About The Starred Bill

Last updated 11 November 2026

The Starred Bill shows what a meal at a Michelin-starred restaurant costs before you book. We list the dinner, lunch and wine pairing prices of 3,920 starred restaurants in 52 countries, with the whole bill worked out, and we say where every price came from and when.

Who's behind The Starred Bill

Sam Barnard

Founder

I'm Sam. I grew up in Yorkshire, live in south London, and will happily cross a continent for a meal.

My first taste of Michelin-level cooking came when my parents took me to The Park Restaurant at Sutton Park in North Yorkshire. Adam Jackson ran the kitchen there after winning a star at the Black Swan at Oldstead, and the experience opened my eyes to what food could be. I've been chasing that ever since, at starred restaurants on three continents: Chez Bruce, close to home in Wandsworth, the Black Swan at Oldstead itself, Y'east in Seoul, Mezzaluna in Bangkok and Don Julio in Buenos Aires, among others.

Choosing the next one was always harder than it should have been. There's no shortage of “best restaurants” lists, but they're opinions. The facts you need to weigh one starred dining room against another are scattered across menu PDFs, booking pages and footnotes, if they're published at all: what each menu costs, what service, tax and wine add, and when tables are released. The Starred Bill brings them together in one place, so you can compare restaurants side by side and know the whole bill before you book.

I've spent over 10 years in editorial roles in digital publishing, so I find it hard to leave a fact unchecked. Every price here links to its source and says how recent it is, and we contact restaurants directly to confirm what they charge.

What you'll find here

• A page for every country, region and city with starred restaurants, their prices side by side, on a map and in a list you can sort and filter.
• Restaurant pages with every menu we know of, what dinner for two comes to, how and when to book, and cheaper ways in.
• Budget search, which picks three starred restaurants for what you want to spend, and Near me, which finds the ones closest to you.
• Guides on what the stars mean and cost, and news of new and lost stars, closures and openings.
• The Starred Bill Michelin Price Index, our quarterly measure of what one, two and three stars cost around the world.

Where the prices come from

We take each price from the best source we can open, in this order: the restaurant's own website or menu, then its own booking page, then recent reviews and booking sites. 3,898 of the starred restaurants on the site have a price. Every one links to its source and says when we got it.

• Checked or recorded. A restaurant's page says a price was “checked” only when we have gone back to its source and confirmed it. Otherwise it says when the price was recorded, so you can see how fresh it is. We recheck the prices people look at most first.
• As published. Prices are per person, as the restaurant lists them, before service. Each country's usual service, tax or tip is shown on the bill as a separate line, marked as an estimate.
• Tools and legwork. Software and AI research tools do a lot of the legwork of reading menus from around the world. Some details you can only get first-hand, though, so we also visit restaurants and get in touch with them directly. If something's unclear, we set it aside for a closer look rather than guess.
• Members' reports. Members can tell us what a restaurant charged. We check every report against the restaurant's own website before changing anything.
• Exchange rates come from ExchangeRate-API and are updated each month.

Where the stars come from

The stars are the MICHELIN Guide's. We take them from Michelin's own announcements at each guide's ceremony (its press releases and press kits), from news coverage and from restaurants' own announcements, and update our pages after every ceremony. Each restaurant's page links to its entry in the MICHELIN Guide. The ceremony dates page shows when each guide is next due.

The Starred Bill is independent. It isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Michelin.

Our independence

No restaurant pays to appear on The Starred Bill, and no one can pay to change a price, a star, a ranking or the order of a list. How we make money explains the few ways the site may earn money, and the promises that come with them.

Corrections

Menus and prices change often. If you see a price that's out of date, a restaurant that has closed or a new head chef, use “Report a price or change” on the restaurant's page, or email us. We check it at the source, correct the page and update its date.

For journalists and researchers

You're welcome to quote our figures with a credit to The Starred Bill and a link to the page they come from. The Price Index has downloadable tables, and what a Michelin star restaurant costs works out the whole bill by star level and country. For a figure for a city, country or star level that isn't shown, email [email protected].

The company behind the site

The Starred Bill is a trading name of Tally Media Limited, a private limited company registered in England and Wales (company number 17576729), set up on 11 November 2026 to run the site. Its registered office is 58a Sunnyhill Road, London SW16 2UL.

Contact

The Starred Bill was founded by Sam Barnard and is run from London. Email [email protected] for anything about the site. The privacy notice and terms of use cover how the site works for you.