Eight new restaurants hold a Michelin star, including Marlene by Marlene Vieira, the second woman in almost a century to lead a Michelin-starred restaurant in Portugal.
The eight Portuguese restaurants boasting two Michelin stars in the previous ceremony have repeated the achievement in the 2025 edition.
Prior to Marlene Vieira, only one Portuguese woman Maria Alice Marto had been distinguished with a Michelin star in 1994 and 1996 for her Tia Alice restaurant in Fátima.
46 Portuguese restaurants in total achieved Michelin excellence in 2025. Another female chef Rita Magro was also distinguished together with Vítor Matos for leading Porto restaurant Blind, named after the novel by José Saramago, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998.
The remaining new additions were the vegetarian Arkhe (João Ricardo Alves, Lisbon), Grenache (Philippe Gelfi, Lisbon), Oculto (Hugo Rocha and Vítor Matos, Vila do Conde), Palatial (Rui Filipe, Braga), Vinha (Jonathan Seiller and Henrique Sá Pessoa (Vila Nova de Gaia) and Yoso (Habner Gomes, Lisbon).
We’ve rounded up all of the restaurants here. You can find seventeen of them in Lisbon, the remaining in the sunny Algarve, as well as in Portugal’s second largest city Porto, and scattered across the country, not forgetting the island of Madeira.
So, next time you’re visiting Portugal and want somewhere for a celebration meal, our list of Michelin star restaurants should help you out.
**Two Stars
- Algarve, Albufeira: Vila Joya / Dieter Koschina, Vila Joya Hotel
- Algarve, Alporcinhos: Ocean / Hans Neuner, Vila Vita Parc Resort & Spa
- Funchal, Madeira: Il Gallo d’Oro / Benoit Sinthon, The Cliff Bay
- Leça da Palmeira: Casa de Chá da Boa Nova / Rui Paula
- Lisbon: Alma / Henrique Sá Pessoa
- Lisbon: Belcanto / José Avillez
- Porto: Antiqvvm / Vitor Matos
- Vila Nova de Gaia: The Yeatman / Ricardo Costa, The Yeatman Hotel
*One Star
- Algarve, Carvoeiro: Bon Bon / Rui Silvestre
- Algarve, Lagos: Al Sud / Louis Anjos
- Algarve, Portimão: Vista / João Oliveira, Bela Vista Hotel & Spa
- Algarve, Quinta do Lago: Gusto by Heinz Beck / Heinz Beck, Conrad Algarve
- Algarve, Tavira: A Ver Tavira / Luís Brito
- Braga: Palatial / Rui Filipe – New
- Bragança: G Pousada / António and Óscar Gonçalves
- Cascais: Fortaleza do Guincho / Miguel Rocha Vieira, Hotel Fortaleza do Guincho
- Funchal, Madeira: Desarma / Octávio Freitas
- Funchal, Madeira: William / Luís Pestana, Belmond Reid’s Palace
- Guimarães: A Cozinha / António Loureiro
- Lisbon: 2Monkeys / Vitor Matos & Francisco Quintas
- Lisbon: Arkhe (vegetarian) / João Ricardo Alves – New
- Lisbon: Cura / Pedro Pena Bastos, Four Seasons Hotel Ritz
- Lisbon: Eleven / Joachim Koerper
- Lisbon: Encanto / José Avillez (vegetarian)
- Lisbon: Epur / Vicent Farges
- Lisbon: Feitoria / João Rodrigues, Altis Belem Hotel & Spa
- Lisbon: Fifty Seconds / Martín Berasategui, MYRIAD by Sana
- Lisbon: Grenache / Philippe Gelfi – New
- Lisbon: Kabuki / Paulo Alves
- Lisbon: Kanazawa / Paulo Morais
- Lisbon: Loco / Alexandre Silva
- Lisbon: Marlene / Marlene Vieira – New
- Lisbon: SÁLA / João Sá
- Lisbon: Yoso / Habner Gomes – New
- Passos de Silgueiros (Viseu): Mesa de Lemos / Diogo Rocha
- Porto: Blind / Rita Magro and Vítor Matos – New
- Porto: Euskalduna Studio / Vasco Coelho Santos
- Porto: Le Monument / Julien Montbabut, Maison Albar Hotels Le Monument Palace
- Porto: Pedro Lemos
- Porto: Vila Foz / Arnaldo Azevedo
- Reguengos de Monsaraz: Esporão / Carlos Teixeira
- Santarém: Ó Balcão / Rodrigo Castelo
- Sintra: LAB by Sergi Arola / Sergi Arola, Penha Longa Resort
- Sintra: Midori / Pedro Almeida, Penha Longa Resort
- Vila do Conde: Oculto / Hugo Rocha and Vítor Matos – New
- Vila Nova de Gaia: Vinha / Jonathan Seiller and Henrique Sá Pessoa – New
