The Chef Amazing Charts · November 2026
The world's most expensive restaurants. Are they worth it?
The Splurge 100: what dinner for one costs at the priciest tables on earth, from a $2,000 show in Ibiza and a crab dinner in Ginza to Masa, noma and the three-stars of Paris. For each one we say what it does best and how to get the most from it, from worth every penny to the smart way in: a lunch, the bar or a shorter menu.
The ten most expensive
Sublimotion
$2,015 a person · €1,800
Worth it onceWorth it once, as a show. It is dinner theater more than a meal.
What it buys: The Sublimotion show: a tasting menu for 12 guests at one table, with virtual reality headsets, music and set changes. Drinks are included. Seasonal: June to early fall; the 2026 price wasn't published, so this is the last reported price.
Ginza Kitafuku
$1,890 a person · ¥300,000
The smart way inFor crab lovers: the Kiwami course is the season's best crab at auction prices. Its other crab courses are the smart way in.
What it buys: The Echizen crab Kiwami course, built on the rarest grade of snow crab. Food only, before drinks and service. The restaurant warns the final bill can run higher than the quoted price because crab prices swing.
The smart way in: Its other crab courses cost a fraction of the Kiwami; booking sites put dinner at about $290 to $360.
Caviar Russe
$975 a person
The smart way inCaviar the way it should be: order it straight from the menu, the smart way in.
What it buys: The Grand Tasting: 11 courses, caviar through every one. Food only, before tax, tip and drinks.
The smart way in: Order caviar service from the menu, or book the $200 Caviar 101 class.
Masa
$950 a person
The smart way inThe most famous sushi counter in America. Bar Masa next door is the smart way in.
What it buys: The Hinoki Counter omakase with Masa Takayama (the regular omakase is $750). Food only, before drinks and tax. With both, people report bills over $1,000 a head.
The smart way in: Bar Masa next door serves Masa's kitchen à la carte.
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Alchemist
$840 a person · DKK 5,600
Worth itWorth it. The world just voted it No. 3.
What it buys: The full 'holistic cuisine' show: a 50-course menu that runs most of the night. Food only, VAT included; wine pairings run from about DKK 2,000.
Restaurant Guy Savoy
$830 a person · €740
Worth it onceWorth it once, at lunch: a Paris legend, and lunch brings you the same room for a third of the price.
What it buys: The tasting menu (lunch menu about €260). Food only, before drinks.
The smart way in: The lunch menu, about €260.
Le Cinq
$750 a person · €670
Worth it onceA palace dining room at its most formal. Go once, for an occasion.
What it buys: Christian Le Squer's tasting menu. Food only, before drinks. A February 2026 list put it at about €670; an older one at €620.
The smart way in: À la carte starters run €115 to €140, so ordering two courses costs far less than the menu.
Azabu Kadowaki
$740 a person · ¥117,370
The smart way inFamous for truffle rice. The top crab-and-fugu course is a winter extravagance; the regular course is the way in.
What it buys: The top seasonal course, with matsuba crab, fugu and black truffle. The top course, reported about 250 days ago. Regular courses cost much less.
The smart way in: Book the regular course, not the crab one.
noma
$675 a person · DKK 4,500
Too new to callToo soon to say. New chef, no stars, no reviews yet.
What it buys: The set menu, now changing with 12 'micro-seasons'. Food only; DKK 6,500 with the wine pairing (DKK 6,000 with juice).
Epicure
$670 a person · €600
The smart way inLe Bristol's grand dining room. À la carte is the smart way in.
What it buys: The Epicure tasting menu. Food only, before drinks. About €600 on a February 2026 list; a 2024 ranking had €440, so the price has climbed fast.
The smart way in: Two or three courses à la carte.
11 to 25
Kei
$650 a person · €580
The smart way inFrench cooking with Japanese precision. The shorter menus are where the value is.
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Kadeau
$625 a person · DKK 4,150
Worth it onceBornholm's flavours in Copenhagen, and now three Michelin stars.
Urasawa
$595 a person
Worth it onceBeverly Hills' kaiseki-and-sushi counter, quietly one of America's priciest.
La Vague d'Or
$570 a person · €510
Worth it onceA summer-only splurge on the beach at Saint-Tropez. Plan the holiday around it.
Sushi Kanesaka
$565 a person · £420
The smart way inLondon's priciest menu: Tokyo-trained Edomae sushi in Mayfair.
Frantzén
$555 a person · SEK 5,500
Worth itWorth it. Sweden's only three-star, and still one of the best nights out in Europe.
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Sukiyabashi Jiro
$555 a person · ¥88,000
Worth it onceThe most famous sushi counter on earth. It's fast and it's serious. Go for the story.
Nihonryori RyuGin
$555 a person · ¥88,000
Worth it onceSeiji Yamamoto's modern kaiseki. One menu, no shortcuts.
Sushi Masaki Saito
$555 a person · CA$780
Worth it onceCanada's most expensive meal, and a serious Edomae counter.
Ikoyi
$535 a person · £395
The smart way inBold West African spice and British produce. The shorter menu tells the same story for less than half.
26 to 50
The Fat Duck
$535 a person · £395
Worth it onceHeston Blumenthal's theatre of memory. It's a show as much as dinner: go once, with someone who'll laugh.
Shoukouwa
$525 a person · S$680
Worth it onceOne of Singapore's top sushi counters, at a Tokyo-plus price.
Joël Robuchon
$525 a person
Worth it onceRobuchon's Las Vegas flagship, still the priciest French menu on the Strip.
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Sushi Shikon
$515 a person · HK$4,000
Worth it onceHong Kong's priciest publicly bookable sushi meal.
30
Mirazur
$505 a person · €450
Worth itA former World's Best Restaurant with the sea for a backdrop. Go at lunch, when you can see it.
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FZN by Björn Frantzén
$505 a person · AED 1,850
Worth it onceFrantzén's Stockholm style in Dubai, at Stockholm prices.
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Restaurant de l'Hôtel de Ville
$500 a person · CHF 410
Worth it onceSwitzerland's classic temple of French cooking, near Lausanne.
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Sushi Noz
$495 a person
Worth itClassic Edomae sushi, a 2026 omakase guide's pick for a first great omakase in New York.
Robuchon au Dôme
$485 a person · MOP 3,888
The smart way inA Robuchon dining room in a gold dome. Dinner is extravagant; lunch is the same room at a quarter of the price.
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SingleThread
$475 a person
Worth itWine-country kaiseki; the only US restaurant on the 50 Best list from 51 to 100.
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Arpège
$470 a person · €420
The smart way inAlain Passard's vegetables, now fully plant-based. Lunch is the way in.
Alléno Paris
$470 a person · €420
Worth it onceYannick Alléno's sauces and extractions in a garden pavilion. Classic Paris grandeur.
Pierre Gagnaire
$465 a person · €415
The smart way inDinner is €415, lunch is far less, and it's the same Gagnaire kitchen.
46
Shion 69 Leonard Street
$450 a person
Worth itA 2026 omakase guide's pick for a first great omakase in New York.
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Sushi Saito Hong Kong
$445 a person · HK$3,480
Worth itThe Saito name you can actually book, at Tokyo's level.
51 to 100
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Le Pré Catelan
$435 a person · €390
Worth it onceA Belle Époque pavilion in the Bois de Boulogne. A summer lunch here is pure Paris.
Enoteca Pinchiorri
$435 a person · €390
The smart way inOne of the world's great wine cellars with a restaurant attached. The wine is the reason.
Sushisho Saito
$430 a person · ¥68,000
Worth it onceThe Saito family name without the impossible waitlist.
Waku Ghin
$425 a person · S$550
The smart way inTetsuya Wakuda's counter at Marina Bay Sands. It added two cheaper ways in this autumn.
Les Amis
$425 a person · S$550
The smart way inSingapore's grand French room. The shorter autumn menu is the smart pick.
Vespertine
$425 a person
Worth it onceSome lists say the drinks pairing is compulsory, which takes the bill to $745. Know that before you book.
The Araki
$420 a person · £310
Worth it onceA tiny Mayfair counter; one of the few London sushi bars priced like Tokyo.
Smyth
$420 a person
Worth itNamed North America's No. 1 restaurant this year, ten years after opening at $135.
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Hōseki
$410 a person · AED 1,500
Worth it onceA tiny Japanese counter in the Bulgari. Dubai's closest thing to Tokyo.
Kitcho Arashiyama
$400 a person · ¥63,250
Worth it onceKyoto's grandest kaiseki, by the river in Arashiyama.
66
La Pergola
$390 a person · €350
Worth it onceA hilltop dining room with the whole of Rome below. Book it for the view.
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Osteria Francescana
$390 a person · €350
Worth itMassimo Bottura's Modena. The price is in line with Europe's other greats and lower than many.
Schloss Schauenstein
$390 a person · CHF 318
Worth it onceAndreas Caminada's castle in the Alps. Stay the night; it's the whole point.
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Quince
$390 a person
The smart way inCalifornian-Italian cooking. The four-course menu, or Cotogna next door, gets you most of it.
70
Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester
$385 a person · £285
Worth it oncePolished French cooking in one of London's grand hotel dining rooms.
Lasarte
$385 a person · €345
Worth it onceMartín Berasategui's Barcelona flagship. Basque technique, hotel polish.
73
Odette
$385 a person · S$498
Worth itJulien Royer's light French cooking in the National Gallery. Asia's French benchmark.
Eleven Madison Park
$385 a person
The smart way inThe bar is the best seat: a shorter menu for much less.
Atomix
$385 a person
Worth itAmerica's best restaurant on the 50 Best list. The bar tasting is the smart way in.
Sushi Saito
$380 a person · ¥60,000
Worth it onceThe price is fair for the best sushi in Tokyo. The trick is getting a seat at all.
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Core by Clare Smyth
$370 a person · £275
Worth itWarm, unstuffy British fine dining. The potato-and-roe dish is the reason people come back.
Amber
$370 a person · HK$2,888
Worth itTwenty years in, Amber finally got its third star. Modern, light French cooking.
L.A. Jordan
$365 a person · €325
Worth itNew to Germany's three-star club in 2026, in Palatinate wine country.
80
Sézanne
$360 a person · ¥56,925
Too new to callA new chef took over in April 2026. We'll call it when the reviews are in.
Jônt
$360 a person
Worth it onceDC's two-star counter. No changes for allergies, so check before you book.
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Disfrutar
$355 a person · €315
Worth itCreative Barcelona cooking at a price below most of this list.
85
Le Bernardin
$350 a person
The smart way inNew York's great fish restaurant. Lunch is less than half the price.
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Aponiente
$345 a person · €310
Worth itÁngel León, the chef of the sea, cooking plankton and fish nobody else uses.
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Trèsind Studio
$340 a person · AED 1,250
Worth itProgressive Indian cooking, and the best value of Dubai's top tables.
89
Cheval Blanc by Peter Knogl
$330 a person · CHF 270
Worth it onceRefined French cooking on the Rhine.
91
Tim Raue
$325 a person · €292
Worth it onceBerlin's loudest flavours: Asian spice cooked with German precision.
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Martín Berasategui
$320 a person · €285
Worth itThe Basque master's home restaurant, at a price that beats his Barcelona outpost.
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught
$305 a person · £225
Worth it onceA Mayfair hotel room, a celebrated French chef, a price that's consistent everywhere it's listed.
97
Jade Dragon
$285 a person · MOP 2,280
Worth itCantonese fine dining at about half the price of Macau's French rooms.
98
Saint Peter
$275 a person · A$395
Worth itSydney's fish restaurant, new to the World's 50 Best this year.
100
How Chef prices and picks them
The price is what the restaurant's top regular menu costs one person this year, from its own booking page where it publishes one, else this year's press, in local money and in dollars (USD per unit, Nov 2026: EUR 1.12 (ECB reference, Nov 2-3), DKK pegged at 7.46 to the euro, JPY 158.85 per dollar (Nov 11), SEK 0.101 (Nov 7), GBP 1.35 (Xe, Nov 4), AED 0.2723 (pegged), CHF 1.22, HKD 0.1285, SGD 0.77, NOK 0.099, CAD 0.714 (1.40 per dollar, Nov 9), AUD 0.69 (Nov 9), MOP 0.1248 (pegged to HKD)). It's food only unless we say otherwise; drinks, tax and service come on top. One-night events and guest-chef dinners don't count.
Our recommendation rests on what we can source: MICHELIN's 2026 guides, the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2026, this year's critics, and value signals (what the price includes, what a cheaper menu or sister room costs). Every reason is on the restaurant's page with its source. 31 of the 100 are worth it so far. Checked November 2026; prices are rechecked every month.
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