MICHELIN Guide Northeast Cities · 2025
16 restaurants are listed in New York City in the 2025 guide: 1 with three stars, 2 with two stars, 4 with one star, 9 with a Bib Gourmand. Each one comes from Michelin's announcement and the press that covered it, checked by a person at Meez.
16 restaurants in New York City
Photo: Sushi ShoJapanese · Midtown Manhattan · $$$$
Chef Keiji Nakazawa
Chef Keiji Nakazawa brings his Tokyo Sushi Sho to Midtown, serving traditional Edomae-style omakase at a ten-seat hinoki counter. A shorter omakase tasting menu anchors the evening, and diners can add okonomi extras, choosing whatever they like from the day's selection.
4.6109 Google reviews
Photo: Jiyong JangKorean · Koreatown · $$$$
Chef Shin Chang-ho
Chef Chang-ho Shin's Korean tasting menu, brought from Seoul to the 16th floor of a Koreatown office building, is built on seasonal ingredients, fermentation and jang, the fermented sauces and pastes. A signature dish is makgeolli bread topped with seared sea bass.
4.7235 Google reviews
Photo: Bar MasaJapanese · $$$$
Chef Masayoshi "Masa" Takayama's Japanese sushi restaurant in the Time Warner Center serves only an omakase menu at a small counter-style dining room. Fish was sourced largely from Tokyo's Tsukiji market, and Takayama designed the plates himself as a potter.
4.1589 Google reviews
Photo: BridgesContemporary · Chinatown · $$$$
Chef Sam Lawrence
Sam Lawrence, an Estela alum, runs this first solo venture on Chatham Square. The small-plates menu blends French bistro, Basque and Japanese ideas, with anchovy toast, duck confit croquette and glistening Comté tarts. The room is minimal and softly lit, and the wine list ranges across the globe.
4.4262 Google reviews
Photo: HusoTribeca · $$$$
Chef Buddha Lo
Chef Buddha Lo's caviar-forward, 12-course tasting menu is served in a 28-seat, two-level room inside Marky's Caviar in Tribeca. Look for the everything bagel tart with caviar, dry-aged duck with beets, and the White Truffle Mountain dessert, with a deep Champagne list alongside.
4.8380 Google reviews
Photo: MukuJapanese · New York · $$$$
Chef Manabu Asanuma cooks a kaiseki-style tasting menu at this 10-seat Tribeca counter, built around Japan's five classical techniques: raw, grilled, simmered, steamed and fried. Look for the foie gras chawanmushi, unagi and maitake rice, and hand-made soba from buckwheat grown on his family's farm in Yamagata.
4.735 Google reviews
Photo: YamadaJapanese · Chinatown · $$$$
Chef Isao Yamada
Chef Isao Yamada, formerly of Brushstroke, serves seasonal kaiseki at a 10-seat hinoki-wood chef's counter in Chinatown's Canal Arcade. The 10-course tasting menu includes a signature donabe rice dish and ends with a tea ceremony.
4.965 Google reviews
Photo: Kevin T$$
Chef Nhu Ton's East Village Vietnamese spot is known for its O.G. Bánh Mì: house-baked bread, pâté, cold cuts and pork floss. The à la carte menu also covers noodle soups and silky steamed rice sheets filled with shrimp or pork jowl. Dinner lines form early.
4.4561 Google reviews
Photo: Chalong Southern Thai$$
Chef Nate Limwong, from Surat Thani, cooks Southern Thai food at this Hell's Kitchen spot, which opened in 2023. The à la carte menu leans on seafood and Southern curries, with crab curry, steamed fish and stink beans (sator) among the dishes diners order. Cocktails draw on stories from Southern Thailand.
4.94,048 Google reviews
Photo: La Dong$$
Modern Vietnamese cooking just off Union Square, in a colorful colonial-style room with wooden arches and private booths. The 45-dish menu spans banh mi, pho, turmeric shrimp crêpes and sugarcane shrimp skewers. Order cocktails built on Southeast Asian ingredients, or fresh Bia Hơi brewed daily with KCBC.
4.84,370 Google reviews
Photo: LALIKO$$
A West Village Georgian restaurant from restaurateur Gurami Oniani, with executive chef Manuchar Tsikolia leading the kitchen. The à la carte menu centers on cheesy khachapuri and brothy khinkali dumplings, alongside salads, skewers and stews. Small-batch Georgian wines and a family-style supra menu suit groups.
4.7668 Google reviews
Photo: noreetuh$$$
Chef Chung Chow, raised on O'ahu and trained in French technique, cooks modern Hawaiian food in an intimate East Village dining room. Look for elevated takes on island staples like musubi, pork belly and fried rice, alongside a wine list strong on France, plus sakes and craft beers.
4.6827 Google reviews
Photo: WamuyuBrooklyn · $$
A small Bed-Stuy cantina modeled on Mexico City, with communal tables and nostalgic, family-style plates led by chef Jael Lopez, who cooked at Cosme and Eleven Madison Park. Look for chicharrón preparado, eggplant milanesa and grilled branzino with morita salsa, plus agave cocktails and micheladas.
4.7147 Google reviews
Brooklyn
Photo: Taquería el ChatoBrooklyn · $
A compact Greenpoint taco counter from chef Gerardo Alcaraz and the Aldama team, with a few counter seats. Tortillas are pressed in-house from Masienda corn nixtamalized overnight. Go for the trompo al pastor taco, vampiros, suadero and lengua, plus a salsa bar of pickled vegetables.
4.8225 Google reviews
Photo: YemenatBrooklyn · $$
A warm Bay Ridge spot for Yemeni cooking, known for slow-cooked lamb haneeth and bubbling beef fahsa, with fresh seafood on the menu too. Flatbread comes warm from the fire, and free hot chai is served at the back counter. It suits family-style meals with a group.
4.71,139 Google reviews
