San Diego hosts Michelin awards 2026

Michelin will stage its 2026 California awards ceremony in San Diego on June 24, the first time the city has hosted the event. (guide.michelin.com) (kogo.iheart.com) The ceremony is set for EVE, a bayfront venue near the USS Midway Museum, and Michelin says the event will be invitation-only. (kogo.iheart.com) (hoodline.com) Michelin’s California guide covers the whole state, but San Diego only entered that system in 2019, when Michelin expanded beyond Los Angeles and the Bay Area. (sandiegoville.com) (kogo.iheart.com) That timing helps explain why the host-city announcement lands as a marker for San Diego’s restaurant scene, not just a venue change for Michelin’s annual reveal. (sandiegoville.com) (hoodline.com) Michelin does not announce new stars in advance. It adds restaurants to the California selection during the year, then reveals stars and Green Stars at the annual ceremony. (guide.michelin.com 1) (guide.michelin.com 2) In its most recent California ceremony, Michelin said the 2025 guide added two new three-star restaurants, two new two-star restaurants, five new one-star restaurants and two new Green Stars. (guide.michelin.com) The San Diego announcement also arrives as Michelin-linked restaurant news is moving in the opposite direction elsewhere. Chapters in Hay-on-Wye, a Michelin Green Star restaurant run by Mark and Charmaine McHugo, said it will close after seven years. (thecaterer.com) (eventplannernews.com) The McHugos said a new operator for Chapters will be named later, while Michelin’s California spotlight shifts south to San Diego for the June 24 reveal. (thecaterer.com) (hoodline.com)