The Best Restaurants for 2026: Michelin Tables, New Openings & Where Locals Eat
City-by-city dining guides — Michelin tables, wine bars, chef profiles and the rooms locals actually fill, from Rome to Tokyo.
The rooms we keep going back to
The most rewarding restaurant of 2026 isn't always the highest-starred one. Saint Peter relocating to Sydney's Grand National Hotel, Roscioli's salumeria-with-kitchen in Rome, Damian D'Silva preserving Singapore's Eurasian heritage at the National Gallery — these are the rooms doing something other restaurants haven't even tried.
A good food city has range — the perfect croissant for breakfast, a wine bar for lunch with strangers, and an ambitious tasting menu for the evening when you want to be a little undone. Lisbon, San Sebastián, Bologna and Copenhagen still set the European bar, but the year's most interesting movement is happening in mid-size cities everyone underestimated.
Editor’s quick picks
A handful of editor-chosen articles to start with — each tagged with why we picked it (new, unique, trending, local, or just one we like).
The names topping every 2026 list
Distilled from Food & Wine Global Tastemaker Awards 2026, Tatler Best 2026 (Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Singapore editions), Michelin Guide 2026, and the World's 50 Best Restaurants — the places appearing on three or more reports.
Not-so-obvious picks
Two of our most-read editorial deep dives in this category.
Stedsans in the Woods: a Swedish forest restaurant where the chef forages your plate
Off-grid in the Swedish countryside, 90 minutes from Gothenburg. Meals are foraged and grown on-site; you sleep in cabins around a small lake. From our 2026 restaurants guide as one of the most genuinely sustainable kitchens in Europe — a contender for the Michelin Green Star wave.
Read the full restaurants guide → Design picks23 most beautiful bars in the world
Alex Copenguy's 2026 edition: the rooms where the design is reason enough to book a table. From Sublimotion's twelve-seat VR theatre to The Jane's deconsecrated chapel in Antwerp.
- The Jane, Antwerp — chefs Sergio Herman & Nick Bril, two-star dining in a chapel
- Sublimotion, Ibiza — twelve seats, VR-and-projection
- Sketch The Glade, London — Yinka Shonibare's botanical dreamscape
- Atlas, Singapore — the gin temple in Parkview Square
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