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The World’s 50 Best 2026: what dinner costs at each Michelin-starred entry

4 November 2026 · Written up 12 November 2026 · The Starred Bill

Asador Etxebarri, a one-star grill in the Basque hills, is No. 1 on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026, announced in Lima on 4 November. Of the 50, 38 hold Michelin stars, 19 of them three, and their tasting menus run from under $200 a head in Bangkok and Hong Kong to DKK 5,600 (about $835) at Alchemist in Copenhagen.

The starred top ten, and what dinner costs

Eight of the top ten hold stars. Etxebarri, up from No. 2, serves one menu, mostly at lunch, for €300 (about $335) with VAT included. Gaggan in Bangkok (No. 2, one star) charges ฿16,000 (about $475), a price that already covers the drinks pairing, service and tax. Alchemist (No. 3, two stars) is the dearest of the starred 50, and Quintonil in Mexico City (No. 4, two stars) costs MX$6,090 (about $325). The Chairman in Hong Kong (No. 6, one star) has set menus from HK$1,380 (about $175), but is fully booked until the end of March. Kadeau in Copenhagen, which won its third star in June, climbed from No. 41 to No. 8, the year’s Highest Climber, and charges DKK 4,150 (about $620). DiverXO in Madrid (No. 9) costs €450 (about $500) and Plénitude in Paris (No. 10) €495 (about $555). Wing in Hong Kong (No. 5) has no Michelin star, and Kjolle in Lima (No. 7) is in a country the MICHELIN Guide doesn’t cover.

Every Michelin-starred restaurant in the top 50, cheapest first

Prices are per person for the main tasting menu before drinks, as listed today; Gaggan’s includes its drinks pairing, service and tax. Bangkok’s others are “++”, with 10% service and 7% VAT on top, while Danish prices already include service and 25% VAT, so Copenhagen’s three, the dearest on the list, cost less at the table than they look. Ru Yuan, Meet the Bund and Don Julio have no set menu and are shown by a typical spend. Stars are from each country’s current MICHELIN Guide; Italy’s next edition is revealed on 12 November and Spain’s on 24 November, and our pages follow them.

New to the top 50, and who dropped out

Seven of the year’s eleven new entries hold stars: Tuju in São Paulo, the Highest New Entry at No. 16, Meet the Bund in Shanghai, Al Gatto Verde in Modena, Le Coquillage in Brittany, Ru Yuan in Hangzhou, Onjium in Seoul and Bozar in Brussels. Le Louis XV in Monaco is back at No. 47, its first appearance since 2009. Atomix, at No. 11, is the only American restaurant in the top 50.

Several starred restaurants left the 100 altogether, among them Orfali Bros in Dubai, Pujol in Mexico City, Le Bernardin in New York and Table in Paris, No. 8 last year, which closes for good on 22 December. Another 42 restaurants on the 51–100 list hold stars; the cheapest set menus there are Le Du in Bangkok at ฿5,500 (about $165) and Septime in Paris at €135 (about $150).

Each starred restaurant’s 2026 place is now on its page with its other critics’ lists, and our ranking of the top Michelin star restaurants in the world combines The World’s 50 Best with OAD and La Liste.