Best Michelin-Starred Restaurants in Los Angeles
Our guide counts 25 Michelin-starred restaurants in Los Angeles and 33 Michelin stars citywide.
Providence in Hollywood and Somni in Norma Triangle hold three stars for 2026. Both serve tasting menus with sommelier-led wine lists.
Kato in Downtown, Mélisse in Santa Monica, Hayato in Downtown, and Vespertine in Hayden Tract hold two stars for 2026. Hayato serves kaiseki with seasonal seafood and vegetables. Vespertine has an extensive, sommelier-led wine list.
Sushi Kaneyoshi in Little Tokyo, Nozawa Bar in Golden Triangle, Mori Nozomi in Sawtelle, and Shin Sushi in Encino hold one star for 2026. Osteria Mozza in Hancock Park also holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. n/naka in Westside Village serves modern kaiseki with California seasonal produce and a kitchen garden.
Morihiro in Chinatown and Sushi Inaba in Koreatown hold one Michelin star for 2025.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding Michelin stars, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Citrin
1 Michelin star
Citrin holds a Michelin star on Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, where chef Cédric Staudenmayer runs a Californian kitchen with enough precision and consistency to rank #224 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list. The $$$$ price tier and sustained critical recognition position it firmly in the upper bracket of the city's fine-dining scene, with a loyal following that returns well beyond the novelty of a first visit.
Corridor 109
1 Michelin star
Corridor 109 occupies a suite on North Western Avenue in Los Angeles's Koreatown-adjacent corridor, a stretch that has quietly accumulated serious dining over the past decade. The address places it within reach of the city's mid-Wilshire restaurant belt, where format-driven, design-conscious spaces have increasingly defined how Los Angeles eats at the upper end of the market.
Hayato
2 Michelin stars
A seven-seat kaiseki counter in Downtown L.A.'s Row DTLA, Hayato holds two Michelin stars and ranked second on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list in 2024. Reservations open at the start of each month and close within minutes. Chef Brandon Hayato Go prepares each course in full view of diners, with commentary on provenance and seasonality that turns the counter into something closer to a seminar than a service.
Holbox
1 Michelin star
Holbox makes Los Angeles seafood feel inseparable from the city’s market culture: counter service, Mexican coastal technique, Southern California sourcing, and serious national recognition in a room shared with other vendors. Chef Gilberto Cetina Jr’s cooking has drawn James Beard attention and OAD ranking, but the draw is the way ceviches, tacos, tostadas, aguachiles, dry-aged fish, and a weekly tasting format make a market stall operate at restaurant-review gravity.
Kali
1 Michelin star
Kali on Melrose Avenue holds a Michelin star and a sustained ranking inside Opinionated About Dining's North America top 130, placing it among the tighter tier of serious Californian tasting-menu restaurants in Los Angeles. Chef Kevin Meehan works within a framework that treats local produce as the fixed point and applies precision technique as the variable. Dinner runs Wednesday through Sunday, with a price range that competes directly with the city's other starred counters.
Kato
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Kato reads Los Angeles through Taiwanese American fine dining rather than through imported tasting-menu orthodoxy. Jon Yao's cooking carries the speed, heat, and precision of Chinese technique into a composed dinner format, while Ryan Bailey's beverage program has become a major part of the restaurant's national standing.
KOJIMA
1 Michelin star
Kojima on Sawtelle Boulevard sits within one of Los Angeles's most concentrated corridors of Japanese dining, where the ritual of the meal carries as much weight as the food itself. The Sawtelle Japantown strip has long sorted itself into tiers, and Kojima occupies a position worth understanding before you book. Here is what the room and the table demand of a first-time visitor.
Lielle
1 Michelin star
On West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, Lielle occupies a address that places it squarely in the city's mid-Westside dining corridor, a stretch that has quietly accumulated serious restaurant credentials over the past decade. With a format that rewards collaborative front-of-house craft as much as kitchen precision, Lielle sits in the tier of LA dining rooms where the full-table experience is the product, not just the food.
Mélisse
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
A two Michelin-starred tasting counter inside Josiah Citrin's larger Citrin restaurant on Wilshire Boulevard, Mélisse operates at 14 seats with a menu that layers classic French technique over California seasonal produce. Recognized by La Liste (91pts, 2025), Les Grandes Tables du Monde, and the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants, it represents the city's most sustained argument for French fine dining on the Westside.
Meteora
1 Michelin star
Meteora on Melrose Avenue is Jordan Kahn's live-fire restaurant where a zero-waste ethos and sustainably sourced wild ingredients shape a menu that reads as both primal and considered. Ranked #197 on Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in North America (2025) and holding a Michelin star since 2024, it occupies a distinctive position in Los Angeles's upper tier of creative tasting-format dining.
Mori Nozomi
1 Michelin star
Opened in March 2024, Mori Nozomi earned a Michelin star in its first full year and landed on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list, ranked 53rd. Chef-owner Nozomi Mori runs an eight-seat counter in Sawtelle, leading an all-female team through a kaiseki-inflected omakase that folds farmers market pickles, fresh wagashi, and seasonal Japanese seafood into a format that reads as distinctly its own.
Morihiro
1 Michelin star
Morihiro Onodera's Echo Park omakase counter holds a Michelin star and a No. 6 ranking on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list, placing it among the more decorated sushi destinations in Los Angeles. Operating Wednesday through Sunday from 6–9 pm, the intimate format centres on Onodera's celebrated shari, rice milled in-house and seasoned with red vinegar, served on ceramic dishware he crafts himself.
n/naka
1 Michelin star
A two-Michelin-star kaiseki counter in Culver City, n/naka translates a centuries-old Japanese dining tradition through California's seasonal produce and a kitchen garden grown by the chefs themselves. Niki Nakayama and Carole Iida-Nakayama have held their stars since 2011, ranking ninth on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants 2024 list and drawing a reservation queue that rivals any tasting-menu address in the country.
Nozawa Bar
1 Michelin star
Nozawa Bar holds a Michelin star and a consistent position inside Opinionated About Dining's North America rankings, operating from a discreet address on Canon Drive in Beverly Hills. Chef Osamu Fujita runs an omakase format that sits at the upper end of the Los Angeles sushi tier, priced against peer counters rather than entry-level options. Service runs Tuesday through Saturday evenings, with Sunday and Monday closed.
Orsa & Winston
1 Michelin star
Inside the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building in downtown Los Angeles, Orsa & Winston holds a Michelin star and a top-20 place on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list for its five-course pescatarian tasting menu that draws equally from Japanese and Italian traditions. At $150 per person, it sits at the more accessible end of the city's fine-dining tier, with dishes built around peak-season California produce and a counter format that puts the kitchen on full display.
Osteria Mozza
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Open since 2007 on Melrose Avenue, Osteria Mozza holds a Michelin star and a James Beard Award in Nancy Silverton's corner, and it has shaped how Los Angeles understands Italian cooking at the table-cloth tier. The mozzarella bar anchors the room; handmade pasta and a wine list of serious depth do the rest. Ranked 30th on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list for 2024, it remains a benchmark in the city's Italian category.
Pasta|Bar
1 Michelin star
Holding consecutive Michelin stars in 2024 and 2025, Pasta|Bar operates in the quieter, more deliberate tier of Los Angeles fine dining from its Encino address on Ventura Boulevard. Chef Alexander Kunz frames contemporary pasta as occasion-worthy, with a format and price point that place it firmly alongside the city's most serious tasting-counter experiences.
Providence
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Providence is Los Angeles fine dining at its seafood end: formal, sustainability-minded, and built around Michael Cimarusti's long commitment to precise contemporary cooking. Its 2026 James Beard Award for Outstanding Hospitality and OAD North America ranking place it in the city's serious dining bracket rather than its casual seafood lane.
Restaurant Ki
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
A ten-seat chef's counter in Little Tokyo, Restaurant Ki earned a Michelin star in 2025 within its first full year of operation. Chef Ki Kim, trained at Atomix and Jungsik in New York, delivers a seafood-centric tasting menu that draws on both Korean tradition and French technique.
Seline
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Seline brings a tasting menu format rooted in California seasonality and surrealist technique to Santa Monica's Main Street dining strip. Chef Dave Beran's kitchen deploys flash-frozen preparations and braised slow-cooked dishes within a cohesive progression that balances creative provocation with genuine comfort. A 2025 Michelin Plate recognition places it in the city's fine dining conversation at the summit price tier.
Shin Sushi
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred omakase counter on Ventura Boulevard, Shin Sushi holds a rare position in the San Fernando Valley's dining scene: earning back-to-back Michelin recognition in 2024 and 2025 while ranking among Opinionated About Dining's top 300 restaurants in North America. Chef Taketoshi Azumi's evening-only format sets a deliberate pace against the Valley's more casual sushi tradition.
Somni
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Somni, a 14-seat tasting counter in West Hollywood, holds three Michelin stars under Chef Aitor Zabala, whose training at El Bulli informs a menu that bridges Basque and Catalan technique with Californian produce. Wine Director Caroline Costarella oversees a 1,050-bottle list with particular depth in Spain, California, and France. La Liste placed Somni at 96 points in its 2026 ranking.
Sushi Inaba
1 Michelin star
A six-seat Michelin-starred omakase counter operating within the larger Inaba Japanese Restaurant on Beverly Boulevard. Chef Yasuhiro Hirano builds each sequence around micro-seasonal and aged seafood, with technique that earned a 2025 Michelin star and a 31st-place ranking on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list in 2024. Reservations are highly competitive; booking several weeks ahead is advisable.
Sushi Kaneyoshi
1 Michelin star
A 10-seat Edomae omakase counter in the basement of a Little Tokyo office building, Sushi Kaneyoshi holds a Michelin star and ranked #78 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list. Chef Yoshiyuki Inoue's focus on hikarimono and Edomae technique draws serious connoisseurs to one of Los Angeles's most demanding reservations.
Vespertine
2 Michelin stars
Vespertine occupies architect Eric Owen Moss's steel-and-glass Culver City structure known as the Waffle, where Jordan Kahn's two-Michelin-starred menu unfolds over roughly four hours. The cooking draws on wild-foraged and regenerative ingredients mapped to California's four regions, producing a dining format that sits closer to performance art than conventional tasting menu. Ranked #98 in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025 and awarded 76 points by La Liste in 2026.
Planning Michelin-starred restaurants in Los Angeles
- How many Michelin-starred restaurants are on this list?
- This list has 25 Michelin-starred restaurants, matching the citywide count in our Los Angeles guide. Those restaurants hold 33 Michelin stars citywide. Tasting menus, kaiseki, and omakase counters are on the list, including Providence in Hollywood, Hayato in Downtown, and Sushi Kaneyoshi in Little Tokyo.
- Which restaurants hold three Michelin stars?
- Providence in Hollywood and Somni in Norma Triangle hold three Michelin stars for 2026. Providence serves a seafood tasting menu and holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence, with an exceptional sommelier-led list. Somni serves an avant-garde tasting menu at a 14-seat counter, with a 1,050-bottle list of particular depth in Spain, California, and France.
- Which restaurants hold two Michelin stars?
- Kato in Downtown, Mélisse in Santa Monica, Hayato in Downtown, and Vespertine in Hayden Tract hold two Michelin stars for 2026. Kato has an exceptional list with sake. Mélisse holds a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Hayato is a seven-seat kaiseki counter with a sake program. Vespertine's list is extensive and sommelier-led.
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