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If you saved a year for one great meal, don't waste it.

We're Miguel and Marie-Lise. Between us we've eaten and slept our way through 60 countries, and written down what we actually thought. Not what we were paid to think. If a three-star wasn't worth it, we say so. That's the whole point.

No ads. No sponsored placements. No restaurant has ever paid to be here.

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The Sunday Ten · 2026

The ten most memorable meals of our lives.

As they stand today. We republish this list every January. Three of the ten hold no Michelin star at all, including the one at the top. That should tell you how we are choosing.

1

Central

LIMA · PERU

No Michelin star
2

Noma

COPENHAGEN · DENMARK

★★
3

Disfrutar

BARCELONA · SPAIN

★★
4

CORE by Clare Smyth

LONDON · UK

★★
5

Akelaré

SAN SEBASTIÁN · SPAIN

★★★
6

Atelier Crenn

SAN FRANCISCO, CA · USA

★★★
7

MoSuke

PARIS · FRANCE

8

Casa Bueno

TRUCCO · ITALY

9

Cent 33

BORDEAUX · FRANCE

No Michelin star
10

Senia

HONOLULU, HI · USA

No Michelin star
The Passport

Every marker is a country we have actually stood in.

Sixty countries between us. A solid marker means we have written it up and there is a Dossier you can buy. A hollow marker means we have been but have not written it up yet, so there is nothing to sell you. Empty ocean means we have never been, and we will not pretend otherwise.

Written up. Dossier available We have been. Not written up yet No marker: never been. We will not guess Tap any marker →
Sixteen countries are written up. The rest we have been to but have not written yet. Tap a hollow marker and ask us directly. We will tell you what we know for free.
Why we do this

A once-in-a-lifetime meal should not be a coin flip.

Some people eat like this every month. Most don't. Most save for it, plan around it, fly for it, and get exactly one shot at the night being what they hoped. Those are the people we write for.

We went. Personally.

Every place we write about, one or both of us sat down in, paid for, and formed an opinion about. No press trips traded for coverage. No recommendations from a database of strangers.

We say when it's not worth it.

Ten of the places we've logged, we would not go back to, including a three-star. Anyone can tell you where to go. Almost nobody will tell you where not to.

Nobody pays for placement.

Not restaurants, not hotels, not tourism boards. When a booking link earns us a commission we say so on the spot, and it never changes what makes the list.

How we rate

Four verdicts. They measure one thing: whether we'd travel for it.

The Sunday Ten

The ten most memorable meals of our lives, as they stand today. Updated every January. Named for the Sunday calls that started all of this. These are the ones we'd have called Abuela for and talked about all the way home.

Worth the journey

We'd travel to this city by bike, bus, train, or plane just to eat here. It was an extraordinary experience worth building a trip around.

If you're already there

Book it if you're in town and can't get a table at the ones above. Good food. We just wouldn't cross a border for it.

Not as it stands

We ate here and wouldn't go back without real changes to the food and/or experience. Running a restaurant is hard and we want them to succeed. You've saved up for this meal and may have a special occasion planned, and we'd rather be honest with you than polite to ensure you have a special experience.

Honest notes

Three real entries, unedited.

This is the register the whole thing is written in. Make of it what you will.

Not as it stands
"Best part was the company, celebrating our 100th star. Met the chef; unimpressed by the creativity, flavors were pure but often uninspired. Not worth returning."
L'Arpège · Paris · ★★★
The Sunday Ten
"A corner food stall, a grandmother chef in military fatigues and a ski mask, plastic seats, no sense of fine dining, and a 4-hour wait. The drunken noodles were transcendent and well worth the star."
Jay Fai · Bangkok · ★
If you're already there
"Beautiful interior, met the chef and the Front of House brothers. Got very sick from food poisoning, not worth the cost unless you've done the rest of Spain's Michelin scene."
El Celler de Can Roca · Girona · ★★★
El Eterno Viajero

Every Sunday, without fail.

Long before there was a website, there was a phone call. Every single Sunday, whatever city, whatever time zone, whatever continent Miguel woke up on, he called his grandmother.

"El Eterno Viajero", the Eternal Traveler, she called him, because no matter how far he went, he never once missed a Sunday.

Those calls were never check-ins. They were long, unhurried descriptions of the way light fell on a square, the strangers who became friends over a shared table, the meal that made him stop talking mid-bite. She wanted the food, the people, the room. And in the retelling, he learned that a trip isn't measured in landmarks. It is measured in the details worth calling home about.

This is a continuation of that phone call, now with Marie-Lise on the line too. Same day. Same promise. It goes out every Sunday, and it's free, because the stories were never the thing we'd charge for.

The Sunday Letter

One place. One story. One reason to go.

Every Sunday morning, free, forever. The way we'd tell a friend, including the parts a guidebook would leave out.