Santorini Just Got Five Michelin Stars. Every One of Them Is Inside a Hotel

The MICHELIN Guide Greece 2027, announced on 20 October, did something it had never done before: it left Athens. Thessaloniki and Santorini were both covered for the first time, and Santorini walked away with five stars across four restaurants.

One of those is the headline. Lycabettus, at Andronis Luxury Suites in Oia, took two stars on its first appearance in the guide - a rare thing anywhere - and is now the only two-star restaurant in Greece.

But the more useful story for anyone planning a trip is where those four kitchens physically are.

All four are hotel restaurants#

Not one is a standalone restaurant. Three of the four sit in properties belonging to just two hotel groups, Andronis and Katikies - and both groups already appear in our Oia versus Imerovigli guide for reasons that had nothing to do with food.

Why that matters more than it sounds#

On an island where the best tables now belong to hotels, the room booking is the restaurant booking. Hotel restaurants hold back covers for residents, and on Santorini in August that is not a courtesy - it is the only reliable way in. A two-star debut will be fully committed for next summer long before the season opens.

So the practical consequence of this announcement is not "go and eat at Lycabettus". It is that if eating well is a real priority for your trip, your shortlist of hotels just got considerably shorter, and the decision moves forward by months.

There is a second-order effect worth naming. Stars raise rates. Andronis and Katikies now have a pricing argument they did not have in October, and the properties around them will follow, because that is what happens to a village's rate card when the village gets a two-star restaurant in it.

What happened everywhere else#

Athens gained four new stars - Aleria, see|ds, SENSE and Simul - and lost one: Delta dropped from two stars to one. The guide now runs to 62 restaurants in total: one at two stars, nineteen at one star, ten Bib Gourmand and thirty-two in the main selection.

Thessaloniki's debut was broad rather than deep. Twenty entries, spread across Bib Gourmand and recommended, and no stars at all. That reads less like a verdict and more like a first pass.

One name worth tracking across all of it: Ettore Botrini now oversees both Selene and Botrini's Santorini, on top of his starred Athens restaurant. Two of Santorini's four stars are his.

For the mainland, the Athenian Riviera's own star remains Pelagos at the Four Seasons Astir Palace, which we cover in the Athens Riviera guide.

Reported by Protothema. The commentary below is ours.

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