Michelin Guide Italia 2027: Uliassi loses third star, no new three-star restaurants

Uliassi drops a star and no new three-stars are named

The Michelin Guide Italia 2027 was presented on 12 November 2026 at the Teatro Municipale in Piacenza, the 72nd edition of the guide. The selection covers nearly 2,000 restaurants, with about 150 new entries. Among starred restaurants, 27 are new: three rose to two stars and 24 received their first star. The guide lists 382 starred restaurants in total. No restaurant was added to the three-star group, so the number of three-star restaurants in Italy stays at 13. The only change at the top came at Uliassi in Senigallia, run by Mauro Uliassi, which fell from three stars to two after eight years among the three-star restaurants.

One star24

Two stars3

Three stars0

One star

24

Two stars

3

Three stars

0

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Three new two-star restaurants

Orma Roma in Rome, led by chef Roy Caceres, reached two stars. The restaurant opened about three and a half years ago, and Caceres dedicated the award to his team and his wife, Alessandra. Pascucci al Porticciolo in Fiumicino, run by chef Gianfranco Pascucci, also moved up to two stars. Al Gatto Verde in Modena, led by Jessica Rosval, completed the trio. Rosval, a Canadian-born chef who has adopted Modena as her home, is a former student of Massimo Bottura, whose Osteria Francescana in Modena keeps three stars. Bottura said he felt more joy at her success than when he received his own stars.

“Seeing a student of yours grow and, after 13 years, receive a second Michelin star is something indescribable.”

Piedmont and the new one-star restaurants

Enrico Crippa at Piazza Duomo in Alba and Michelangelo Mammoliti at La Rei Natura in Serralunga d'Alba both kept three stars, giving the two Langhe restaurants six stars together. Mammoliti described the region as the reason the restaurant works so well.

“We live in an extraordinary region, Piedmont, which lets us do this work in the best possible way.”

Of the 24 new one-star restaurants, nine have chefs under 35, which the reporting describes as one of the youngest selections on record. Piedmont leads the newcomers with four restaurants and Sardinia has three. Casa Rapisarda in Numana, run by chef Alessandro Rapisarda, received its first star. In Turin, Cesare Grandi's La Limonaia earned its first star, while the Cannavacciuolo bistro there lost its star. The Quattro Passi restaurant in Nerano closed, which removed chef Fabrizio Mellino from the three-star group.

Tributes and reactions in Piacenza

The evening opened with a tribute from Gwendal Poullennec, director of the guide, to Nadia Santini, the first woman in Italy to earn three stars. She died on 2 November. Poullennec spoke about the Dal Pescatore restaurant as a place of belonging. Antonino Cannavacciuolo said his Turin bistro had lost ground and that the team had made mistakes.

“We certainly got something wrong.”

Cannavacciuolo said changes in the kitchen had hurt the restaurant's standing in Turin and called the result a starting point. His Villa Crespi kept its three stars. Colleagues with three-star restaurants, led by Massimo Bottura, sent a live greeting to Uliassi during the ceremony, and the audience applauded him and his sister Catia.