The Places · Page 14
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01.Modern Venetian Fine Dining
Glam Restaurant by Enrico Bartolini
Venice, Italy
Inside Palazzo Venart on the Grand Canal, Glam holds two Michelin stars under resident chef Donato Ascani, working within a framework established by multi-starred Enrico Bartolini. Two tasting menus divide between Venetian-rooted dishes and Bartolini's signature canon. La Liste awarded 90 points in both 2025 and 2026. Arrival by private water taxi is possible, which fits the setting precisely.
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02.New Nordic Tasting Menu
DILL
Reykjavík, Iceland
Iceland's only Michelin-starred restaurant, DILL on Laugavegur 59 holds a single star (2024 to 2025) and a La Liste score of 77 points for 2026. Chef Gunnar Karl Gíslasson builds tasting menus around foraged and farmed Icelandic ingredients, with décor, dried plants gathered by the kitchen team, that extends that foraging logic into the room itself. No standard menu is available; vegetarians should notify on booking.
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03.Basque Grill with Dry-Aged Steaks
Laia Erretegia
Hondarribia, Spain
A Michelin Plate asador on the slopes of Mount Jaizkibel, Laia Erretegia occupies a converted country-house stable outside Hondarribia and runs one of the Basque Country's more serious dry-aging programmes. Beef is aged a minimum of 30 days for the premium rib and at least 60 days for the dry-aged côte de boeuf. Ranked #168 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2025, it draws a committed lunch crowd and operates a tight weekly schedule.
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04.Traditional Italian with California Seasonality
Osteria Mozza
Los Angeles, United States
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.
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05.Modern Spanish with Nara Influences
akordu
Nara, Japan
Two Michelin stars and seven consecutive Tabelog Awards in a converted house near Nara Park, akordu brings modern Spanish technique to ancient Japan's most storied city. Chef Hiroshi Kawashima's menu is rooted in Nara's ingredients and history, with a wine program weighted toward the Iberian peninsula. Dinner runs JPY 20,000 to 29,999; lunch is a more accessible entry point at JPY 10,000 to 14,999.
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06.Winery
Taittinger
Reims, France
Taittinger places Reims Champagne in direct contact with its chalk foundation: the visit is built around cellars cut into fourth-century quarries beneath the city. For travellers comparing the grandes maisons, the draw is less about spectacle than geology, age, and scale, with the house's first vintage in 1943 and Alexandre Ponnavoy now attached to the winemaking direction.
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07.Modern Jiangnan Cuisine
Jie Xiang Lou
Hangzhou, China
Among Hangzhou's Michelin-starred Zhejiang dining rooms, Jie Xiang Lou operates at the intersection of classical technique and lakeside retreat, set within the Zixuan Resort on Bapanling Road. Holding one Michelin star since 2023 and ranked #264 among Asia's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it represents a specific tier of refined regional cooking rarely found outside the province.
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08.Asian-Catalan Fusion Tapas
Dos Palillos
Barcelona, Spain
Dos Palilos occupies a dual-format space in Barcelona's Raval neighbourhood, pairing a walk-in sake bar at the entrance with a U-shaped gastronomic counter where a daily-changing tasting menu fuses Japanese technique with Iberian ingredients. Holders of a Michelin star since 2024 and ranked 247th among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it represents one of the more considered Asian-Iberian hybrids operating in Spain today.
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09.Modern Italian Fine Dining Tasting Menu
daní maison
Ischia, Italy
Tucked into the residential hills above Ischia, daní maison occupies chef Nino Di Costanzo's own home, where just a handful of tables sit beneath vaulted ceilings in a setting that reads more private estate than restaurant. Two Michelin stars and a 94-point La Liste score (2026) confirm its position among Italy's most technically serious kitchens. Expect concept-driven, elaborately constructed dishes from one of Campania's most decorated chefs.
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10.Modern British Foraged Fine Dining
The Whitebrook
Whitebrook, United Kingdom
The Whitebrook distills the romance of the Wye Valley into a Michelin-starred journey of woodland, river, and orchard. Tucked into a tranquil hamlet, the restaurant composes tasting menus from foraged botanicals, heritage vegetables, and impeccably sourced Welsh game and seafood, revealing a terroir-driven narrative with precision and grace. Candlelit tables, linen-smooth service, and a quietly indulgent pace create space for flavors to unfurl, smoked butter and pine, dew-fresh herbs, wild mushrooms, and for conversations to deepen. For those who value authenticity over spectacle, The Whitebrook offers a serene, deeply seasonal escape where nature’s subtleties are translated into polished, unforgettable cuisine.
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11.Kyo-Kaiseki
Kikunoi - Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto kaiseki in Akasaka is not a contradiction here; it is the point. Kikunoi - Tokyo brings the ryotei and kappo registers into one Tokyo room, with Michelin two-star recognition in 2026, Tabelog Bronze status, counter and tatami seating, and a seasonal grammar that rewards diners who understand how much discipline sits behind apparent simplicity.
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12.Contemporary American Fine Dining
Victoria & Albert's
Orlando, United States
Victoria & Albert's at Walt Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort holds a Michelin star, AAA 5 Diamond recognition, and a La Liste score of 93 points, placing it among Florida's most formally ambitious dining rooms. A seven- or ten-course tasting format, a 1,650-bottle wine inventory, and tableside French trolley service distinguish it from any comparable room in the state. Dinner runs three to four hours and requires advance planning.
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13.Modern Fine Dining
The Dining Room
Malmesbury, United Kingdom
Inside a Cotswolds manor house dating to 1802, The Dining Room at Whatley Manor holds a Michelin star and a La Liste ranking, serving creative tasting menus of six or nine courses from Thursday through Sunday evening. The format opens with snacks in the kitchen before moving to the dining room proper, where chef Ricki Weston draws on technical precision and unusual flavour combinations across menus priced at £145 and £175 per person.
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14.Bar
Cat Bite Club
Singapore, Singapore
Tatler's 2025 Bar of the Year for Singapore and ranked No. 44 in Asia's 50 Best Bars, Cat Bite Club on Duxton Road operates at the intersection of agave spirits and rice-based liquors, with a programme serious enough to place it among the region's leading cocktail bars. The format is deliberately intimate, the hospitality easy, and the margarita reportedly the finest in the city.
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15.Modern Filipino Fine Dining
Toyo Eatery
Manilla, Philippines
Toyo Eatery holds a Michelin star and a place in Asia's 50 Best (ranked 42nd in 2025), operating five evenings a week from a quiet corner of Makati's Karrivin Plaza. Chef Jordy Navarra frames Filipino ingredients through terroir and cultural reference, with dishes that pull from street food memory and folk song. The result is one of Manila's most argued-over reservations.
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16.Hotel
Heckfield Place
Heckfield, United Kingdom
A 438-acre Hampshire estate less than an hour from London, Heckfield Place operates at the intersection of biodynamic farming, Georgian architecture, and serious dining, with a Green Michelin star at Marle and a Star Wine List (2026) recognition confirming its place among the UK's estate hotels where land and table genuinely connect. Forty-six rooms, two distinct restaurants, and a private art collection of over 400 works make it a considered alternative to the city's conventional luxury tier.
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17.Modern California-Cantonese Fine Dining
Ensue
Shenzhen, China
Ensue - Shangri La Hotel places Shenzhen’s Chinese contemporary dining in a sharper frame: high-heat Chinese technique, French kitchen discipline, and a wine program with repeated Star Wine List recognition. The restaurant’s award trail includes Black Pearl 1 Diamond in 2025, Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants ranking at #85 in 2025, and La Liste scores across 2025 and 2026.
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18.Hotel
Park Hyatt Kyoto
Kyoto, Japan
Park Hyatt Kyoto occupies a hillside position in the Higashiyama district, 70 rooms and suites spread across low-slung interconnected buildings designed to recede into the neighbourhood rather than dominate it. Ranked #27 on the World's 50 Best Hotels in 2024 and awarded a Michelin Key that same year, it represents the international luxury chain format at its most restrained, rates from approximately $1,229 per night.
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19.Modern Korean Steakhouse with Table-Side BBQ
Cote Miami
Miami, United States
Miami's Design District has absorbed a number of New York transplants, but few have landed as credibly as Cote, the Korean steakhouse that earned a Michelin star in both 2024 and 2025. Backed by a wine list of 1,145 selections and a format built around tableside butchery and Korean barbecue ritual, Cote sits at the point where American steakhouse ambition meets Seoul dining culture.
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20.Modern Cantonese Fine Dining
Jiang by Chef Fei
Guangzhou, China
Jiang by Chef Fei holds two Michelin stars and a Black Pearl Diamond at its Tianhe District address, placing it among Guangzhou's most decorated Cantonese tables. Chef Huang Jinghui's kitchen balances classical technique with seasonal creativity, from refined dim sum at lunch to roasted Wenchang Chicken at dinner. La Liste has ranked it among the world's top restaurants in both 2025 and 2026.
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21.Traditional Kyoto Kaiseki with Genshiyaki
Tokuha Motonari
Kyoto, Japan
A Tabelog Gold Award winner operating from a traditional sukiya-style house in Kyoto's Kamigyo Ward, Tokuha Motonari holds a Michelin star and a Tabelog score of 4.52. Chef Shinya Matsumoto draws on experience as a fisherman and broker in the Hokuriku region to source fish unavailable through standard supply chains, with chargrilling techniques that set the kitchen apart from the city's kaiseki mainstream.
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22.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Taverna Estia
Brusciano, Italy
A two-Michelin-star address in Brusciano, roughly 18 kilometres from Naples, Taverna Estia translates Campanian flavour traditions into contemporary tasting menus without losing their regional grounding. Brothers Mario and Francesco Sposito run the dining room and kitchen respectively, maintaining a family-run operation that now draws well beyond the Campania region. La Liste scores the restaurant at 90 points in both 2025 and 2026, and Opinionated About Dining ranks it 168th in Europe for 2025.
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23.Hotel
The Peninsula Shanghai
Shanghai, China
The only new-build hotel constructed on the Bund in over 70 years, The Peninsula Shanghai sits at No. 32 Zhongshan Dong Yi Road with direct views across the Huangpu River to Pudong. Recognized by Travel + Leisure as World's Best Business Hotel and earning 99.5 points on the La Liste Top Hotels 2026 ranking, its 235 rooms combine Art Deco architecture with some of the most technology-forward in-room systems in the city.
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24.Modern Napa Valley Fine Dining
Press Restaurant
St. Helena, United States
Press Restaurant holds a Michelin star and ranks among Napa Valley's most serious wine destinations, with a cellar of 2,700 selections and 10,000 bottles weighted heavily toward California. Chef Philip Tessier brings fine-dining credentials to a modern American menu that reads as distinctly Napa: produce-forward, technically precise, and calibrated to complement the valley's wines rather than compete with them.
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25.Modern French Fine Dining
Le Comptoir de Pierre Gagnaire
Shanghai, China
Set within a remodelled 1930s villa inside Capella Shanghai on Jianguo Road West, Le Comptoir de Pierre Gagnaire holds a Michelin star and a Black Pearl Diamond, placing it among Xuhui's most serious French tables. The kitchen pairs classical French technique with Shanghainese inflections, while the vine-wrapped terrace and 20-seat bar extend the experience well beyond the dining room.
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26.peruvian
Lady Bee
Lima, Peru
In Barranco, Lima's most atmospheric neighbourhood for nightlife, Lady Bee operates at the intersection of serious cocktail craft and small-plate cooking. With a 4.7 Google rating across 281 reviews and recognition from Opinionated About Dining's 2025 South America list, it occupies a specific tier in Lima's bar scene where the drinks program and the food arrive at equal weight. Chef Gabriela León leads the kitchen.
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27.Modern Valencian Fine Dining
El Poblet
València, Spain
Holding two Michelin stars and ranked 81st in Europe by Opinionated About Dining (2025), El Poblet represents the serious end of València's modern Spanish scene. Chef Luis Valls works within the Quique Dacosta group framework, applying creative technique to Valencian ingredients, above all the produce of the Albufera wetlands, across several tasting formats, including a vegetarian menu available without prior notice.
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28.Modern French Fine Dining
L'Astrance
Paris, France
L'Astrance occupies a storied address on Rue de Longchamp in the 16th arrondissement, where Pascal Barbot's contemporary French kitchen draws on Asian influences and a deep commitment to produce. The glass wine cellar, curated by maître d' Christophe Rohat, has become as much a reason to book as the food itself. Ranked in the World's 50 Best Restaurants every year from 2006 to 2017, this is one of Paris's most credentialled creative tables.
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29.Winery
Familienweingut Tement
Ehrenhausen, Austria
Familienweingut Tement is a Styrian wine estate in Ehrenhausen awarded a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The property combines serious vineyard craft with winemakers' chalets scattered across its hillside terrain, offering a rare combination of immersive accommodation and estate wine access in Austria's southern wine country.
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30.Modern Nordic Seasonal Tasting Menu
AIRA
Stockholm, Sweden
AIRA holds two Michelin stars and ranks 114th in Europe on the Opinionated About Dining 2025 list, placing it firmly inside Stockholm's upper tier of modern Nordic dining. Set beside Royal Djurgården with a waterside terrace and an open kitchen as its focal point, the restaurant builds its menu around high-quality Nordic ingredients prepared with precision and finished tableside. Service runs Tuesday through Saturday from the afternoon.
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31.Bar
Moebius Milano
Milan, Italy
A former textile warehouse in central Milan reimagined as a cocktail bar, bistro, and fine-dining space, Moebius Milano ranked 38th at the World's 50 Best Bars in 2024 and 9th in the Top 500 Bars list in 2025. The drinks programme draws on culinary technique, the ground floor runs globally influenced small plates, and the first-floor Moebius Sperimentale operates as a glass-enclosed Michelin-starred restaurant. It resists easy categorisation, which is precisely the point.
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32.Modern Scottish Fine Dining
Cail Bruich
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Cail Bruich holds a Michelin star and a La Liste ranking at 725 Great Western Road in Glasgow's West End, where chef Lorna McNee applies classical technique to Scottish produce without overcomplicating either. Open Tuesday through Saturday for dinner, with lunch service Friday and Saturday, the restaurant operates two set menus and a kitchen table for those who want proximity to the brigade. Price range is ££££.
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33.Contemporary Colombian
El Chato
Bogotá, Colombia
Among Bogotá's most globally recognised modern Colombian restaurants, El Chato has held a position inside the World's 50 Best since 2023, reaching #25 in 2024, while keeping the format deliberately relaxed. Chef Álvaro Clavijo applies European technique to native Colombian ingredients, producing a menu that reads as a producer ledger as much as a dining list. Reservations are taken for lunch and dinner Tuesday through Sunday, with Sunday service closing at 4 pm.
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34.Modern Polish Fine Dining
Bottiglieria 1881
Kraków, Poland
Bottiglieria 1881 holds two Michelin stars and an 87.5-point La Liste score, placing it at the sharp end of Kraków's modern Polish fine dining scene. Chef Przemysław Klima leads a kitchen rooted in Polish culinary tradition, while Wine Director Michał Drozdowski oversees a 1,600-bottle cellar with particular depth in Champagne, Burgundy, and Bordeaux. Dinner service runs Tuesday through Saturday from 5pm.
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35.Modern French Fine Dining with Asian Influences
Alo
Toronto, Canada
On the third floor of a Spadina Avenue building, Alo has spent nearly a decade accumulating the kind of critical recognition that reshapes how Toronto is perceived abroad. A Michelin star, consistent placement on Canada's 100 Best, and a recent entry on the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants mark it as the city's benchmark for contemporary French tasting-menu dining. The format is 10 courses, the sourcing is international, and the standard has not slipped.
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36.French Gastronomic Fine Dining
Le Chabichou by Stéphane Buron
Courchevel, France
Le Chabichou by Stéphane Buron elevates Courchevel fine dining to legendary status, where Meilleur Ouvrier de France Stéphane Buron has maintained two Michelin stars for 40 years. His alpine-inspired tasting menus blend French mastery with Japanese subtlety in an elegantly appointed chalet setting.
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37.Innovative
One White Street
New York City, United States
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 most 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.
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38.Hotel
Chewton Glen
New Milton, United Kingdom
Chewton Glen sits on 130 acres at the New Forest's southern edge, measuring itself against the country house hotel category at large. With Star Wine List recognition (2026), a La Liste Top Hotels score of 96 points, and treehouse suites built into a secluded woodland valley, it draws guests who treat the property itself as the destination. Rates from around $553 per night.
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39.Modern French Fine Dining
La Merise
Laubach, France
A two-Michelin-star address in the Alsatian village of Laubach, La Merise operates where rural setting and serious culinary ambition rarely share the same table. Chef Andrea Schnell's terroir-driven modern cuisine earned 85 points in La Liste 2026 and membership in Les Grandes Tables du Monde, placing this country-house dining room among France's most credentialed rural restaurants.
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40.Bar
Kaito del Valle
Mexico City, Mexico
Kaito del Valle is an all-women-run bar in Mexico City's Juárez neighbourhood that blends Japanese izakaya culture with kawaii aesthetics. Ranked #40 in North America's Best Bars 2025 and holding a spot in the World's 50 Best Top 500, it has built a sustained presence on the international bar circuit. The bar recently moved to a new location on Hamburgo, keeping its place in one of the city's most concentrated drinking corridors.
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41.Bar
Bar Mauro
Mexico City, Mexico
Bar Mauro at Tabasco 149 in Roma Norte is one of Mexico City's most decorated cocktail bars, ranked #14 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2025 and #54 globally. With a 4.8 Google rating across 220 reviews, it sits in a comparable set that has reshaped what serious drinking looks like in CDMX, combining precise technique with the neighbourhood's low-key, walkable character.
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42.Modern French Fine Dining
ASAHINA Gastronome
Tokyo, Japan
A two-Michelin-star French restaurant in Tokyo's Nihonbashi Kabutocho district, ASAHINA Gastronome has held Tabelog Bronze recognition every year since 2021 and earned 80 points from La Liste 2026. Chef Satoru Asahina works within the classical French canon, reconstructing historical techniques alongside modern presentation. Dinner runs ¥40,000–¥49,999; the weekend lunch service offers a lower entry point at ¥20,000–¥29,999.
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43.Classic French Fine Dining
The Samuel
Copenhagen, Denmark
A Michelin-starred French-Mediterranean restaurant in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen's centre, The Samuel sits at the more classically oriented edge of Denmark's fine dining scene. Ranked in Opinionated About Dining's Classical Europe list three consecutive years, it pairs a kitchen led by chef-owner Jonathan K. Berntsen with a wine program of 3,500 bottles weighted toward Champagne, Burgundy, and Bordeaux.
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44.Hotel
Four Seasons Hotel Boston
Boston, United States
On the edge of the Boston Public Garden, Four Seasons Hotel Boston occupies one of the city's most coveted addresses in Back Bay. A 2017 renovation sharpened interiors that already carried a sense of permanence, and 274 rooms sit at a rate from $975. La Liste placed the property at 96 points in 2026, and Michelin awarded one key in 2024, situating it firmly at the top of Boston's classical luxury tier.
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45.Modern French Tasting Menu
Frevo
New York City, United States
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.
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46.Modern French Fine Dining
1890 by Gordon Ramsay
London, United Kingdom
Inside The Savoy, 1890 by Gordon Ramsay occupies a ten-table room named for Auguste Escoffier, who arrived at the hotel in that same year. A surprise tasting menu draws on Escoffier's classical repertoire, reworked through modern technique, and earned a Michelin star in 2024. Friday and Saturday lunches offer a shorter four-course format for those who prefer a compressed experience.
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47.British Gastropub Grill
The Devonshire
London, United Kingdom
A three-storey Soho pub restored to working-pub form, The Devonshire at 17 Denman Street pairs a ground-floor Guinness counter with an upstairs Grill Room built around a wood ember open-fire grill and Scottish dry-aged beef butchered on-site. Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 confirms its place in London's tighter tier of serious gastropubs. Booking well ahead is advisable.
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48.Modern British Fine Dining
The Samling
Ambleside, United Kingdom
A Michelin-starred country house hotel above Windermere, The Samling offers a tasting menu built substantially on hyperlocal Lake District produce, including ingredients from its own greenhouse and orchard. The glass-walled dining room frames panoramic fell and lake views, while a second dining space, The Gathering, runs a shorter carte at a more accessible price point. The wine list runs to five-figure bottles.
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49.Modern British Seasonal Tasting Menu
Roots York
York, United Kingdom
Roots sits inside a converted Victorian inn beside York's city walls, running tasting menus built entirely around Tommy Banks' Oldstead farm and kitchen garden. The Michelin-starred restaurant ranks #534 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 European list, with a Core menu at £95 and Signature at £145. A Sunday feast format offers a more accessible entry point into the same seasonal philosophy.
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50.Modern Mediterranean Fine Dining
Alfred Keller
Mali Losinj, Croatia
Alfred Keller holds a Michelin star and an 85-point La Liste rating, placing it among the most formally recognised restaurants on the Croatian Adriatic. Chef Michael Gollenz leads a French-Mediterranean kitchen on the Čikat waterfront in Mali Lošinj, backed by a 530-selection wine list with particular depth in Croatian and Italian bottles and overseen by Wine Director Filip Veselovac.
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51.Modern French Fine Dining
Ma Langue Sourit
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Two Michelin stars and a 91-point La Liste score position Ma Langue Sourit among Luxembourg's most decorated tables. Chef Cyril Molard's contemporary French cooking places the raw ingredient at the centre of every dish, with vegetables carrying unusual weight across the menu, from starters through to dessert. The address is Oetrange, a short drive southeast of Luxembourg City, and the room runs Tuesday through Saturday at lunch and dinner.
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52.Modern Malagueño Fine Dining
Kaleja
Málaga, Spain
In Málaga's historic Jewish quarter, Kaleja holds a Michelin star and a top-150 ranking in Opinionated About Dining's European list for 2025. Chef Dani Carnero works a wood-fired grill to revive Andalusian recipes through a technique he calls 'candle cooking', serving two menus inside a centuries-old alley setting steps from the Picasso Museum.
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53.Modern French Fine Dining
La Table de Maxime
Our, Belgium
Two Michelin stars and a Les Grandes Tables du Monde listing place La Table de Maxime in the upper tier of Belgian fine dining, yet the setting is a village in the Ardennes rather than a city address. Chef Maxime Collard builds menus around hyperlocal produce, river fish, and garden-grown herbs, making the 90-minute drive from Brussels a deliberate act of seeking something out.
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54.Modern British Regional Cuisine
heft
Newton in Cartmel, United Kingdom
A Michelin-starred tasting menu inside a 17th-century Cumbrian inn, Heft sits halfway between [L'Enclume](https://www.enprimeurclub.com/restaurants/lenclume-cartmel-restaurant) and Forest Side on the map and in ambition. Kevin Tickle's 10-course dinner at £120 per person draws on hyperlocal producers and personal foraging knowledge, while the front bar still pours pints for the village. Ranked 345th in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2025.
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55.Chinese
Yong Fu
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yong Fu brings Ningbo cooking into Hong Kong’s high-spend Chinese dining conversation with unusual clarity: East China Sea fish, wine-marinated crab and complex recipes carried over from its Shanghai parent branch. Recognition from Michelin, Black Pearl, La Liste and Opinionated About Dining signals a serious table rather than a decorative regional import.
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56.Creative French Seasonal Fine Dining
De Groene Lantaarn
Staphorst, Netherlands
A two-Michelin-star creative restaurant in the Dutch countryside outside Staphorst, De Groene Lantaarn is one of the more compelling arguments for leaving the cities. Chef Jarno Eggen holds two consecutive Michelin stars (2024 and 2025), a Les Grandes Tables du Monde listing, and 93 points in La Liste 2026, placing him firmly in the upper tier of the Netherlands' serious fine-dining circuit.
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57.Modern French Gastronomique
Le Neuvième Art
Lyon, France
Le Neuvième Art holds two Michelin stars and a place on La Liste's Top Restaurants (91 points in 2026), positioning it among Lyon's most formally ambitious tables. Chef Christophe Roure's contemporary French menu operates within a collaborative service structure that distinguishes the restaurant inside the city's prestige dining tier. Closed Mondays and Sundays, it serves lunch and dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 173 Rue Cuvier, 69006 Lyon.
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58.Modern Indian Fine Dining
Indian Accent
New Delhi, India
Indian Accent at The Lodhi sits at the upper tier of New Delhi's fine dining scene, ranked #89 in the World's 50 Best Restaurants (2024) and scoring 95 points on La Liste (2025). The six-course tasting menu moves through regional Indian reference points reimagined with global technique, from inventive bread courses to mains such as tamarind crab with coconut curry. Wine Director Kevin Rodrigues oversees a 900-bottle list with particular depth in South American and European labels.
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59.Ginza Nigiri Sushi
Arai
Tokyo, Japan
Sushi Arai has held Tabelog Gold every year from 2020 through 2026, placing it among a small tier of Ginza counters recognised by both Japan's largest review platform and La Liste's international ranking. Chef Yuichi Arai opened the basement-level room in Ginza 8-chome in 2015, and the nigiri-focused format has drawn sustained critical attention across domestic and international circuits.
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60.Modern Bordelaise Fine Dining
La Table de Pavie
Saint-Émilion, France
La Table de Pavie elevates Southwest French terroir to two-Michelin-starred heights in Saint-Émilion, where chef Yannick Alléno's contemporary interpretations of Bordeaux traditions unfold against panoramic vineyard views. This ultra-premium destination within Hôtel de Pavie showcases Aquitaine's finest ingredients through innovative techniques and expert Bordeaux wine pairings.
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