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Orfali Bros wins a second Michelin star in Dubai

14 October 2026 · Updated 22 October 2026 · The Starred Bill

Orfali Bros, the restaurant of brothers Mohammad, Wassim and Omar Orfali, won its second MICHELIN star at the fifth Dubai ceremony, at Atlantis The Royal on 6 October 2026. Birch and KIGO won their first star. Four restaurants that are temporarily closed kept their stars, but La Dame de Pic, Anne-Sophie Pic’s restaurant at One&Only One Za’abeel, is also closed and has lost its star.

What a meal at Orfali Bros costs

The tasting menu at Orfali Bros costs AED 795 (about $215) per person, and its set lunch AED 295 (about $80), the cheapest two-star meal we list in Dubai.

Birch and KIGO

At Birch, chef Arslan Berdiev’s menu costs AED 790 (about $215), with a wine pairing at AED 550 (about $150). Japanese omakase and kaiseki at KIGO cost AED 1,500 (about $410); its chef Akinori Tanigawa and his team also won the Service Award.

Why closed restaurants kept their stars

Al Muntaha, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Ossiano and Smoked Room are all temporarily closed but kept one star each. Michelin told Gulf News that a star rests on its latest inspections and is checked again when a restaurant reopens. Ossiano’s Rémy Marquignon still won the Young Chef award.

How many Michelin star restaurants does Dubai have?

Twenty: FZN by Björn Frantzén and Trèsind Studio with three stars, four with two and 14 with one, among 122 restaurants in the guide. Trèsind Studio, where Himanshu Saini cooks, is still the only Indian restaurant in the world with three stars; we profile him with the other Indian Michelin star chefs. Every one, with prices, is on our Dubai Michelin star restaurants page, and every change is on our MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2026 results page.