Michelin expands footprint
The 2026 Michelin Guide broadened its map: Detroit was added to the U.S. guide, and São Paulo saw Evvai and Tuju each awarded three stars while Madame Olympe in Rio earned a new one‑star. ( ) Reports also note Rio retained two two‑star restaurants and five one‑star listings, and Song at the Four Seasons Hangzhou kept its star in the Shanghai/Jiangsu/Zhejiang guide. ( )
Michelin widened its 2026 restaurant map this week, adding Detroit to its American South and Midwest guide and elevating restaurants in Brazil. (guide.michelin.com 1) (guide.michelin.com 2) Michelin said Detroit will join the guide alongside Chicago and Washington, D.C. in the American South and Midwest selection, with its first restaurant list due later in 2026. Local coverage in Detroit said the move puts the city into Michelin’s scoring system for the first time. (guide.michelin.com) (clickondetroit.com) In Brazil, Michelin awarded three stars to Evvai and Tuju in São Paulo in the 2026 guide. Michelin’s April 2026 ceremony article lists both restaurants at the top tier, while Brazilian outlets reported the same result after the announcement. (guide.michelin.com) (g1.globo.com) Rio de Janeiro picked up a new one-star restaurant with Madame Olympe. Diário do Rio reported that the city kept two two-star restaurants and five one-star restaurants in the 2026 edition after that addition. (diariodorio.com) (guide.michelin.com) Michelin’s stars are its highest-profile rating, and the guide expands city by city rather than covering every market at once. That makes each new geography a business and tourism signal as much as a dining ranking. (guide.michelin.com) (clickondetroit.com) The Detroit addition extends Michelin’s recent push beyond its older United States strongholds in New York, California and Chicago. In Brazil, the 2026 results concentrated the biggest gains in São Paulo while preserving Rio’s existing upper tier. (guide.michelin.com 1) (guide.michelin.com 2) (diariodorio.com) The guide’s reach also held steady in China, where Song at the Four Seasons Hangzhou retained its Michelin star in the Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang guide, according to The Traveler. That result underscored the same pattern as Detroit and Brazil: Michelin is still redrawing its map one market at a time. (thetraveler.org)
