{"id":15312,"date":"2025-06-26T04:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15312\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T04:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:08:13","slug":"michelin-awards-new-stars-to-four-l-a-restaurants-for-2025-including-the-citys-first-ever-three-star-eateries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/15312\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin awards new stars to four L.A. restaurants for 2025\u2014including the city\u2019s first-ever three-star eateries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight, Michelin announced its list of starred California restaurants for 2025 at an awards ceremony in Sacramento, and the results for Los Angeles are now in: Two all-new one-star additions; three Michelin stars (the city\u2019s first) awarded for Somni, the most expensive restaurant in Los Angeles<\/a>; and a highly coveted third star for Providence, Michael Cimarusti\u2019s longtime Hollywood fine dining institution, which has held two stars every year that Michelin has rated L.A. restaurants since 2009. (The guide left L.A. for a decade, returning in 2019.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the world\u2019s most famous dining guides (as well as a multinational French tire company), Michelin decides what it considers worth visiting by sending anonymous inspectors all over a given city, state, region or country. In North America, the guide\u2019s overall bias towards Japanese omakase and French fine-dining restaurants is well-known, though it also includes a variety of unstarred restaurants in terms of cuisine and price point within each edition of the guide.<\/p>\n

\"Ki
\nPhotograph: Patricia Kelly Yeo for Time OutThe lamb course at Restaurant Ki in January 2025. <\/p>\n

This year in L.A. was largely no different. The two newest one-starred L.A. restaurants for 2025 are Restaurant Ki, a modern Korean tasting menu in Little Tokyo run by eponymous chef Ki Kim (who also earned Michelin\u2019s Young Chef Award) and Mori Nozomi, a standout, female-led omakase experience<\/a> in West L.A. by eponymous chef and Osaka native Nozomi Mori. Almost every other two-star and one-star eatery in L.A. maintained its standing except for West Hollywood\u2019s Sushi Ginza Onodera, which has closed. Up in Santa Barbara, Silvers Omakase earned a brand-new star designation; the restaurant is run by Lennon Silvers Lee, the brother of Pasta|Bar\u2019s Phillip Frankland Lee, whose Encino strip mall eatery also maintained its Michelin star.<\/p>\n

On the Bib Gourmand front, three new L.A. area restaurants earned recognition in the tire company\u2019s more budget-friendly restaurant rating category: Komal, a masa-centric lunch counter in Mercado Paloma run by two Holbox alums; Rasarumah, chef Johnny Lee\u2019s trendy Malaysian spot in Historic Filipinotown; and Vin Folk in Hermosa Beach, which\u00a0Time Out\u00a0recently wrote about as a destination-worthy bistro<\/a> in the South Bay. In order to be considered for the more affordable category of the French tire company\u2019s world-renowned dining guide, Bib Gourmand restaurants must offer a full menu that makes it possible to order two courses and drink or dessert for under $49 (sans tax and gratuity).<\/p>\n

For ease of use, we\u2019ve detailed L.A.\u2019s newest Michelin stars and Bib Gourmands, as well as the eateries that lost Michelin stars, in alphabetical order (and will soon update our list of the city\u2019s Michelin-starred restaurants<\/a>). All restaurants are within the city of L.A. unless noted in parentheses.<\/p>\n

\"Nozomi
\nPhotograph: Jesse Hsu for Time OutNozomi Mori behind the counter at her West L.A. restaurant <\/p>\n

Any links reflect previous coverage here at Time Out\u2014and we\u2019ve included call-outs of our own starred ratings in brackets (out of 5) if you\u2019d like a more locally informed perspective than the concise description offered by Michelin. Time Out Los Angeles sends congratulations to all of L.A.\u2019s newly (and not-so-newly) Michelin-starred restaurants and Bib Gourmands.<\/p>\n

L.A.\u2019s newest three-star Michelin restaurants:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Providence<\/a> [5 stars]\u00a0
Somni<\/a> (West Hollywood) [5 stars]<\/p>\n

L.A.\u2019s new one-star Michelin restaurants:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mori Nozomi<\/a> [5 stars]
Restaurant Ki<\/a> [4 stars]<\/p>\n

L.A.\u2019s new Bib Gourmands:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Komal<\/a> [4 stars]
Rasarumah<\/a> [3 stars]
Vin Folk<\/a> (Hermosa Beach) [4 stars]<\/p>\n

L.A. restaurants that lost stars:
<\/strong>Sushi Ginza Onodera (West Hollywood)\u00a0\u2014 now closed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tonight, Michelin announced its list of starred California restaurants for 2025 at an awards ceremony in Sacramento, and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,10633,2961,224,5337,10634,988],"class_list":{"0":"post-15312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-categories-restaurants","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news-eating","15":"tag-restaurants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114747703532935371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}