Take, for example, in Mayfair, which costs £420 a head for its omakase offering (and yes, that is before drinks). Or how about Ikoyi at 180 Strand with its (very delicious) £380 Sushi Kanesaka tasting menu of 14-ish courses? But not every single Michelin star tasting menu will leave you destitute. We've collated a list of the top 10 most affordable Michelin star dinner tasting menus of at least four courses in London.
The guide's criteria is supposedly top secret, but seasoned chefs will tell you there's a winning formula (and less-recognized chefs might argue that the recipe is set up for failure). While the UK and Ireland has a substantial 174 one-star restaurants across its shores, the coveted three-Michelin-star rating remains as elusive as ever: just 10 restaurants in the region belong to the club. With the advent of each annual guide, the restaurant world looks on in anticipation, waiting to find out if said club has any new members. At the 2026 ceremony, held on February 9 in Dublin, no new restaurants made the cut.
He's opening his debut restaurant in the capital this spring Aktar Islam is one of the biggest chefs in Britain - as well as being a regular on the telly, he holds two Michelin stars for his Birmingham restaurant Opheem, one of only two Indian restaurants in the UK (the other being Gymkhana) and four worldwide to hold the accolade. Now he's coming to the capital to open Oudh 1722 this spring.
Oakland has come out on top in Conde Nast Traveler's latest Readers' Choice Awards ranking of the best US food cities, but San Francisco comes in at number five. Conde Nast Traveler has just released the 2025 winners of its annual Readers' Choice Awards for travel destinations, hotels, airlines, and more. And in the ranking of destination food cities in the US, Oakland has come in at number one this year. This may be in no small part to the great diversity of cuisines available in the city, and the sheer number of restaurants by our estimate, with around 1,500 restaurants, there is one restaurant for every 293 residents in Oakland.
Sushi Sho, the omakase hotspot helmed by Keiji Nakazawa, earned an additional star, bringing it to three Michelin stars-the guide's highest honor, given to restaurants offering "exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey." It now joins the elite group already occupied by the perennially lauded Korean restaurant Jungsik, Eric Ripert's famed Le Bernardin, Thomas Keller's Per Se and Daniel Humm's Eleven Madison Park (which recently returned to its carnivorous roots).
As part of the New York Times' food section's initiative to become more national in its scope, we have a full rave review of the Michelin three-starred Atelier Crenn, and fresh accolades for Verjus and Oakland's Sun Moon Studio. Also, the Food & Wine Best New Chefs list has dropped, and it includes an Oakland chef. Call it part of the "boom loop" actually, please don't but San Francisco and the Bay Area are inching back into the national food conversation after several years in which we've been largely ignored.
In 2008, Anthony Bourdain filmed a sequence of his show "No Reservations" at Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat sushi restaurant in the basement of a Tokyo office building. After 15 courses of single-bite nigiri sushi from the restaurant's owner and much-celebrated chef Jiro Ono, Bourdain seemed to achieve nirvana. As Bourdain narrates, the fish and rice are served at room temperature, which Ono believes captures the purest essence and beauty of the fish.
Marco Pierre White reflects on his journey with a candid acknowledgment of his three Michelin stars and three marriages, emphasizing that passion for food and people's quirks have always driven him. He shares how experiences and relationships have shaped his culinary philosophies and personal life.
Tendrils of steam curl out of the bread basket, spreading a warm, yeasty scent as my server unfurls the linen cover to reveal a plump kind of sourdough with a golden-brown crust.
