New stars

Potager wins the only new Michelin star in Kuala Lumpur & Penang 2027

4 November 2026 · Written up 15 November 2026 · The Starred Bill

Potager, Masashi Horiuchi’s French restaurant in Kuala Lumpur’s Bamboo Hills, won the only new star in the MICHELIN Guide Kuala Lumpur & Penang 2027, published by press release on 4 November 2026, the first time Malaysia’s results came out online rather than at a ceremony. Dewakan keeps its two stars, and no starred restaurant lost one.

What dinner costs at Potager

Horiuchi, a former sous chef at L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon in London, opened Potager in September 2023 and cooks French dishes with produce from Malaysian farms, from Cameron Highlands corn onwards. Its eight-course Degustation menu costs RM 650 (about $160) per person, with wine pairings from RM 220 (about $55) for three glasses, and an eight-course vegetarian Harvest menu is RM 580. Lunch is the way in: four courses for RM 320 (about $80), or the five-course Signature Lunch at RM 490. Dinner bookings need a RM 350 deposit a person. Nazahar, who has run its dining room since it opened, won the guide’s Service Award.

Malaysia’s ten starred restaurants

The guide now lists one two-star and nine one-stars: seven in Kuala Lumpur and two in George Town, Penang. Darren Teoh’s Dewakan, on the 48th floor of Naza Tower, is still the country’s only two-star, at RM 870 (about $215) for its tasting menu. The cheapest starred tasting menu in Kuala Lumpur is Molina’s, at RM 538 (about $135), and the dearest is DC. by Darren Chin’s, at RM 1,198 (about $295). Akar, whose chef Aidan Low won the Young Chef Award, serves lunch at RM 288 (about $70). In Penang, Auntie Gaik Lean’s Old School Eatery cooks Nyonya dishes à la carte, most under RM 50, which makes it one of the cheapest starred meals in Asia.

Bib Gourmands and nasi kandar

Below the stars, the guide counts 60 Bib Gourmands (four new, among them Minji Bak Kut Teh in Kuala Lumpur and Serabai Istimewa in Penang) and 89 restaurants in its plain selection, 159 places in all, up from 151. Nasi kandar enters the guide for the first time, with two Penang institutions, Hameediyah on Lebuh Campbell (founded in 1907) and Deens Maju on Jalan Gurdwara. Root House by Gēn, Johnson Wong’s Malaysian Chinese restaurant in George Town, won Opening of the Year.

Every starred table, with its dinner, lunch and wine pairing prices, is on our page of Michelin star restaurants in Malaysia, and the capital’s alone on our Kuala Lumpur Michelin star restaurants page.