The Table

Michelin's 2026 Texas selection adds three One Star restaurants: Fabrik in Austin, an entirely plant-based tasting menu built on produce from local Texas farms; Goldee's Bar-B•Q in Fort Worth, open only a few days a week, where the inspectors say the brisket is worth an hours-long wait; and newcomer Kappo Kappo in Austin. Six restaurants received a Bib Gourmand for good food at good value, and 16 more joined as recommended. The full guide lists 149 restaurants across 30 cuisines.

Michelin's fifth Dubai selection lists 122 restaurants across 38 cuisines. Orfali Bros, rooted in the founding brothers' Aleppian, Armenian and Turkish heritage, moved up to Two Stars two years after its first. Birch, led by chef Arslan Berdiev, and the Japanese restaurant KIGO enter with One Star, and FZN by Björn Frantzén and Trèsind Studio keep Three Stars. The guide is produced with destination partner Dubai's Department of Economy and Tourism.

Time Out picks seven U.S. restaurants cooking over wood, embers and open flame, where the hearth often sits in full view of the dining room. Among them: Michelin-starred chef Eyal Shani's Malka in West Palm Beach (his first kosher restaurant, built around a custom wood grill); Hillary Sterling's Ci Siamo in Manhattan, known for whole fire-roasted trout; Ajax Downtown in Denver, where even the bread and cocktails touch the fire and steaks are dry-aged in-house; and Corkfire in Temecula, cooking produce from its own garden over flame. It's a trend roundup, not a list of new openings.

Time Out Buenos Aires reviews Ámbar, a newly opened 500-square-meter restaurant on Junín Street across from Recoleta Cemetery, started by Iggy James, a 23-year-old New Yorker. Chef Nahuel Cora's French-Argentine menu skips starters and mains for small, medium and large plates to share (duck pâté with persimmon, triple-cooked fries with five-spice, Patagonian oysters), alongside a cocktail bar, DJs and a live-streaming radio station. The reviewer thinks it could be one of the year's standout openings if it keeps up its early level and fine-tunes service.