Michelin came to Philadelphia in November 2025, and the first thing the city did was argue about it.
Three stars. Ten Bib Gourmands. One Green Star. A recommended list that included a Thai restaurant in a converted garage and a hummus counter, and left out several rooms people would have bet on.
The most Philadelphia detail: three of the ten Bib Gourmands are cheesesteak shops. A guide built in France, arriving in a city with a reputation to be condescending about, and it went straight for the sandwich.
Here is the full list, with addresses, and honest notes on how hard each one is to get into.
The Michelin Stars: All Three
Philadelphia has three one-star restaurants. Two of them are within four blocks of each other.
Friday Saturday Sunday — 261 S. 21st Street, Rittenhouse Square
Contemporary American. The restaurant has held this address since 1973 and was rebuilt in 2018 into something entirely new while keeping the room's low-ceilinged strangeness.
Getting in: the hardest table in the city. Book a month out and take whatever slot appears.
Her Place Supper Club — 1740 Sansom Street, Rittenhouse Square
Amanda Shulman cooks a changing set menu for around twenty people. Italian, French and Jewish influences, in a room that runs like a dinner party.
Getting in: reservations release in batches and go in minutes. Set an alarm. This is not an exaggeration.
Provenance — 408 S. 2nd Street, Society Hill
French technique with Japanese and Korean influences, tasting menu only, and the least-known of the three outside the industry.
Getting in: hard, but the most gettable of the stars. Weeknights exist.
The Bib Gourmands: Ten Restaurants, Three Cheesesteaks
The Bib is Michelin's award for good food at a reasonable price, and Philadelphia's list is the most revealing part of the guide.
Angelo's Pizzeria — 736 S. 9th Street, Bella Vista
Cheesesteaks and Sicilian pizza. Cash only, takeout only, and there is always a line. Both halves of the menu are on the city's short lists.
Dalessandro's Steaks & Hoagies — 600 Wendover Street, Roxborough
Open since 1960, chopping the ribeye almost to a mince. Up in Roxborough, outside the tourist radius, which is part of why it stayed good.
Del Rossi's Cheesesteak & Pizza Co. — 538 N. 4th Street, Northern Liberties
Hand-cut ribeye. Order the Long Hot Cheesesteak and accept the consequences.
All three of those, plus the rest of the argument, are in our Philadelphia cheesesteak rankings.
Pizzeria Beddia — 1313 N. Lee Street, Fishtown
Thin, charred, restrained. The pizza that survived becoming famous.
Sally — 2229 Spruce Street, Rittenhouse Square
Pizza and wine in a room the size of a living room. Earning a Bib for pizza in this city is not nothing.
Fiorella — 817 Christian Street, Italian Market
Marc Vetri's pasta bar in a former butcher shop. Small room, short menu, ricotta gnocchi that will end your evening. It sits in the middle of the Italian Market.
Dizengoff — 1625 Sansom Street, Center City
Israeli hummus counter from the Zahav group. Under twenty dollars, in and out in forty minutes.
El Chingon — 1524 S. 10th Street, South Philadelphia
Mexican, small, and the sort of place that was already full every night before the guide arrived.
Famous 4th Street Delicatessen — 700 S. 4th Street, South Street
A long-running Jewish deli with sandwiches sized as a dare.
Royal Sushi & Izakaya — 780 S. 2nd Street, Queen Village
An izakaya out front and an eight-seat omakase counter in the back. The counter is one of the toughest reservations in Philadelphia and does not get talked about like it.
The Green Star
Pietramala — 614 N. 2nd Street, Old City
Philadelphia's only Michelin Green Star, awarded for sustainability. Fine-dining vegan cooking that is not framed as a substitution for anything. It is a short walk from the rest of Old City.
The Recommended List
Nineteen more restaurants carry a Michelin recommendation. Grouped by neighborhood, because that is how you will actually use them.
Rittenhouse Square — Vernick Food & Drink (2031 Walnut Street), My Loup (2005 Walnut Street), Little Water (261 S. 20th Street).
Fishtown — Suraya (1528 Frankford Avenue), Laser Wolf (1301 N. Howard Street), Hiroki (1355 N. Front Street), Kalaya (4 W. Palmer Street). Four recommendations in a fifteen-block radius, which is why Fishtown keeps coming up.
Queen Village and Society Hill — Southwark (701 S. 4th Street), Ambra (705 S. 4th Street), Roxanne (607 S. 2nd Street).
East Passyunk — River Twice (1601 E. Passyunk Avenue), Mish Mish (1046 Tasker Street). Both on our East Passyunk guide.
Center City and Washington Square West — Vetri Cucina (1312 Spruce Street), Zahav (237 Saint James Place), Vedge (1221 Locust Street), High Street (101 S. 9th Street).
Old City — Forsythia (233 Chestnut Street).
North Broad — Honeysuckle (631 N. Broad Street).
Gray's Ferry — Illata (2241 Grays Ferry Avenue).
What the Guide Got Right, and What It Missed
Right: taking the cheesesteak shops seriously. Three Bibs for sandwich counters is a guide paying attention to what a city actually eats rather than what would look sophisticated in print. Dalessandro's is in Roxborough. Someone drove out there.
Also right: the geographic spread. Strawberry Mansion, Gray's Ferry, Roxborough and Harrowgate are not neighborhoods a lazy guide visits.
The gap: Philadelphia's BYOB scene, which is one of the strongest in America and a direct consequence of Pennsylvania's expensive liquor licensing, is barely represented. Some of the best cooking in the city happens in small rooms where you bring your own wine, and that format does not photograph like a starred restaurant.
The honest caveat: a Michelin recommendation is one guide's opinion, released once a year, from inspectors who visited on particular nights. It is a good list. It is not the list.
How to Actually Get a Table
The stars need planning. Friday Saturday Sunday and Her Place both release reservations in batches. Follow them, set an alarm, take a Tuesday.
The Bibs mostly do not need reservations at all. Angelo's, Dalessandro's and Del Rossi's are counters — turn up and stand in line. Dizengoff seats you in minutes.
Royal Sushi is the exception. The izakaya is walk-in-ish. The omakase counter behind it is not.
Build a day around one neighborhood. Three Michelin-recognized rooms sit on Frankford Avenue in Fishtown, and three more cluster in Queen Village. That is a better plan than crossing the city for one meal.
Track It on PlateWalk
Thirty-three Michelin-honored restaurants across a dozen neighborhoods is a list, and a list is not a plan.
PlateWalk maps Philadelphia's food trails as GPS-guided routes — check in at each stop as you go, and completing a trail earns +50 PlatePoints, redeemable for rewards at partner restaurants. The app's debates work on one rule that matters here: only verified visits count. You have to have eaten somewhere to have a say about it.
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For more, see our guides to Rittenhouse Square and Philadelphia's best pizza. Visit Philadelphia maintains a running list of the city's Michelin-honored restaurants that updates with each guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many Michelin star restaurants does Philadelphia have?
Three, all one-star: Friday Saturday Sunday and Her Place Supper Club, both near Rittenhouse Square, and Provenance in Society Hill. The Michelin Guide first covered Philadelphia in November 2025.
When did Michelin come to Philadelphia?
November 2025. Philadelphia was included in Michelin's expansion into the American Northeast, and the city's first stars, Bib Gourmands and Green Star were announced then.
What restaurants have a Michelin Bib Gourmand in Philadelphia?
Ten: Angelo's Pizzeria, Dalessandro's Steaks & Hoagies, Del Rossi's Cheesesteak & Pizza Co., Dizengoff, El Chingon, Famous 4th Street Delicatessen, Fiorella, Pizzeria Beddia, Royal Sushi & Izakaya and Sally.
Did any Philadelphia cheesesteak shops get Michelin recognition?
Yes — three. Angelo's Pizzeria, Dalessandro's and Del Rossi's all received Bib Gourmands, which is one of the more distinctive features of Philadelphia's guide.
Which Philadelphia restaurant has a Michelin Green Star?
Pietramala at 614 N. 2nd Street in Old City, a fine-dining vegan restaurant, holds the city's only Green Star for sustainability.
What is the hardest Michelin restaurant to book in Philadelphia?
Her Place Supper Club seats around twenty people and releases reservations in batches that fill within minutes. Friday Saturday Sunday is close behind.
Are Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurants expensive?
No — the Bib specifically recognizes good food at moderate prices. Several of Philadelphia's are counter-service cheesesteak and hummus shops where two people eat for well under fifty dollars.
