The MICHELIN Guide Returns to Austria

Today, the MICHELIN Guide unveiled a new page in the history of the Austrian Guide, with an upcoming national selection for 2025. The Guide’s anonymous Inspectors have been deep-diving into the Austrian culinary landscape since 1983 with the reveal of the very first Vienna selection, followed by Salzburg in 1986.

Since 2010, Vienna and Salzburg were part of The MICHELIN Guide Main Cities of Europe, but after the Covid-19 crisis, Michelin decided to highlight each destination within the Main Cities of Europe selection individually and stop producing this collective Guide. With the increasing potential of the gastronomic offer in Central and Eastern Europe, the Guide’s scope has extended in several areas, including from capital cities to national selections.

Long-time food-lovers will remember the first national edition of The MICHELIN Guide Austria, printed from 2005 to 2009. Committed to highlighting world-class destinations on a long-term basis, The MICHELIN Guide has started a partnership with the Austrian National Tourist Office and 8 regional tourism associations, to ensure the deployment of marketing and promotional activities to a worldwide audience with a sustainable economic approach.

MIichelin works with Destination Marketing Organisations and tourism boards to promote the tourism industry in their respective locations. However, The MICHELIN Guide’s selection process remains completely independent, as its teams of anonymous Inspectors are fully in charge of making the selections. The MICHELIN Guide only partners with the Austrian National Tourist Office and 8 regional tourism associations for marketing and promotional activities.

"With the introduction of the national Austrian selection of The MICHELIN Guide, we are making the many facets of Austria as a culinary destination even more visible internationally,” declared Astrid Steharnig-Staudinger, CEO of the Austrian National Tourist Office. “We are convinced that the entire Austrian tourism industry will benefit from this – from regional inns to urban culinary hotspots. My special thanks go to the regional tourism associations Niederösterreich Werbung, Oberösterreich Tourismus, Burgenland Tourismus, Kärnten Werbung, Steiermark Tourismus, SalzburgerLand Tourismus, Tirol Werbung, Vorarlberg Tourismus and the gastronomy industry representation in the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, with whom we made this project possible in the first place.”

Since its creation in 1900, The MICHELIN Guide has been committed to offering the best recommendations for hotels and restaurants to gourmets and travellers, and to highlighting the inspiring work of talented professionals worldwide. Particularly famous for its unique historical methodology, based on 5 criteria (quality of ingredients; mastery of cooking techniques; harmony of flavours; personality of the chef as expressed through the cuisine; and consistency both cross the entire menu and over time), and its teams of Inspectors, who are experts as curious as they are open-minded, the Guide has never compromised on the quality of its recommendations; it has endlessly adapted to its current era.

In order to maintain this level of quality and reliability, considering this ambitious geographical extension, as well as the specificities of Austria (such as regions marked with seasonal openings in winter), the new MICHELIN Guide Austria selection will be unveiled in January 2025. There will, exceptionally, be no 2024 edition to Vienna and Salzburg. Nevertheless, all the restaurants highlighted in 2023 will remain online on this website and on the free MICHELIN Guide mobile app.

From Selected restaurants to Michelin Stars, Bib Gourmands (for the most exceptional value-for-money experiences), Michelin Green Stars (highlighting restaurants at the forefront of sustainable practices) and outstanding hotels, the wait will be well worth the wonderful celebration of Austria’s outstanding gastronomy and hospitality.

The MICHELIN Guide Austria 2025 will be available online and on the MICHELIN Guide mobile app. In addition to restaurants, The MICHELIN Guide will list a hotel selection featuring the most exciting, unique places to stay in Austria and throughout the world. The selection gives prominence to over 5,000 hotels in more than 130 countries, with options across a range of budgets. Each hotel is chosen by The MICHELIN Guide experts for its extraordinary style, service and personality, and each may be booked directly through our website and app.

The MICHELIN Guide has always been a benchmark in gastronomy. Now it’s setting a new standard for hotels. Download the free app for iOS and Android to discover every restaurant in the selection and to book an unforgettable stay.

For the current restaurant selection in Austria, please click here.

Hero Image: © Restaurant The Glass Garden, Hotel Schloss Mönchstein