Dream MenuFrom a question to a map
Every pin starts as an answer in an interview. This page explains how answers become venues, how much weight a market can carry, and where the awards come from.
The interviews
Guests answer the same set of questions about their dream menu: a dish for each course, drinks, and the venue where each is best. 1,221 interviews are included, up to 19 October 2026. Venues on the map come from the 1,218 interviews up to 18 October 2026; newer answers join the map at the next update. The dish figures on the Insights page use the 1,215 interviews that answered the dish questions. Each answer is coded into a dish category and a course, and the venues named are matched to real places.
Placing venues
- Address confirmed: placed from a verified address or postcode.
- Approximate: placed on the right street, neighbourhood or town from the guest's own words. Shown with a dashed pin.
- Not yet pinned: counted in its city or country until an address is confirmed. Shown as a count ring.
Of 1,824 venues named, 731 have a confirmed address and 187 an approximate one.
How much a market can say
A market becomes a deep market once at least 30 guests have named venues there. Below that it is marked as an early signal, and shares are shown as counts. Quarter-by-quarter lines need at least 60 mentions.
Awards and guides
21,008 recognised venues and 23,019 awards. Each award record on the map shows the guide, the edition year and, for ranked lists, the position.
| Guide | What is included |
|---|---|
| MICHELIN Guide | Current distinctions as listed on guide.michelin.com, extract refreshed 2026-10-11 (2026 guide editions). Via the open michelin-my-maps dataset. |
| The World's 50 Best | Ranked lists transcribed from the50.com: World Restaurants 2024 and 2025 (2026 list due November 2026), World Bars 2025 and 2026, Asia Restaurants 2025 and 2026, Latin America Restaurants 2024 and 2025, MENA Restaurants 2025 and 2026, Asia Bars 2024 and 2026, North America Bars 2025 and 2026. |
| AA Rosettes | Five, four and three AA Rosettes 2026 (UK), from the 2026 lists published on joinpearl.co. |
| The Good Food Guide | Britain's 100 Best Local Restaurants 2026, from the guide's regional winner pages. |
| Opinionated About Dining | OAD Top Restaurants in Europe 2026 (top 150), Japan 2025 (top 200), South America 2025, via joinpearl.co. |
| La Liste | La Liste 2026 Top Restaurants, 250 entries as published on enprimeurclub.com (the full ranking has 1,000). |
| Tabelog Award | Tabelog Award 2026 Chef's Gold, Gold, Silver and Bronze (Japan), via joinpearl.co. |
| Gault&Millau | Gault&Millau Türkiye 2026 (four and three toques) and UAE 2026 (selected, first 99), via joinpearl.co. |
Some lists were collected from aggregator sites rather than the guide itself. Entries outside a guide's own country are left out, and names that match a different venue were removed by hand.
Trends
Each answer is coded to a dish category. A category's share is its part of all coded answers for that course in a quarter. A rise or fall is only called out when the latest three quarters differ from the first two under a two-proportion z-test at p < 0.05. Small moves that fail the test are shown but not called.
Specials and venue interviews
Dream Fringe, Dream Cocktail and Dream Sandwich are short themed surveys, and the venue edition interviews owners and chefs about their own menus. They are reported separately and are not counted in the main interview total.