The Places · Page 31
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01.Modern Californian
Rich Table
San Francisco, United States
Rich Table occupies a measured position in San Francisco's Hayes Valley dining scene, where New American cooking lands somewhere between neighbourhood accessibility and serious culinary ambition. Holding a 2025 Michelin Plate and consistent Opinionated About Dining recognition, it draws on California's larder with a wine list running to 1,750 selections. Dinner runs Tuesday through Saturday from 5pm.
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02.Modern French Fine Dining
Pavyllon London
London, United Kingdom
Pavyllon London sits inside the Four Seasons Hotel on Hamilton Place, Mayfair, bringing Yannick Alléno's French contemporary cooking to the UK for the first time. Led in the kitchen by Chef Benjamin Ferra Y Castell, the counter-fronted dining room applies classic French foundations to ingredients from across the Mediterranean and beyond. Set menus represent the most focused way to engage with the format.
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03.Hotel
Zanzibar White Sand Luxury Villas & Spa
Paje, Tanzania
Zanzibar White Sand Luxury Villas & Spa sits on Paje Beach on Zanzibar's quieter southeastern shore, offering 11 private-pool villas across 1,500 sqm each. A 2025 World Luxury Hotel Awards winner across regional, country, and continental categories, the property combines butler service and organic-produce dining with a dedicated kite-surfing centre, rates from USD 910 per night.
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04.Contemporary Mexican Seafood
Acamaya
New Orleans, United States
Acamaya in New Orleans presents Contemporary Mexican cooking anchored in Gulf seafood. Chef Ana Castro and sister Lydia serve standout plates like Chochoyotes with crab, Tuna Tostada with charred avocado, peanut and nori, and charred salsa verde crab claws. The James Beard–recognized kitchen blends Mexico City memory and Bywater ingredients, highlighting supple masa dumplings, bright citrus, and clean ocean brine. Expect subtle, layered flavors rather than overpowering heat, seasonal menu shifts, and a full bar with thoughtful cocktails and wines. Reservations are recommended; some walk-ins are available. Acamaya offers a refined yet approachable dining experience that pairs regional Mexican technique with New Orleans’ bounty.
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05.Modern Andalusian Tapas
BACK
Marbella, Spain
A Michelin-starred address on Calle Pablo Casals, BACK sits within Marbella's serious dining tier while carrying a bistro register that most starred rooms in the city don't attempt. Chef David Olivas structures the menu around a clear division between established signatures and evolving seasonal work, with the Entorno tasting menu drawing a ranked position among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in both 2024 and 2025.
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06.Modern Californian Fine Dining
Plumed Horse
Saratoga, United States
Plumed Horse holds a Michelin star and a place on La Liste's 2026 rankings, making it the most credentialed fine dining address left standing on the Peninsula after Manresa's closure. Chef Peter Armellino leads a Californian menu built on farm-to-table sourcing, backed by a wine list of nearly 20,000 bottles spanning California, Burgundy, and Piedmont. Dinner only, in the quiet Silicon Valley township of Saratoga.
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07.Bar
Please Don't Tell (PDT)
New York City, United States
Please Don't Tell (PDT) entered the New York cocktail conversation in 2007 through a phone booth hidden inside a hot dog counter on St. Marks Place, and it spent the next several years at the top of the World's 50 Best Bars rankings, reaching No. 1 in 2011. It holds a 4.3 Google rating across more than 2,300 reviews and remains Pearl Recommended in 2025, making it one of the few bars from that era still earning serious critical attention.
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08.Hotel
Hôtel du Couvent
Nice, France
A 17th-century convent transformed into one of Nice's most quietly authoritative hotels, Hôtel du Couvent earned the #27 position on the World's 50 Best Hotels list in 2025 and a Gault & Millau Exceptional Hotel distinction the same year. The 88-room Marriott Luxury Collection property trades Riviera flash for cloister calm: Roman baths, a resident herbalist, and garden rooms where the dominant sound is a fig tree in the breeze rather than the Promenade des Anglais.
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09.Seasonal Italian Wood-Fired
Cotogna
San Francisco, United States
Cotogna occupies the casual end of the Jackson Square pairing it shares with three-Michelin-star Quince, delivering wood-fired Italian cooking rooted in rustic regional tradition rather than fine-dining architecture. Chef Michael Tusk's trattoria earns consistent Opinionated About Dining recognition alongside a Michelin Plate, making it one of San Francisco's most credentialed neighbourhood Italian rooms at a mid-range price point.
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10.Modern Cuban-American Fine Dining
Ariete
Miami, United States
Ariete holds a Michelin star on Coconut Grove's Main Highway, where chef Michael Beltran has built one of Miami's most consistent fine-dining addresses since the restaurant opened. The menu draws on Modern American technique with a strong local identity, earning Opinionated About Dining recognition in both 2024 and 2025. Dinner runs nightly from 5:30 pm, with later service on Fridays and Saturdays.
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11.Premium Nordic Steakhouse
AG
Stockholm, Sweden
On Kungsholmen, inside a former silver factory, AG has spent more than a decade building Stockholm's most serious case for beef. The programme runs from 90-day dry-aged Swedish dairy cow to Japanese A5, all cooked over open charcoal. EP Club ranks it in the Top 10 of its global steakhouse list, and Martin Kjäll took EP Club's Meat Master of the Year award in 2025.
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12.Hotel
Park Hyatt Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Park Hyatt Tokyo occupies the top 14 floors of Kenzo Tange's 52-story Shinjuku Park Tower, where 171 rooms and suites sit above one of the city's most active commercial districts. The hotel earned 91 points in La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels ranking and houses four distinct dining concepts, including New York Grill and the kaiseki-informed Kozue. A major renovation completed in stages between May 2024 and November 2025 refreshed all interiors.
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13.Modern Thai
Nari
San Francisco, United States
Nari holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking among North America's top 250 restaurants in 2025, placing it at the sharper end of San Francisco's Thai dining tier. Chef Meghan Clark works from a Post Street address in Japantown, running a dinner-only format that treats the aromatics of central Thai cooking, galangal, kaffir lime, lemongrass, as structural, not decorative.
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14.Modern Japanese Omakase with Nordic Influence
Sabi Omakase Stavanger
Stavanger, Norway
Stavanger's sole Michelin-starred sushi counter brings omakase discipline to Norway's oil capital, with back-to-back stars in 2024 and 2025, an OAD Top 234 Europe ranking, and a La Liste score of 81 points in 2026. Chef Laurent Cherchi runs a format built entirely on trust: no à la carte, no substitutions, just the sequence the kitchen decides. For a city better known for New Nordic fine dining, Sabi represents a different kind of precision.
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15.Modern Mediterranean Fine Dining
The de Mondion Restaurant
Mdina, Malta
The de Mondion Restaurant pairs Modern Mediterranean Fine Dining with formal, conversational dinner service in Mdina’s Xara Palace Relais & Châteaux, making it a planned evening choice.
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16.Contemporary French Fine Dining
Guy Savoy
Las Vegas, United States
Inside the Augustus Tower at Caesars Palace, Restaurant Guy Savoy operates in a register that most Las Vegas dining rooms don't attempt: unhurried, formally French, and built around a wine program that earned three consecutive Star Wine List rankings in 2026. With nearly two decades on the Strip and a 95-point La Liste score in both 2025 and 2026, it is the chef's only American outpost and one of the Strip's most decorated rooms.
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17.Classic Hong Kong Steakhouse
The Steak House
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Occupying a prime position inside the Regent Hong Kong on Tsim Sha Tsui's waterfront, The Steak House is one of the few fine-dining rooms in the city built around a charcoal grill. The wine list runs to 500 selections with a 2,000-bottle inventory weighted toward Burgundy and Bordeaux, and the room, clad in burgundy, black, copper, and suede, holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025.
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18.Modern Lithuanian Fine Dining
Nineteen18
Vilnius, Lithuania
Nineteen18 holds a Michelin star and a La Liste ranking inside a courtyard complex in Vilnius's historic centre, where a sealed ten-course menu anchors an industrial-style dining room that runs with a deliberately relaxed tempo. Chef Andrius Kubilius draws produce from the restaurant's own farm, and the kitchen counter is the seat of choice for anyone who wants to follow the cooking in real time.
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19.Modern Seafood Fine Dining
Outlaw's New Road
Port Isaac, United Kingdom
Outlaw's New Road sits above Port Isaac's harbour with Atlantic views and an eleven-course seafood tasting menu built around the daily catch. La Liste ranked it 87.5 points in 2025. The restaurant closes permanently after 28 March 2026, making the remaining services a fixed endpoint for anyone who has been meaning to go.
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20.Modern Italian Fine Dining
Cracco in Galleria
Milan, Italy
Inside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II, one of Milan's most recognisable 19th-century arcades, Cracco in Galleria holds a Michelin star and an OAD Top 100 Europe ranking. Chef Luca Sacchi leads a tasting menu and à la carte that reference contemporary Italian technique while keeping classic Milanese touchstones, notably vitello alla Milanese, in frame. The wine programme, spanning 2,500 selections and 18,000 bottles, is among the most comprehensive French-leaning lists in Italy.
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21.French Bistro
Bouchon Bistro
Napa, United States
A French bistro fixture on Yountville's Washington Street, Bouchon Bistro translates the Parisian neighborhood model, steak frites, croque madame, all-day service, into wine country California. Ranked by Opinionated About Dining among the top casual restaurants in North America in 2025, and recognized with a Michelin Plate, it occupies a different register than the tasting-menu temples a short walk away.
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22.Contemporary Norwegian Seafood Fine Dining
Speilsalen
Trondheim, Norway
Speilsalen holds a Michelin star earned within ten months of opening, and operates inside Trondheim's Britannia Hotel with a contemporary Nordic menu that draws heavily from the cold-water harvests of the Norwegian coast. Chef Håkon Solbakk leads a kitchen that has maintained consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining and Star Wine List across multiple consecutive years. Open Thursday through Saturday from 6pm.
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23.Belgian Dry-Aged Steakhouse
Carcasse
Sint-Idesbald, Belgium
Carcasse in Sint-Idesbald holds a Michelin Plate and ranked #59 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 Casual Europe list, placing it among Belgium's most recognised meat-focused restaurants. Under head chef Timon Michiels, the kitchen centres on self dry-aged beef (minimum 28 days) and charcoal-grill cookery, drawing from sourcing across Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, and Spain. Open Thursday through Monday for lunch and dinner, priced at €€€€.
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24.Modern Portuguese-Mediterranean Fine Dining
Vista
Portimão, Portugal
Set inside an early 20th-century palace on a promontory above Praia da Rocha, Vista holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining ranking of #180 in Europe for 2025. Chef João Oliveira's two menus, one built entirely around locally caught fish and seafood, the other vegetarian, map the Algarve's coastline through provenance-led cooking. Dinner runs Tuesday through Saturday, evenings only.
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25.Bar
Bar Nouveau
Paris, France
Ranked #18 on Top 500 Bars and #39 on the World's 50 Best Bars 2024, Bar Nouveau brings the Art Nouveau movement to life across two floors at 5 Rue des Haudriettes in the Marais. A six-cocktail menu split between pre-industrial and modern techniques mirrors the bar's two-level design philosophy. No reservations are taken, so arriving at the 3pm opening is the practical strategy for securing a seat.
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26.Modern Italian
Luca
London, United Kingdom
A Michelin-starred Italian from two of The Clove Club's founders, Luca occupies a covered garden space in Clerkenwell that reads as part Roman palazzo, part metropolitan bar. British produce, Hereford beef, Hebridean lamb, Orkney scallops, meets Italian technique across a menu where fresh pasta earns particular attention. The bar's £32 express lunch makes it one of London's more accessible starred options.
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27.Modern Cal-Indian
Eylan
Menlo Park, United States
Eylan brings a formally ambitious take on Indian cooking to Menlo Park's El Camino Real corridor, earning a Michelin Bib Gourmand in 2025 and a place on the San Francisco Chronicle's Best New Bay Area Restaurants list the same year. Chef-owner Srijith Gopinathan leads the kitchen, with Wine Director Andre Sydnor overseeing a 2,000-bottle cellar weighted toward France and California. Dinner runs at $66 or above for a typical two-course meal.
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28.Winery
d'Arenberg
McLaren Vale, Australia
d'Arenberg sits at Osborn Road in McLaren Vale, where its Rubik's Cube-inspired architecture announces a winery that operates at the intersection of serious viticulture and deliberate spectacle. Awarded a Pearl 3 Star Prestige rating in 2025, it holds a firm position in McLaren Vale's upper tier. Approach the building and you'll hear weather converted into audio wavelengths, a sensory prologue that sets the register for everything that follows.
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29.Modern American Fine Dining
Pineapple and Pearls
Washington DC, United States
Pineapple and Pearls holds a Michelin star and La Liste recognition for a tasting menu format that pushes against fine dining convention. At 715 8th St SE in Capitol Hill, Aaron Silverman's room trades hushed reverence for oversized Champagne bottles, velvet dinner jackets, and tableside theatrics. The sommelier program is a serious thread running beneath the celebrations, with pairing suggestions matched to each course.
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30.Bar
Quinary
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
On Hollywood Road in Central, Quinary has anchored Hong Kong's serious cocktail scene since 2012. Named to the World's 50 Best Bars list every year from 2013 through 2021, and ranked among Asia's Best Bars consistently through 2025, it sits in a peer tier defined by technical precision and longevity rather than novelty. A Google rating of 4.6 across more than 900 reviews signals a floor of reliability that few bars at this level maintain.
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31.Modern French Fine Dining
Pur' - Jean-François Rouquette
Paris, France
Pur' - Jean-François Rouquette serves modern French fine dining at Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme, with formal dinner service, a quiet room, and an extensive sommelier-led wine list.
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32.Creative Seasonal Seafood
Willem Hiele
Oudenburg, Belgium
Ranked 62nd on the World's 50 Best list in 2025 and holding a Michelin star, Willem Hiele operates from a quiet address in Oudenburg, a small West Flemish town that most diners would not expect to anchor a restaurant of this standing. The creative kitchen draws on coastal Flemish produce and a distinctly personal culinary language, placing it in a comparable set closer to Boury in Roeselare than to the Belgian urban fine-dining circuit.
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33.Plant-Based Gastro-Botanical Fine Dining
Humus x Hortense
Ixelles, Belgium
A Michelin-starred, plant-forward restaurant in Ixelles that holds a place in the We're Smart World Top 10 and carries a 5-Radish rating. Nicolas Decloedt and Caroline Baerten work exclusively with herbs, grains, flowers, and vegetables from local producers, paired with natural fermentations and biodynamic wines. Ranked 461st among Europe's top restaurants by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it is the most decorated vegetable-focused address in Brussels.
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34.Japanese-Italian Fusion Omakase
Orsa & Winston
Los Angeles, United States
Inside the Farmers and Merchants Bank Building in downtown Los Angeles, Orsa & Winston holds a Michelin star and a top-20 place on the LA Times 101 Best Restaurants list for its five-course pescatarian tasting menu that draws equally from Japanese and Italian traditions. At $150 per person, it sits at the more accessible end of the city's fine-dining tier, with dishes built around peak-season California produce and a counter format that puts the kitchen on full display.
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35.Modern Austrian Fine Dining
Paznaunerstube
Ischgl, Austria
Paznaunerstube serves modern Austrian fine dining at Hotel Trofana Royal in Ischgl, with one Michelin star in 2024, 2025 and 2026 plus an extensive, sommelier-led wine list.
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36.French-inspired Pacific Northwest
L'Abattoir
Vancouver, Canada
L'Abattoir occupies a 19th-century brick-and-beam building on Carrall Street in Gastown, where it has held a position at the top of Vancouver's French-influenced contemporary dining tier for over fifteen years. Earning a Michelin Plate in 2025 and ranked in both La Liste and Opinionated About Dining, it pairs West Coast ingredients with classical French technique in a format that has evolved from tasting-menu rigidity toward a more fluid à la carte structure.
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37.Modern British with Japanese Influences
SOURCE at Gilpin Hotel
Windermere, United Kingdom
SOURCE at Gilpin Hotel holds a Michelin star and a place in La Liste's 2026 Top Restaurants, operating from a series of intimate dining rooms within the Gilpin Hotel in Windermere. Chef Mario Comitale works in a modern British register that draws freely on Japanese ingredients, pairing smoked sake with turbot and hōjicha with white chocolate. It is one of the Lake District's more considered one-star addresses.
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38.Edomae Omakase
Sushi Kaneyoshi
Los Angeles, United States
A 10-seat Edomae omakase counter in the basement of a Little Tokyo office building, Sushi Kaneyoshi holds a Michelin star and ranked #78 in Opinionated About Dining's 2025 North America list. Chef Yoshiyuki Inoue's focus on hikarimono and Edomae technique draws serious connoisseurs to one of Los Angeles's most demanding reservations.
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39.New England Fine Dining
The White Barn Inn Restaurant
Kennebunk, United States
Inside a candlelit converted barn on the Kennebunk River, The White Barn Inn Restaurant has held AAA Five Diamond status and La Liste recognition for its prix fixe format built around southern Maine's seasonal produce and coastal seafood. The menu shifts with what's available locally, the wine list runs 900 bottles deep, and a pianist plays every evening without lifting the noise above conversation level.
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40.Classic French Fine Dining
Ginza L’écrin
Tokyo, Japan
Operating from a basement room in the Mikimoto Building since 1974, Ginza L'écrin is one of Tokyo's longest-standing French tables, holding a Michelin star and consecutive Tabelog Bronze Awards from 2018 through 2026. The kitchen applies orthodox French technique to Japanese-sourced fish and seasonal produce, with a wine program overseen by an in-house sommelier. Dinner runs from JPY 20,000 to JPY 29,999; reviewed spending averages suggest considerably higher.
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41.Traditional Kaiseki
Seisoka
Tokyo, Japan
Located within the grounds of Zen-sect Tengenji Temple in Minamiazabu, Seisoka holds a Michelin star and a La Liste score of 90 points. Chef Nozomu Yamai presents kaiseki that draws directly on shojin ryori, the vegetarian discipline developed by Buddhist monks, with a daily-changing menu built around what seasonal produce offers at its most immediate. The result is one of Tokyo's more philosophically coherent kaiseki addresses.
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42.Modern Chinese Fine Dining
Kyo Seika
Kyoto, Japan
A Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant in Kyoto's Higashiyama district, Kyo Seika has held Tabelog Bronze recognition every year since 2017 and ranks among Japan's top 350 restaurants on Opinionated About Dining. Chef Shizuo Miyamoto draws on classical Chinese literature for recipe inspiration, working within a 16-seat room where counter positions face directly into the kitchen. Dinner runs ¥20,000–¥29,999 with a 10% service charge; open Wednesday through Sunday from 18:00.
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43.Contemporary Korean-Western Fine Dining
L'Amant Secret
Seoul, South Korea
On the 26th floor of L'Escape Hotel in Jung District, L'Amant Secret holds a Michelin star and La Liste scores of 86.5 (2025) and 88 (2026) for its approach to Korean-style Western cuisine. Chef Son Jong-won combines domestic seasonal ingredients with Western technique in an intimate, Parisian-inspired room that reads as considered rather than showy.
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44.Bar
Maybe Sammy
Sydney, Australia
Maybe Sammy gives Sydney's cocktail scene a rare thing: grand-hotel polish without grand-hotel stiffness. Its theatre-led drinks programme, pink-jacketed service style, and repeated World's 50 Best Bars recognition place it in the city's international cocktail bracket rather than the casual bar lane.
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45.Hotel
Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at the Bosphorus
Istanbul, Turkey
A 19th-century Ottoman palace on the European shore of the Bosphorus, Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at the Bosphorus holds a La Liste Top Hotels score of 91.5 points (2026) and 170 rooms across the historic main building and two annexes. Rates from $914 per night position it at the upper tier of Istanbul's waterfront luxury market, with a complimentary shuttle connecting it to the brand's Sultanahmet property.
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46.Kyoto Kaiseki
Doujin
Kyoto, Japan
A kaiseki counter in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward that has climbed from rank 60 to rank 19 on Opinionated About Dining's Japan list in two years, while scoring 83 points on La Liste 2026. Doujin operates evenings only, seven days a week, placing it in the tier of serious destination dining without the institutional weight of the city's older houses.
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47.Modern British Fine Dining
Adam's
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Adam's holds a Michelin star and an Opinionated About Dining Top Restaurants in Europe ranking (2024), placing it among Birmingham's most decorated fine-dining addresses. Tasting menus of five or seven courses anchor the format, with à la carte available alongside. The art deco–inflected dining room on Waterloo Street operates Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner, closed Monday and Sunday.
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48.Modern Alpine Farm-to-Table
Contrada Bricconi
Oltressenda Alta, Italy
A 15th-century stone hamlet above Val Seriana, Contrada Bricconi is where chef Michele Lazzarini translates the agricultural traditions of the Bergamo Alps into a tasting menu of precise mountain cooking. Ranked 41st in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2024, awarded a Michelin star the same year, and recipient of OAD's Next Generation Award, it operates as a working farm and restaurant simultaneously, a format that changes what ends up on the plate.
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49.Modern Northern Italian (Ligurian)
Osteria Giulia
Toronto, Canada
Osteria Giulia brings Ligurian cuisine to Yorkville with a Michelin star and a menu that focuses on the seafood-rich coast rather than the usual pan-Italian repertoire. Chef Rob Rossi's uptown room, with its candlelit cream walls and blond-oak tables, is the kind of place that absorbs a milestone dinner without effort. La Liste ranked it among the world's top restaurants in both 2025 and 2026.
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50.Modern English with French Soul
Kitchen W8
London, United Kingdom
A Michelin-starred fixture on a quiet Kensington side street, Kitchen W8 has held its place in London's modern British dining conversation by doing something harder than spectacle: being reliably good. Chef Mark Kempson's cooking draws on classical French structure with Mediterranean inflections, served in a room that feels genuinely neighbourhood without sacrificing kitchen ambition. Ranked 302nd in Opinionated About Dining's 2024 European list, it earns its place in the upper tier of London's mid-formal dining category.
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51.Hotel
One Aldwych
London, United Kingdom
A listed 1907 Edwardian landmark between Covent Garden and the Strand, One Aldwych carries a 400-piece contemporary art collection through 102 rooms that balance minimalist design with British craftsmanship. The 18-metre chlorine-free lap pool, Bamford Wellness Spa, and a Roald Dahl-inspired afternoon tea position it clearly above the standard West End hotel tier, with La Liste placing it at 90.5 points in its 2026 Top Hotels ranking.
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52.Modern Galician-Japanese Fusion Tasting Menu
Casa Marcelo
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Few restaurants in Spain carry the logistical and symbolic weight of Casa Marcelo, a surprise tasting menu counter on Rúa das Hortas that ranks among Europe's most-discussed casual dining rooms. Ranked #185 in the Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe list for 2025, it draws a global crowd with a format built on trust: choose four or eight dishes, and let the kitchen decide the rest.
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53.Contemporary American
The Musket Room
New York City, United States
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.
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54.Modern Egyptian
Khufus
Giza, Egypt
Within the Giza Pyramid Complex, Khufus makes a case for modern Egyptian cuisine as a serious fine-dining proposition. Chef Mostafa Seif's kitchen ranked fourth in the World's 50 Best Restaurants MENA 2024 and scored 78 points on La Liste 2026, placing it at the top of Egypt's formal dining tier. The Pier 88 group property carries a 4.3 rating across more than 2,800 reviews.
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55.Classic Cantonese
Spring Moon
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Spring Moon at The Peninsula Hong Kong holds a Michelin star and a Black Pearl 1 Diamond (2025), serving Cantonese cuisine across two levels of 1920s-Shanghai-inspired interiors in Tsim Sha Tsui. Lunch dim sum alongside a 30-variety tea selection draws consistent recognition from Opinionated About Dining, which ranked it among Asia's top 135 restaurants for three consecutive years. A considered choice for classic Cantonese with contemporary edge.
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56.Modern French Fine Dining
Jean-Georges Philadelphia
Philadelphia, United States
On the 59th floor of Philadelphia's Comcast Technology Center, Jean-Georges Philadelphia brings Vongerichten's French-inflected cooking to one of the city's most dramatic dining rooms. Six-course tasting menus rotate seasonally alongside an à la carte program, with AAA 5 Diamond recognition and consecutive La Liste and Opinionated About Dining rankings confirming its place in the upper tier of Philadelphia fine dining.
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57.Ember-Grilled Cantabrian Seafood
Güeyu-Mar
La Vega, Spain
On a beach in Asturias, Güeyu-Mar has spent years refining a single discipline: grilling fish sourced daily from the local auction, with a concise à la carte that lets the catch speak. Ranked #8 in Opinionated About Dining's Casual Europe list for 2025 and holding a Michelin Plate, it occupies a tier of its own among Spain's coastal grill restaurants. Advance booking is essential; the kitchen closes by 5 pm.
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58.Chinese
Yong Fu (Huangpu)
Shanghai, China
Yong Fu (Huangpu) gives Ningbo cooking a high-recognition Shanghai stage, with wild-caught seafood shipped daily from Ningbo and a kitchen led by Weng Yongjun. The draw is not novelty; it is the city’s long appetite for coastal Zhejiang flavors, handled with enough polish to earn La Liste 97 points for 2026 and Black Pearl 3 Diamond recognition in 2025.
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59.Bar
Nickel City
Austin, United States
Nickel City is an East Austin dive bar on E 11th Street that has earned back-to-back placement on World's 50 Best North America's Best Bars (#70, 2025) and Top 500 Bars (#406, 2025). Its no-frills format, strong drinks program, and neighbourhood credibility have made it one of the more closely watched bars on the Austin circuit for those who value substance over spectacle.
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60.Modern Malaysian Tasting Menu
Gēn
George Town, Malaysia
At Gēn, Chinese for “root”, the owner-chef channels childhood memories and Taiwan’s coastal bounty into a seasonally led tasting menu that is as refined as it is soulful. Expect delicate, inventive courses with a focus on pristine local fish, each plated with grace and a touch of whimsy, perhaps a silken chicken soup presented in a glass bottle, evoking a tender nostalgia. An expertly curated list of over 30 organic and biodynamic wines underscores the restaurant’s thoughtful philosophy, pairing with precision and restraint. For diners who appreciate elegance anchored in authenticity, Gēn offers a quietly luxurious experience where heritage, craftsmanship, and the poetry of the plate converge.
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