Nine NYC restaurants added
The Michelin Guide has added nine New York restaurants to its 2026 guide — five in Brooklyn and four in Manhattan — as inspectors expand the list of places they're watching. (Eater NY: - Time Out NY: ). Outlets stress these entries are not yet Michelin Stars or Bib Gourmand winners but could be candidates for promotion in the fall awards cycle. (Patch: - AOL: ).
Michelin has added nine New York City restaurants to its 2026 guide, widening the field ahead of this year’s star and Bib Gourmand announcements. (guide.michelin.com) The new batch, published April 15, 2026, includes five restaurants in Brooklyn and four in Manhattan. Michelin said new restaurants are added to the selection twice a year, while stars and Bib Gourmands are held for the annual ceremony. (guide.michelin.com) The Brooklyn additions are Entre Nous in Clinton Hill, Los Burritos Juárez in Fort Greene, Bong in Crown Heights, Vato in Park Slope, and I Cavallini in Williamsburg. The Manhattan additions are Le Chêne in Greenwich Village, Hwaro in Midtown West, Elcielo in NoMad, and Cove in SoHo. (guide.michelin.com) (timeout.com) A Michelin guide entry is not the same thing as a Michelin star. Michelin’s own New York update says these places have been added to the selection, and stars or Bib Gourmands will be revealed later at the annual ceremony. (guide.michelin.com) That distinction matters in New York because the guide already shapes reservations, pricing, and national attention for restaurants long before awards night. Time Out reported that reservations are likely to surge after the additions, even though no fall ceremony date had been announced as of April 15. (timeout.com) Michelin’s blurbs also show what inspectors are rewarding right now: a Clinton Hill wine bar with a strong natural wine list, a Fort Greene burrito shop focused on El Paso and Ciudad Juárez styles, a Cambodian small-plates restaurant in Crown Heights, and a Park Slope tortilleria from the team behind Corima. (guide.michelin.com) The Manhattan picks lean heavily on chef pedigrees and tasting-counter formats. Michelin highlighted Hwaro as chef Sungchul Shim’s 22-seat counter, while Time Out noted Elcielo chef Juan Manuel Barrientos already has two Michelin-starred restaurants in Washington and Miami. (guide.michelin.com) (timeout.com) This is also the second New York selection update in less than seven months. Michelin published 13 new additions in October 2025 and said in March 2026 that it updates the New York selection twice yearly as inspectors continue dining throughout the year. (guide.michelin.com 1) (guide.michelin.com 2) For diners, the immediate change is simple: these nine restaurants are now on Michelin’s watchlist in public. The actual prizes — stars, Bib Gourmands, or neither — will come later. (guide.michelin.com)
