Nine New York City restaurants earned a spot in the Michelin Guide on Wednesday, April 15, with Brooklyn claiming more entries than Manhattan in the latest round of additions.
The Guide announced the new batch as Bib Gourmand or Star potential picks, joining a previous set released last fall. A full ceremony, grouped with other Northeast cities and Chicago, will reveal which restaurants earn Stars and Bib Gourmands. Michelin hasn’t set a date or location yet.
Brooklyn led the count this time, a shift that longtime food watchers will find telling. Neighborhood spots, not white-tablecloth destinations, drove the list. That tracks with where New Yorkers have been eating.
In Clinton Hill, Entre Nous at 39 Clifton Place operates as a 55-seat bar built around low-intervention wines and French-leaning small plates. Michelin called out the chicken liver parfait with cornichons, crisp mushroom croquettes with truffle aioli, and a Jonah crab salad where the seafood leads. The spot opened in 2024 as a sibling to Fradei in Fort Greene, run by husband-wife team Allie Prater-Besset and Clement Besset.
Around the corner, essentially, Los Burritos Juárez at 354 Myrtle Avenue has quietly become one of the borough’s most exciting quick stops. Owner Alan Delgado draws on a regional tradition rooted in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, tucking slow-cooked stews into flour tortillas. Eater NY first flagged the recognition, noting Michelin’s praise for “flavors are deeply comforting, offering a regional burrito tradition rarely found in New York.” That’s not hyperbole. It’s a style most of this city doesn’t know yet.
Crown Heights got its own nod with Bong, a Cambodian spot at 724 Sterling Place from owners Chakriya Un and Alexander Chaparro. Michelin already called it a neighborhood fixture, which is a remarkable thing to say about a newcomer. The whole crisp fish with green mango sauce draws crowds, but the plea satch ko, a Cambodian beef salad with razor-thin meat in a funky, spicy sauce, is the dish people talk about.
Park Slope’s entry comes from a team with roots in Manhattan. Vato at 226 Seventh Avenue shares DNA with Corima and the just-opened Bar Chucho. The Guide points to the breakfast-style burnt ends burrito, loaded with tender pulled meat, scrambled eggs, and cheddar, and the verde burrito with braised pork shoulder, salsa verde, and diced potatoes. Good tortillas travel well, it turns out.
Williamsburg’s I Cavallini, at 284 Grand Street, rounds out the Brooklyn picks. Chef Nick Curtola runs the kitchen at this Italian sibling to the Four Horsemen, and his nervetti and onion salad has made people rethink what braised beef tendons can do. Shaved thin, paired with crisp acidic onions, it’s the kind of dish that signals a kitchen working with real confidence. Michelin also flagged the handmade pastas and rustic mains.
Manhattan’s additions include Le Chêne at 76 Carmine Street in the West Village.
None of this is a guarantee. The ceremony in the fall will determine which of these spots actually land Stars or Bib Gourmands. Some will. Some won’t. Getting named to the Guide at all puts a restaurant on the radar of a global audience, which changes things whether the kitchen wants it to or not.
What’s clear from this round is that Michelin’s reviewers spent time in neighborhoods that don’t always get this kind of attention. Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Fort Greene: these aren’t new to New Yorkers who live and eat there, but international recognition is different. It brings new diners through the door. It can shift a restaurant’s entire trajectory.
For Alan Delgado at Los Burritos Juárez, selling burritos rooted in a tradition most of New York has never tasted, the recognition means something specific. The style he’s working in isn’t fusion or trend-chasing. It’s regional, disciplined, and deeply personal. That Michelin saw it that way too says something about how the Guide has been looking at this city.
The fall ceremony will settle the rankings. For now, these nine restaurants have a spring and summer to cook.