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AnnaLena Vancouver wins the city's first two Michelin stars
Michael Robbins's Kitsilano restaurant is promoted in the 2026 Michelin Guide Vancouver. Below it, ten one-star tables stay put, none of them new, and Barbara drops to the recommended list.

De Cuijt Michelin star arrives 18 months after opening
Koen van Weert and Yukyung Lee reopened a 1914 canal-side restaurant in Mierlo in April 2025. Michelin gave it a star on 5 October; the phone took 96 bookings in a day.

Dubai's Michelin Guide reveals its fifth edition tonight
The ceremony at Atlantis The Royal updates a list that already holds 19 starred restaurants, including two with three stars, before a single new name is announced.

Margo Reuten's Da Vinci loses its Michelin star after 27 years
Michelin phoned the chef of the Maasbracht restaurant on Sunday 4 October, a day before its Dutch ceremony in Maastricht. Da Vinci held two stars from 2009 to 2018.

Michelin stars in Ibiza: 21 chefs cook for 100 charity diners
Chefs holding 28 stars between them shopped at the Mercat Nou for Estrellas contra el Cáncer, a €180 dinner whose 100 seats sold out. Last year's edition raised €29,510.
Haebel Hamburg to close its one-star restaurant after 16 years
Fabio Haebel will stop regular service at his 20-seat St. Pauli restaurant on 31 December, blaming the building rather than the books, and plans pop-ups instead.

Michelin Guide Tianjin: first selection due by end of October
The port city will be reviewed for the first time and revealed alongside Beijing at a joint ceremony in Tianjin. No restaurant names have been released yet.

Michelin Guide Kobe and Awaji Island set for February 2027
Michelin adds its first new Japanese area in five years. Inspectors are already eating in Kobe and on Awaji Island, and the selection will be read out in Tokyo on 16 February 2027.

Michelin Guide South Australia sets 14 October ceremony
Australia's first Michelin restaurant selection will be read out at the Adelaide Convention Centre on 14 October, covering the city, the Barossa, McLaren Vale and the Adelaide Hills.

Slow & Low Barcelona trades its Michelin star for tapas
Frank Beltri's one-star restaurant in the Eixample serves its last tasting menu on 17 October. His company keeps Bar Canyí, the tapas bar a minute away that draws thousands of customers a month.

Michelin Guide Great Lakes picks Detroit for its first gala
Michigan Central, derelict for thirty years until Ford spent $950m on it, will host the first starred-restaurant ceremony the American Midwest has ever had.

Michelin Guide Netherlands adds eight new restaurants
Sichuan cooking on the Rokin, a sake bar in the Rivierenbuurt and six regional kitchens enter the Dutch selection four weeks before the ceremony in Maastricht.
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