This article is a list of Michelin-starred restaurants in Wales.
As of the 2024 guide, there are six restaurants in Wales with a Michelin-star rating, a rating system used by the Michelin Guide to grade restaurants based on their quality.
Name | Location | Cuisine | 2015 [1] | 2016 [2] | 2017 [3] | 2018 [4] | 2019 [5] | 2020 [6] | 2021 [7] | 2022 [8] | 2023 [9] | 2024 [10] | |
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Place | County | ||||||||||||
Beach House | Oxwich | Swansea | Contemporary | ||||||||||
Home | Penarth | Vale of Glamorgan | Contemporary | ||||||||||
Restaurant James Sommerin | Penarth | Vale of Glamorgan | British | Closed | |||||||||
Sosban & The Old Butchers | Menai Bridge | Anglesey | Contemporary | ||||||||||
SY23 | Aberystwyth | Ceredigion | Contemporary | Closed | |||||||||
The Checkers | Montgomery | Powys | French | ||||||||||
The Whitebrook | Whitebrook | Monmouthshire | British | ||||||||||
Tyddyn Llan | Llandrillo | Denbighshire | Welsh | ||||||||||
Walnut Tree | Llanddewi Skirrid | Monmouthshire | British | ||||||||||
Ynyshir | Eglwys Fach | Ceredigion | Japanese |
The Michelin Guides are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900. The Guide awards up to three Michelin stars for excellence to a select few restaurants in certain geographic areas. Michelin also publishes the Green Guides, a series of general guides to cities, regions, and countries.
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