Fine Dining
46 places under Fine Dining — all tried, all liked, all paid for ourselves.
16Osaka-Cocina Nikkei- Peru
One of Lima's best-known Nikkei restaurants, Osaka is among the most successful expressions of an approach that brings Japanese technique together wit…
9Indochine Istanbul
A global touch to Istanbul's dining scene, in Etiler: Indochine. 🌿✨ Indochine Istanbul is the local chapter of an international brand with roots in wo…
10Pandeli Restaurant
In Eminönü's Spice Bazaar, a timeless address where history meets flavour: Pandeli. 💛 Founded in 1901 and still one of Istanbul's most deeply rooted d…
9Benares Fine Indian Dining Mayfair
In the heart of London, Benares is one of those special addresses that retells the centuries-old heritage of Indian cooking in the language of modern …
12Hona
Ansar, a 23-year-old chef, is doing wonderful things at a tiny omakase counter in Cihangir. At the daytime service you choose between just three kinds…
12Casa Mono
Casa Mono is a tapas restaurant serving Spanish food in New York. Tapas — a range of small hot and cold plates — is a Spanish classic. Casa Mono's suc…
16Papaioannou Restaurant
Athens has become a favourite destination for Turkish travellers lately, and the interest has started to show up in both local and international press…
11Portland Restaurant
Portland won a Michelin star a year after opening in 2015 and has held it ever since. It's in Fitzrovia, in a quiet pocket just off Oxford Street — a …
9Kyoto, Japan
Kentan Horibe is a chef's restaurant in Kyoto whose accomplished cooking has been crowned with a Michelin star. Dishes are prepared in front of you at…
16Kyoto, Japan
Nakazen, in Kyoto — the city where kaiseki cuisine was born — has crowned its quality with a Michelin star. With a six-seat counter and a single table…
11Tokyo, Japan
Nishiazabu Ōtake is a representative of kaiseki cuisine in Tokyo whose skill has been crowned with a Michelin star. Kaiseki was described by Anthony B…
12L'Odas
L'Odas sits right beside Notre-Dame cathedral in Rouen, France. Michelin-starred, it offers not only a wonderful menu but a gastronomic experience fro…
14Kol Restaurant
Kol is a chef's restaurant opened in London's Mayfair in 2020 by the Mexican chef Santiago Lastra. Experienced through a tasting menu, Kol presents ex…
8Çokçok Thai
Thai food is perhaps the Far Eastern cuisine best suited to the Turkish palate. Built on generous use of coconut milk and peanuts, its staples are dis…
10L' Asinello Ristorante
L'Asinello is a small chef's restaurant that has been running since 2011 in the Tuscan town of Castelnuovo Berardenga. It has crowned its high standar…
9Balıkçı Kahraman
Balıkçı Kahraman in Rumeli Kavağı is perhaps the most talked-about fish restaurant in Istanbul, for a quality it has never let slip. It's the first na…
7Hosteria Grappolo D'Oro
Roman pasta is built on the base of cacio e pepe. Made with nothing but egg, black pepper and pecorino romano, it may be the world's simplest and most…
10Cote Korean Steakhouse
Cote is the Michelin-starred Korean barbecue in New York. The point of Korean barbecue is that the meat you choose is cooked beside you. At other Kore…
Lyon, France
Lyon is above all famous for its gastronomy, but it offers more than that. Lyon is a smaller but better version of Paris, as some call it. The Rhône r…
10Daniel et Denise
Daniel et Denise is a bouchon that has become one of Lyon's landmarks, operating across three sites. Chef Joseph Viola has appeared in the Michelin gu…
10Zaika of Kensington
Although Indian food is close to the Turkish palate, it isn't easy to find good representatives of it here. But in England, where the Indian populatio…
10Sade Beş Denizler
Sade Beş Denizler is one of those Nişantaşı places we've been hearing a lot about lately. It serves home-style dishes during the day, while the evenin…
10Alaf Kuruçeşme
Alaf may be our very favourite restaurant in Istanbul. We think Michelin did it a great injustice by not awarding a star. Alaf presents Yörük culture …
10Aheste
Aheste in Asmalımescit stands out amid Beyoğlu's meze-and-rakı culture with its new reading of Turkish cooking. Since entering the Michelin guide rece…
7Tatbak
Tatbak means our childhood and our youth. Very few restaurants in Turkey have run uninterrupted for more than sixty years; Tatbak is one of them. Serv…
10Gallada by Fatih Tutak
Gallada, carrying the signature of our Michelin-starred chef Fatih Tutak, is Istanbul's new favourite. Inside the newly opened Peninsula hotel in Kara…
10TURK FATIH TUTAK
Türk, which Fatih Tutak opened in Bomonti after years of experience in the Far East, is one of the most talked-about restaurants in the country, holdi…
Michelin Listesi Favorilerimiz
We've gathered the acıktım.be favourites from the newly published Michelin list in this reel. Congratulations to Arkestra — which a year ago we said w…
8Homa Restaurant
Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is full of surprises. Michelin recommends seventeen different restaurants there, even though none of them holds a sta…
8Zoka
Those who know Zoka know it from Kaş. They've carried similar flavours to the new place they've opened in Nişantaşı, Istanbul. We chose the tasting me…
10Finnjävel
Finnsjavel is one of the 6 Michelin star restaurants in Helsinki. It brings a modern approach to the traditional Finnish cuisine. The 8 course tasting…
10Olden 1772
Olden 1772 is one of Istanbul's new and much-discussed places. Dazzling in its striking decoration, Olden has opened inside the 250-year-old Muhsinoğl…
10Arkestra
Arkestra is probably the most talked-about place in Istanbul at the moment. Opened in Etiler about two months ago, Arkestra has built a magnificent ki…
10Zaaf İstanbul
Zaaf had been serving quietly at its Ortaköy site for more than a year when it drew attention — first with the place it opened inside Bodrum's Plevnel…
10Capra Çukurbağ
Serra Beklen, former head chef of the Michelin-starred Neolokal, serves a magnificent menu to the guests she welcomes at her home in the village of Çu…
9Efendy İstanbul
Efendy, opened in Levent under the leadership of Soner Sivrioğlu, has a bold menu. The menu is ambitious, creative and delicious. We tried a range of …
9Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro, inside Bomonti Ada, has drawn attention for its delicious and ambitious plates ever since it opened. It welcomes customers with an ambiti…
9Lokanta 1741
It's been a year since we first wrote about Lokanta 1741, but revisiting felt like a good excuse for a reminder. Step inside the Cağaloğlu hamam and a…
10Alaf Kuruçeşme
Alaf remains one of our very favourite places in Istanbul. Carrying nomadic Yörük cooking into the present, Alaf serves Anatolian flavours in a new re…
10OD URLA
Od Urla is without doubt one of the most ambitious gourmet addresses in Turkey. Created by the İzmir-born chef Osman Sezener, it is an experience in i…
10Smelt Torino
While Balat's transformation has been talked about for years, the area already offers some very enjoyable options. Smelt & Co is down a side street in…
10hodan.istanbul
Hodan is a bold place in Çukurcuma bringing new touches to Turkish cooking. Named after the borage herb — hodan — said to give courage, the name refle…
6Beearif by MyDom
With restaurants closed in Turkey, we wanted to try different flavours on our trip to Baku. On our first evening we tried Azerbaijani dishes and were …
8Galerija Okusov
Galerija Okusov is a Michelin-starred oasis in Slovenia. Housed in an eighteenth-century building on the road between Bratislava and Maribor, it earns…
7OD URLA
It isn't possible to fit Od Urla's story in here. They have done wonderful work; it's an oasis. The food is wonderful, but more importantly the philos…
9The Steeve İstanbul
A very accomplished fine-dining option at Kanyon. Details on the acıktım.be pages.…
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