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Andermatt’s The Japanese Restaurant wins Switzerland’s fifth third star

2 November 2026 · Written up 9 November 2026 · The Starred Bill

Switzerland has a fifth three-star restaurant. The MICHELIN Guide Switzerland 2026, revealed at the Andermatt Konzerthalle on 2 November 2026, gave a third star to The Japanese Restaurant at The Chedi Andermatt, where twin brothers Dominik Sato and Fabio Toffolon cook. Seven restaurants won their first star, nobody was promoted to two, and the guide’s starred list shrank from 145 to 133, mostly because of closures.

The Japanese Restaurant, Andermatt’s three-star

Michelin called it the edition’s biggest climb: The Japanese Restaurant joins Sven Wassmer Memories in Bad Ragaz, Cheval Blanc by Peter Knogl in Basel, the Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville in Crissier and Schloss Schauenstein in Fürstenau. Its seven-course omakase costs CHF 320 (about $390) per person, and The Japanese Full Experience CHF 420. Andermatt now has four starred restaurants, among them IGNIV by Andreas Caminada with two stars.

The seven new one-star restaurants

The opening of the year, by Michelin’s own award, is MYLE in Bern, where Markus Arnold, who left the Steinhalle, cooks a six-course menu themed on a different city each season for CHF 194 (about $235). In Zermatt, Dietmar Sawyere’s Ad Lib at the Hotel Welschen charges CHF 165 (about $200) for five courses, and Nicole Sawyere won the Service Award. Ticino’s newcomer is Ristorante con enoteca Origini in Morbio Inferiore, whose chef Guglielmo Curcio won the Young Chef Award and whose seven-course menu is the cheapest of the seven at CHF 130 (about $160). The other four are Bärenstobe in Gonten, Appenzell, at CHF 195 (about $235) for seven courses; CAAA by Pietro Catalano in Lucerne, the dearest of the seven at CHF 295 (about $360); Tanja Grandits’s Schlüssel in Oberwil, at CHF 139 (about $170) for five courses or CHF 99 (about $120) for a three-course lunch; and rémy in Zurich, at CHF 170 (about $205) for six courses.

Who lost stars

Four restaurants left the two-star list. Tanja Grandits’s Stucki in Basel is closed for rebuilding until November 2027, IGNIV in Bad Ragaz has been shut since February for work on its hotel, and Skin’s in Lenzburg stopped serving dinner in March. La Brezza is now listed once, under Arosa, where it keeps two stars. Fifteen restaurants lost one star, ten of them closed or changed, including elmira in Zurich, La Riva in Lenzerheide and Le Trianon at Mont-Pèlerin. Tsé Fung in Geneva, Capri in Zermatt and Sternen in Wangen are still open without a star.

Every change, with each restaurant’s prices, is on our MICHELIN Guide Switzerland 2026 results page, and every starred table in the country is on our page of Michelin star restaurants in Switzerland.