The Places · Page 152
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01.Japanese Soba House
Tei-An
Dallas, United States
Tei-An occupies a particular position in Dallas's Japanese dining scene: a counter-forward izakaya format with Michelin Plate recognition and consistent Opinionated About Dining rankings across three consecutive years. Located in the Routh Street corridor of Uptown, the kitchen operates a compressed weekly schedule that rewards forward planning. Chef Teiichi Sakurai's program places Dallas soba and izakaya cooking on a competitive map alongside recognized North American peers.
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02.Modern Bahian Fine Dining
Origem
Salvador, Brazil
Origem's 15-course tasting menu moves through Bahia's five distinct biomes, translating the state's forests, coastline, and sertão into technique-driven plates by chef Fabrício Lemos and pâtissier Lisiane Arouca. Situated in Pituba, Salvador, it occupies a serious position in Brazil's contemporary fine dining conversation, regional in conviction, precise in execution.
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03.Texas-Style BBQ with Salvadoran Twist
2Fifty Texas BBQ
Riverdale, United States
2Fifty Texas BBQ on Riverdale Road sits inside a Maryland barbecue scene that has grown more serious about sourcing and smoke over the past decade. Operating out of Riverdale, MD, the restaurant draws from a tradition where the quality of the raw product matters as much as the pit technique. For visitors exploring the greater Washington, D.C. corridor, it represents a grounded, no-shortcuts approach to American barbecue.
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04.Modern European Fine Dining
Le Partage
Crans-Montana, Switzerland
Le Partage holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, placing it among a small tier of recognised dining addresses in Crans-Montana. Chef Nicolas Lormeau's bistro-style French contemporary cooking sits at the €€€ price point, occupying a space between the resort's casual mountain fare and its higher-end tasting-menu houses. A 4.5 Google rating across 24 reviews suggests consistent execution rather than occasional brilliance.
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05.Modern French Fine Dining
Het Roode Koper
Leuvenum, Netherlands
Set within a 7,500-acre country estate between Leuvenum and Ermelo, Het Roode Koper holds a Michelin Plate and earns a 4.7 Google rating across 530 reviews. Chef Mickaël Berthiaud leads a modern cuisine program that draws on classical European training, framed by forest, heathland, and a family-run property that keeps the atmosphere deliberately unhurried. Accessible by train to Ermelo and 93 km from Amsterdam Schiphol.
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06.Modern French Fine Dining
De la Cigogne
Geneva, Switzerland
De la Cigogne holds a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025, placing it among Geneva's reliable addresses for Modern French cooking in the Longemalle quarter. Chef Nicolas Pasquier operates in a tradition that prizes structured, technique-led menus over casual informality. For visitors who want a composed, multi-course French experience without the full investment of a starred table, this is a considered choice.
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07.Modern Bolivian Fine Dining
Gustu
La Paz, Bolivia
Ranked among South America's top ten restaurants by Opinionated About Dining every year from 2023 to 2025, Gustu operates from Calacoto as both a working restaurant and a training ground for young Bolivian cooks. Every ingredient on the menu comes from within Bolivia's borders, making the kitchen a direct argument for what Bolivian produce can achieve at the highest tier of contemporary South American dining.
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08.Modern Grill with Finnish Beef
The Grand Bar & Grill
Helsinki, Finland
Set on Korkeavuorenkatu in central Helsinki, The Grand Bar & Grill is one of Finland's most serious steak destinations, built around dry-aged Nordic beef, open-fire cooking, and a warm brasserie room that reads as both cosmopolitan and distinctly Finnish. Chef Sylvester Soisalo leads a kitchen defined by close producer relationships and Nordic seasonal produce, with a menu that extends from dry-aged T-bone and Finnish Prime Rib to oysters, escargots, and classic beef tartare.
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09.South African Open-Fire Steakhouse
Vuur
Stellenbosch, South Africa
On a private island within a dam at Remhoogte Wine Estate, Vuur builds its seven-course menu around open-fire cooking using up to six wood types, with locally reared breeds dry-aged a minimum of 70 days. The setting, framed by the Simonsberg Mountains, is as deliberate as the technique. Reservations are essential and seating is limited.
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10.Premium Steakhouse with French Techniques
Brutus Tavern
Athens, Greece
Brutus Tavern occupies a measured position in Kolonaki's premium dining circuit, anchoring its menu around dry-aged and specialty beef cuts prepared over open fire with French technique. Olive-fed Wagyu, Spanish Black Angus, and a 40-day dry-aged tartare define the range. Under chef Stefanos Rizos, the kitchen draws sourcing from Spain, Australia, and the United States, with wet- and dry-aging programs running in parallel.
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11.Modern Italian Contemporary
Aqua
Torbole, Italy
On the northern shore of Lake Garda, Aqua holds a Michelin Plate and consecutive Opinionated About Dining rankings for its restrained Italian contemporary cooking. Chef Andrea Mura anchors the menu around lake fish and locally sourced ingredients, served in a glass-fronted veranda dining room with direct views over the water. A strong regional wine list completes a focused, place-rooted offer.
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12.Modern Belgian-French Fine Dining
Zarza
Leuven, Belgium
Zarza holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) and a Google rating of 4.6 across nearly 500 reviews, placing it among Leuven's more credible mid-to-upper tier modern kitchens. The menu makes vegetables a structural element rather than a side note, with dedicated vegetable menus alongside à la carte options like pasta couscous with beetroot or celeriac risotto. At the €€€ price point, it sits in a competitive bracket where creative ambition is the differentiator.
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13.Modern Argentinian Tasting Menu
El Papagayo
Cordoba, Argentina
Converted from a narrow Córdoba alleyway, El Papagayo stretches 32 metres long and barely 2 metres wide, giving the restaurant one of the most spatially distinctive formats in Argentina's interior dining scene. Chef Javier Rodríguez runs an innovative tasting menu grounded in close relationships with local producers and artisans, placing El Papagayo in the creative tier of Córdoba's increasingly serious restaurant culture.
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14.Contemporary Southern Farm-to-Table
White Pillars
Biloxi, United States
White Pillars brings American Contemporary cooking to Biloxi's Beach Boulevard at a price point that signals genuine culinary ambition for the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The restaurant earned a Michelin Plate in 2025, placing it among a small group of Gulf South kitchens drawing serious national attention. At the $$$ tier, it occupies the upper bracket of Biloxi's dining scene without the sticker shock of coastal metropolitan peers.
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15.Egg-Centric American Breakfast
I Egg You
Washington DC, United States
I Egg You on Capitol Hill landed on Resy's Best of the Hit List for 2025, placing it among the year's most-watched openings in Washington, D.C. The restaurant operates out of 517 8th Street SE, a stretch of Barracks Row that has become one of the city's more competitive dining corridors. Recognition at this level, this quickly, signals a room worth attention before the reservation window tightens further.
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16.Edomae Omakase Sushi
Tetsu Sushi Bar
Vancouver, Canada
On Denman Street in Vancouver's West End, Tetsu Sushi Bar operates a focused omakase format under chef Satoshi Makise, earning consecutive recognition from both Michelin and Opinionated About Dining, ranking #314 in North America in 2025. The counter runs Tuesday through Sunday with a single evening seating window, placing it firmly in Vancouver's upper tier of Japanese dining alongside counters like Masayoshi and Okeya Kyujiro.
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17.Modern Wood-Fired Steakhouse with Hawaiian Influences
Butcher's Block
Singapore, Singapore
At Raffles Hotel Singapore, Butcher's Block brings wood-fired precision and whole-animal butchery into one of the city's most historically charged dining rooms. Chef Jordan Keao's IMUA tasting menu draws on Hawaiian culinary tradition while sourcing from an on-site hybrid farm. A Michelin Plate holder with a wine cellar spanning nearly 300 labels and Dom Pérignon Society membership, it occupies a distinct position in Singapore's fine-dining tier.
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18.Modern Australian Wood-Fired Grill
20 Chapel
Sydney, Australia
Set in Marrickville's converted industrial fabric, 20 Chapel places open-fire cooking at the centre of its menu rather than as a stylistic flourish. Chef Corey Costelloe, formerly of Rockpool Bar & Grill, brings dry-aged beef and Australian produce together over a custom wood-fired grill. The result is a restaurant that reads as a serious addition to Sydney's inner-west dining scene.
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19.Modern Belgian Fine Dining
Va et Vient
Kortrijk, Belgium
Va et Vient on Handboogstraat brings modern Flemish cooking to Kortrijk's mid-tier fine dining scene with a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025. Chef Matthias Speybrouck builds seasonal menus around local growers and producers, combining precise technique with earthy directness. At €€€ pricing, it occupies a confident position among the city's creative-leaning restaurants without the formality of white-tablecloth tradition.
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20.Modern Italian Pizza
Inedito
Brescia, Italy
In the historic centre of Brescia, Inedito occupies a space with particular lineage, the site of the city's first pizzeria, and uses it to make a case for pizza as a craft product rather than a commodity. Pizzaiolo Antonio Pappalardo has reworked both the dough and the toppings from first principles, producing a format that sits apart from the city's more conventional options. The room's urban finish signals the ambition clearly.
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21.Modern Sri Lankan Fine Dining
Thaulle Beach Restaurant
Yala, Sri Lanka
Set near the wilderness boundary of Yala National Park, Thaulle Beach Restaurant brings a Southeast Asian kitchen to one of Sri Lanka's most remote dining addresses. Chef Pod Jessada's program earned a 2024 ranking of #144 in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Asia and an AAA 5 Diamond award in 2025, placing it well inside Asia's recognised fine-dining tier despite its off-grid location.
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22.Modern British Gastropub
The Star Inn The City
York, United Kingdom
Housed in a converted Victorian engine house beside the River Ouse, The Star Inn The City brings the Yorkshire countryside into York's centre. The all-day brasserie from Andrew Pern, the chef behind the Michelin-starred Star Inn at Harome, holds a Michelin Plate (2025) and draws on North Yorkshire's seasonal larder for a menu that runs from weekday lunch through Sunday roast.
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23.Contemporary Australian Wood-Fire Grill
Matilda 159 Domain
Melbourne, Australia
Scott Pickett's South Yarra restaurant makes a direct argument for fire as the defining technique of Australian cooking. A Josper oven, rotisserie, and wood-fired grill anchor a menu built on wet- and dry-aged beef and local produce, all inside a room fitted with Otway Blackwood tables and seasonal botanical installations. At 159 Domain Road, the kitchen is the spectacle.
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24.Modern Corsican
A Nepita
Ajaccio, France
A Nepita holds a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years (2024 and 2025) and a Google rating of 4.8 across more than 700 reviews, placing it among the most consistently praised farm-to-table addresses in Ajaccio. The kitchen draws on Corsican agricultural produce and the island's distinct culinary traditions, presenting them at a price point (€€€) that signals serious cooking rather than tourist convenience.
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25.Modern British Tasting Menu
Docket Restaurant
Whitchurch, United Kingdom
On a quiet stretch of Whitchurch high street, Docket has held a Michelin Plate since 2024, making it one of the most ambitious tasting-menu restaurants in Shropshire. Chef Stuart Collins brings classical technique and a broad international frame of reference to a format that sits firmly in the serious end of provincial British dining. Booking ahead is advisable.
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26.Classic German Fine Dining
Wappen-Saal
Hohen Demzin, Germany
Wappen-Saal sits inside Burg Schlitz, an 18th-century castle in the Mecklenburg countryside, and operates as one of Germany's more distinctive Michelin Plate addresses. Chef Maik Albrecht leads a classic cuisine kitchen that holds a 4.8 Google rating and an EP Club score of 4.7/5. The setting, horses, grounds, and castle architecture, frames a meal that belongs firmly in the destination-dining tier.
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27.Restaurant
Le Bois
Nara, Japan
At Le Bois, the dialogue between Nara’s ancient terroir and Hokkaido’s pristine seas unfolds as a quietly dazzling performance. In collaboration with a French restaurant in Sapporo, the kitchen weaves a tasting narrative where amago trout, forest vegetables, and heritage produce from Nara meet luminous seafood and earthy northern potatoes. The result is an intimate, studied journey through Japan’s landscapes, each course a refined vignette of craft, provenance, and restraint. For those who seek cuisine that speaks in elegant whispers rather than proclamations, Le Bois offers a rare, contemplative luxury: a meal that deepens appreciation for the artisans, producers, and places behind every exquisite bite.
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28.Progressive Modern Indian
Trèsind
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Trèsind holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, placing it among a small cohort of Indian restaurants in Dubai that operate at the formal end of the spectrum. Located in DIFC, it brings modern Indian cooking, refined technique applied to subcontinent traditions, to one of the city's most competitive dining corridors. A 4.6 Google rating across nearly 2,800 reviews signals consistent delivery at the upper price tier.
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29.Restaurant
Monsieur Benjamin
San Francisco, United States
Monsieur Benjamin brought Parisian bistro sophistication to San Francisco's Hayes Valley, where James Beard Award-winning chef Corey Lee's modern French cuisine elevated classics like duck leg confit and steak frites within an elegant 110-seat space designed for both intimacy and culinary theater.
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30.Modern Indian Fusion Tasting Menu
Agni
Columbus, United States
Agni on South High Street earned a White Star from Star Wine List in March 2025, placing it among a small group of Columbus restaurants where the wine program is taken as seriously as the kitchen. The address puts it in the German Village corridor, where the city's most considered dining tends to cluster. It is a room worth planning around.
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31.Traditional Japanese Charcoal-Grilled Tajima Beef Steakhouse
Gorio
Tokyo, Japan
A Ginza steak specialist ranked among Japan's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in both 2024 and 2025, Gorio occupies a first-floor address on Chuo-dori's quieter southern stretch. Under Chef Tetsuhisa Matsumoto, the kitchen takes a focused approach to beef that sits between the kaiseki precision of Ginza's grand dining rooms and the directness of Western-style steakhouses. Open daily from noon to 11 pm.
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32.Modern Mexican Seafood & Grill
Micaela Mar & Leña
Mérida, Mexico
Micaela Mar & Leña brings coastal Mexican cooking to the heart of Mérida's Centro, with a focus on fire and seafood that earns it a place on the Opinionated About Dining 2025 list for North America. Chef Vidal Elias Murillo works within a tradition that connects Yucatán's Gulf access to its wood-fire heritage. A 4.7 rating across more than 3,300 Google reviews confirms the kitchen's consistency.
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33.Authentic Venetian Seafood
Al Covo
Venice, Italy
Among Venice's mid-range trattorias, Al Covo occupies a distinctive position: a family-run room in Castello that treats the Venetian lagoon's seafood as a serious subject rather than a tourist formula. Holding a Michelin Plate and ranked in the Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe list, it sources vegetables from its own garden on Sant'Erasmo island and pairs that produce-led ethos with a tightly considered wine list.
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34.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Santi
New York City, United States
Santi brings Italian contemporary cooking to Midtown Manhattan's most competitive dining corridor, holding a Michelin Plate in 2025 and drawing a 4.6 Google rating across 173 reviews. Set at 11 East 53rd Street, the restaurant operates at the top of the New York price tier, placing it in direct conversation with the neighborhood's broader fine-dining establishment.
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35.Modern Italian Steakhouse
Asina Luna
Peschiera Borromeo, Italy
A Milan-area steakhouse built on aging discipline and multi-origin sourcing, Asina Luna holds Michelin Plate recognition and a consecutive run of OAD Casual Europe rankings. The kitchen under Chef Riccardo Succi positions Piedmontese Vicciola and Australian Scottona against varying aging periods, producing a cut-focused menu that sits at €€€ and draws a strong local repeat following.
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36.Modern Panamanian Caribbean
Cantina del Tigre
Panama City, Panama
Cantina del Tigre at Plaza Centenario brings Chef Fulvio Miranda's reimagined Panamanian cooking to one of Panama City's most historically resonant addresses. The kitchen works within a tradition of local ingredients and regional flavour, presenting dishes with a visual boldness that has earned growing attention across Central America. It occupies a distinct position in the city's evolving contemporary-Panamanian dining tier.
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37.Modern Neapolitan Pasta Bar
Di Martino Sea Front Pasta Bar
Naples, Italy
Opened by the Gragnano pasta producer Di Martino at Piazza Municipio, this counter-format pasta bar positions traditional southern Italian pasta as the sole focus of its menu. Holding a Michelin Plate in 2024 and 2025 and ranked on the Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe list, it offers a sushi-style counter experience opposite Castel Nuovo, with generous individual portions or a multi-course tasting format.
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38.French Bistro with California Influences
Perle
Los Angeles, United States
A Michelin Plate-recognised French restaurant in the heart of Old Town Pasadena, Perle operates on a mirrored menu concept where vegetarian dishes carry equal weight to meat and seafood. The family-owned kitchen sources locally and sustainably, setting it apart from most French tables in the Los Angeles area. Google reviewers rate it 4.3 across 232 reviews, signalling consistent quality at mid-range pricing.
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39.Modern French Fine Dining
Les Jardins d'Anaïs
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Set on the edge of Luxembourg's Clausen district, Les Jardins d'Anaïs pairs a garden setting with creative French cooking under chef Jérémy Parjouet. A Michelin Plate holder in both 2024 and 2025, it draws a loyal following with a 4.6 Google rating across more than 1,600 reviews. For a city that rewards those who look beyond the obvious, this address delivers.
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40.Creative Modern Puglian
Già Sotto l'Arco
Carovigno, Italy
Già Sotto l'Arco occupies the first floor of a Baroque palazzo on a central piazza in Carovigno, where chef Teresa Buongiorno runs a surprise tasting menu of four, six, or eight courses built around locally sourced Puglian produce. Recognised by Michelin and ranked in the Opinionated About Dining Classical Europe list in both 2024 and 2025, it sits at the serious end of fine dining in the Valle d'Itria region.
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41.Mountain Italian Farmhouse
Agriturismo Ferdy
Lenna, Italy
Across a footbridge over the Brembo river in the Bergamo valleys, Agriturismo Ferdy holds a Michelin Plate and an Opinionated About Dining casual ranking for mountain-rooted regional cooking that centres on meat, dairy, and a cheese trolley of genuine breadth. The wine list runs between 30 and 50 labels by the glass depending on season, weighted toward regional producers and natural wines. Guestrooms and an on-site produce shop complete the offer.
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42.Fresh Seafood from the Port
Chinchín Puerto
Vélez-Málaga, Spain
Situated inside Caleta de Vélez's working marina, Chinchín Puerto sources its fish and seafood directly from the daily auction held steps from its kitchen. A Michelin Plate holder ranked in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for three consecutive years, this family-run room has become a reference point for honest Málaga-coast cooking, with the quisquillas de arrastre and a Russian salad voted Spain's finest in 2020 setting the standard.
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43.Modern Chinese with Dim Sum
Park Chinois
London, United Kingdom
Park Chinois occupies a specific position in London's Chinese dining map: a high-glam, theatrically decorated room on Berkeley Street that draws from across China's regional traditions. With a Michelin Plate and consecutive Opinionated About Dining rankings through 2025, it sits in the top tier of Mayfair's Chinese options, where the price reflects both the food and the spectacle of the room itself.
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44.Mediterranean with American influences
rioja
Denver, United States
On Larimer Street in Denver's LoDo district, Rioja has held its ground as the city's most considered Mediterranean-Spanish table for over two decades. Chef Jennifer Jasinski and Wine Director Richard Ross pair a Spanish-leaning wine list of 1,200 bottles with lunch and dinner service that shifts meaningfully in pace and price. Ranked by Opinionated About Dining in both 2023 and 2024, it remains the room most serious about sherry by the glass in Colorado.
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45.Classic American Steakhouse
Butcher and Singer
Philadelphia, United States
On Walnut Street in Center City, Butcher and Singer occupies the old-school American steakhouse tier that Philadelphia's power-lunch circuit still runs on. Recognized by Opinionated About Dining in 2025 and carrying a Star Wine List White Star, it draws a consistent crowd of deal-makers alongside a 4.6 Google rating across more than 2,200 reviews.
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46.Michelin-Starred Mediterranean Italian
La Sponda
Positano, Italy
La Sponda sits within Le Sirenuse, one of the Amalfi Coast's most prestigious hotels, and brings Campanian Mediterranean cooking to a candlelit dining room overlooking Positano's cliff-stacked houses. Chef Gennaro Russo draws on southern Italian seafood traditions, with dishes such as lemon risotto with capers anchoring a menu shaped by coastal Campania. Michelin Plate recognition and a 2025 Opinionated About Dining ranking of #278 in Classical Europe confirm its position among the coast's serious dining addresses.
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47.Modern Chinese
Gouqi
London, United Kingdom
At 25-34 Cockspur Street, a short walk from Trafalgar Square, Gouqi occupies a tier of Central London Chinese dining where Cantonese technique and premium ingredients converge in a spacious, low-lit room of velvet banquettes and dark wood. Chef Tong Chee Hwee, the architect of Hakkasan's kitchen identity, brings reworked Cantonese classics and crossover ideas to a menu anchored by lacquered Beijing duck, signature dim sum, and luxury seafood. Ranked 638th in Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Europe 2025, and awarded a White Star on Star Wine List, it holds a credible position in London's premium Chinese dining scene.
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48.Modern British Gastropub
The Wigmore
London, United Kingdom
The Wigmore occupies a former bank hall adjacent to The Langham hotel, serving Traditional British food across a range of price points, from bar snacks and the signature Stovetop Toastie to roast cod with mussel chowder. With a Michelin Plate in both 2024 and 2025 and a Google rating of 4.7 from over 1,400 reviews, it sits in a well-defined niche: hotel-adjacent dining that genuinely competes on its own terms.
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49.Traditional Piedmontese Trattoria
Marsupino 1901
Briaglia, Italy
A trattoria operating under the same family name since 1901, Marsupino 1901 in Briaglia earns a 2025 Michelin Plate for kitchen work rooted in Piedmontese tradition rather than reinvention. The wine cellar is extensive, with a strong by-the-glass selection, and five rooms plus two suites in the adjacent late nineteenth-century palazzo make it a practical base for the Langhe and Monferrato.
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50.Seasonal Italian Tasting Menu
Kitanozaka Kinoshita
Kobe, Japan
A second-floor Italian restaurant in Kobe's Nakayamatedori district, Kitanozaka Kinoshita earns recognition on both La Liste's 2026 Top Restaurants list (86 points) and Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Japan rankings. Chef Noriyuki Kinoshita works within a tradition where Japanese precision meets Italian pasta technique, placing the restaurant in a small comparable set of serious European kitchens operating at high levels outside Tokyo and Osaka.
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51.Modern Cantonese Dim Sum
Palette Tea House
San Francisco, United States
Palette Tea House on Fisherman's Wharf occupies an interesting position in San Francisco's Chinese dining scene: a Michelin Plate–recognized spot rated by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, serving dim sum and Chinese cuisine at an accessible price point with over 1,400 Google reviews averaging 4.4 stars. Chef James Parry leads a kitchen that draws steady local and visitor traffic in equal measure.
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52.Traditional Basque Grill
Mendi Goikoa Bekoa
Axpe, Spain
A farmhouse dating to 1745 at the foot of Anboto mountain, Mendi Goikoa Bekoa serves traditional Basque cooking through an à la carte that leans on grilled dishes, regional produce, and a handful of seasonal additions. Holding a Michelin Plate since 2024 and a 4.6 on Google across 900 reviews, it operates at the mid-price tier and now offers guestrooms for those making the journey to Axpe a full stay.
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53.Modern Vegetarian Fine Dining
I Tenerumi Vegetarian Restaurant
Vulcanello, Italy
On the volcanic peninsula of Vulcanello, I Tenerumi makes a clear argument: vegetables are the subject, not the supporting cast. Chef Davide Guidara's modern Italian cooking draws from the volcanic terrain of the Aeolian Islands, earning an 87-point placement in La Liste's 2026 Top Restaurants ranking. The setting alone, on a Sicilian island accessible only by sea, reframes what a destination restaurant can mean.
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54.Classic Roman Trattoria
Da Cesare
Rome, Italy
A Michelin Plate-recognised trattoria on Via del Casaletto, Da Cesare has held steady in Rome's mid-priced dining tier for years, drawing a loyal neighbourhood following with Tuscan-rooted cooking and a serious wine list. Ranked #129 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2025, it sits in the category of places that regulars guard quietly and tourists rarely find without direction.
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55.Modern Yakitori Kappo
Fumée Yakitori
Taipei, Taiwan
Fumée Yakitori brings Japanese yakitori technique to Taipei's Zhongshan District under chef Ryu Shunsuke, earning a Michelin Plate and an Opinionated About Dining Asia ranking in 2025. The $$$ price point positions it as a serious but accessible entry in Taipei's growing Japanese-influenced dining scene, holding its own against the city's higher-starred competition.
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56.Modern Roman Italian
Luciano Cucina Italiana
Rome, Italy
At Piazza del Teatro di Pompeo, Luciano Cucina Italiana has built a reputation around what Opinionated About Dining and the broader Roman food community consider the city's reference-point carbonara. Chef Luciano Monosilio anchors the menu in Lazio tradition while pushing into creative territory, and the basement bar Veleno now extends the experience into aperitivo. A Michelin Plate holder ranked 806th in OAD's 2025 Casual Europe list.
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57.Modern Spanish Tapas
La Maruca
Madrid, Spain
La Maruca on Paseo de la Castellana brings Cantabrian coastal cooking to Madrid's Chamartín district, anchoring the à la carte in Santander tradition rather than capital-city innovation. Ranked #176 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2025 and holding a Michelin Plate, it occupies a specific niche: high-quality ingredients, unchanged recipes, and a format that resists the experimental drift defining Madrid's most-talked-about dining right now.
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58.Modern American Steakhouse
Mills Tavern
Providence, United States
Mills Tavern on North Main Street operates in the tradition of the American neighborhood dining room: straightforward cooking, a welcoming pace, and enough culinary range to satisfy a table of mixed preferences. Under chef Edward Bolus, the kitchen draws on the broad vocabulary of American cuisine and holds a 2024 Opinionated About Dining ranking among North America's top casual restaurants.
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59.Modern Italian Trattoria
Da Filippo
San Sebastián, Spain
Da Filippo brings Italian cooking into San Sebastián's fine-dining tier through a single tasting menu format, operating from the former Amelia restaurant space. Chef Paulo Airaudo's approach moves far beyond trattoria conventions, with dishes such as duck, butter and thyme cappelletti drawing consistent Michelin Plate recognition and an Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe ranking of #504 (2025). The wine list spans both Spanish and Italian selections, available by the glass.
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60.Restaurant
Manzke
Los Angeles, United States
Manzke elevated Los Angeles fine dining through Walter and Margarita Manzke's Michelin-starred ten-course tasting menu, blending French technique with California ingredients and global influences. The restaurant's rare vintage spirits program and intimate upstairs setting in the historic La Brea corridor created an unparalleled fine dining experience.
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