You know the routine. You find the restaurant, screenshot the menu, then open the booking page the minute seats drop and watch them vanish while you’re still typing your name. That’s the fine dining access problem, and money is the smaller half of it.
Plenty of people can save up for one blowout dinner in Tokyo or Paris. Conjuring the table out of thin air is the part nobody has solved.
Trip.Gourmet, Trip.com Group‘s food and dining brand, spent its 10th birthday going after exactly that. On 8 September 2026 it launched the 2027 Fine Dining List at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) in Singapore, alongside two features built for the gap between wanting a table and getting one.
744 Restaurants, 105 Cities
The list covers 744 restaurants across 105 cities in 40 countries and regions, sorted into three tiers: Black Diamond (60), Diamond (160) and Platinum (524). Thirty-five destinations joined this year, spread across Europe, North America, Oceania, Asia, South America and Africa. Ten years ago this was a single-market ranking. It now reaches 66 countries and regions and 462 destinations.
Asia-Pacific carries the volume with 478 restaurants, close to two-thirds of the global total, across 51 cities and 32 Black Diamond honours, led by Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing. Europe wins on spread, with entries in 20 countries and regions and 35 cities, and 23 Black Diamond honours. The Americas take 63 restaurants across 14 cities with New York out front, while the newest frontier through South Asia, the Middle East and Africa adds 17 restaurants across five cities, Dubai and Cape Town included.
Read the full appendix and one city runs away with it. Paris holds 10 of the 60 Black Diamond honours on its own, from Arpège and L’Ambroisie to Plénitude and Restaurant Kei. That’s one in six of the highest awards on the planet inside a single Métro map, and 10 of Europe’s 23. The list travels the world; the ceiling is still French.
Singapore’s 27, Tier by Tier
As host city, Singapore landed 27 restaurants: three Black Diamond, eight Diamond and 16 Platinum. Odette, Les Amis and Restaurant Labyrinth hold the top band, three of only 60 anywhere.
Diamond goes to Zén, JAAN by Kirk Westaway, Summer Pavilion, Seroja, Restaurant Born, Meta Restaurant, Thevar and Peach Blossoms. Platinum is the crowded one: Burnt Ends, Waku Ghin by Tetsuya Wakuda, Saint Pierre, Cloudstreet, Ocean Restaurant, Nae:um, Shoukouwa, Whitegrass, 1887 by André, Yì by Jereme Leung, Summer Palace, Cut by Wolfgang Puck, Spago Dining Room, Bistecca Tuscan Steakhouse, Ginza Sushi Ichi and Lavo.
Sixteen names is the band most readers scroll straight past, and that’s the mistake. Platinum is the only tier here that puts a Michelin-starred kitchen, a rooftop Italian and a Sentosa sushi counter in the same paragraph, which makes it the tier you actually eat from on a normal month.
4 We’d Book First
Three rankings now rate this city, and they do not agree. Michelin sends anonymous inspectors who judge what’s on the plate and nothing else. Asia’s 50 Best runs on roughly 350 regional voters nominating 10 restaurants each, confidential and audited by Deloitte. Trip.Gourmet’s version lands in the same app you book flights on, which is the practical difference. Where the three disagree is where the good seats hide.
Odette is the once-a-year splurge. Three Michelin stars in the 2026 Michelin Guide Singapore, No. 19 on Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026, Best Restaurant in Singapore at that same ceremony, and Black Diamond here. Three methods, three panels, one answer. Consensus is boring right up until you are sitting in it.
Restaurant Labyrinth is the boldest call on the Singapore list. It holds one Michelin star and sits at No. 40 on Asia’s 50 Best, yet Trip.Gourmet bands it with two three-star houses. Two rankings call it very good; this one calls it the best in the country. That gap is the reason it’s the table to chase.
Seroja is the value play. Michelin-starred, No. 20 on Asia’s 50 Best 2026, one place behind Odette and eighteen clear of Les Amis, and still parked in Diamond rather than the top rung. A kitchen that good sitting one band below the names everyone screenshots is the mismatch to move on before the rest of the city notices.
Burnt Ends takes the fourth slot, straight out of Platinum. It carries a Michelin star in the 2026 guide and a place on Asia’s 50 Best extended 51 to 100 list. If the bottom tier of a 744-restaurant ranking still holds starred kitchens, the top 60 was never the whole story.
From Bookmark to Booking
Rankings are the easy bit. Getting a reader through the door is the work, and Trip.Gourmet pointed two things at it.
Global Table Booking pulls over 43,600 restaurants into the booking network, nearly 40,000 of them overseas, with many directly bookable. It sits inside the Trip.com app and site rather than a separate download, the same move WanderJoy made with telco travel rewards last year.
WOW Privileges is the part with teeth. It’s a benefits programme for Trip.com Group’s Black Diamond members, releasing next-month seats at hard-to-book restaurants on the 1st of every month, with more than 320 seats across the year and extras like priority seating, chef’s greetings and limited-edition menus.
One thing to keep straight before you get excited. The membership tier and the restaurant tier share a name, and they are not the same thing. The Black Diamond in WOW Privileges is a Trip.com Group membership status, not the 60 Black Diamond restaurants on the list.
Three hundred and twenty seats a year is not a flood, and that is precisely the point: the scarcity is the product.
Trip.Gourmet flagged Culinary Custom Tours at the launch too, plus a new China Travel Culinary List built for international travellers handling menus, dietary needs and ordering in China. That one runs across 30 cities, with 100 planned.
Everyone Is Searching for Dinner
The timing is no accident. Trip.com Group data puts food-related searches up 45% over the first eight months of 2026, with the number of distinct food-related search terms up 46%.
The engagement gap is the louder number. About 41% of food-related search interactions led users to keep exploring, against 28% across all search categories. Food doesn’t get a click, it gets a rabbit hole.
Restaurant searches grew 68%, buffets 66%, and café, coffee and tea 67%. Seafood interest jumped 218%. Searches for local specialities climbed by over 700%, which reads like people hunting the one dish they cannot get at home.
Queries are fusing destination and dinner outright, with “Macau buffet”, “Shanghai restaurant” and “Hanoi food” among the fastest-growing patterns. Japan rose 130%, Indonesia 347% and Hong Kong 71%. Since Trip.Gourmet expanded into Europe in May 2026, Italy and Spain have led growth there, with Germany and France posting triple-digit jumps.
What It Means for You
Sunny Sun, Vice President of Trip.com Group and CEO of Trip.Gourmet, put the shift in a single line. “Today’s travellers are no longer just enjoying food at their destination,” Sun said. “Increasingly, a single meal is shaping where they choose to go, and when.”
Sun set the brand’s next stretch against that. “As cross-border travel becomes more frequent, our goal for the next chapter of Trip.Gourmet is simple: to help every traveller discover restaurants worth the trip, understand why they matter, and book with confidence.” Strip the corporate phrasing and it describes something plenty of people have already done, which is picking a city because of a restaurant. What changed is that the ranking and the reservation now live in the same app, shrinking the distance between “I’d love to eat there someday” and a confirmed booking.
RWS had its own reason to host. Chen Si, its Chief Operating Officer, said Singapore “has always been a city where different cultures and flavours meet”, and that the resort was proud to reflect that through its own dining. RWS runs more than 60 restaurants on Sentosa and has brought in names including Peking Chamber and Chagee in recent years.
A practical note before anyone starts booking. Trip.com’s terms leave fees, changes and cancellation rights to the individual supplier and surface them during the booking process, so read what’s on the screen in front of you rather than assuming one house rule covers the lot.
If a top-band bill isn’t happening this month, our guide to premium casual restaurants in Singapore covers the rung below fine dining, less atas (Singlish for high-end) without giving up the kitchen.
🗓️ Date: Tuesday, 8 September 2026
📍 Location: Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore
🍽️ The List: 744 restaurants, 105 cities, 40 countries and regions
💎 Tiers: Black Diamond (60), Diamond (160), Platinum (524)
🇸🇬 Singapore: 27 restaurants, with Odette, Les Amis and Restaurant Labyrinth at Black Diamond
📱 Booking: Over 43,600 restaurants in the Global Table Booking network
⏳ WOW Privileges: Next-month seats released on the 1st of every month for Black Diamond members
Set a phone reminder for the 1st if a WOW Privileges seat is the goal, and decide what you’re chasing before the clock starts: Odette for the splurge, Labyrinth for the call nobody else made, Seroja before the rest of the world catches on, Burnt Ends to prove Platinum is not the consolation bracket. All 744 names, Singapore’s 27 among them, sit on the 2027 global restaurant rankings on Trip.com.
Visuals courtesy of Trip.com Group.
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