Top 11 Ultra-Luxurious Restaurants in the World Ranked by MICHELIN
1. Jungsik — New York, USA
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| New York’s Jungsik |
Ange Kwon New York opened in Tribeca in 2011, just two years after the well-known Jungsik Seoul. In Korean, "jung sik" means a fancy dinner.
The chef in question, Jung Sik Yim, went to the Culinary Institute of America and worked as an apprentice at Aquavit and Bouley in New York City. Chef Yim calls the food he makes "New Korean." His unique style combines Western cooking methods and flavors with modern Korean food in a beautiful way.
Ho Young Kim is the Executive Chef in New York, and he runs the kitchen with skill and love. He worked as a sous chef at the first Jungsik in Seoul and has been in New York since it opened. Chef Kim went to the Ecole Ferrandi in Paris to learn how to cook. He also worked with chef Pascal Barbot at L'Astrance, a restaurant with three Michelin stars for food.
In 2013, Jungsik New York was given two Michelin stars, which it has kept ever since.
Address: 2 Harrison Street, New York, NY 10013, (212) 219-0900
Website: www.jungsik.com
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• Crosby Street Hotel, Firmdale Hotels — New York: New York City needs Firmdale's first hotel in the United States. It's not often that a New York boutique shows such a strong opinion, from the bold colors to the decorations that are anything but simple.
• The Roxy Hotel Tribeca — New York: Tribeca is one of the strangest neighborhoods in Manhattan. It has both 19th-century cobblestone streets and sleek industrial architecture, and the Roxy Hotel is the perfect example of the area's unique mix of high gloss and arty edge.
2. Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen — Paris, France
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| Pavillon Ledoyen’s interior |
This restaurant is a landmark in Paris and one of the oldest in the city. It is located in a quiet, beautiful pavilion in the gardens of the Champs-Élysées. Every season brings a different view through the walls of windows. In spring and summer, it's green, and in fall, it's fiery oranges, reds, and golds. Outside tables in the shade look out over the Fontaine de Diane, which is slowly bubbling.
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3. Le Cinq — Paris, France
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| Le Cinq |
Le Cinq by Christian Le Squer is a must-see in Paris. It serves the best modern and elegant French food, paired with the rarest wines chosen by award-winning Head Sommelier Eric Beaumard. The restaurant's three Michelin stars show that it offers the best food in one of the city's most beautiful dining rooms.
This dining room in the Four Seasons George V is based on the Grand Trianon. It has a coffered ceiling with chandeliers hanging from it and soft carpeting on the floor. Dublin Bay prawns with warm mayonnaise and crunchy buckwheat pancakes are two of the restaurant's specialties.
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• Four Seasons George V — Paris: As soon as it opened off the Champs-Élysées in 1928, George V made waves around the world. It was where the Beatles stayed, as well as Greta Garbo, JP Morgan, and Marlene Dietrich. It's more over-the-top French now that it's back open as the Four Seasons George V. Even though it's not a palace, this hotel is very much like a palace in many ways.
4. Vendôme — Bergisch Gladbac, near Cologne, Germany
This restaurant is in a beautiful Baroque castle hotel that is more than 300 years old, but it mixes old and new with its stone floor, soft gray-upholstered armchairs, and black and gold metal room dividers in the shape of circles and half-circles. Don't miss the Valrhona Jivara spiced milk chocolate ganache and banana ice cream with peanut caramelized on top for dessert.
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• 25hours Hotel The Circle — Cologne: an ambitious plan to change the way a famous building looks. It has a retro-futuristic feel in the classic late-modernist West German utopian style. It looks good to modern travelers and pays tribute to a bygone era.
5. Le Louis XV - Alain Ducasse à l'Hôtel de Paris — Monte-Carlo, Monaco
The dining room here is so fancy that Louis XV himself would have been proud. It has fancy plasterwork and scrollwork, a huge painted vaulted ceiling, and gold leaf on everything. It's a piece of Versailles 950 km away. Here is where Alain Ducasse honed his style, imposing his new strict and masterful classical cuisine, always based on what the ingredients really tasted like.
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• Hotel de Paris Monte Carlo — Monte-Carlo : The Hôtel de Paris is a beautiful, pure-white swan-shaped building that is often called the real palace of Monte-Carlo. It is famous for having hosted some of history's most demanding guests, such as Winston Churchill, Colette, and Princesses Grace and Caroline.
• Hôtel Hermitage Monte-Carlo — Monte-Carlo :This opulent, century-old grand hotel is the best place to stay in Monte-Carlo, and lives up to its name. It's just a little off the beaten path, perched on a cliff overlooking the harbor and close enough to the casino without being in the way of most traffic.
6. Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville — Crissier, just outside Lausanne, Switzerland
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| Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville |
In Crissier's old town hall, Chef Franck Giovannini is in charge of a great group of 25 chefs who make delicious food like an inverted Gala apple tart with roasted hazelnut ice cream.
Experience the moment in a unique setting. It's hard to believe that the Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, near Lausanne, Switzerland has been around for 60 years and has had 52 famous chefs, great food that awakens all the senses, a light, cozy, elegant, and modern atmosphere, and an amazing history. The restaurant, which will be celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2015, has become a legend around the world thanks to its many Michelin-starred chefs. Today, Benoît Violier runs Crissier's famous kitchen. He stays true to the restaurant's philosophy and the ideas of the chefs who came before him by using seasonal and local ingredients in his food.
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• Château d'Ouchy — Lausanne :This stunning castle hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne has been around since 1117. It is now a recognized Swiss cultural heritage site, almost a thousand years later.
7. Taian Table — Shanghai, China
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| Taian Table: Shanghai’s Michelin Two-Star Restaurant |
This 20-seat chef's counter has an eight-course menu that changes every six to eight weeks. You can add two or four courses from the classics or specials menu to your order. The food is carefully made, well-balanced, different, and unique.
The Taian Table in Shanghai is the best place to go for interactive dining. The restaurant opened in 2016 and is run by the famous German chef Stefan Stiller and his tight-knit group of talented workers. The creative food is made even better by being able to watch the chefs work from a counter that goes around the kitchen. There are 10, 12, and 14-course set menus to choose from, as well as a seasonal main menu that changes every six to eight weeks. European classics are served with an Asian twist, like sea urchin on brown butter sourdough, baby squid with tomato consommé, and foie gras snow with lychee and riesling jelly. You can look forward to a strong wine list, a wide range of small bites called amuse bouches, sorbets to clean your palate, and your choice of artisanal chocolates before you (reluctantly) leave.
Website: https://sh.taian-table.cn/
Average price per person $310
Tasting menu from $230
Address: Lane 161, 465 Zhenning Road, Shanghai,
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• The Middle House — Shanghai : Piero Lissoni, an architect and designer from Milan, is in charge of the Middle House's interiors. His focused, almost monochromatic modernist style works amazingly well with Shanghai's own unique visual language.
8. Alain Ducasse at Morpheus — Macau
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| Alain Ducasse at Morpheus |
Alain Ducasse at Morpheus changes what fine dining means by combining a modern view with a sentimental way of cooking while honoring the great traditions and skill of French cooking. The restaurant in Macau's Morpheus hotel was designed by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku. It has a classy feel and serves both classic and custom-made dishes. Some of the one-of-a-kind items in it are Pascal Oudet's strange wooden sculptures and Alain Ducasse's personal collection of old kitchen and tableware.
Address: Morpheus at City of Dreams, Estrada do Istmo, Cotai, Macau
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• Mandarin Oriental Macau — Macau : In a place like Macau, wealth is important, and the Mandarin has a lot of it. The style may be a bit flashier than what the hotel group usually does, but it works well for its high-class guests.
9. Zen — Outram, Singapore
This restaurant with a tasting menu will make you feel like you're in Sweden. The outside is a shophouse from 1926, which is a type of heritage building common in South Asia. The inside, however, is decorated with Scandinavian modern furniture. There is an eight-course dinner downstairs and coffee and small pastries in the living room upstairs. Even the most fancy dinner costs less than a plane ticket to Stockholm.
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• Andaz Singapore — Kampong Glam: The public areas of the Andaz Singapore are impressive. They are a mix of high-class elegance and cutting-edge futuristic design. But the rooms are where the hotel really shines. They're warm and natural, and the way they're put together is beautiful.
10. A Cut — Taipei, Taiwan
This bar has a nice atmosphere and is surrounded by wine cabinets, which are what make up its great wine list. The nice service and stylish dining room make the experience even better. In the open kitchen, A-grade beef from the US and Australia is grilled to perfection.
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• Palais de Chine — Taipei: One of the nicest hotels in Taipei is the Palais de Chine. The style is a mix of Eastern simplicity and a strong love of France. The nearly 300 guest rooms and suites are furnished with French furniture and art that was brought in from other countries.
11. Le Normandie — Bangkok, Thailand
For those looking for high-class French food, this spot in The Mandarin Oriental has a reputation for being the best. There are floor-to-ceiling windows that look out over the Chao Phraya River and flower arrangements that are very well done. Its reputation is well-deserved thanks to its high-quality ingredients, refined techniques, and skillful mixing of flavors and textures.
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• Park Hyatt Bangkok — Bangkok: The Park Hyatt Bangkok is meant to be a "home away from home," if your home is a high-end tower with windows that go all the way to the ceiling and give you a view of a huge Asian city.
•The Sukhothai Bangkok — Bangkok: The six-acre Sukhothai is like an island of peace in the middle of Bangkok's busy streets. Every corner has a garden, a courtyard, or a lotus pool, and the restaurant floats on a man-made lake.
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