2026 ranking. The menu runs from gold-leaf burrata and blue lobster tortelli to an eight-course degustation, all served inside a room of caramel tones, marble floors, and an open kitchen that faces the dining room directly.
Avatara Restaurant
1 Michelin star
Avatara holds a Michelin star and a 2025 ranking on Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Asia for its 18-course 'Rasas' tasting menu, which is entirely plant-based and free of garlic and onion. Set in Dubai Hills Estate, it represents the serious end of modern Indian vegetarian fine dining in the UAE, with a format that rewards patience and attention.
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
On the second floor of the Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Atlantis The Royal, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal reconstructs centuries of British culinary history through dishes drawn from medieval manuscripts, Tudor kitchens, and Georgian banquet tables. The wine program runs to 1,560 selections across 7,310 bottles, with Burgundy and Bordeaux as the headline strengths. Ranked #33 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and #76 on La Liste's 2026 global list.
FZN by Björn Frantzén
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
FZN by Björn Frantzén holds three Michelin stars at Atlantis, The Palm, placing it among Dubai's most formally recognised fine-dining addresses. Led by chef Torsten Vildgaard, the restaurant runs a nine-course tasting menu that draws on modern European technique with Japanese influences. La Liste ranked it at 97 points in 2026, and its wine program has maintained a top-15 position on Star Wine List throughout 2025.
Hakkasan Dubai
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
One of only a handful of Chinese fine-dining addresses in Dubai to hold a Michelin star, Hakkasan at Atlantis The Palm has anchored the city's premium Chinese scene since 2011. The $$$$-tier room pairs darkwood lattice drama with Cantonese cooking that consistently earns a 4.4 on Google across nearly 900 reviews. For a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star hotel restaurant, the value argument is credible.
Hōseki
1 Michelin star
Hōseki holds a Michelin star for 2024 and 2025 and a La Liste score of 76 points, positioning it among Dubai's most serious Japanese counters. Located on Jumeirah Bay Island, Chef Masahiro Sugiyama's omakase format operates at the upper end of Dubai's $$$ Japanese tier. Demand consistently outpaces availability, making forward planning essential.
Il Ristorante-Niko Romito
2 Michelin stars
Il Ristorante-Niko Romito holds two Michelin stars at the Bvlgari Resort on Jumeirah Bay Island, placing it among Dubai's most decorated Italian tables. The kitchen operates under the intellectual framework Niko Romito developed at Reale in Abruzzo, applied here to a setting of Arabescato marble and private marina views. Reservations at this price tier warrant advance planning.
Jamavar
1 Michelin star
Jamavar in Dubai's Opera District earned a Michelin star in 2025, placing it among a small tier of South Asian restaurants in the Gulf where classical Indian technique meets contemporary presentation. Under Chef Surender Mohan, the kitchen draws on regional traditions that rarely surface in the city's broader Indian dining scene. Located at Address Residences Opera District, it sits within the Burj Khalifa neighbourhood's most densely credentialled restaurant cluster.
La Dame de Pic Dubai
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
La Dame de Pic Dubai holds consecutive Michelin stars for 2024 and 2025, placing it among a small group of French fine dining addresses in the UAE that have earned sustained critical endorsement. Situated on the 25th floor of One&Only One Za'abeel, with a Star Wine List ranking in the top five for 2025, it operates at the upper tier of Dubai's formal dining scene.
Manāo
1 Michelin star
Manāo brings a Michelin-starred Thai contemporary kitchen to Jumeirah 1, where an India-born, Dubai-raised chef channels years spent in Thai working kitchens into a menu framed around Emirati context. The result is one of Dubai's most considered Southeast Asian addresses, earning its first Michelin star in 2025 and rated 4.9 on Google across early reviews.
moonrise
1 Michelin star
Twelve seats, twice nightly, in a converted Al Satwa address that holds a Michelin star and a top-ten MENA ranking from the World's 50 Best. Chef Solemann Haddad's 12-course creative menu is plated at the counter in full view of every diner. The format is closer to a private kitchen than a conventional restaurant, and the reservation list reflects that scarcity.
Orfali Bros
1 Michelin star
Orfali Bros has held the top position in the Middle East & North Africa's 50 Best Restaurants ranking for three consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025) and re-entered the World's 50 Best at number 46 before climbing to 64, all while operating as a neighbourhood bistro on Al Wasl Road. Three Syrian-born brothers run the kitchen across two floors: savoury below, pastry above, with a Michelin star awarded in both 2024 and 2025.
Ossiano
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Ossiano at Atlantis, The Palm holds a Michelin star (2025), ranks #5 in the World's 50 Best MENA 2024, and scores 93.5 points on La Liste 2025. Chef Grégoire Berger's 10-course tasting menu maps the Atlantic coastline, from Seville to Brittany, in a 54-seat dining room set against floor-to-ceiling aquarium windows. Wine Director Gordana Josovic oversees 885 selections across 4,115 bottles, with particular depth in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Italy.
Row on 45
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Row on 45 holds two Michelin stars (2024–2025) and a World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 rank of #17, operating from the 45th floor of Grosvenor House Dubai. The 17-course tasting menu unfolds across three distinct spaces for a maximum of 22 covers per sitting, with wine pairing programmes overseen by head sommelier Lorenzo Abussi. Reservations are required; business casual dress applies.
Smoked Room
1 Michelin star
Smoked Room at The Palm Jumeirah holds a Michelin star and a top-45 ranking in the World's 50 Best MENA list for 2024, placing it among Dubai's most critically recognised contemporary tables. Chef Massimiliano Delle Vedove's kitchen works a fire-and-smoke format that earns its weight in a city where theatrical dining concepts are common but rarely this disciplined.
STAY by Yannick Alléno
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
STAY by Yannick Alléno brings two Michelin stars to Palm Jumeirah inside the Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star One&Only The Palm. Chef Ilya Evdokimov executes contemporary French technique across a five- and six-course menu format, with a dining room defined by black crystal chandeliers, vaulted ceilings, and Baroque detailing. La Liste has scored the kitchen at 85 points in both 2025 and 2026.
Tasca by José Avillez
1 Michelin star
Tasca by José Avillez holds consecutive Michelin stars (2024 and 2025) for Portuguese cooking on Jumeirah Beach Road, placing it inside Dubai's small tier of European chef-led fine dining that earns sustained Michelin recognition. The menu draws on the traditions of the Portuguese tasca, the neighbourhood tavern, while operating at a price and format well above that register, making it one of the more considered repositions of Iberian culinary identity anywhere in the Gulf.
Trèsind Studio
3 Michelin stars
Trèsind Studio sits in Dubai’s high-spend Indian dining tier, where tasting-menu structure, spice technique, and theatre carry more weight than à la carte familiarity. Himanshu Saini’s 20-seat format has serious external validation: Michelin three stars in 2025, OAD Top Restaurants in Asia Ranked #2 in 2026, La Liste 93 points in 2026, and Tatler Best Middle East Restaurant of The Year 2025.
Planning Michelin-starred restaurants in Dubai
- How many Michelin-starred restaurants does the guide count in Dubai?
- Citywide, our guide counts 20 Michelin-starred restaurants in Dubai, holding 27 Michelin stars in total. Trèsind Studio and FZN by Björn Frantzén, both in Palm Jumeirah, hold three Michelin stars. STAY by Yannick Alléno in Palm Jumeirah and Il Ristorante-Niko Romito in Jumeira are also on this list.
- Which neighborhood has the most restaurants on this list?
- Palm Jumeirah has more restaurants on this list than any other neighborhood. The Palm Jumeirah restaurants are Trèsind Studio, FZN by Björn Frantzén, STAY by Yannick Alléno, Ossiano, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Hakkasan Dubai, and Smoked Room, and each holds a Michelin star.
- Which restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards?
- Five restaurants on this list hold Wine Spectator awards. FZN by Björn Frantzén, Ossiano, and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Palm Jumeirah, and Al Muntaha in Umm Suqeim, hold Best of Award of Excellence. Hakkasan Dubai in Palm Jumeirah holds Award of Excellence.
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