Best Restaurants in Brno

Brno spent two decades being ignored by the Michelin Guide. Prague got its first stars and its early Bib Gourmands; the Moravian capital, 200 kilometres to the south-east, was overlooked. That ended in December 2025 when the 2026 Czech Guide arrived with five Brno entries: Bib Gourmand awards for ATELIER bar & bistro and Valoria, and Michelin Selected listings for Borgo Agnese, ELEMENT, Pavillon Steak House, and PRIME STEAK. The city that produced Adolf Loos and Bohuslav Fuchs finally had its gastronomic architecture acknowledged.

What Brno's dining scene has always had — and what the Guide finally noticed — is a ratio of serious kitchens to population that is higher than any other second-city in Central Europe. A city of 380,000 with five Michelin-listed restaurants and two Bib Gourmands. The kitchens are chef-driven, many run by alumni of London and Paris high-end rooms (Jan Kaplan at ATELIER trained at the Michelin-starred L'Autre Pied), and the cooking sits in a confident dialogue with Moravian produce — the pork, the carp, the game, the increasingly serious Moravian wines from the vineyards twenty kilometres south of the city.

Brno's dining geography is compact. The historic centre (Brno-střed) holds most of the serious kitchens — Kobližná and Jezuitská for fine dining, Kopečná for the best Italian in the country outside Prague. The functionalist architectural district around Špilberk Castle has the best city views and Pavillon (inside a replica of Fuchs's 1925 Zeman Café). Horní Heršpice, a fifteen-minute drive south, is where Valoria sits — the city's best-kept secret fine-dining room.

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