List of Michelin 3-star restaurants in the United States

This article contains a complete list of Michelin 3-star restaurants in the United States. Michelin stars are a rating system used by the red Michelin Guide to grade restaurants on their quality. The guide was originally developed in 1900 to show French drivers where local amenities such as restaurants and mechanics were. The rating system was first introduced in 1926 as a single star, with the second and third stars introduced in 1933.^[1] According to the Guide, one star signifies "a very good restaurant", two stars are "excellent cooking that is worth a detour", and three stars mean "exceptional cuisine that is worth a special journey".^[2] The listing of starred restaurants is updated once per year.

The French Laundry, a 3 Michelin-starred restaurant in Yountville, California

The Michelin Guide began reviewing restaurants in the United States in 2005 beginning with New York City. In subsequent years, Michelin expanded its reviews to other major US cities.^[3]

As of the 2025 Michelin Guide, there are 16 restaurants in the US with a rating of 3 Michelin stars.^[4]

List of Michelin 3-star restaurants

Key

	One Michelin star
	Two Michelin stars
	Three Michelin stars
	One Michelin green star
—	The restaurant did not receive a star that year
Closed	A defunct restaurant
	One Michelin key

Michelin 3-starred restaurants

Restaurant	Chef(s)	Cuisine	Location				Current	Ref.
				Year to star
Addison	William Bradley	California	San Diego	2019	2021	2022–present		[5]
Alain Ducasse at the Essex House	Alain Ducasse	French	New York City	—	—	2006	Closed	[6]
Alinea	Grant Achatz and Doug Alley[7]	Molecular gastronomy	Chicago	—	—	2011–present		[8]
Atelier Crenn	Dominique Crenn	French	San Francisco	2012	2013–2018	2019–present		[9]
Benu	Corey Lee and Brandon Rodgers	Asian-inspired New American	San Francisco	—	2012–2014	2015–present		[10]
Chef's Table at Brooklyn Fare	César Ramírez[a] Max Natmessnig and Marco Prins[12]	Seafood, omakase-style	New York City	—	2011, 2024	2012–2022		[13]
Coi	Daniel Patterson	Seafood	San Francisco	2008	2009–2016 2019–2021	2017–2018[14]	Closed	[15]
Daniel	Daniel Boulud	French	New York City	2024	2006–2010 2016–2023	2011–2015
Eleven Madison Park	Daniel Humm and Brian Lockwood	Plant-based[b] contemporary American	New York City	2010–2011	—	2012–present		[13]
Grace	Curtis Duffy	Progressive	Chicago	—	2014	2015–2018	Closed	[c]
Jean-Georges	Mark LaPico	French	New York City	—	2018–present	2006–2017[18]
Joël Robuchon	Christophe De Lellis[d]	French	Las Vegas	—	—	2008–2009	Las Vegas is no longer reviewed	[e]
Jungsik	Jungsik Yim	Korean	New York	2011–2012	2013–2023	2024		[21]
L2O	Laurent Gras	Seafood	Chicago	2011	2012–2014	2010	Closed	[f]
Le Bernardin	Éric Ripert,[23] Chris Muller,[24] and Eric Gestel[25]	French	New York City	—	—	2006–present		[26]
Manresa	David Kinch[27][28] and Nicholas Romero[29]	California	Los Gatos, California	—	2006–2015	2016–2022	Closed	[30]
Masa	Masa Takayama	Japanese and sushi	New York City	—	2006–2008	2009–present		[31]
Per Se	Thomas Keller[32] and Corey Chow[33][34]	New American	New York City	—	—	2006–present		[26]
Providence	Michael Cimarusti	Seafood	Los Angeles	2008	2009 2019 2021–2024	2025		[35]
Quince	Michael Tusk and Neil Stetz	Contemporary Californian and Italian	San Francisco	2006–2013	2014–2016	2017–present		[36]
Saison	Richard Lee	New American	San Francisco	2011	2012–2014 2019–present	2015–2018
SingleThread	Kyle Connaughton	Japanese and New American	Healdsburg, California	—	2018	2019–present		[9]
Smyth	John Shields	Contemporary	Chicago	2017	2018–2022	2023–Present		[37]
Somni	Aitor Zabala	Contemporary	West Hollywood, California	—	2019	2025		[38]
The French Laundry	Thomas Keller and David Breeden[39][40]	French with California influences	Yountville, California	—	—	2007–present		[41]
The Inn at Little Washington	Patrick O'Connell	Nouveau American	Washington, Virginia	—	2017–2018	2019–present		[42][43]
The Restaurant at Meadowood	Christopher Kostow	California	St. Helena, California	—	2008–2010	2011–2019	Closed	[g]

See also

• Business and economics portal
• Food portal
• United States portal

• List of Michelin 3-star restaurants
• List of Michelin 3-star restaurants in the United Kingdom

Notes

1. Ramirez fired as head chef in July 2023^[11]
2. The menu changed to vegan upon reopening after the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021
3. Closed in December 2017^[16][17]
4. Christophe de Lellis departed as executive chef in 2024^[19]
5. Due to poor sales of the Michelin Guide for Las Vegas, Michelin stopped reviewing the Las Vegas market in 2009^[20]
6. Closed in December 2014^[22]
7. Closed in Sept 2020 after being destroyed in the Glass Fire^[44][45]