The most expensive Michelin-Starred restaurants of 2024 have been revealed – and there’s a Dubai entry
11/21/24
Can you guess where Dubai features?
As the definition of culinary excellence, It’s no secret that Michelin-starred dining costs a pretty penny. From ingredients such as snow crab, white truffles, and premium caviar, to exquisite multi-course dishes and plated artistry, costs can soar, and with it comes a price tag to match. Providing some gastronomic bucket-list inspiration, a new report has unveiled the most expensive Michelin-starred restaurants of 2024. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a Dubai restaurant also features on the list. But can you guess where?
The most expensive Michelin-Starred restaurants of 2024
Topping the list as the most expensive Michelin-starred restaurant of 2024 is Ginza Kitafuku in Tokyo, Japan. The restaurant offers a seasonal Echizen crab ‘“Kiwami’” course, charged at 330,000 Yen per person and featuring a rate type of snow crab exclusively caught off the coast of Echizen, a region in Fukui Prefecture. As the holder of the most Michelin stars, Toyko is a culinary powerhouse and was awarded 251 Michelin Stars across 194 restaurants in the 2024 guide. Ginza Kitafuku’s seasonal Echizen Crab Kiwami course is priced at a staggering USD$2,130 USD.
Staying in the Far East, Shanghai’s Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet takes the second spot with a tasting menu priced at USD$1,230. The single-table restaurant opened in May 2012 and, in 2014, became the first restaurant in China to become a member of the Les Grandes Tables du Monde. The high-tech, high-octane space uses synchronised visuals, music, and aromas to bring each course to life on a one-of-a-kind culinary journey.
Third place goes to another Michelin-star culinary capital, New York City, home to an impressive 71 Michelin-star restaurants. Caviar Russe on the elite Madison Avenue’s tasting menu goes for an impressive USD$975 and includes some of the finest and most luxurious ingredients in the culinary sphere. As suggested in the name, this is one for caviar lovers and features 11 courses of caviar-centric dishes described by Forbes as an ‘over-the-top odyssey’.
Fourth place is also held in New York City, where the premier Japanese and three-Michelin-starred restaurant Masa offers a tasting menu for USD$950. It was the first restaurant in the US to break the $1,000 tasting menu mark (thanks to added service and taxes). It also includes Ossetra caviar and rare truffles, with plenty of culinary flair.
Fifth place is back in Tokyo with Azabu Kadowaki, priced at $935, with Quince in San Francisco coming in sixth with $795. Known as one of the world’s culinary capitals and renowned for its experimental foodie scene, the Danish capital Copenhagen places seventh with The Alchemist and its $760 menu. Sazenka in Tokyo is in eighth place, while Paris – one of the world’s culinary powerhouses – only makes its entrance at number nine. Renowned for its French haute cuisine and regarded as France’s most expensive restaurant, Guy Savoy, at the elegant Hôtel de la Monnaie’s tasting menu, goes for $715.
Numbers 10 to 15 take us back to Tokyo, with Tokyo’s Gina Fukuju in 10th and Kyoto’s Gion Maruyama in 12th. Dubai makes its anticipated debut at 11 with Hōseki, Bulgari Resort Dubai’s nine-seat omakase restaurant. At one of the most exclusive dining experiences in the city, the most expensive tasting menu is priced at $680. 13 is taken by Paris’ Le Cinq, with a $625 menu, Amsterdam at $625 with Ciel Bleu and finally back to Copenhagen with Geranium and its $590 menu.
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