{"id":29213,"date":"2026-04-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noticias.ae\/2026\/04\/29\/michelin-tresind-studio-dubai-tres\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:14:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:14:31","slug":"michelin-tresind-studio-dubai-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noticias.ae\/en\/2026\/04\/29\/michelin-tresind-studio-dubai-three\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dubai Michelin Guide adds 119 restaurants and consecrates the first Indian establishment with three stars in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time a French guide redrew the map of Indian cuisine? What seemed unthinkable just five years ago happened in May 2025: <strong>Michelin<\/strong> awarded three stars to an Indian restaurant for the first time, and it did so not in Mumbai, not in London, but in Dubai. The symbol could not be more eloquent.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth edition of the <strong>Michelin Guide <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/noticias.ae\/en\/category\/dubai-en\/\"   title=\"Dubai\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"3142\">Dubai<\/a><\/strong> presented a selection of 119 establishments representing 35 different cuisine styles. Two new restaurants achieved the highest distinction of three stars, consolidating the city as a global culinary epicenter and a driver of high value-added tourism.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The milestone that Michelin had never seen in its century-long history<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"CHwWZi_CP2Y\"><iframe title=\"I Ate at EVERY MICHELIN Starred Restaurant in DUBAI\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CHwWZi_CP2Y?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Since <strong>Michelin<\/strong> published its first guide in 1900, no Indian cuisine restaurant had ever achieved three stars. More than 125 years of gastronomic history without a single Indian three-star: the cuisine of a subcontinent of 1.4 billion people remained, in the eyes of the world&#8217;s most influential guide, outside the Olympus.<\/p>\n<p>That barrier was broken by Tr\u00e8sind Studio in its <strong>fourth consecutive appearance<\/strong> in the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/noticias.ae\/en\/category\/dubai-en\/\"   title=\"Dubai\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"3143\">Dubai<\/a> guide. Chef Himanshu Saini&#8217;s restaurant not only conquered the highest distinction; it did so with a proposal that redefines what Indian cuisine can be in the 21st century: an immersive tasting menu that travels through the four regions of the subcontinent with avant-garde techniques and millimeter precision in every plating.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Michelin chose Dubai to write this historical chapter<\/h2>\n<p>It is no coincidence that <a href=\"https:\/\/noticias.ae\/en\/2026\/04\/06\/dubai-michelin-guide-gastronomy\/\">Michelin<\/a> found in Dubai the ideal setting for this milestone. The city has spent a decade building an unprecedented gastronomic infrastructure, attracting starred chefs from around the world and betting on culinary diversity as an explicit part of its tourism strategy. The result is a selection that today covers 35 styles of cuisine in 119 locations, a figure unthinkable for a city that did not exist on the global gastronomic map just fifteen years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelin_Guide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tr\u00e8sind Studio<\/a> perfectly embodies that philosophy: a restaurant that could only be born in Dubai, a city without the ties of European culinary tradition, where a 35-year-old Indian chef could experiment with total freedom until creating something radically new. The <strong>local gastronomic scene<\/strong> has thus become a laboratory where innovation finds no geographical or cultural limits.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tr\u00e8sind Studio: Indian cuisine like you&#8217;ve never tasted before<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"OnH8OE4A5Bg\"><iframe title=\"La cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me culinaria de Catar: La Gu\u00eda MICHELIN llega a Doha\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OnH8OE4A5Bg?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Tr\u00e8sind Studio menu is, above all, a journey. Each dish starts from a traditional Indian recipe \u2014a preparation from the north, a fish from the coast of Kerala, a dessert from Calcutta\u2014 and subjects it to a technical transformation that makes it unrecognizable and, at the same time, deeply faithful to its origin. It is the same operation that great Spanish or Nordic chefs have been performing for decades with their national cuisines, applied for the first time to the immense Indian culinary universe.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Michelin<\/strong> inspector who visited the restaurant described the experience as a &#8220;masterpiece of creativity and precision.&#8221; Chef Saini, 35, has spent more than a decade in Dubai perfecting a proposal that blends <strong>traditional ingredients<\/strong> with contemporary techniques in a way that Indian diners themselves describe as revealing: a cuisine that makes them see their own gastronomic heritage with new eyes.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">119 restaurants that turn Dubai into a magnet for gastronomic tourism<\/h2>\n<p>The economic impact of the <strong>Michelin<\/strong> selection on Dubai tourism is quantifiable and growing. Industry studies estimate that a three-star restaurant can generate between 15,000 and 20,000 additional visits per year from travelers who plan their destination specifically for the culinary offer. With two three-stars \u2014Tr\u00e8sind Studio and FZN by Bj\u00f6rn Frantz\u00e9n\u2014 and a selection of 119 venues, Dubai enters a category of world-class gastronomic destination.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon has a particularly valuable characteristic for the emirate&#8217;s tourism economy: it generates <strong>high-repetition tourism<\/strong>. A traveler who visits Dubai attracted by its Michelin gastronomy returns more frequently than the conventional tourist, spends more per day, and acts as an active prescriber on their networks. The strategic bet of the Emirati authorities to position the city as a global gastronomic capital is beginning to bear its most tangible fruits.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table class=\"has-fixed-layout\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Michelin Guide Dubai Edition<\/th>\n<th>Selected Restaurants<\/th>\n<th>Highest Distinction<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>2022 (1st edition)<\/td>\n<td>69 restaurants<\/td>\n<td>No three stars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2023 (2nd edition)<\/td>\n<td>88 restaurants<\/td>\n<td>No three stars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2024 (3rd edition)<\/td>\n<td>104 restaurants<\/td>\n<td>No three stars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2025 (4th edition)<\/td>\n<td>119 restaurants<\/td>\n<td>2 restaurants with three stars<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Total growth<\/td>\n<td>+72% in 4 years<\/td>\n<td>World&#8217;s first Indian three-star<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Michelin and Dubai: the future of haute cuisine has a new address<\/h2>\n<p>The trend is clear: <strong>Michelin<\/strong> is shifting its center of gravity towards the Middle East, and Dubai is the epicenter of that transformation. The speed with which the city has gone from zero to two three-stars in just four editions is unprecedented in the history of the guide; not even established destinations like Tokyo or Paris took so little time to reach that threshold from their inclusion in the guide.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>expert&#8217;s advice<\/strong> is clear: anyone who wants to get ahead of the next great conversation in world gastronomy should book a table in Dubai before prices and waiting times fully reflect what the Michelin Guide has already certified. The three stars of Tr\u00e8sind Studio are not the arrival point of Indian cuisine in the world: they are, in all probability, the starting point of a new era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time a French guide redrew the map of Indian cuisine? What seemed unthinkable just five years ago happened in May 2025: Michelin awarded three stars to an Indian restaurant for the first time, and it did so not in Mumbai, not in London, but in Dubai. 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