Guernsey added to Michelin
- The 2026 Michelin Guide has newly included Hook and Le Nautique, raising Guernsey's total to five listed restaurants. - Chester's The Jolly Gardeners was also newly added to the 2026 guide. - Michelin is expanding geographic coverage and courting new cities, with recent tourism group support announced in several US metros (bailiwickexpress.com) (chesterstandard.co.uk) (post-gazette.com).
Guernsey now has five restaurants in the 2026 Michelin Guide after Hook and Le Nautique were added in the latest update. (guide.michelin.com) (bailiwickexpress.com) Michelin’s Guernsey page now lists Vraic, Alba, Fukku, Hook and Le Nautique. Vraic holds one Michelin star, Alba has a Bib Gourmand, and the other three are listed as Michelin-selected restaurants. (guide.michelin.com 1) (guide.michelin.com 2) (guide.michelin.com 3) Hook and Le Nautique are both in St Peter Port, and Michelin labels both as new additions in the 2026 guide. Hook is listed in the “meats and grills” category, while Le Nautique is described by Michelin as a long-running seafood-focused restaurant on the quayside. (guide.michelin.com 1) (guide.michelin.com 2) The change adds Guernsey to Michelin’s map in a fuller way than before, because the island had already picked up its first star for Vraic and a Bib Gourmand for Alba in the 2026 Great Britain and Ireland cycle. Michelin said the 2026 edition included a record number of new restaurants across Great Britain and Ireland. (guide.michelin.com 1) (guide.michelin.com 2) (michelin.com) Michelin’s guide does more than award stars. It also publishes Bib Gourmands for strong value and plain guide listings for restaurants its inspectors recommend without giving them a star or Bib distinction. (post-gazette.com) That wider listing system is also showing up elsewhere in the 2026 guide. Michelin has newly added The Jolly Gardeners in Chester as a selected restaurant, without awarding it a star or Bib Gourmand. (guide.michelin.com) At the same time, Michelin is pushing into new places through tourism partnerships. Six U.S. cities — Pittsburgh, Detroit, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland and Indianapolis — said this month that their tourism bureaus had joined a new Michelin-covered American Great Lakes region, with inspections set to feed into the 2027 guide. (post-gazette.com) (axios.com) For Guernsey, the immediate result is simple: diners can now find five island restaurants on Michelin’s official site, spread across a star, a Bib Gourmand and three selected listings. (guide.michelin.com)
