There is a quick way to tell whether a destination takes its cooking seriously: look at what it has left once the season passes. In the MICHELIN Guide Spain & Andorra 2026, Ibiza is left with three one-star restaurants, eight recommended tables and a map that has changed: two names the island took for granted are no longer there.

It is not an island with a single gastronomic street. It is a town, a beach and a handful of coves.

The essentials

  • Three stars, all of them one: La Gaia, Omakase by Walt and Unic. No two-star.
  • No Bib Gourmand and no Green Star in Ibiza in this edition.
  • Eight recommended without distinction, spread between the town, Santa Eulària, Sant Antoni and the coves of Sant Josep.
  • Two departures: Es Tragón, which relocated and does not currently appear in the guide, and Etxeko Ibiza, closed.
  • The Balearics have thirteen stars in 2026: Voro, in Mallorca, with two; nine Mallorcan and three Ibizan restaurants with one. Menorca and Formentera, none.

The three stars

La Gaia is the house of chef Óscar Molina inside the Ibiza Gran Hotel, on the town’s harbour promenade. Haute cuisine of Mediterranean spirit with two named tasting menus, Illa, a tour of the dishes that made it known, and Horitzó, the creative one, and, since 2026, an à la carte too. It opens for dinner from Tuesday to Saturday and in summer hosts four-hand dinners with guest chefs. It is the table for those who want haute cuisine with a hotel, a terrace and valet parking. Bookings at lagaiaibiza.com.

Omakase by Walt is the opposite: a ten-seat wooden counter behind an unmarked façade on Calle Canonge Joan Planells, in the town, which from outside promises nothing. Inside, Walter Sidoravicius, trained in Tokyo, serves a single Edomae-style omakase menu lasting about two and a half hours, dinners only, Tuesday to Saturday. It admits no children under twelve and no vegetarian menus, and the booking is secured with a card. It has held a star since the 2024 edition and keeps it for a third year. Bookings at sushibywalt.com.

Unic occupies two glass cubes inside the Migjorn Ibiza Suites & Spa hotel, in Platja d’en Bossa. It is run by David Grussaute, a Bordeaux native settled on the island, with a creative cuisine the guide calls innovative and which he defines as zero-mileage by conviction. It opens for dinner from Wednesday to Sunday, with two tasting menus, Unic and La Xanga, and a vegetarian one, La Huerta Ibicenca. Also a star since the 2024 edition. Bookings at unicrestaurantibiza.com.

These are the tables the inspectors select without a distinction, and in Ibiza they draw the island better than the stars do.

  • In the town: Can Font, on the Plaça d’Espanya in Dalt Vila, with the regional cooking of Andoni San Martín and island produce; and Ciento80, new to the selection, facing the Figueretes promenade, with rice dishes, grill and views of Formentera.
  • In Santa Eulària: Sa Talassa, new, beside the pool of the Insotel Fenicia, with a concept by Álvaro Sanz that works only with island produce; and Es Terral, the French country house of Matthieu Savariaud on a pedestrian street in the village, à la carte only.
  • In Sant Antoni: Es Ventall, family-run, with the contemporary cooking of José Miguel Bonet and a courtyard under a fig tree.
  • In the coves of Sant Josep: Jondal, at Cala Jondal, the fish and shellfish of Rafa Zafra right on the beach and by day; Ca’s Milà, at Cala Tarida, Ibizan fish cooked on the plancha and over the embers; and Es Boldado, at the end of the dirt track at Cala d’Hort, with Es Vedrà in front and the bullit de peix with arròs a banda on the table.

What changed

Es Tragón was Ibiza’s first starred restaurant and, according to its own website, the island’s first Green Star. It closed its Sant Antoni house to relocate and reopened in 2026 as Estragón, inside the Insotel Fenicia in Santa Eulària. In the 2026 edition it does not appear in the guide’s selection, so today it is not a starred restaurant, however much the island still calls it one.

Etxeko Ibiza, Martín Berasategui’s table at the Bless Hotel in Es Canar, has closed and is not in the guide either. With the two departures, Ibiza goes from the five stars the local press counted in the previous edition to the current three.

How to plan it

  • Book well in advance, and at Omakase by Walt bear in mind that the table is the counter: ten seats and a single sitting.
  • Confirm the season. La Gaia follows the calendar of the Ibiza Gran Hotel, which closes in winter; the other two do not publish their dates. None publishes prices with a year: check the current menu when you book.
  • Count the journey. The stars are in the town and in Platja d’en Bossa; the recommended tables are spread across half the island. If dinner is at Cala d’Hort or in Santa Eulària and you are sleeping in the north, there is road to cover.
  • If you will be drinking with dinner, sort out the way back before sitting down: it is the moment when a chauffeured transfer stops being a luxury and becomes the sensible choice.
  • And if your plan is to sleep near one of these tables, see where quiet luxury sleeps in Ibiza and our guide to eating in Ibiza away from the noise, which covers the long-standing houses the guide overlooks.

Our view

What is interesting about Ibiza’s 2026 map is not that it has lost two stars: it is where the three have ended up. A ten-seat Japanese counter behind an unmarked façade, two glass cubes in a beach hotel and the table of a grand hotel on the harbour. Three ways of being in Ibiza without making a noise, which is exactly what this magazine stands for.

If we had to choose a single booking, we would make it at the counter. Ten seats and two and a half hours without a phone are, in August and on this island, the rarest luxury there is.

Distinctions from the MICHELIN Guide Spain & Andorra 2026, checked entry by entry at guide.michelin.com on 30 September 2026. The online selection is updated monthly and the stars once a year: confirm the current distinction, the season and availability in the official guide and on each restaurant’s website before booking. Calma Society has no relationship with Michelin and does not charge for appearing, nor for the order.