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Petit Crenn Melbourne opens in October with 40 seats
Dominique Crenn's first restaurant outside the United States takes a ground-floor corner of the InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto, with mussels, tartare and madeleines with caviar.
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.
Sushidan Singapore opens a second counter at Parkway Parade
Thirty-five seats in the east of the city, omakase-style sets from S$19.90++ and a chef's name from Ginza. The price is the news, not the ribbon.
Juno at Olympia opens with 265 covers on 16 October
Incipio Group is putting 11,500 sq ft of Italian restaurant into Olympia's listed National Hall, with a pizza counter rated at 300 pizzas an hour.
Tofrom Yaesu opens by Tokyo Station with 68 food tenants
A 170-year-old kappo house, a starred tempura counter and a yakitori spin-off move into the new tower on 10 September, above a highway bus terminal.
John Fraser opens Ondine, 35 seats on Bedford Street
The New York chef is going back to the room where he first ran a kitchen, this time with his name on the lease and a wine list built out of small French regions.
Anne-Sophie Pic opens a Paris restaurant at Fondation Cartier
The dining room inside Jean Nouvel's building on rue de Rivoli takes its first bookings on 18 September, five days after her cocktail bar opened around the corner.
The World's 50 Best Restaurants land in Lima on 4 November
Peru gets the ceremony for the first time in the list's history, eight months after Abu Dhabi was announced as host and then quietly dropped from the calendar.
Michelin Guide Texas drops its ceremony for a press release
The 2026 Texas selection lands on 8 October as a document, not an evening. After two staged years in Houston, the guide is spending less on the state that pays it.
Michelin Guide Toronto reveals its 2026 stars on 22 September
Chefs find out on the night at the Liberty Grand, behind closed doors. Two weeks later Texas gets the same news by press release, with nobody in the room at all.
The country still has one three-star. It is not in Amsterdam.
De Librije kept the highest rating in the Dutch guide at the October ceremony in Maastricht, months after the death of Jonnie Boer. Twenty-one years at the top, and the address is still Zwolle.
Inter Scaldes is rebuilding, one star short of where it was
Two years after the sale and the refit, Jeroen and Sanne Achtien hold two stars in Zeeland. What is on the plate now, and what the third would take.
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