When Will The 2025 Michelin Stars Be Announced?

Michelin Stars are the Oscars of the food world. Throughout the year, inspectors visit eateries all over the world in search of places worthy of the coveted award, ahead of a hotly anticipated annual ceremony in which the new guide is revealed. So when will the 2025 stars be announced? And how does the awards system work?

Michelin Stars: What Are They And When Is The 2025 Ceremony?

What Are Michelin Stars?

Michelin Stars are awards given to restaurants which offer outstanding cooking. They are based on five key criteria:

1. The quality of the ingredients
2. The harmony of flavours
3. The mastery of techniques
4. The personality of the chef as expressed through their cuisine
5. Consistency – both across the entire menu and over time

A restaurant can receive either one, two or three Michelin stars, which Michelin classifies as follows:

• One Michelin Star: ‘awarded to restaurants using top quality ingredients, where dishes with distinct flavours are prepared to a consistently high standard.’
• Two Michelin Stars: ‘awarded when the personality and talent of the chef are evident in their expertly crafted dishes; their food is refined and inspired.’
• Three Michelin Stars: ‘our highest award, given for the superlative cooking of chefs at the peak of their profession; their cooking is elevated to an art form and some of their dishes are destined to become classics.’

In the 2024 guide, 170 restaurants had one Michelin Star, 27 had two, and nine had three. A total of 33 venues, meanwhile, were awarded a Michelin Green Star.

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What Are Michelin Green Stars?

Michelin Green Stars are the newest awards from Michelin. Introduced in 2020, these are granted to eateries that are ‘role models when it comes to sustainable gastronomy.’ According to Michelin, ‘every Green Star restaurant is different and works in its own unique way – but all make a difference to the world around them and act as role models to us all.

‘Many work directly with growers, farmers and fishermen; forage in hedgerows and woodlands; grow plants and rear animals; and use regenerative methods such as no-dig vegetable gardens and successional cover crop growing. They also often go beyond environmental considerations to address issues related to ethics, as well as contributing to local, national or global charitable and educational projects.’

What’s The History Of The Michelin Guide?

The Michelin story began in 1889, when brothers Andre and Edouard Michelin founded an eponymous tyre company in the French town of Clermont-Ferrand. At that time, there were fewer than 3,000 cars in the country, so they decided to encourage more people to drive by creating a pocket-sized red guide filled with useful information for travellers.

In 1920, the brothers decided to give the guide a makeover, adding information on where to eat and stay. Soon after, they recruited a team of mystery diners – now known as inspectors – to review restaurants, and in 1926 they began awarding stars. Five years later, they added the hierarchy of zero, one, two and three stars, and published the criteria. Since then, Michelin stars have grown to become one of the most prestigious accolades in the restaurant industry, viewed by many chefs as the pinnacle of success (although not all).

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When Do The 2025 Michelin Stars Come Out?

The 2025 Michelin stars will be announced in a ceremony on 10 February, hosted at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. All recipients of new Michelin Stars and Michelin Green Stars will be revealed, and restaurants who previously held stars will find out if they’ve retained them. 

Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin Guides, said: ‘We are absolutely thrilled to announce that, for the first time, the Michelin Guide ceremony for Great Britain & Ireland will be presented from Scotland. The home of delicious produce, timeless culinary traditions and warm hospitality, Scotland, and more specifically the buzzing city of Glasgow, is a fitting location to celebrate the incredible gastronomic talent across the UK and the Republic of Ireland.’

All chefs running a starred restaurant will be invited, alongside journalists and industry professionals, and the ceremony will also be broadcast live on YouTube.

Find out more at guide.michelin.com