Four of the fourteen
one-stars are not serving.
If you are reading a Dubai fine-dining list written any time before this spring, it is sending you to restaurants you cannot get into.
Atlantis paused seven of its venues on 20 April 2026, two of them Michelin-starred: Ossiano and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal. Al Muntaha went dark in April with the whole of the Burj Al Arab, which is shut for an eighteen-month restoration and is not expected back until late 2027. Hakkasan was paused too, and returns on 23 September.
That is four of the city’s fourteen one-star restaurants, and it is the single most useful thing anyone can tell you about eating in Dubai this autumn. So this page leads with whether you can book, not with a ranking.
Every starred restaurant,
and whether it is open.
Distinctions below are from the MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2025 selection, awarded on 22 May 2025. That is still the current selection. The fifth edition lands on 6 October 2026 at Atlantis The Royal, having been pushed back from mid-year; MICHELIN attributed the delay to the regional conflict, calling it a conscious and necessary decision.
| Restaurant | Stars | Kitchen | Where | District | Can you eat there? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FZN by Björn Frantzén | Three | Torsten Vildgaard | Atlantis, The Palm | Palm Jumeirah | Open |
| Trèsind Studio | Three | Himanshu Saini | St Regis Gardens | Palm Jumeirah | Open — prepaid booking only |
| Il Ristorante – Niko Romito | Two | Giacomo Amicucci | Bulgari Resort Dubai | Jumeirah Bay Island | Open — dinner from 7pm |
| Row on 45 | Two | Daniel Birk | Grosvenor House, 45th floor | Dubai Marina | Open |
| STAY by Yannick Alléno | Two | Renaud Dutel | One&Only The Palm | Palm Jumeirah | Open |
| 11 Woodfire | One | Akmal Anuar | Villa 11, 75B Street — not a hotel | Jumeirah 1 | Open |
| Al Muntaha | One | Saverio Sbaragli | Burj Al Arab, 27th floor | Umm Suqeim | Closed until late 2027 |
| avatāra | One | Rahul Rana | Business Park 1 | Dubai Hills Estate | Open |
| Dinner by Heston Blumenthal | One | Not published | Atlantis The Royal | Palm Jumeirah | Closed — no reopening date |
| Hakkasan | One | Not published | Atlantis, The Palm | Palm Jumeirah | Reopens 23 September 2026 |
| Hōseki | One | Masahiro Sugiyama | Bulgari Resort Dubai, 4th floor | Jumeirah Bay Island | Open |
| Jamavar | One | Surender Mohan | Address Residences, Opera District | Downtown Dubai | Open — lunch and dinner |
| La Dame de Pic Dubai | One | Justine Ravetti, with Anne-Sophie Pic | One&Only One Za’abeel, 25th floor of The Link | Za’abeel | Call the venue to confirm |
| Manāo | One | Abhiraj Khatwani | Wasl Vita, Al Wasl Road | Jumeirah 1 | Open |
| moonrise | One | Solemann Haddad | Rooftop of Eden House | Al Satwa | Open |
| Orfali Bros | One | Mohamad Orfali | Wasl 51 | Jumeirah 1 | Open — reopened 15 January 2026 |
| Ossiano | One | Not published — see below | Atlantis, The Palm | Palm Jumeirah | Closed — bookings from 3 Dec 2026 |
| Smoked Room | One | Jesús Lobato Suárez | St Regis Gardens | Palm Jumeirah | Open |
| Tasca by José Avillez | One | José Barroso | Mandarin Oriental Jumeira, 6th floor | Jumeirah 1 | Open — reopened 5 September 2026 |
Every “Open” above was verified, not assumed. Each rests on a primary channel checked on 19 September 2026: Il Ristorante publishes its dinner hours on Bulgari’s own site, Jamavar’s reservation system returned live lunch and dinner shifts for November, STAY takes bookings through MICHELIN’s own widget. Where a venue is shut, its own hotel says so. Exactly one entry — La Dame de Pic — could not be reached through any primary channel, so it asks you to call rather than claiming anything.
Two entries need their own sentence. Trèsind Studio, the only three-star Indian restaurant anywhere, is plainly trading — current menus, a live April 2026 promotion — but it runs no availability widget at all. Its booking route is an enquiry form that reveals nothing until you hand over a name, a phone number and an email, and a table is only confirmed once you have prepaid AED 1,350 a head. You cannot window-shop it. And Dinner by Heston Blumenthal has no route back at all: no bookable date anywhere in its system, no bookings-open notice, and it has quietly dropped out of its hotel’s restaurant listings while three of the venues paused alongside it have reappeared with live reservation links.
What six of them
actually cost.
Prices in this city are published inconsistently and often not at all. Here is what six much-recommended venues put in writing, taken from their own material.
| Venue | Format | Published price per person | Lunch | Minimum age | Bookable for those dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ossiano | Tasting only, nine courses | AED 1,350 on the hotel’s page, AED 1,250 on the venue microsite | No | 13 | No |
| Trèsind Studio | Tasting only, one set menu | AED 1,350, prepaid in full at booking | No | 14 | Phone or prepaid form only |
| Dinner by Heston Blumenthal | À la carte | Not published in readable form | Not published | 12 after 9pm; family seating 6–9pm | No |
| Tasca by José Avillez | À la carte and set menus | AED 250 for three courses on Tasca Classics; tasting menu price not published | Yes, Sun–Fri 12.30–3pm | None published | Yes, lunch and dinner |
| Netsu by Ross Shonhan | À la carte and set menus | AED 350 for a stated ten courses; Omakase AED 650 | No | None published | Yes, dinner |
| Thiptara | À la carte | Not published anywhere | No, Saturday brunch only | None published | Yes, dinner |
A few things fall out of that table that no round-up will tell you.
The cheapest starred meal on the list is AED 250. Tasca’s three-course Tasca Classics is a fifth of what Ossiano and Trèsind Studio charge, at a restaurant that has held a star since the inaugural 2022 selection. It is also the only one of the six serving lunch.
Two of the six publish no price at all. Thiptara publishes nothing anywhere, and Dinner by Heston serves its menus as file downloads rather than web pages, so a reader cannot see a number before deciding. A price band from a listings site is not a price and we have not printed one.
The age floors are higher than people expect. Ossiano bars under-13s, Trèsind Studio under-14s. Both are hard floors, not guidance. Dinner by Heston was the only one of the six to solve this properly, with a family sitting from six until nine and a twelve-plus rule after that — and it is shut.
Netsu is the odd one out, and honestly so. It holds no star, no Bib Gourmand and no Green Star in the current selection, and Mandarin Oriental makes no MICHELIN claim for it while making one for Tasca upstairs. What it does publish is the clearest deal of the six: AED 350, ten courses, a stated number.
Bib Gourmand and Green Star,
where the value is.
The Bib Gourmand is MICHELIN’s good-value distinction, and in a city that prices dinner like a flight it is the more useful list of the two. The 2025 selection holds 22, five of them new that year: DUO Gastrobar, Harummanis, Hawkerboi, Khadak and Sufret Maryam.
The other seventeen: 21grams, 3Fils, Aamara, Al Khayma Heritage Restaurant, Bait Maryam, Berenjak, Goldfish, Hoe Lee Kow, Indya by Vineet, Kinoya, Konjiki Hototogisu, REIF Japanese Kushiyaki at Dar Wasl and at Dubai Hills, Revelry, Shabestan and Teible. Three of them — Kinoya, Sufret Maryam and 3Fils — also appear in MENA’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026, published in February, which is dated evidence they are trading.
The three Green Stars, for sustainability, are BOCA in DIFC, LOWE and Teible at Jameel Arts Centre. Teible is the only venue in the city holding both a Bib Gourmand and a Green Star.
One warning about the Bib list, and it applies to almost every version of it online: MICHELIN’s live listing page now shows nineteen names rather than 22, because it has already begun rolling forward. A list scraped from it today is neither the 2025 selection nor the 2026 one.
Why this page
expires on 6 October.
On 6 October 2026 the fifth edition of the guide is announced and every distinction on this page is superseded. We are saying that plainly because most competing pages will not, and will still be describing the 2025 selection next year.
There is a specific reason to expect real movement. A restaurant that has been closed since April with no reopening date is a plausible loss, and that description fits Dinner by Heston exactly. Ossiano has been paused since April and no longer has the chef who won its star. Al Muntaha will have been shut for six months by the ceremony and will stay shut for another year. Hakkasan will have reopened four days before it.
So four of fourteen one-stars go into this ceremony compromised. We will re-check every line of this page on 7 October and date the update on the page rather than editing it quietly.
What we could not
verify.
This is the section we would most like the other Dubai lists to copy, because most of what follows is knowable only by admitting you do not know it.
- MICHELIN is hard to read, and that shapes what anyone can tell you. guide.michelin.com is JavaScript-rendered behind a challenge that returns an empty body to a plain request. We reached the listings in the end through a text proxy, which is how the addresses and star counts above were confirmed against the guide itself — but it is why so many published Dubai lists are assembled from each other rather than from the source.
- We are not publishing the year each star was first awarded. For the two three-stars and for Jamavar and Manāo it is documented in MICHELIN’s own releases. For the other fifteen the only source we found was a Wikipedia table, and a first-award year is exactly the sort of detail that gets copied wrong between guides. It stays off the page until it comes from the guide.
- The Bib Gourmand list does not reconcile. MICHELIN’s own count is 22. We can name 21 with confidence. One reading makes the 22nd DUO Gastrobar listed twice, as Creek Harbour and Dubai Hills; another makes it Ibn AlBahr at Club Vista Mare. Both are defensible and we cannot settle it, so we publish neither as the answer.
- Ossiano has no named chef. Grégoire Berger, who held the star, left at the end of 2024 and now runs Kraken. Secondary sources name a successor; Atlantis names nobody on any page it controls. We are not printing a name the operator will not.
- Nor does Thiptara, or Netsu. Neither host hotel publishes a head chef.
- Seat counts: none of the six. Worth noting Atlantis does publish "intimate 27-seat restaurant" for FZN in the same directory, so withholding it elsewhere is a choice.
- The 6 October 2026 date has no MICHELIN page behind it. It is carried by trade press, consistently, but the guide’s own event page returns nothing. And the outlet that first reported the postponement has since ceased trading, so MICHELIN’s full statement is no longer retrievable.
- One venue we could not reach. La Dame de Pic Dubai is listed by MICHELIN with no closure marked, but One&Only One Za’abeel renders its dining pages in a way that defeats every route we have, and the restaurant publishes no availability feed of its own. It is marked “call the venue” rather than counted as open.
This page is a Researched guide. Nobody from Luxury Verdict has eaten at any of these restaurants. Nothing here describes how food tastes, how a room sounds or how service feels, because those claims would have to be invented. What it does instead is tell you what is open, what it costs, who is admitted and what nobody will confirm — and no aggregator star average appears anywhere on this site.
Questions people
actually ask.
How many Michelin-starred restaurants does Dubai have?
Nineteen in the MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2025 selection: two with three stars, three with two, and fourteen with one. There are also 22 Bib Gourmand restaurants and three Green Stars. The next selection is announced on 6 October 2026.
Which Dubai restaurants have three Michelin stars?
FZN by Björn Frantzén at Atlantis, The Palm, and Trèsind Studio at St Regis Gardens. Both were awarded three stars in May 2025, the first time any Dubai restaurant held three. Trèsind Studio is the first Indian restaurant anywhere to hold three stars.
Is Ossiano open?
No. Atlantis paused it on 20 April 2026 and its page now says bookings open from 3 December 2026. Availability read from its own booking system on 19 September 2026 showed nothing in November and slots appearing in December. Whether it reopens on 3 December or merely opens its book that day is not stated.
Is Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Dubai still open?
No. It has been closed since 20 April 2026, its hotel page says only “Venue is currently closed”, and no bookable date exists anywhere in its reservation system. Unlike Ossiano it has been given no bookings-open date. Atlantis has not announced a permanent closure, so it cannot be called closed for good — but it cannot be called reopening either. The separate closure of the London restaurant is a different matter and Atlantis has said it does not affect Dubai.
Can I eat at Burj Al Arab?
Not at present. The hotel closed in April 2026 for an eighteen-month restoration and all its restaurants closed with it, including the one-star Al Muntaha on the 27th floor and the Skyview Bar. Reopening is indicated for late 2027.
Which Michelin-starred restaurant in Dubai is the cheapest?
Of the venues that publish a price, Tasca by José Avillez at Mandarin Oriental Jumeira, where the three-course Tasca Classics menu is AED 250 per person. It is also the only one of the six venues we priced that serves lunch. Several starred restaurants publish no price at all, so this is the cheapest published price rather than a survey of every star.
Do Dubai's Michelin restaurants allow children?
It varies more than people expect, and the floors are hard. Ossiano admits nobody under 13 and Trèsind Studio nobody under 14. Tasca, Netsu and Thiptara publish children's menus and no minimum age. Always check the venue's own page rather than a listings site.
When is the Michelin Guide Dubai 2026 announced?
6 October 2026, at Atlantis The Royal. It was pushed back from the middle of the year, with MICHELIN citing the impact of the regional conflict. Until that date the 2025 selection, announced on 22 May 2025, is the current one — so any page describing a “2026 selection” before then is wrong.
Photograph: Peter Chovanec, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. Used unmodified. We still hold no photography of our own for this property, and we do not republish hotel marketing images — see our photography policy.