Tonight, Michelin announced its list of starred California restaurants for 2025 at an awards ceremony in Sacramento, and the results for Los Angeles are now in: Two all-new one-star additions; three Michelin stars (the city’s first) awarded for Somni, the most expensive restaurant in Los Angeles; and a highly coveted third star for Providence, Michael Cimarusti’s longtime Hollywood fine dining institution, which has held two stars every year that Michelin has rated L.A. restaurants since 2009. (The guide left L.A. for a decade, returning in 2019.)
One of the world’s most famous dining guides (as well as a multinational French tire company), Michelin decides what it considers worth visiting by sending anonymous inspectors all over a given city, state, region or country. In North America, the guide’s overall bias towards Japanese omakase and French fine-dining restaurants is well-known, though it also includes a variety of unstarred restaurants in terms of cuisine and price point within each edition of the guide.
This year in L.A. was largely no different. The two newest one-starred L.A. restaurants for 2025 are Restaurant Ki, a modern Korean tasting menu in Little Tokyo run by eponymous chef Ki Kim (who also earned Michelin’s Young Chef Award) and Mori Nozomi, a standout, female-led omakase experience in West L.A. by eponymous chef and Osaka native Nozomi Mori. Almost every other two-star and one-star eatery in L.A. maintained its standing except for West Hollywood’s Sushi Ginza Onodera, which has closed. Up in Santa Barbara, Silvers Omakase earned a brand-new star designation; the restaurant is run by Lennon Silvers Lee, the brother of Pasta|Bar’s Phillip Frankland Lee, whose Encino strip mall eatery also maintained its Michelin star.
On the Bib Gourmand front, three new L.A. area restaurants earned recognition in the tire company’s more budget-friendly restaurant rating category: Komal, a masa-centric lunch counter in Mercado Paloma run by two Holbox alums; Rasarumah, chef Johnny Lee’s trendy Malaysian spot in Historic Filipinotown; and Vin Folk in Hermosa Beach, which Time Out recently wrote about as a destination-worthy bistro in the South Bay. In order to be considered for the more affordable category of the French tire company’s world-renowned dining guide, Bib Gourmand restaurants must offer a full menu that makes it possible to order two courses and drink or dessert for under $49 (sans tax and gratuity).
For ease of use, we’ve detailed L.A.’s newest Michelin stars and Bib Gourmands, as well as the eateries that lost Michelin stars, in alphabetical order (and will soon update our list of the city’s Michelin-starred restaurants). All restaurants are within the city of L.A. unless noted in parentheses.
Any links reflect previous coverage here at Time Out—and we’ve included call-outs of our own starred ratings in brackets (out of 5) if you’d like a more locally informed perspective than the concise description offered by Michelin. Time Out Los Angeles sends congratulations to all of L.A.’s newly (and not-so-newly) Michelin-starred restaurants and Bib Gourmands.
L.A.’s newest three-star Michelin restaurants:
Providence [5 stars]
Somni (West Hollywood) [5 stars]
L.A.’s new one-star Michelin restaurants:
Mori Nozomi [5 stars]
Restaurant Ki [4 stars]
L.A.’s new Bib Gourmands:
Komal [4 stars]
Rasarumah [3 stars]
Vin Folk (Hermosa Beach) [4 stars]
L.A. restaurants that lost stars:
Sushi Ginza Onodera (West Hollywood) — now closed