The Places · Page 28
Where the artisans work.
01.Winery
Weingut Joh. Jos. Prüm
Bernkastel-Wehlen, Germany
On the steep slate banks of the Mosel between Bernkastel and Wehlen, Weingut Joh. Jos. Prüm is one of the reference addresses for German Riesling, with the Wehlener Sonnenuhr vineyard as its primary canvas. The estate holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025, placing it among a small tier of producers whose wines are sought on allocation rather than browsed from a shelf.
● 1 artisanView →
02.Modern Spanish Offal (Casquería)
La Tasquería
Madrid, Spain
La Tasquería in Chamberí holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking for its commitment to Madrid's offal tradition, reframed through contemporary technique. Chef Javi Estévez built the restaurant around three tasting menus that move through brain, trotters, tripe, and the now-celebrated fried and confit head of suckling pig. It is one of Madrid's more distinctive addresses in the €€€ tier.
● 1 artisanView →
03.Winery
Realm Cellars
Napa, United States
Located on the Silverado Trail, Realm Cellars has built a reputation as one of Napa's allocation-driven Cabernet houses since its first vintage in 2002. Under winemaker Benoit Touquette, the program draws on fruit from some of the valley's most sought-after vineyard sites. The winery earned a Pearl 4 Star Prestige designation from EP Club in 2025, placing it firmly within Napa's upper tier of estate-focused producers.
● 1 artisanView →
04.Winery
Schrader Cellars
Napa, United States
Schrader Cellars has operated from Napa since its first vintage in 1998, building a reputation around high-allocation Cabernet Sauvignon under winemaker Thomas Rivers Brown. The winery earned a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating from EP Club in 2025, placing it among a small group of Napa producers recognised for sustained precision at the top of the valley's allocation tier.
● 1 artisanView →
05.Winery
Eisele Vineyard
Calistoga, United States
Eisele Vineyard in Calistoga has produced single-vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon from the same Pickett Road site since 1971, placing it among Napa's longest-tenured estate addresses. Winemaker Hélène Mingot oversees production, and the property holds a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025. Allocation-driven access and a half-century of vintage continuity make it a reference point for serious California collectors.
● 1 artisanView →
06.Winery
Lucien Le Moine
Beaune, France
Lucien Le Moine is a small négociant house in Beaune operating at the precision end of Burgundy's barrel-aging tradition, recognised with a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating in 2025. The operation works across a curated range of village, premier cru, and grand cru appellations, with an approach built around minimal-intervention cellaring and selective barrel sourcing. Access is by appointment; this is not a drop-in address.
● 1 artisanView →
07.Winery
Stony Hill Vineyard
Napa, United States
Stony Hill Vineyard has been producing wine from its Spring Mountain hillside site since 1952, making it one of Napa's longest-running estate operations. Winemaker Mike Chelini oversees a program recognized with a Pearl 4 Star Prestige award in 2025. The winery sits within a small cohort of Napa producers where age of operation and estate continuity carry as much weight as appellation prestige.
● 1 artisanView →
08.Winery
Dalla Valle Vineyards
Napa, United States
Dalla Valle Vineyards has operated from Silverado Trail since its first vintage in 1986, placing it among Napa's longer-established estate producers. Carrying a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025 and led by winemakers Maya Dalla Valle and Rebekah Wineburg, the property occupies the allocation-driven tier of the valley where access requires planning well ahead of any intended visit.
● 1 artisanView →
09.Winery
Château Rauzan Ségla
Margaux, France
One of Margaux's oldest classified estates, Château Rauzan Ségla has produced wine since 1661 and holds a 2025 EP Club Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating under winemaker Nicolas Audebert. Positioned among the appellation's Second Growths, it offers a precise, structured expression of the Margaux style that rewards comparison with its immediate neighbours on the Médoc's gravelly plateau.
● 1 artisanView →
10.Winery
Domaine Auguste Clape
Cornas, France
Domaine Auguste Clape is among the most consequential addresses in Cornas, a small northern Rhône appellation built almost entirely on Syrah. With a first vintage dating to 1978 and a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating from EP Club in 2025, the domaine under winemaker Olivier Clape represents the generational continuity and granite-driven intensity that define Cornas at its most serious.
● 1 artisanView →
11.Hotel
The Dupont Circle Hotel
Washington DC, United States
The only hotel directly on Dupont Circle, this 327-room property earned a Michelin Key in 2024 and occupies a neighbourhood defined by restaurants, embassies, and nightlife rather than monuments. Rooms come with full-sized work desks and Eames Management chairs; Level Nine offers a floor of private-elevator suites. Rates from $419 per night.
● 1 artisanView →
12.Modern European Fine Dining
Muga
Poznań, Poland
Muga reigns as Poznań's only Michelin-starred restaurant, where Chef Artur Skotarczyk transforms Polish ingredients through French techniques in extraordinary tasting menus. Connected to Casa de Vinos wine bar, this intimate fine dining destination offers twelve-course culinary journeys paired with exceptional European vintages just steps from the Old Market Square.
● 1 artisanView →
13.Modern Leonese Fine Dining
Cocinandos
Leon, Spain
Inside an eighteenth-century pilgrim house beside the Parador de San Marcos, Cocinandos runs two seasonally evolving tasting menus built on Castilian ingredients and the transparency that defines the best of contemporary Spanish cooking. Ranked #485 in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2024 and recommended for new openings in 2023, it is the clearest argument for León as a serious dining destination.
● 1 artisanView →
14.Modern Icelandic Fine Dining
Moss
Grindavík, Iceland
Moss sits inside the Blue Lagoon complex on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, holding a Michelin star since 2024 and a wine cellar carved into lava that erupted in 1226. Chef Konstantinos Sakellariou leads a modern cuisine program at the €€€€ price tier, while the Star Wine List rankings, finishing first in both 2024 and 2026, confirm a wine program that punches well above the restaurant's remote setting.
● 1 artisanView →
15.Contemporary Argentinian Steakhouse
Elena
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Inside the Four Seasons Buenos Aires on Posadas, Elena positions itself at the intersection of open-fire Argentine grilling and internationally informed technique. Executive Chef Juan Gaffuri's dry-aged beef programme, 200-label wine list focused on Mendoza and Patagonia, and a 2025 Michelin Plate make it one of the more seriously argued cases for modern Argentine cooking in the city.
● 1 artisanView →
16.Three Michelin-Star French Fine Dining
Joel Robuchon at The Mansion
Las Vegas, United States
Joel Robuchon at The Mansion occupies a separate villa within MGM Grand, operating as one of Las Vegas's most decorated French restaurants. Ranked #88 in North America by Opinionated About Dining in 2025 and a consistent AAA Five Diamond recipient, it holds 1,645 wine selections across 12,500 bottles. Dinner runs Thursday through Monday, with French haute cuisine at the top price tier.
● 1 artisanView →
17.Nordic-Japanese Fusion
Nour
Stockholm, Sweden
Nour holds a Michelin star and a La Liste score of 82.5 points, placing it firmly inside Stockholm's upper tier of creative tasting-menu restaurants. Under chef Sayan Isaksson, the kitchen works in a format that rewards occasion dining, the kind of evening that demands a setting with both technical seriousness and room to breathe. The address on Norrlandsgatan puts it within Stockholm's dense concentration of destination-level tables.
● 1 artisanView →
18.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Acquerello
Fagnano Olona, Italy
A Michelin-starred address in the Lombardy hinterland, Acquerello operates from a restored courtyard in Fagnano Olona, where Chef Silvio Salmoiraghi produces a tasting menu that balances delicate Italian technique with Eastern influence. Ranked in both the La Liste Top Restaurants (2025, 80pts) and Opinionated About Dining's European and global lists, it occupies a distinct tier among northern Italy's creative fine-dining circuit.
● 1 artisanView →
19.Bar
Florería Atlantico
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Florería Atlantico is Buenos Aires drinking culture at its internationally recognised end: a cocktail bar whose programme draws on migration, Indigenous influence, and Argentina’s Atlantic-facing history. Its long run on the World’s 50 Best Bars list, including #46 in 2024 and #90 in 2025, makes it a reference point for visitors comparing the city’s serious cocktail rooms.
● 1 artisanView →
20.Premium Seasonal Tempura
Takiya
Tokyo, Japan
Takiya places Tokyo tempura in a counter-dining register closer to serious kappo than casual fry house culture. Chef Tatsuaki Kasamoto’s Azabu-Juban address carries heavy recognition: The Tabelog Award 2026 Gold, a 4.55 Tabelog score, La Liste 2026 at 97 points, and a high placement on Opinionated About Dining’s 2026 Japan restaurant ranking.
● 1 artisanView →
21.Modern Nordic Seasonal Fine Dining
Kaskis
Turku, Finland
Kaskis holds a Michelin star and a consistent place in Opinionated About Dining's European rankings, operating from Kaskenkatu in Turku with a seven-course set menu built around wild and foraged Finnish ingredients. Open Wednesday through Saturday evenings, it sits at the serious end of Finland's New Nordic scene alongside Helsinki's starred restaurants, with wine and non-alcoholic pairings available.
● 1 artisanView →
22.Classical French with Japanese Influences
レ セゾン - Les Saisons - Hotel Imperial
Tokyo, Japan
Hotel French in Tokyo often divides between grand-room ceremony and smaller chef-led counters. レ セゾン - Les Saisons - Hotel Imperial belongs to the former camp, with Thierry Voison’s classical-modern Franco-Japanese cooking backed by Tabelog Award 2026 Silver recognition, La Liste’s 2026 score of 81 points, and an OAD Japan Recommended listing.
● 1 artisanView →
23.Traditional Korean Fermentation Tasting Menu
Meju
New York City, United States
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.
● 1 artisanView →
24.Modern Italian Creative Tasting
La Tana Gourmet
Asiago, Italy
La Tana Gourmet sits on the Asiago plateau above the Veneto plains, where Alessandro Dal Degan serves a single long tasting menu built around intense, decisive flavours and the deliberate absence of salt and sugar. Recognised with a Michelin star and featured in La Liste's top restaurants two consecutive years, it ranks among the most formally ambitious tables in northeastern Italy. Booking well in advance is essential.
● 1 artisanView →
25.Modern Italian with Meats and Grills
Andreina
Loreto, Italy
Andreina runs formal, leisurely lunch and dinner service with an extensive wine list, and Michelin kept its one star in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
● 1 artisanView →
26.Contemporary Canadian Fine Dining
Canoe
Toronto, Canada
Thirty years into its run, Canoe remains the clearest argument for what contemporary Canadian cooking can be at the top of the market. On the 54th floor of the TD Bank Tower, the kitchen works a seasonally driven menu anchored in Canadian terroir, farmed, foraged, fished, while the room delivers panoramic views of Toronto and Lake Ontario that few dining rooms in the country can match.
● 1 artisanView →
27.Winery
López de Heredia (Viña Tondonia)
Haro, Spain
López de Heredia (Viña Tondonia) is one of Rioja's most deliberate producers, ranking No. 3 on the World's Best Vineyards 2019 list and holding a Pearl 4 Star Prestige rating for 2025. Based in Haro, the winery is defined by extended barrel and bottle aging that runs counter to modern production timelines, releasing wines that arrive on the market years, sometimes decades, after harvest.
● 1 artisanView →
28.Japanese
Yanagiya
Gifu, Japan
Yanagiya in Mizunami, Gifu prefecture, is one of Japan's most consistently decorated regional restaurants, holding Tabelog Silver and ranking as high as #19 on Opinionated About Dining's Japan list. Built around an irori hearth and the seasonal rhythms of central Japan, it serves wild game in autumn and river fish in summer to guests willing to make the journey out of the city.
● 1 artisanView →
29.Modern California-American Fine Dining
Boulevard
San Francisco, United States
Boulevard has anchored San Francisco's Embarcadero dining scene since the 1990s, pairing California-French cooking with a wine list of 950 selections and 8,000 bottles. Chef Dana Younkin leads the kitchen under founder Nancy Oakes, earning consistent recognition from La Liste and Opinionated About Dining. Dinner runs Tuesday through Saturday at 1 Mission Street, with a $$$-tier menu built for the serious à la carte diner.
● 1 artisanView →
30.Modern Korean
Atoboy
New York City, United States
A Gramercy set-menu counter where Modern Korean cooking meets French technique at an accessible price point. Atoboy's $75 format and Opinionated About Dining recognition place it in a distinct tier below the city's Korean tasting-menu flagship while offering a sharper, more relaxed alternative to both. Ranked #115 in North America by OAD in 2025, it remains one of NoMad's most consistent reservation targets.
● 1 artisanView →
31.Modern Cantonese
Duddell's
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Duddell's occupies the third and fourth floors of a Central address where Cantonese fine dining and a rotating art programme share equal billing. Holding a Michelin star and ranked in the Opinionated About Dining Top 125 in Asia, it draws a loyal clientele who return as much for dishes like the signature crispy skin chicken as for the gallery-calibre environment that surrounds them.
● 1 artisanView →
32.Modern Neapolitan Pizza
Pepe in Grani
Caiazzo, Italy
In the medieval hilltop town of Caiazzo, Franco Pepe's pizzeria has shifted the conversation around Neapolitan pizza from Naples itself to a small square in rural Campania. Ranked #3 on Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2025, Pepe in Grani draws serious pilgrims for its precisely leavened doughs, Casertano ingredients, and a format that sits somewhere between trattoria depth and pizzeria directness.
● 1 artisanView →
33.Seasonal Spanish Market Cuisine
La Tasquita de Enfrente
Madrid, Spain
La Tasquita de Enfrente occupies a quiet street behind Gran Vía and represents a particular strand of Madrid dining: market-led, season-driven, and indifferent to spectacle. Ranked #108 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 European list and holding a Michelin Plate, it offers both à la carte and tasting menus built around local provenance. Its steak tartare was named best in Spain at the 2025 Madrid Fusión show.
● 1 artisanView →
34.Modern Portuguese Fine Dining
CURA
Lisbon, Portugal
Located inside the Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon with its own entrance on Rua Rodrigo da Fonseca, CURA holds a Michelin star and a La Liste ranking of 81 points (2026). Chef Pedro Pena Bastos presents two tasting menus built around the tension between Portuguese culinary memory and contemporary technique, with vegetables occupying a central role across both formats. Ranked 214th in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2025.
● 1 artisanView →
35.Wood-Fired Grill
Firedoor
Surry Hills, Australia
Firedoor in Surry Hills is one of Sydney's most discussed fire-cooking restaurants, where every dish is prepared exclusively over wood flame by chef Lennox Hastie. The open kitchen places the grill at the centre of the room, and a daily-changing menu reflects whatever the fire and the season allow. Star Wine List awarded the restaurant a White Star recognition in 2021.
● 1 artisanView →
36.Winery
Domaine d'Auvenay
Saint-Romain, France
Domaine d'Auvenay in Village Bas, Saint-Romain pairs vineyard views with quiet cave tastings and estate grounds; 2026 Michelin 3 Grapes, biodynamic and organic.
● 1 artisanView →
37.Basque
Garena Jatetxea
Dima, Spain
A 17th-century Basque farmhouse in the Arratia Valley, Garena holds a 2024 Michelin star for cooking rooted in the subsistence traditions of the baserri. Two tasting menus draw directly from the Mugarrieta cattle farm and local producers, served across an informal taberna and a formal first-floor dining room. The pre-service ritual of burning laurel branches has been practised here for generations.
● 1 artisanView →
38.Winery
Domaine Dugat-Py
Gevrey-Chambertin, France
Domaine Dugat-Py: Organic Gevrey-Chambertin estate at 2 Rue de Planteligone pairs cave tastings and barrel-room visits with vineyard views, plus Michelin 3 Grapes recognition for 2026.
● 1 artisanView →
39.Coastal Indian
Trishna
London, United Kingdom
Trishna has held a Michelin star since 2012 and remains one of London's most coherent arguments for India's southwest coastal kitchen. The menu draws from Cochin, Kerala and Mangalore, with seafood as the anchor and spicing that ranges from clean and aromatic to deeply layered. The wine list, assembled with producers from lesser-known regions, is among the more thoughtfully matched in London's Indian dining tier.
● 1 artisanView →
40.Bar
Cure
New Orleans, United States
A Freret Street institution since 2009, Cure operates out of a converted horse and carriage firehouse and has maintained a position among North America's most recognised bars for over a decade. Its 2025 World's 50 Best North America ranking (#50) confirms continued relevance in a cocktail city that demands more than novelty. For serious drinkers, this is where New Orleans' classic cocktail revival took root.
● 1 artisanView →
41.Classic Prime Rib Steakhouse
House of Prime Rib
San Francisco, United States
Open since 1949, House of Prime Rib has served the same English-tradition roast from tableside stainless steel carts for over seven decades, making it one of San Francisco's most enduring dinner institutions. The set format, prime rib, tossed salad, Yorkshire pudding, and potato, leaves nothing to deliberate, and that clarity is precisely the point. Ranked by Opinionated About Dining in both 2024 and 2025, it holds a 4.7 Google rating across nearly 7,000 reviews.
● 1 artisanView →
42.Premium Seafood and Fish
Estimar Madrid
Madrid, Spain
Estimar Madrid brings a Catalan approach to fish and shellfish to the Centro district, a street from the Spanish Parliament. Opinionated About Dining ranked the Madrid outpost among the top 54 restaurants in Europe in 2024, placing it in a comparable set that includes some of Spain's most serious seafood programs. Open Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner, with Monday and Sunday closed.
● 1 artisanView →
43.Contemporary Italian with Ancient Techniques
Antico Nuovo
Los Angeles, United States
Opened in Koreatown and later settled on Beverly Boulevard, Antico Nuovo holds a Michelin Plate and ranked twelfth on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list for 2024. Chef Chad Colby works with whole-animal technique and preserved-food traditions that most of Los Angeles's Italian restaurants have abandoned, producing pasta and crudo that sit in a different register from the city's more cautious Italian mainstream.
● 1 artisanView →
44.Modern British Fine Dining
Ocean
St Brelade, Jersey
Ocean at the Atlantic Hotel in Jersey's St Brelade district earns its Michelin Plate and Opinionated About Dining Classical in Europe ranking through a menu that leans hard into locally landed seafood and classically grounded modern British cooking. Chef Will Holland's approach treats Jersey's coastline as a larder, while a 600-selection wine list with 2,800 bottles in inventory gives serious weight to the room's ambitions. This is hotel dining that competes on its own terms.
● 1 artisanView →
45.Japanese Kaiseki Omakase
Sen Omakase
Madrid, Spain
Among Madrid's small but serious Japanese dining tier, Sen Omakase in Chamartín delivers a kaiseki-influenced omakase of over 35 courses across four architecturally distinct spaces, from a garden-style reception corridor to a traditional tea room and cocktail bar. Ranked 348th in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Top Restaurants in Europe, it holds a 4.9 Google rating from 113 reviews. Single-menu format; Tokyo and Kyoto-trained kitchen.
● 1 artisanView →
46.Winery
El Enemigo (Casa Vigil)
Maipú, Argentina
El Enemigo (Casa Vigil) brings Mendoza’s high-altitude wine conversation into Maipú, where irrigation channels, alluvial soils, and long sun exposure define the glass as much as cellar technique. The appeal is strongest for travelers who want a winery experience framed by terroir rather than a generic tasting-room circuit.
● 1 artisanView →
47.Modern Piedmontese Fine Dining
La Ciau del Tornavento
Treiso, Italy
Perched above the Barbaresco hills near Alba, La Ciau del Tornavento holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining Classical Europe ranking (163rd in 2025) that together locate it inside Piedmont's serious dining tier. Chef Marco Lombardo's menu moves across Piemontese tradition and contemporary Italian cooking, backed by a wine cellar of 60,000 bottles and 5,800 selections spanning Piedmont, Burgundy, and Bordeaux.
● 1 artisanView →
48.Modern British Seasonal Tasting
Where The Light Gets In
Stockport, United Kingdom
Where The Light Gets In occupies the top floor of a Victorian coffee warehouse on a Dickensian alley in Stockport Old Town, serving a blind tasting menu built around seasonal British produce, foraged ingredients, and a whole-animal ethos. Sam Buckley's kitchen holds a Michelin Plate and ranks among Europe's top 500 on Opinionated About Dining. The restaurant operates Thursday to Saturday evenings, with Saturday lunch added to the week.
● 1 artisanView →
49.Authentic Edomae Omakase
Shimbashi Shimizu
Tokyo, Japan
A seven-seat sushi counter in Shinbashi, Shimbashi Shimizu belongs to Tokyo’s compact, regular-driven sushi tier rather than the theatre-heavy luxury circuit. Its Tabelog Award history, including 2026 Bronze and 2025 Silver recognition, points to a counter where repeat confidence matters as much as scarcity.
● 1 artisanView →
50.Modern Provençal Fine Dining
La Mirande
Avignon, France
La Mirande Avignon elevates fine dining within a restored 14th-century Cardinal's palace, where Michelin-starred Chef Florent Pietravalle crafts seasonal Provençal tasting menus in Renaissance-era dining rooms and an extraordinary medieval kitchen chef's table experience steps from the Palais des Papes.
● 1 artisanView →
51.Contemporary Argentine Seafood
Crizia
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Crizia holds a Michelin star in a city where beef still dominates most conversations about dining. The Palermo Hollywood address is the first signal that something different is happening: this is a fish-and-seafood-led kitchen working with seasonal Argentine products, open fire, and a wine programme that has drawn serious attention for its depth in whites and older vintages. Google reviewers rate it 4.6 across more than 1,400 responses.
● 1 artisanView →
52.Taizhou Cuisine
Xin Rong Ji
Hangzhou, China
Xin Rong Ji brings Taizhou cuisine to Hangzhou's West Lake district with a level of recognition that few regional Chinese restaurants achieve: one Michelin star, Black Pearl 2 Diamond, and an OAD Asia ranking of #8 in 2024. Under chef Ding Yong, the kitchen holds firm to the coastal flavors of Taizhou while operating at a price point that sits below most of its award-tier peers.
● 1 artisanView →
53.Avant-Garde Molecular Fusion Tasting
Cocina de Autor Riviera Maya
Playa del Carmen, Mexico
Inside the Grand Velas resort on the Riviera Maya, Cocina de Autor operates at the narrow intersection of Mexican culinary tradition and boundary-testing creativity. Chef Nahúm Velasco's tasting menu earns 92 points from La Liste (2026) and AAA 5 Diamond recognition, drawing on huitlacoche, scallop, and beef tenderloin in combinations that range from technically precise to playfully disarming. The wine pairing spotlights boutique Mexican growers rarely encountered elsewhere in the region.
● 1 artisanView →
54.Contemporary Scottish Seafood with French Influences
Loch Bay
Isle of Skye, United Kingdom
Loch Bay pairs contemporary Scottish seafood with French influences, a waterfront setting and an extensive wine list, backed by Michelin stars in 2024, 2025 and 2026.
● 1 artisanView →
55.Modern French Fine Dining
Galvin La Chapelle
London, United Kingdom
A Grade II listed former chapel in Spital Square, Galvin La Chapelle carries a Michelin star and an OAD Classical Europe ranking alongside one of the most architecturally arresting dining rooms in the City fringe. The kitchen works classic French technique with a modern hand, running a format that covers weekday lunch through Sunday service, a rarity at this level in London.
● 1 artisanView →
56.Japanese-Basque Fusion Fine Dining
Txispa
Axpe, Spain
A single-menu restaurant in the Atxondo Valley where Japanese technique meets Basque grill tradition. Txispa holds one Michelin star and ranked 85th on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2025. The meal begins with aperitifs at the open grill and moves to a dining room inside a renovated century-old farmhouse, with every dish explained in detail by the team.
● 1 artisanView →
57.Modern Italian Riviera Fine Dining
Ai Fiori
New York City, United States
On the second floor of the Langham Hotel on Fifth Avenue, Ai Fiori translates the cooking traditions of the French and Italian Riviera into a Midtown dining room defined by marble, thick linens, and a wine list of 1,750 selections across 8,000 bottles. Ranked #235 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list and awarded Star Wine List's top position in 2025, it occupies the formal end of New York's Italian fine dining tier.
● 1 artisanView →
58.Modern Mediterranean Fine Dining
Lilac
Tampa, United States
Lilac brings John Fraser’s plant-forward Mediterranean language to Tampa’s Channelside dining corridor, with a prix fixe format and a serious wine program shaped around France, Italy, and Greece. The draw is not spectacle but control: seasonal Florida ingredients, olive-oil logic, polished hotel service, and a room built for a splurge dinner rather than casual grazing.
● 1 artisanView →
59.Kappo Kaiseki
Makimura
Tokyo, Japan
Makimura places Tokyo kaiseki in a quieter Shinagawa register, away from Ginza theatre and hotel dining rooms. The draw is its compact 14-seat format, long-running Tabelog recognition, La Liste 97-point score, and a Kanto reading of Japanese cuisine where fish, sake, and seasonal structure matter more than spectacle.
● 1 artisanView →
60.Modern Regional Thai Tasting Menu
Samrub Samrub Thai
Bangkok, Thailand
A Michelin-starred tasting counter in a four-storey renovated house on Yommarat Alley, Samrub Samrub Thai rotates its menu every two months to spotlight specific Thai regional traditions, from Isan to the deep south. Bookings are taken exclusively through social media. Ranked 47th at Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2025, it occupies a tier above most Bangkok fine-dining rooms in terms of archival ambition.
● 1 artisanView →