The Most Expensive Tasting Menus in the World 2026
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The ceiling for a single dinner now sits near €2,000 a head, and the rooms charging it are selling theatre as much as food. Here is the 2026 list with the prices you will actually pay, and the seats where the money works hardest.
Twelve seats. Twenty courses. €1,800 a person before a single glass is poured. Sublimotion, Paco Roncero's projection-mapped dining capsule inside the Hard Rock Hotel on Ibiza's Playa d'en Bossa, has held the most-expensive-restaurant title for a decade, and nothing that opened in 2025 or 2026 has taken it. Everything beneath it, though, has been rearranged: the second-priciest table on earth went dark in Shanghai, Michelin stripped third stars from two of America's most expensive kitchens in a single November, and a Dubai hotel dining room collected three stars while charging half of what New York's top sushi counter asks.
This page ranks the priciest fixed menus you can actually book in 2026, quoted at what the night really costs rather than the teaser figure. It sits under our wider ranking of the most expensive restaurants in the world; here we isolate the tasting-menu format, where the spending concentrates and where the gap between price and worth runs widest. For the question of whether the format suits you at all, start with when a tasting menu beats à la carte.
1. Sublimotion, Ibiza: €1,800 and the seat is the show
Paco Roncero, the Madrid chef who runs a two-star room inside the Casino de Madrid, built Sublimotion in 2014 as a sealed white capsule where the walls, the table, and at points your own field of vision are screens. Twenty courses arrive over roughly three hours for twelve diners a night, with VR headsets for certain dishes and a production crew that outnumbers most kitchens. The season runs June to September, deposits are taken months out, and the 2025 price held at €1,800 per person with tax in, drinks extra.
Judged as cooking, it cannot justify the figure; judged as a night of theatre with a two-star chef directing the food, it can. Skip it if you want to remember the plates rather than the room. Book it once, the way you would book a headline residency on the same island.
2. Alchemist, Copenhagen: the ticket is DKK 5,600 and that is the cheap part
Rasmus Munk sells tickets, not reservations, and his converted shipyard theatre in Refshaleøen stages around fifty "impressions" across five-plus hours, part of it under a planetarium dome. The 2026 ticket is DKK 5,600, with beverage pairings from DKK 2,000 to DKK 9,500 and a Sommelier Table package at DKK 16,600 that folds in prestige champagne and the top pairing. Ranked fifth on the World's 50 Best list in 2025 and holding two Michelin stars, it is the strongest food-per-krone entry in the top three, which says more about the top three than about the krone. Alchemist releases seats in waves; our breakdown of how to get an Alchemist ticket covers the drop mechanics.
3. Masa, New York: $1,200 before tax, and newly two stars
Masayoshi Takayama's hinoki counter on the fourth floor of the Deutsche Bank Center at Columbus Circle is the most expensive set menu in America: $750 at a table, $950 at the counter, and a $1,200 extended seasonal omakase that Ryan Sutton reported as the new American ceiling. None of it includes tax or drinks, so a counter night with modest sake clears $1,500 a head. In November 2025, after fifteen years at three stars, Michelin moved Masa down to two, an unusual pre-ceremony announcement that landed while $300 omakase counters multiplied across the city. First visit, take the $950 counter and skip the $1,200 extension; the upgrade rewards diners who already know the room.
4. Kyoto Kitcho Arashiyama: ¥79,200 with everything in
Kunio Tokuoka, grandson of founder Teiichi Yuki, cooks kaiseki in a 1930s villa beside the river in Arashiyama, in rooms that open onto the garden. Dinner courses are listed at ¥50,000 and ¥60,000, which become ¥66,000 and ¥79,200 once tax and service are folded in, and the high-season special lunch reaches ¥66,000 all-in. Note the honesty of the arithmetic: Japan quotes you the real number, while the Western rooms on this list quote a base and let tax, service, and pairings add forty percent. Kyoto Kitcho Arashiyama remains the benchmark for paying heavily and being able to say exactly what for: the room, the tableware, the garden, and a kitchen that has fed emperors.
5. FZN by Björn Frantzén, Dubai: AED 2,000 for the fastest three stars here
FZN opened inside Atlantis, The Palm in October 2024 and took three stars in the 2025 Michelin Guide Dubai within months, the quickest ascent on this page. The nine-course menu with snacks and petits fours runs AED 2,000, about $545, built on Norwegian shellfish, Brittany turbot, and Japanese tuna. The stars made Björn Frantzén the only chef holding three three-star restaurants at once: Frantzén in Stockholm since 2018, Zén in Singapore since 2021, and FZN. Against the rest of this list it reads almost like value, which is a sentence nobody writes about Dubai twice.
6. Per Se, New York: $425 that becomes $800
Thomas Keller's Columbus Circle dining room has held three stars since New York's first Michelin guide in 2006, and the two nine-course menus, one vegetable-led, are $425 with service included. The number to watch is the upgrade ladder: white truffle, caviar, and wagyu supplements can push the menu to $800 before wine. Per Se at its base price is the most defensible spend on this page for a first three-star dinner; Per Se at full supplement is how a $425 menu becomes a $2,000 evening for two. Decide which dinner you are buying before the captain starts offering.
7. Guy Savoy, Paris: €478 after the demotion
The 13-course tasting at Guy Savoy, inside the Monnaie de Paris on the Quai de Conti, runs €478, anchored by the artichoke and black truffle soup with toasted mushroom brioche that has outlived every menu rewrite since the 1980s. Michelin removed the third star in January 2023, and the price did not follow the star down. That is the uncomfortable test this list keeps applying: the bill tracks reputation, not rating. The room, the Seine-facing setting, and the soup still argue their side persuasively.
The graveyard: where the highest bills used to land
Two names that anchored every version of this list are gone. Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet, the three-star, single-table room at a secret Shanghai address, suspended service in November 2024 when surrounding construction made its sound-and-projection format unworkable, and closed to the public on March 29, 2025; seats had run RMB 6,800 and up with the show included. Urasawa, the Rodeo Drive counter where Hiroyuki Urasawa charged what was once America's highest omakase price, closed in 2020 when the chef returned to Japan; its space at 218 North Rodeo Drive now houses Miura, where the 18-course omakase is $320. Lists age; verify before you fly. Ours of the top 50 tasting menus worth flying for is re-checked against closures each quarter.
Where the money stops making sense
Skip Sublimotion if the food is the point; the kitchen is the supporting act and knows it. Skip Masa's $1,200 extension on a first visit, and skip the counter entirely if sake service matters more to you than fish, because the markup there is ferocious. At Per Se, the $425 base menu is the argument; supplements past $600 buy luxury ingredients, not better cooking. And the Alchemist Sommelier Table at DKK 16,600 only makes sense if wine is the reason for the trip. If the occasion is professional, the calculus changes again: our best restaurants for impressing clients hub ranks rooms where the bill itself is doing intentional work, and the New York dining guide maps cheaper three-star routes through the same city as Masa and Per Se. Booking lead times for all of these run 30 to 90 days; see how far ahead Michelin rooms open their books.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most expensive tasting menu in the world in 2026?
Sublimotion in Ibiza, at €1,800 per person before drinks, remains the highest sticker price for a fixed menu you can book in 2026. Push the bill harder and Alchemist in Copenhagen passes it: the DKK 5,600 ticket plus the DKK 16,600 Sommelier Table package lands above €2,900 a head. Both numbers buy theatre as much as food, which is exactly the point of both rooms.
How much does dinner at Masa actually cost?
Budget at least $1,300 per person. The hinoki counter starts at $950 and the extended seasonal omakase runs $1,200, and neither figure includes New York tax or a single pour of sake. Ryan Sutton reported the $1,200 tier when it launched, noting it made Masa the priciest set menu in America. Table seating at $750 is the only soft entry, and it misses the counter, which is the reason to go.
Why did Ultraviolet in Shanghai close?
Paul Pairet's three-star, single-table room announced in November 2024 that construction surrounding the secret location had made service impossible, and it served its final public dinners on March 29, 2025. At RMB 6,800 and up per seat, it was the most expensive restaurant in Asia. No reopening date has been announced as of mid-2026, so treat any listing that sells Ultraviolet seats as expired.
Is Sublimotion a restaurant or a show?
Both, and the ticket makes more sense the moment you accept that. Paco Roncero's twelve-seat capsule inside the Hard Rock Hotel Ibiza runs twenty courses in about three hours with projection-mapped walls, VR interludes, and a cast that outnumbers some kitchens. Book it the way you would book box seats, not the way you would book a counter in Kyoto. Diners who arrive grading the cooking alone leave underfed on proof.
What is the cheapest three-star tasting menu on this list?
Per Se, at $425 for nine courses with service included, is the lowest all-in entry point among the three-star rooms here, and it has held those stars since New York's first Michelin guide in 2006. FZN by Björn Frantzén in Dubai is close behind at AED 2,000, roughly $545, and got its three stars faster than any other room on this page. Either buys the full ceremony for a third of a Masa night.