NYC Michelin Stars 2022: The Full Record

Daniel Humm’s Eleven Madison Park, the high quality eating temple that critics skewered following its pivot to a plant-based menu final yr, remains to be one of many world’s nice eating places — and probably the best vegan restaurant on planet Earth, based on Michelin.

Co-hosts Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka introduced tonight at an elegant ceremony in Hudson Yards that Eleven Madison Park would hold its three-star ranking, Michelin’s highest award. The accolade stands in sharp distinction to critiques and columns that questioned nearly each side of the restaurant after it dropped just about all animal merchandise from the menu.

Eleven Madison now seems to be the one vegan restaurant on this planet with three stars.

Michelin’s famously nameless inspectors including a whopping 17 new eating places to the one-star checklist this yr, together with Tribeca tasting menu spot One White Road; the French American Clover Hill; and the Decrease East Facet’s Dust Sweet, which has been serving vegan fare since 2008. Semma, the Greenwich Village restaurant from Roni Mazumdar and chef Vijay Kumar, turned the town’s solely Indian restaurant with a Michelin star. Plenty of fashionable Korean eating places and pricy sushi dens additionally joined the checklist, together with Koreatown’s Joomak Banjum, Yoshino within the East Village, and Noz 17 in Chelsea.

The inspectors dropped 11 eating places from the one-star checklist, together with Peter Luger, the steakhouse that was the topic of a withering Pete Wells review earlier than the pandemic, and Marea, the tony Italian seafood and pasta spot on Central Park South. The Italian American Carbone and ZZ’s Clam Bar additionally fell off the checklist, leaving Main Meals Group — which is on a speedy enlargement tear — with zero Michelin stars in New York Metropolis.

There have been no adjustments to the three-star class, which, apart from Eleven Madison park, additionally consists of the opulent Per Se, the French Japanese Chef’s Desk at Brooklyn Fare, French seafood palace Le Bernardin, and sushi spot Masa, the nation’s costliest restaurant.

Michelin elevated simply two new eating places to two-star standing: Al Coro, an Italian high quality eating restaurant that opened a mere three months ago, and Saga, a tasting menu spot positioned some 60 flooring above Crown Shy (whose personal one-star ranking was renewed on Thursday night). There are actually 13 eating places with a two-star ranking in New York Metropolis, following the closure of L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Blanca, and Ichimura at Uchu.

In Michelin parlance, one star means “prime quality cooking, price a cease;” two stars signifies “glorious cooking, price a detour;” three stars signifies “distinctive delicacies, price a particular journey.” The ranking course of for this yr’s information was performed between spring 2021 and summer time 2022, based on a consultant for Michelin.

The Bib Gourmand class, announced partly final month, consists of venues the place patrons can order two programs and a glass of wine earlier than tax or gratuity for $49, up from $40 in 2021.

This yr Michelin debuted an distinctive cocktail award, which went to Philip Dizard of Noda; a pastry chef award, awarded to Kelly Nam of Joomak Banjum; and a mentor chef award, which acknowledged Eric Ripert, the chef and co-owner of Le Bernardin. The information’s sommelier and younger chef awards, first introduced in 2021, went to Nikita Malhotra of Momofuku Ko and Charlie Mitchell of Clover Hill, respectively.

The Thursday night time ceremony concludes an unusually busy calendar yr for the Crimson Information. Michelin beforehand introduced its starred winners as soon as per yr, however in November, the group broke from custom, releasing the names of its award contenders in two month intervals — an obvious bid to drum up press year-round.

The total checklist of 2022 starred alternatives for New York Metropolis and Westchester

Three-stars eating places

Chef’s Desk at Brooklyn Fare

Eleven Madison Park

Le Bernardin

Masa

Per Se

Two-star eating places

Al Coro (new)

Aquavit

Aska

Atera

Atomix

Blue Hill at Stone Barns

Daniel

Gabriel Kreuther

Jean-Georges

Jungsik

Momofuku Ko

The Fashionable

Saga (new)

One-star eating places

63 Clinton (new)

Batard

Household Meal at Blue Hill

Casa Enrique

Casa Mono

Caviar Russe

Claro

Clover Hill (new)

Contra

Cote

Crown Shy

Dust Sweet (new)

Don Angie

Estela

4 Horseman

Francie

Frevo (new)

Gramercy Tavern

Hirohisa

Icca (new)

Jeju Noodle Bar

Joomak Banjum (new)

Jua

Kanoyama

Kochi

Kosaka

L’Abeille (new)

Le Coucou

Le Jardinier

Le Pavillon

Mari (new)

The Musket Room

Noda

Noz 17 (new)

Odo

Oiji Mi (new)

One White Road (new)

Oxalis

Oxomoco

Crimson Paper Clip (new)

Rezdora

The River Cafe

Semma (new)

Shion 69 Leonard Road (new)

Sushi Amane

Sushi Ginza Onodera

Sushi Nakazawa

Sushi Noz

Sushi Yasuda

Tempura Matsui

Torien (new)

Tsukimi

Tuome

Sacristy

Yoshino (new)