Las Vegas Michelin stars returned on August 26, 2026, when Michelin released its first restaurant ratings for the city in 17 years. The new Southwest selection gives 24 Las Vegas restaurants a star, Bib Gourmand or Recommended designation.
The wider guide covers Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Las Vegas accounts for four of its five starred restaurants, while its lower-tier selections include both major resort dining rooms and independent neighborhood businesses.
Las Vegas Michelin stars include the region’s only two-star restaurant
Restaurant de Joël Robuchon at MGM Grand received two stars, making it the highest-rated restaurant in the four-state guide.
The French restaurant offers a multi-course tasting menu starting at $525 per person. Michelin also presented its Outstanding Service Award to Sean Christopher of Restaurant de Joël Robuchon.
Monte in Salt Lake City was the only starred restaurant elsewhere in the Southwest selection. It received one star.
The full selection covers three levels of recognition
The city’s other recognised restaurants are listed below by Michelin rating.
| Rating | Restaurants |
|---|---|
| One star | Restaurant Guy Savoy; é by José Andrés; L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon |
| Bib Gourmand | China Poblano; Esther’s Kitchen; YEN Viet Kitchen |
| Recommended | Anima by Edo; Bouchon; Cote Las Vegas; Estiatorio Milos; Gymkhana Las Vegas; Kabuto; Kame Omakase; Lamaii; Michael Mina; Mott 32; Partage; Pho Ga Bac Bac; Ping Pang Pong; SoulBelly BBQ; Sparrow + Wolf; Stubborn Seed Las Vegas; Wing Lei |
Michelin uses the Bib Gourmand distinction for restaurants that combine high-quality cooking with comparatively modest prices. A Recommended listing recognises a restaurant selected by inspectors without awarding it a star or Bib Gourmand.
Recognition extends beyond the Strip
Although all four starred restaurants are on the Las Vegas Strip, the broader selection reaches into neighborhoods where visitors are more likely to dine alongside local residents.
Two Bib Gourmand restaurants sit away from the resort corridor. Several Recommended choices are also independent businesses in local dining areas, including Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, French and contemporary American restaurants.
That geographic spread gives travellers options beyond the large casino resorts. It also brings Michelin attention to parts of the city that visitors focused on the Strip may otherwise overlook.
The new ratings start with current inspections
Michelin based the 2026 distinctions on recent anonymous inspections rather than carrying forward awards from earlier Las Vegas editions.
The company first published a Las Vegas guide in late 2007, when Joël Robuchon held the city’s only three-star rating. An updated edition followed in 2009, but Michelin then removed Las Vegas from its guide programme amid the economic conditions surrounding the global financial crisis.
The latest two-star result for Restaurant de Joël Robuchon therefore reflects a fresh assessment, not an automatic continuation of its former status. Michelin evaluates cooking through anonymous visits and reassesses its awards during each guide cycle.
What travellers should do before dining in Las Vegas
Travellers planning a meal at one of the starred restaurants should make reservations once their Las Vegas dates are fixed, especially when booking a tasting-menu experience.
Diners seeking strong value can use the Bib Gourmand category as a starting point. Those willing to leave the Strip can also compare neighborhood restaurants with the resort dining rooms that traditionally draw more visitors.
Because Michelin reviews its distinctions again in future cycles, travellers planning later trips should check each restaurant’s current status, menu and reservation availability before making dining plans.
