Update, 12 November: the results are out. The 2027 guide has 27 new Stars, with three new Two-Star restaurants and no new Three-Star. The full list is in our report on the new Stars.
The Michelin Guide Italy 2027 is unveiled in Piacenza on Thursday 12 November at 11:00. The ceremony for the 72nd edition is held at the Teatro Municipale and streamed live on the guide’s YouTube channel, as the local daily PiacenzaSera reports. One part of the selection is already public: 37 new Bib Gourmands, which take Italy’s total to 276.
Piacenza, 11:00: the Teatro Municipale and the live stream
The Stars return to the city that hosted them in 2019. Michelin chose Piacenza in April, for its third year running in Emilia-Romagna after Modena and Parma, and the regional tourism board has built a press tour of what it calls the Food Valley around the day. The stage is the Teatro Municipale, the opera house in the centre of the city. The room is for chefs and the trade.
Everyone else watches online. The ceremony is broadcast on the Michelin Guide’s YouTube channel and on the Michelin Italia Facebook page from 11:00, and the full selection goes up on the guide’s site and app once the last name has been read. As in past years, the highest awards come last.
The numbers to beat: 394 Starred restaurants in the 2026 guide
| Distinction | 2026 guide | What changed last year |
|---|---|---|
| Three Stars | 15 | One new: La Rei Natura, Serralunga d’Alba |
| Two Stars | 38 | Two new: Famiglia Rana and I Tenerumi |
| One Star | 341 | 22 new |
| Bib Gourmand | 255 | 276 already announced for 2027 |
Those are the figures the 2027 guide starts from. Last November, at the Teatro Regio in Parma, Michelin gave a third Star to La Rei Natura by Michelangelo Mammoliti at Serralunga d’Alba, a second to Famiglia Rana near Verona and to I Tenerumi on the island of Vulcano, and a first to 22 restaurants. Italy went into 2026 with 15 Three-Star tables. The first thing to watch on 12 November is whether there is a sixteenth.
Thirty-seven new Bib Gourmands, with Lazio in front
The Bib Gourmand, the award for good cooking at a fair price, was announced ahead of the Stars. The 2027 guide has 37 new ones and 276 in all, up from 255, according to the list published by Scatti di Gusto. Lazio has the most new entries with eight, Emilia-Romagna follows with six, and Piedmont and Liguria have four each. Emilia-Romagna stays first overall, with 39.
The names run the length of the country. Rome adds Mamma Orso and Shiroya. Bologna adds Zivieri, Turin the Antica Trattoria Cirio, Naples the Luminist Cafe Bistrot and Palermo the Osteria Mercede. Genoa has two, Toe Drue and Il Michelaccio, and so does Ferrara, with Da Noemi and Quel Fantastico Giovedi. The smallest dot on the map is Trattoria da Pina di Maniaci, on the island of Vulcano.
The restaurants added since August
Michelin no longer saves every new address for the ceremony. Through the year it adds restaurants to the Italian selection online, without saying what they will receive, and their distinctions come out only on the day. We followed three of those rounds: 15 names in August, 20 in September and 25 in October. New Stars are usually drawn from that list.
One award is in doubt. Michelin said in May that the Green Star will be gradually phased out, and it has not said whether new ones will be given in Piacenza. The special awards stay, with a prize for dessert, Passion Dessert, among them.
The Luxury.it perspective
The Italian ceremony has become a morning that the whole trade stops for, and Piacenza gets it at a good moment, with Emilia-Romagna first in Italy for Bib Gourmands and Osteria Francescana still its only Three-Star table. Our reading of the day is simple. The Bib list already says where Michelin has been eating: in Lazio, along the Via Emilia and in Genoa. The Star list at 11:00 says who moves up. We will publish the new Stars as they are announced, and the dates for Spain, Portugal and the rest of Europe are in our calendar of the 2027 ceremonies.
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