Best Michelin-Starred Restaurants in New York City
Our New York City guide includes 72 Michelin-starred restaurants citywide. Their menus span French seafood, plant-based cooking, Korean fine dining and Japanese counters, as well as regional South Indian food and seasonal American small plates. Le Bernardin in Midtown-Times Square and Jungsik New York in Tribeca-Civic Center hold three Michelin stars, with Wine Spectator recognition accompanying both restaurants' wine programs.
Starred dining also includes à la carte formats. Semma in West Village focuses on regional South Indian cooking from Tamil Nadu. Cote in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square combines Korean steakhouse cooking with tableside grills and an extensive wine list. The Four Horsemen in Williamsburg pairs seasonal American small plates with natural wine, while Torrisi in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square serves modern Italian cooking with particular wine depth in Italy and Burgundy.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants holding Michelin stars, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
63 Clinton
1 Michelin star
At 63 Clinton, chef Sam Clonts and Raymond Trinh turn their Southeastern Arizona upbringing into a Michelin-starred New York tasting menu. Sonoran flavors, whole-animal butchery and seasonal ingredients give the Lower East Side restaurant a point of view beyond generic contemporary dining.
Aquavit
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Aquavit has served Scandinavian cooking in Midtown since 1987. Today Emma Bengtsson leads the two-Michelin-star kitchen, with lunch and two tasting-menu formats that bring seafood, preserved flavors and seasonal produce into a contemporary Nordic dining room.
Aska
2 Michelin stars
At ten-table Aska in Williamsburg, chef Fredrik Berselius builds a Nordic tasting menu from New York and Northeastern ingredients. The restaurant began in 2012, then reopened in a restored warehouse in 2016; the new location earned two Michelin stars within months.
Atera
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Atera holds two Michelin stars and an AAA 5 Diamond rating, placing it among a small tier of New York tasting-menu counters where Danish-influenced technique and seasonal ingredients converge. Chef Ronny Emborg's menu spans numerous courses that move between delicacy and richness, anchored by a wine program of 1,500 selections across 7,000 bottles. Dinner runs nightly at 77 Worth Street in Tribeca.
Atomix
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Atomix is where New York's Korean fine-dining conversation becomes precise, formal, and deeply contemporary. The counter format, illustrated course cards, and Junghyun Park's modern Korean cooking turn the meal into a study of accompaniment, sequence, and cultural translation rather than a conventional luxury tasting menu.
Bar Miller
1 Michelin star
Bar Miller earned a Michelin star in 2024 for its omakase counter on East 6th Street, where the kitchen behind Rosella applies a sustainable-sourcing ethos to Japanese technique. The menu draws heavily on local product, including New York state rice, and moves through courses that range from daikon vichyssoise to dry-aged nigiri and caviar-finished desserts. Open Wednesday through Saturday from 6 PM, with limited seats and corresponding demand.
bōm
1 Michelin star
Behind sister restaurant Oiji Mi on West 19th Street, bōm operates as one of New York's more deliberately constructed Korean fine-dining counters, holding a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking of #83 in North America (2025). The format centers on a marble counter with built-in barbecue grills, premium dry-aged beef cuts, and luxury supplements including uni, caviar, and truffle, stacked without apology into a tasting progression that runs Tuesday through Sunday evenings.
Bridges
1 Michelin star
Bridges occupies a warm, amber-toned room on Chatham Square in Chinatown, where chef Sam Lawrence draws from global culinary traditions to produce a menu that resists easy categorisation. Awarded a Michelin Plate in 2025 and recognised by Star Wine List, the restaurant operates at a mid-premium price point that places it well below the city's starred tasting-menu circuit while cooking with comparable ambition.
Café Boulud
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Café Boulud holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining recognition at its relaunched Upper East Side address on 63rd Street and Park Avenue. The prix fixe format moves between classic French technique, seasonal market cooking, and international influences, with a wine list of 825 selections and 8,000 bottles in inventory rated Star Wine List number one in 2024.
Casa Mono
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Casa Mono holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining top-500 ranking, operating from a compact Irving Place address with tapas rooted in the Costa Brava tradition. Lunch and dinner run daily until midnight, with cuisine priced in the $40–$65 two-course range and a 4,800-bottle Spanish wine inventory. For New York's Spanish dining tier, it is the benchmark casual counter.
César
2 Michelin stars
Opened in July 2024 in a former Hudson Street printing house, César earned two Michelin stars and a spot on North America's 50 Best Restaurants within months of its debut. Chef César Ramirez's 13-course tasting menu draws on Mexican, French, and Japanese influences to place rare seafood and luxury ingredients at the centre of one of New York's most closely watched new openings.
Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Tucked behind a Hell's Kitchen grocery store, The Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare operates at the summit of New York's counter-dining tier, two Michelin stars, a La Liste score of 91 points in 2026, and a ranked position in Opinionated About Dining's North America list. Chefs Max Natmessnig and Marco Prins lead a seafood-forward Japanese-French tasting menu served at a walnut counter where the kitchen has nowhere to hide.
Corima
1 Michelin star
Where the Lower East Side meets Northern Mexico: Corima opened in 2024 at 3 Allen St and quickly earned recognition on Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in North America list. Chef Fidel Caballero runs both à la carte and a 13-course tasting menu, anchored by agave spirits, sourdough tortillas made with Sonoran wheat, and technique that draws on Basque and Japanese influences as readily as Chihuahuan desert tradition.
Cote
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
America's only Michelin-starred Korean steakhouse, Cote occupies a dark, atmospheric room in the Flatiron District where tableside grills and dry-aged A5 Wagyu reframe what a steakhouse can be. The Butcher's Feast at $65 remains the entry point. Ranked No. 2 on Robb Report's 50 Best Steakhouses in North America 2025 and holding a Michelin star since 2024, it draws a global following without straying from its core premise.
Crown Shy
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Crown Shy occupies the ground floor of 70 Pine Street, one of Lower Manhattan's landmark Art Deco towers, bringing a Michelin-starred Modern American menu to the Financial District's lobby level. Chef Jassimran Singh leads a kitchen rooted in European technique with global inflections, backed by a 7,000-bottle wine inventory and consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining's North America rankings since 2023.
Daniel
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
Daniel Boulud’s Upper East Side restaurant offers seasonal French cooking by Executive Chef Eddy Leroux. Guests can choose prix-fixe, tasting or vegetarian menus in the formal dining room, or visit the Lalique-designed bar and lounge.
Dirt Candy
1 Michelin star
Dirt Candy holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking among North America's top 300 restaurants, placing Amanda Cohen's Lower East Side vegetarian counter well inside the city's serious tasting-menu tier. The format is a single vegetable-focused menu that treats no ingredient as a substitute for anything else, a position Cohen staked out years before plant-based cooking became a mainstream dining category.
Eleven Madison Park
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award
Eleven Madison Park is where New York fine dining's old signals of luxury meet a plant-based tasting-menu format built around provenance, restraint, and a serious wine program. Daniel Humm's kitchen carries major recognition, including OAD's 2026 North America ranking, La Liste scoring, Star Wine List inclusion, and Les Grandes Tables du Monde membership, but the more interesting story is how the room tests what luxury means without meat at the center.
Essential by Christophe
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin-starred French contemporary restaurant on the Upper West Side, Essential by Christophe holds a one-star rating and ranks among Opinionated About Dining's top restaurants in North America. Chef Christophe Bellanca's kitchen fuses classical French technique with East Asian influences across an evening-only format. The wine program runs to 2,450 bottles with particular depth in France.
Estela
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Estela helped define New York City’s modern downtown dining grammar: Mediterranean and contemporary cooking filtered through sharp acid, oil, grain, seafood, and a room that runs closer to a lively wine bar than a formal dining room. Its Michelin star, 2026 OAD Casual in North America ranking, and Star Wine List recognition keep it in the serious conversation without sanding off the looseness that made it matter.
Family Meal at Blue Hill
1 Michelin star
Family Meal at Blue Hill brings Dan Barber's farm-driven philosophy to Greenwich Village in a fixed, family-style format dominated by vegetables sourced from Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Chef Mark Ordaz leads an engaged team through a single seasonal menu where restraint and ingredient confidence define every course. Ranked #428 on Opinionated About Dining's North America list in 2024, it occupies a particular tier of New York farm-to-table dining that few restaurants in the city match.
Francie
1 Michelin star
Francie occupies a limestone-clad building in South Williamsburg, threading Mediterranean sensibility through a brasserie format that reads as genuinely French in discipline and distinctly New York in attitude. Ranked #108 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list and Pearl-recommended for 2025, it earns recognition in a city where serious cooking at this price point faces intense competition.
Frevo
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Frevo holds one Michelin star and consecutive Opinionated About Dining North America rankings (#174 in 2024, #186 in 2025) from an 18-seat counter in the West Village. Chef Franco Sampogna runs a dinner-only tasting menu that fuses French technique with Brazilian influence, drawing on Japanese-sourced proteins, long-aged European cheese, and a Star Wine List White Star-recognized cellar of 2,500 bottles weighted toward Burgundy, Italy, and Spain.
Gabriel Kreuther
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
Two Michelin stars, an AAA Five Diamond rating, and a La Liste score of 93 points position Gabriel Kreuther among Midtown Manhattan's most serious fine-dining addresses. The kitchen channels French-Alsatian technique through a menu that runs from foie gras terrine to hay-smoked duck, while a 10,000-bottle cellar with particular depth in Alsace, Burgundy, and Bordeaux makes it as strong a wine destination as a culinary one.
Gramercy Tavern
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Thirty years into its run, Gramercy Tavern remains one of New York's most dependable American restaurants, a Union Square Hospitality Group landmark that holds nine James Beard Awards and a La Liste ranking, serving seasonal farm-to-table cooking across two distinct formats: a walk-in Tavern and a reservations-only Dining Room. Chef Michael Anthony leads a kitchen anchored in local sourcing, backed by a wine list of 2,225 selections and sommelier depth that few American restaurants match.
Huso
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Tucked behind a caviar boutique on Greenwich Street in TriBeCa, Huso is the more ambitious second act of chef Buddha Lo's New York presence. The tasting menu deploys French technique around cured fish eggs and seasonal produce, with a wine list of 1,500 selections and sommelier Michael O'Callaghan steering it. Opinionated About Dining ranked it #244 in North America for 2025.
Icca
1 Michelin star
Tucked behind a cocktail bar on Warren Street in Tribeca, Icca is a Japanese omakase counter where Chef Kazushige Suzuki sources fish entirely from Japan and keeps nigiri deliberately traditional. Ranked #130 on Opinionated About Dining's North America list in 2025, the room trades theatrics for precision, with bookend courses that stretch into bold, creative territory.
Jean Georges
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
Jean Georges holds two Michelin stars and, where Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten's French technique meets Thai-inflected flavor logic across an ever-evolving tasting menu. The dining room's curved white seating and sheer drapes overlook Central Park, framing one of Manhattan's most recognized fine-dining addresses. A member of Les Grandes Tables du Monde and a La Liste Top 100 entry with 95 points in 2026.
Jeju Noodle Bar
1 Michelin star
Few Korean restaurants in New York operate at the intersection of sushi-grade seafood and deeply built ramyun the way Jeju Noodle Bar does. Holding a Michelin star since 2024 and ranked #171 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list, Douglas Kim's West Village counter delivers precise, technique-driven bowls at a price point that undercuts its direct peers by a significant margin.
Joji
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin-starred omakase counter at the base of One Vanderbilt, Joji operates in New York's upper tier of Japanese tasting formats, with nigiri built on a Koshihikari-Nanatsuboshi rice blend and seafood sourced largely from Tokyo's Toyosu Market. Ranked #262 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list, it prices firmly at the luxury end of the Midtown sushi spectrum. Closed Mondays and Sundays; lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturday.
Joo Ok
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Reached by freight elevator on the 16th floor of a Koreatown building, Joo Ok strips away the noise of Midtown to deliver a Korean tasting menu of disciplined precision. Chef Shin Chang-ho holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining North America recognition for 2025, placing the restaurant inside a small tier of Korean fine dining that bridges tradition and contemporary technique without fanfare.
Jua
1 Michelin star
Jua sits at the sharper end of New York's modern Korean tasting-menu tier, holding a Michelin star and consecutive Opinionated About Dining top-40 rankings since 2023. Chef Hoyoung Kim's counter on East 22nd Street frames Korean culinary tradition through premium product sourcing, raw fluke from Jeju Island, dry-aged Spanish branzino, wood-fired Australian lamb, in a sleek Flatiron dining room that runs Tuesday through Sunday from 6 PM.
Jungsik New York
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Jungsik New York helped move Korean fine dining in Manhattan from novelty to serious dining category. The TriBeCa restaurant links Korean structure and fermentation with contemporary tasting-menu technique, backed by James Beard recognition, La Liste scoring, Opinionated About Dining placement, and a cellar noted for Burgundy, Bordeaux, Champagne, California, Italy, and Germany.
Kochi
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Award of Excellence
Kochi brings the logic of Korean street skewers into a Michelin-starred tasting format on 10th Avenue. Chef Sungchul Shim threads fine-dining technique through dishes eaten with your hands, from Iberico pork done three ways to raw steelhead trout with pickled cherry tomatoes. Ranked #85 in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it sits in a narrow tier of New York restaurants where informality and precision operate on the same menu.
Kosaka
1 Michelin star
A 12-seat omakase counter on West 13th Street, Kosaka has held consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognition from 2023 through 2025, ranking #366 in 2024 and #382 in 2025 among North American restaurants. Fish arrives minimally embellished, with technique doing the work. Operating Tuesday through Saturday from 5 PM, it occupies the mid-to-upper tier of Manhattan's serious sushi scene.
L’Abeille
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A French-Japanese tasting counter in TriBeCa, L'Abeille ranked #190 on Opinionated About Dining's North America list in 2025 and has held a place on that guide since 2023. Chef Mitsunobu Nagae, trained across Joël Robuchon properties worldwide, runs an open kitchen in a room dressed with velvet booths, Christofle cutlery, and a marble bar. Dinner is served Tuesday through Saturday from 5 or 5:30 PM.
Le Bernardin
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
Le Bernardin New York reigns as the city's premier seafood destination, where Chef Eric Ripert's three-Michelin-starred artistry transforms ocean treasures into transcendent cuisine. This well-known Midtown institution has maintained The New York Times' four-star rating for over two decades, offering an unmatched fine dining experience centered on the philosophy that "the fish is the star."
Le Coucou
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Le Coucou brings classical French cooking into SoHo with the kind of precision and confidence that earned it a Michelin star and a place among Opinionated About Dining's top restaurants in North America. Chef Daniel Rose, an American who cooked in Paris's Second Arrondissement, applies Gallic technique to a room that reads as much downtown New York as it does brasserie. The wine program runs to 3,500 bottles with particular depth in Burgundy, Bordeaux, and Loire.
Le Pavillon
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Daniel Boulud's seventh New York restaurant occupies One Vanderbilt with a Michelin star, a 7,500-bottle wine list, and a menu built around seafood and vegetables rather than the traditional French canon. The dinner format opens into a full Think Vegetables Think Fruit tasting option, making this one of the few $$$$ rooms in Midtown where produce leads the multi-course logic. La Liste ranked it 79 points in 2026.
Mari
1 Michelin star
Mari, Chef Sungchul Shim's Michelin-starred follow-up to Kochi in Hell's Kitchen, reframes the casual handroll counter as a formal tasting menu built on Korean flavors and premium ingredients. Ranked #177 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list, the 9th Avenue counter operates nightly from 5 PM and sits at the $$$$ tier, dinner here is a deliberate, structured event rather than a drop-in meal.
Masa
2 Michelin stars
Masa is New York City’s high-command sushi room, built around a pre-set Japanese progression rather than à la carte choice.
Meju
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred chef's counter in Long Island City, recognized by New York Magazine's 43 Best Restaurants in New York (2025), where a decade of wild fermentation and aging shapes a deeply considered Korean tasting menu. Open Wednesday through Saturday, the format is intimate and unhurried, with banchan built from house-fermented doenjang, gochujang, and ganjang at the center of the experience.
Muku
1 Michelin star
Muku is a kaiseki-inspired counter in TriBeCa holding around ten seats, where the menu is structured around goho, the Japanese rule of five cooking techniques. Seasonality drives every course, from wagyu shabu shabu to housemade soba noodles milled from the chef's hometown buckwheat. Michelin recognition confirms its position inside New York's most demanding tier of Japanese fine dining.
Noda
1 Michelin star
An eight-seat omakase counter in Chelsea operating inside a speakeasy-styled space with exposed brick walls and a cocktail den called Shinji at its entrance. Noda holds a Michelin star and ranked #31 on Opinionated About Dining's North America list in 2025. Chef Shigeyuki Tsunoda's measured, tradition-rooted approach draws on warm rice, confident knife work, and a beverage program anchored by vintage Champagne and rare sake.
Nōksu
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence · Deep wine list
Behind a code-locked door on West 32nd Street in Koreatown, Nōksu operates a black marble counter format that places modern Korean technique, particularly its squab prepared in the style of Peking duck, against a $$$$ price tier occupied by Michelin-starred peers. The restaurant earned its first Michelin star in 2024 and runs dinner service Wednesday through Sunday, with a wine program of 1,075 selections weighted toward France and California.
Noz 17
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred omakase counter in Chelsea, Noz 17 is the downtown sibling of the Upper East Side original, with a seven-seat cypress bar and a procession of nigiri and otsumami that Opinionated About Dining ranked 38th in North America in 2024. Chef Junichi Matsuzaki's free-wheeling sequence keeps the format unpredictable in the clearest sense: product-driven, technically precise, and quietly serious about Japanese sushi tradition on New York terms.
odo
2 Michelin stars
A two-Michelin-star kaiseki counter on West 20th Street where locally sourced American ingredients meet classical Japanese technique. Odo ranks 39th in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list and earns 82.5 points from La Liste, placing it firmly in the upper tier of New York's Japanese fine dining scene. The counter opens Tuesday through Sunday, with both lunch and dinner seatings most days.
Oiji Mi
1 Michelin star
Oiji Mi holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining top-100 North America ranking, making it among the more credentialed contemporary Korean kitchens in New York City. Chefs Brian Kim and Tae Kyung Ku run a five-course prix fixe from their Flatiron address, where the format disciplines flavors toward restraint rather than spectacle. The beverage program, built on creative cocktails and a wine list, matches the ambition of the kitchen.
One White Street
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A Michelin-starred farm-to-table address in a 19th-century Tribeca townhouse, One White Street pairs a 6,000-bottle cellar with a menu built around produce from the team's upstate New York farm. The wine program ranks among the more decorated in the city, with three consecutive Star Wine List top-three finishes. Dinner runs à la carte or tasting menu format, with a market operating next door.
Oxomoco
1 Michelin star
Oxomoco holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking among North America's top casual restaurants, operating out of Greenpoint, Brooklyn since opening on Greenpoint Avenue. Chef Justin Bazdarich's kitchen ranges across Mexican regional traditions, wood-fired tacos, tlayuda, agua chile, at a price point that sits well below comparable starred rooms in Manhattan.
Per Se
3 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
Per Se is New York's formal French-contemporary counterpoint to the city's looser bistro revival: a tasting-menu room built on ceremony, cellar depth, and Central Park views rather than neighborhood spontaneity. Chef Chad Palagi leads the kitchen, with Thomas Keller as owner; recognition includes three Michelin stars in 2024, La Liste 92 points in 2026, and OAD North America ranking in 2026.
Red Paperclip
1 Michelin star
A Christopher Street storefront operating under a single red paperclip as its only exterior sign, Red Paperclip has climbed the Opinionated About Dining North America rankings three consecutive years, reaching #261 in 2025. Chef Kevin Chen channels Taiwanese heritage and a Queens upbringing through a farm-sourced New American format, with dishes that shift by season and carry Blue Hill at Stone Barns precision into a West Village register.
Restaurant Yuu
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred counter in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Restaurant Yuu places Chef Yuu Shimano's classic French technique in conversation with Japanese precision. Ranked 12th in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, the warehouse-scale dining room opens each service with a kitchen reveal that sets the register for what follows: a lengthy menu built around top-grade shellfish, proteins, and ingredients with clear provenance.
Rezdôra
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Rezdôra holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining Top 100 North America ranking for its precise, region-specific Emilia-Romagna cooking in Flatiron. The pasta program is the draw: handmade, technically demanding, and priced at $$$$. A wine list of 525 selections with deep Italian coverage and a $95 corkage makes it a serious destination for both food and bottle.
Saga
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Perched on the 63rd floor of a Wall Street Art Deco tower, Saga holds two Michelin stars and a wine list of 8,000 bottles with strengths in Burgundy, France, and Italy. Chef Charlie Mitchell brings a Southern-inflected American menu to one of New York's most architecturally compelling dining rooms. Dinner runs Tuesday through Saturday; the bar at Overstory on the 64th floor rounds out the evening.
Semma
1 Michelin star
Semma brought Tamil Nadu's regional cooking to Greenwich Village in 2022 and has not softened its position since. Chef Vijay Kumar's 2025 James Beard Award for Best Chef: New York State and a Michelin star confirm what the room already signals: this is South Indian food argued on its own terms, with fermented dosas, gunpowder spice, and falling-apart lamb that answer to no fusion brief.
SHMONÉ
1 Michelin star
Eyal Shani's West Village counter runs a daily-rotating menu rooted in neo-Levantine tradition, ranked #118 on Opinionated About Dining's Casual North America list for 2025. The kitchen leans hard on the grill and on produce sourced with enough discipline to make a new menu plausible every single day. Counter seating facing the open kitchen is the seat to request.
Shota Omakase
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred omakase counter in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Shota Omakase earns its 2024 star through rigorous sourcing, repeatedly refreshed rice, and a format that favors conversation over ceremony. The counter sits on a quiet street near Domino Park, operating Tuesday through Sunday evenings at the $$$$ price point.
Sushi Amane
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred omakase counter on East 44th Street, Sushi Amane operates in the disciplined tradition of Tokyo's tightest seatings: a worn wood counter, fish sourced directly from Japan, and rice seasoned with multiple vinegars. The progression runs from ankimo and amadai through sharply glazed nigiri to Okinawa brown sugar sorbet. Pearl-recommended and consistently reviewed at 4.6 on Google, it occupies a serious tier within New York's competitive omakase circuit.
Sushi Nakazawa
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Sushi Nakazawa's ten-seat Commerce Street counter has ranked among Opinionated About Dining's top North American restaurants every year from 2023 through 2025, placing it firmly in New York's upper tier of omakase dining. Chef Daisuke Nakazawa's 20-course format draws on Jiro Ono lineage and sources fish both locally and from Japan, with wine director Dean Fuerth overseeing a 1,580-bottle list strong in Champagne and Burgundy.
Sushi Noz
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
A two-Michelin-star Edomae-style omakase on the Upper East Side, Sushi Noz operates at the precise end of New York's high-end sushi market. Chef Nozomu Abe presides over a 200-year-old hinoki counter in a hushed, temple-like room, where seasonal otsumami give way to nigiri of considerable technical discipline. Ranked 29th in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it belongs to a small peer group of counters where Tokyo-calibre sourcing meets Manhattan pricing.
Sushi Sho
3 Michelin stars
Sushi Sho brings Edomae-style omakase to Midtown Manhattan with a rigor that few counters in North America match. Chef Keiji Nakazawa's fermentation-led approach treats sushi as living history rather than spectacle, earning the restaurant a #6 ranking on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list and two Michelin stars. The Hinoki counter on East 41st Street is among the city's most demanding reservations.
Tempura Matsui
1 Michelin star
Tempura Matsui brings centuries-old Edo-period mastery to Manhattan through New York's first Michelin-starred tempura omakase, where 19 intimate seats witness the well-known "Matsui Way" technique that transforms pristine ingredients into feather-light perfection at this Murray Hill culinary temple.
The Four Horsemen
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
A Williamsburg wine bar and restaurant built around natural wine and seasonal New American plates, The Four Horsemen holds a 2022 James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine Program and ranks #26 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual North America list. With 40 seats and a list spanning over 750 bottles, it operates in a tier where the wine program and the cooking carry equal weight.
The Modern
2 Michelin stars · Wine Spectator Grand Award · Deep wine list
The Modern sits inside New York's museum-district version of fine dining: contemporary American cooking shaped by French technique, a formal dining room overlooking MoMA's sculpture garden, and a looser Bar Room for à la carte eating. Recognition from Michelin, La Liste, Forbes Travel Guide, AAA, OAD and New York Magazine places it firmly in the city's serious tasting-menu conversation without making the room feel sealed off from Midtown life.
The Musket Room
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
On a well-worn stretch of Elizabeth Street in Nolita, The Musket Room operates in the tier where tasting-menu ambition meets genuine flexibility: omnivore or vegan menus alongside à la carte options, all driven by seasonal sourcing under Chef Mary Attea. Ranked #207 on Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list, it holds a position well above its neighbourhood's casual baseline and closer to the city's serious contemporary dining set.
Torien
1 Michelin star
Torien brings Michelin-starred yakitori mastery to NoHo's intimate 16-seat counter, where Chef Yoshiteru Ikegawa's Tokyo legacy meets New York City fine dining through binchotan-grilled omakase that transforms every part of the bird into theatrical culinary art.
Torrisi
1 Michelin star · Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence
Housed in the landmark Puck Building on Mulberry Street, Torrisi is Major Food Group's Michelin-starred reimagining of New York's Italian-American dining tradition. Ranked #69 in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it draws on the city's deli culture, Chinatown, and immigrant communities to produce food that reads as deeply local. The wine program runs to 850 selections and 4,700 bottles, with particular depth in Italy and Burgundy.
Tsukimi
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred kaiseki counter on East 10th Street, Tsukimi has climbed from Opinionated About Dining's Highly Recommended list in 2023 to a top-205 North America ranking by 2025. Chef Takinori Akayama's seasonal progression reads as disciplined and precise, shaped by a moon-viewing aesthetic that extends from the menu structure to the ceramics lining the walls.
Tuome
1 Michelin star
Tuome restaurant New York City occupies a measured position in the East Village's modern dining scene, where Chef Thomas Chen applies classical training to an Asian-inflected menu that holds consecutive rankings on Opinionated About Dining's North America Casual list. The room is intimate, the service knowledgeable without formality, and the kitchen's approach to Chinese-American fusion carries enough precision to hold its place year after year.
YingTao
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-starred Chinese-French fusion restaurant on 9th Avenue in Hell's Kitchen, YingTao reinterprets Chinese tradition through French fine dining technique. Soy milk custard, doubanjiang, and crab noodles with smoked tobiko illustrate an approach that tilts toward textural precision and restrained flavor. The room reads stylish and considered, matching a menu that earns its $$$$ pricing with genuine ambition.
Yoshino
1 Michelin star
On the Bowery in Lower Manhattan, Yoshino holds the #1 ranking on Opinionated About Dining's North America list for 2025 and a Michelin star, placing it at the summit tier of New York's omakase scene. Chef Tadashi "Edowan" Yoshida brings a precision-driven approach to sushi and yakiniku, anchored by a hinoki counter sourced from a 300-year-old tree and service that turns each course into a deliberate, theatrical moment.
Planning Michelin-starred restaurants in New York City
- How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in the city guide?
- Our New York City guide includes 72 Michelin-starred restaurants citywide, with 96 Michelin stars in total. The restaurants span tasting menus and à la carte dining, including French seafood, Korean fine dining, Japanese omakase, regional South Indian cooking and seasonal American cuisine.
- Which Michelin-starred restaurant specializes in natural wine?
- The Four Horsemen in Williamsburg specializes in natural wine and holds one Michelin star. Nick Curtola's kitchen serves seasonal American small plates, while the wine list spans over 750 bottles. The restaurant also holds a James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine Program.
- Which starred restaurants serve à la carte food?
- Semma, Cote and Torrisi serve à la carte food and each holds one Michelin star. Semma in West Village specializes in regional South Indian cooking. Cote in Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square is a Korean steakhouse, while Torrisi in SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square serves modern Italian cuisine.
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