New York City’s burgeoning dining scene continues to be dynamic with the announcement of the NYC restaurants added to the Michelin Guide 2025.
Fourteen notable restaurants, located across several boroughs, were added to the Michelin star/Bib Gourmand designations, showcasing the incredible culinary diversity in the city —including everything from traditional Middle Eastern fare to cutting-edge European tasting menus.
This year’s new restaurants reflect New York City’s world class food capital status.
The Complete List of New Michelin-Recognized Restaurants in New York City
1. Yemenat (Bay Ridge, Brooklyn)
- Cuisine: Middle Eastern
- Yemenat presents a wide array of filling Yemeni specialties, like lamb haneeth, and plenty of engaging appetizers, like shafoot, to boot. The family-style meal evokes warmth and authenticity, which was comforting enough for Michelin inspectors that they reviewed it.
2. Hungry Thirsty (Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn)
- Cuisine: Southern Thai
- Brash flavors and colorful plates characterize Hungry Thirsty dishes, such as deep-fried branzino with a special signature dip and inventive coconut jelly and coconut flesh desserts. Both the spirited food and the décor radiate a lively experience.
3. 6 Restaurant (Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn)
- Cuisine: European (Tasting Menu)
- 6 Restaurant has only six seats, and the six courses it offers are an experience unto themselves. 6 Restaurant’s six-course tasting menu features unique dishes like hamachi crudo with whey broth and custard of passion fruit with meringue and elderflower.
4. Chaiwala (Queens)
- Cuisine: Indian Streetfood
- Chaiwala modernizes traditional Indian street tea stalls and their heavily spiced masala teas with street snacks to match in a lively yet authentic fashion in Queens.
5. Chaat Adda (Queens)
- Cuisine: Indian Chaat
- Chaat Adda, which specializes in chaats and savory Indian snacks, brings the much-loved street-flavors of India to a higher level. This ideal location in Woodside was a great choice. Its fresh ingredients and spices set it apart, [listed, by recommendation] on all of the best of 2022 recommended lists.
6. Mina’s Taste of Erlian (Manhattan Lower East Side)
- Cuisine: Mongolian
- Mina’s, one of the city’s newest but inescapable destinations for those seeking a taste of the many styles of Mongolian cooking, offers dishes opportunities to highlight the seasons and many flavors and spices of the steppes’ vastness and brings a cuisine to the often-misunderstood cuisine of Mongolia to the eclectic Lower East Side of NYC.
7. Mezawa (Bronx)
- Cuisine: Japanese
- Mezawa showcases a truly elevated approach to traditional Japanese cuisine through flawless technique, precision, and impeccable presentation. It’s known for gorgeous sushi and classic omakase menus, with the food bright, delicate, and consuming.
8. La Kaza (Brooklyn, Bushwick)
- Cuisine: Mexican
- La Kaza is a quintessential representation of authentic Mexican food: handmade tortillas, deliciously bold mole sauces, and showing the beautiful mix of tradition with modern practice.
9. Fantastica (Manhattan West Village)
- Cuisine: Italian
- Fantastica offers all Italian, with the emphasis on fresh seasonal ingredients, and an inviting restaurant experience within the beautiful West Village neighborhood.
10. Shirley’s Kitchen (Brooklyn, Crown Heights)
- Cuisine: Caribbean
- Shirley’s Kitchen relies heavily on authentic Caribbean cooking, serving up amazing jerk chicken, curried goat, and heavy plantains – and with a homey and nostalgic space to consume it in!
11. Peruvian Kitchen (Queens, Jackson Heights)
- Cuisine: Peruvian
- Peruvian Kitchen captures the heart of traditional Peruvian cuisine and rare classic dishes, such as ceviche and lomo saltado, using bright and bold herbs and spices to serve Queens’ richly diverse palette.
12. Hauti Houty (Brooklyn, Prospect Lefferts Gardens)
- Cuisine: Haitian
- This little gem serves traditional Haitian cuisine with fresh ingredients and balanced flavors, and quickly became a favorite of Caribbean food enthusiasts.
13. Broitsky (Brooklyn)
- Cuisine: Ukrainian
- Broitsky offers a modern take on heart Ukrainian flavors that is particularly renowned for its pierogis and slow-cooked meats, all served in a comfortable atmosphere.
14. Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare (Manhattan)
- Cuisine: Contemporary
- Although not new, Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare continues to honor its prior Michelin-star status with extraordinary multi-course tasting menus—a fusion of French techniques and culinary influences from around the world.
What These New Additions Say About the New York City Dining Scene
This eclectic batch of new Michelin-recommended dining establishments speaks to a culinary breadth that New York City sustains—it remains grounded in traditions from around the world and inventive dining models. Notably, Brooklyn continues to rise with more than half of this year’s new additions signifying Brooklyn’s continual rise as an evolving dining scene.
With a total of 14 thrilling additions (from the cozy Middle Eastern soul food of Yemenat to the refined ode to omakase at Mezawa) to the Michelin Guide 2025, New York remains committed to culinary excellence and innovation. New Yorkers and visitors will have a colorful, diverse dining experience to share in 2025.