Star light, star bri🎀ght. Date nights in New York City are about to get a whole lot tastier! Famed French restaurant guide Michelin announced their top area eateries for 2021.
For last year’s guide, Michelin awarded 76 restaurants their stars in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Westchester.
This year, however, .
Since the pandemic hit the city, restaurants that have shuttered number . Alas, 15 previously Michelin-ranked restaurants didn’t make the cut this year — while seven new places were added to the list.
Upscale Manhattan staples such as Le Bernardin, Per Se, Masa, Eleven Madison Park and Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare all kept their status as three-star places. These five have not moved from the list since 2018. Another 14 hot spots have two-sta🌺r ratings. Michelin has also stated that places that were temporarily closed during the pandemic would be able to keep their s✨tars.
As of now, 49 restaurants carry one star. The new additions to that list are Rezdô꧒ra, Don Angie, Tsukimi, Jua, Kochi, V🤡estry and Francie.
The chief inspector of Michelin’s North America team, who under the condition of anonymity, said ranking visits took place both before the pandemic and as the restaurants re-opened, following p﷽andemic protocols. They stressed that inspectors were sensitive to the social-distancing restrictions and communicated with chefs and owners on openings and closures.
Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin guides, said that the way restaurants handled themselves during tough times was commendable. “Despite the context, restaurants took this year as an opportunity to make progress,” he told the . “The world can look to how the US is handling the recovery.”
A new award was introduced for restaurants that focus on sustainable cooking. The g🔯reen star was given to . The spot currently has two stars.
Several top eateries that exit🥂ed the list due to their uꦬntimely permanent closures include Aldea, Gotham Bar & Grill, and Del Posto. , a Washington Square Park fave, also fell off the the guide, even though it is still open.
Eleven Madison Park’s three-star rating comes hot on of the heels of news that it is adopting an all-vegan kitchen. The relaunched menu is described as “an eight- to 10-course 🦩menu in the main dining room consisting of entirely plant-based dishes,” according to their website. The place is set to reopen for service on June 10 after shutting down during the pandemic.
Chef-owner Daniel Humm recently that he began thinking more clearly about health and sustainability while the restaurant was closed in 2020. “The way we have sourced our food, the way we’re consuming our food, the way we eat meat — it is not sustainable,” he said.
“Guests hꦰave never come to us to just eat a piece of steak or lobster,” he said. “They’ve always come to us to be on a journey.”
New York City’s Michelin-starred restaurants of 2021:
One star
- Ai Fiori (Midtown West)
- Bâtard (TriBeCa)
- Benno (Gramercy)
- Blue Hill (Greenwich Village)
- Carbone (Greenwich Village)
- Casa Enrique (Queens)
- Casa Mono (Gramercy)
- Caviar Russe (Midtown East)
- Claro (Sunset Park)
- The Clocktower (Gramercy)
- Contra (Lower East Side)
- Cote (Gramercy)
- Crown Shy (Financial District)
- Don Angie (Greenwich Village)
- Estela (SoHo & Nolita)
- The Four Horsemen (Williamsburg)
- Francie (Williamsburg)
- Gramercy Tavern (Greenwich Village)
- Hirohisa (SoHo)
- Jeju Noodle Bar (Greenwich Village)
- Rezdora (Gramercy)
- The River Café (Downtown Brooklyn)
- Sushi Amane (Midtown East)
- Sushi Ginza Onodera (Midtown West)
- Sushi Nakazawa (Greenwich Village)
- Sushi Noz (Upper East Side)
- Sushi Yasuda (Midtown East)
- Tempura Matsui (Midtown East)
- Tsukimi (East Village)
- Tuome (East Village)
- Vestry (SoHo)
- Wallse (Greenwich Village)
- ZZ’s Clam Bar (Greenwich Village)
Two stars
- Aquavit (Midtown East)
- Atera (Tribeca)
- Atomix (Gramercy)
- Aska (Williamsburg)
- Blanca (Fort Greene)
- Blue Hill at Stone Barns (Westchester)
- Daniel (Upper East Side)
- Gabriel Kreuther (Midtown West)
- Ichimura at Uchū (Lower East Side)
- Jean-Georges (Upper West Side)
- Jungsik (Tribeca)
- Ko (East Village)
- L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon (Chelsea)
- The Modern (Midtown West)
Three stars
- Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare (Midtown West)
- Eleven Madison Park (Gramercy)
- Le Bernardin (Midtown West)
- Masa (Midtown West)
- Per Se (Midtown West)