All 25 of L.A.’s Michelin star restaurants, updated for 2023

Year first awarded: 2022

715's Seigo Tamura has sushi in his blood. The Osaka-born chef's grandfather owned a restaurant in their native Sakai City, where Tamura watched him hone his craft as a child. At this high-end Arts District sushi bar, Tamura and his younger brother offer an ever-changing 20-course menu of Edomae-style nigiri and kaiseki dishes, sourcing all seafood from Japan and dry-aging several types in-house. Clocking in at $300 before tax and tip, the omakase experience here doesn't come cheap, but the little details, like Tamura's blend of Hitomebore and Koshihikari rice, and 715's laidback atmosphere make for one of the city's best new high-end sushi meals.

Year first awarded: 2022

At Camphor, light-as-a-cloud French cuisine feels more than apt within the restaurant’s airy white and blue dining room, where old-school touches and a featherweight culinary approach combine in a stunning blend of elegant, yet nontraditional, fine dining. Inside the former Nightshade space, Alain Ducasse veterans Max Boonthanakit and Lijo George offer what looks like the usual French bill of fare, albeit with subtle nods to Asian cuisine. A delicate amuse bouche pays homage to the South Asian street snack pani puri, while the gunpowder anchovies call to mind the tiny, salty fried fish favored in the Philippines and South Korea. Phenomenal desserts round out the Camphor experience, whether you're digging into a hot cocoa-inspired chocolate soufflé or breaking the kiwi trompe l'oeil atop a delicate, refreshing glacée.

Year first awarded: 2022

When Josiah Citrin reimagined his Michelin-starred Santa Monica fine dining menu, he carved out space for another, slightly more casual affair. At his eponymous eatery, you'll find comforting but wholly gourmet takes on classics we could eat every night: pitch-perfect roast chicken coated in garlic and breadcrumbs; refreshing oysters under sorrel and cucumber; and, of course, Josiah Citrin's cult-classic lobster bolognese under truffle foam.

Year first granted: 2021

At the intersection of fine dining and fashion lies Beverly Hills’ Gucci Osteria, a shiny new Italian restaurant created with guidance from world-famous chef Massimo Bottura, who runs the original in Florence (which also has a Michelin star). Sitting above Rodeo Drive, with a view of the shoppers and luxury cars down below, a meal here by head chef Mattia Agazzi is the epitome of opulence and excess. Whether you’re partaking in the $220 or $275 tasting menu, expect what Michelin calls a "whimsical and grounded" take on modern Italian cuisine. Incorporating uniquely California ingredients like Santa Barbara uni and Monterey seaweed, Agazzi's food combines with a beautifully designed indoor-outdoor dining room to produce an opulent, over-the-top experience fit for Rodeo Drive.  

Year first awarded: 2022

The meat-oriented sibling to Beverly Hills' Maude (also on this list), Gwen greets you with a butcher case as soon as you open the door, tempting you with coils of lamb sausage or hefty cuts of steak to take home. But not everyone is a wiz when it comes to cooking their own meat, which is why celebrity chef Curtis Stone's evening restaurant component is always worth a visit. The glitzy dining room, where chandeliers dangle above, also features an open kitchen for an entirely elegant, modern steakhouse experience.

First awarded: 2023

Run by siblings Philip and Lauren Pretty, Heritage serves a classically Californian tasting menu ($110) from a converted Craftsman bungalow in Long Beach’s Rose Park. High-quality seasonal ingredients, including produce sourced from Heritage’s namesake urban farm, sets the restaurant apart, as does memorable dishes like six-hour-smoked pork belly, pavlova with parsnip pastry cream and preserved kumquats paired with roasted beets.

Formerly known as the supper club pop-up Kali Dining, chefs Kevin Meehan and Drew Langley turned their sporadic dining experience into a neighborhood brick-and-mortar in Larchmont Village, offering fresh and simple Californian cuisine in a casual setting. Made exclusively with locally sourced ingredients, the $140 tasting menu ranges from dishes like prawn crudo and olives and nasturtium for a light appetizer, to more hearty protein plates such as beef tenderloin with onion and fingerling potatoes. The seasonality extends to the à la carte options, too, both at lunch and dinner. An equally extensive beverage menu is available, with global wines, inspired cocktails, a selection of craft beer and even Meehan’s house-made kombucha.

Year first granted: 2022

For all the warm sushi rice and dragon rolls, L.A. boasts plenty of excellent Edomae-style sushi bar, with perhaps no better example than this relative newcomer hidden away in the basement of a Little Tokyo office building. Run by veteran sushi chef Yoshiyuki Inoue, Sushi Kaneyoshi tops out in luxury, refinement and overall wow factor. The exact seafood used in Kaneyoshi’s approximately 20 courses changes seasonally, but diners are likely to dig into a delicate Hokkaido crab chawanmushi, along with one of the city’s best preparations of ankimo (monkfish liver) and nodoguro (blackthroat sea perch) for the cool price of $300 per person. A word of warning: Tock reservations here are tough to snag, but the eventual outcome is well worth the time and effort.

With each passing year, Jon Yao's tasting menu reaches new heights. The lauded self-taught chef—and native Angeleno—blends his Taiwanese and San Gabriel Valley roots to create a tasting menu that’s something new entirely: Asian-inflected fine dining that’s almost too pretty to eat. (We said almost.) Now firmly ensconed in a larger, sleeker space at ROW DTLA, Yao's former strip mall restaurant has evolved to a new—and much more expensive—level. Expect the city's best milk bread and artful, refined takes on Asian classics like Taiwanese beef noodle soup in a tasting experience ($225 per guest) that just might strike a chord of nostalgia.

Year first granted: 2022

What, exactly, does L.A. taste like to you? Some might extol the virtues of a glorious street taco, the first bite into a luscious SGV dumpling or even a Double-Double fresh off the plane from LAX. At Walter and Margarita Manzke's eponymous eatery above Bicyclette, you'll find the all the trappings of sophistication on a French-leaning, seafood-heavy tasting menu ($265) that captures the spirit of Los Angeles. Asian and Mexican riffs add plenty of flair to the decadent dozen or so courses presented, where a heaping, bright yellow mound of Rodolphe le Meunier sits under glass atop a sideboard in the main dining room. Margarita's top-notch pastries, desserts and mignardises, of course, are just icing on the cake.

Year first granted: 2021

This omakase-only Michelin-starred sushi bar in Atwater Village is the latest eponymous venture of esteemed local chef Morihiro Onodera, whose previous time at Mori Sushi on Pico Boulevard also helped propel the latter toward one star in 2019. With nearly four decades of experience and full control over every aspect of the sushi-making process at Morihiro, Onodera’s legendary craftwork shines at this tiny space—which has just six seats at the counter and a handful of tables. With a sushi bar omakase that tops out at $400 per person (and a $250 experience at tables), this isn't your everyday sushi meal, but the serene ambience, artisanry and diverse array of fish make a meal at Morihiro absolutely unforgettable.

Year first granted: 2019

The crown jewel of Jerry Greenberg's Sugarfish empire, Nozawa Bar bears the family name of Kazunori Nozawa, the sushi chef whose Studio City restaurant started it all. Tucked inside the Beverly Hills Sugarfish, the chef has resurrected his L.A. institution with the same elements: impeccably fresh fish served on warm, loosely packed rice. By omakase standards, the $225 per head price here is a steal, with generous cuts of fish and nigiri graced by prodigious amounts of salmon roe and uni. The decadence continues with hand rolls, enormous rectangles of tamago, and rich monkfish liver dressed with miso. The only catch? There are merely 10 seats at this 20-plus course experience, so you need to make a reservation—and also get there on time. Much like in the Studio City original, tardiness is a huge no-no.

Year first granted: 2019

The pandemic may have shrunk chef Josef Centeno's Downtown  restaurant empire, but his Italian-Japanese concept Orsa & Winston, has survived the worst crisis the restaurant industry has seen in living history and kept its Michelin star to boot. On the Fourth Street restaurant's $125 tasting menu, expect hyper-creative, genre-bending dishes like scallops and uni in a flower-dotted rice porridgr or tempura-like fried shiso leaf under abalone. Across every dish, you'll find lots of L.A. love, global inflection and a deep understanding of balance that make every meal here enjoyable. Even factoring in the 20% mandatory service charge (tip not included), it's still one of the less eye-poppingly expensive fine experiences around town.

After a decade and a half of hard work, Valley native chef Phillip Frankland Lee and co-owner, pastry chef and wife Margarita Kallas-Lee have finally achieved their Michelin star dreams twice over, if one includes the star given to their other restaurant, Santa Barbara’s Sushi | Bar Montecito. At Encino’s Pasta | Bar, a multi-course $195 Italian-inspired tasting menu with locally sourced Californian meat, seafood and produce showcases the best the state has to offer, from a Michelin-commended lobster sauce cavatelli pasta with spring peas to a recent fig and bergamot semifreddo dessert.

From the moment you enter Q's doors, refinement is all you can hear, see, and taste. Classical music drifts through the elegant space, a formal dining room with a handful of tables and the center of the action—a 10-seat sushi bar where Hiroyuki Naruke, quietly steals the spotlight. The focus here is Edomae sushi, a style that highlights vinegar-seasoned rice and high-quality, fresh cuts of fish; just note the portions here are smaller than other omakase spots we've tried around town. At $300 per person for dinner and $150 at lunch, you still might leave hungry, but that hasn't stopped plenty of people from stopping in for a (literal) taste of Naruke's artisanry.

Year first granted: 2019

Most dishes require extreme, almost obsessive effort at Shibumi, a kappo-style Japanese restaurant by chef David Schlosser—the only one of its kind in the city. This sort of Japanese tasting menu might serve bites of prawn ripened and fermented—for months—in their own juices, or slow-smoked salmon that cooks over cherry bark. In an almost-hidden dining room in DTLA, Schlosser grinds nubs of fresh wasabi and steams pork jowl with California-grown rice in a heavy iron pot, and experiments and waits, patiently, to create some of the most intricate flavors that can take weeks to develop. Order à la carte or go for the omakase, which starts at $125 per guest and caps at $225—you’ll be in excellent hands.

Year first granted: 2019

Hidden strip mall gems might be a regular hallmark of L.A. dining, but even within this realm, Encino's Shin Sushi punches above its weight class. Taketoshi Azumi's cozy omakase den serves seasonal, a variety of delicately aged and seasoned fish—about 18 courses' worth—in a casual setting, where guests can keep them coming if they so wish. With only 30-ish seats in the whole restaurant (eight of them at the counter, the best seat in the house), reservations are all but required.

Year first granted: 2021

Currently operating out of sister restaurant Inaba in Torrance, this intimate sushi bar experience manned by Yasuhiro Hirano offers an ultra-premium omakase made with aged fish and exotic ingredients like mantis shrimp and plump Japanese oysters. This is the kind of place where you can expect a crash course in the art of sushi from the chef himself—plus the appropriate tuition and fees ($280 per person) to match. For a taste of Inaba closer to L.A. proper, head to Sushi Kaneyoshi in the Arts District on Tuesday nights, where Hirano pops up for a reservation-only collaborative dinner that runs $400 per head.