The 2026 MICHELIN selection for Croatia records 1 entry in Split, a one-star, against 18 in Zagreb and 5 in Rovinj. That is a secondary source, and 46 of its 85 Selected entries record no city at all, so read the count as a floor rather than a total.
What is actually recorded, and by whom
This page carries no opening hours, no prices, no dish descriptions and no personal recommendations, because not one of those comes from a source that can be named and dated. What can be named is the 2026 Croatian selection, and the honest first thing to say about it is that it was not retrieved from the guide’s own site. The restaurant figures on this page come from a secondary source. guide.michelin.com could not be retrieved; the 2026 Croatian selection is taken from the Croatian National Tourist Board and Croatian trade press reporting it.
With that stated, the list is worth having, because its geography is not what people expect. There are 113 Croatian entries in the 2026 selection: one two-star, 13 one-star, 14 Bib Gourmand and 85 Selected. Split, the largest city on the Dalmatian coast and the busiest ferry port in the country, accounts for 1 of them.
| Restaurant | City | Distinction |
|---|---|---|
| Agli Amici Rovinj | Rovinj | 2 stars |
| Alfred Keller | Mali Lošinj | 1 star |
| Boškinac | Novalja | 1 star |
| Cap Aureo | Rovinj | 1 star |
| Dubravkin Put | Zagreb | 1 star |
| Harry’s Piccolo | Poreč | 1 star |
| Korak | Jastrebarsko | 1 star |
| Krug | Split | 1 star |
| LD Restaurant | Korčula | 1 star |
| Monte | Rovinj | 1 star |
| Nebo Restaurant & Lounge | Rijeka | 1 star |
| Noel | Zagreb | 1 star |
| Pelegrini | Šibenik | 1 star |
| Restaurant 360 | Dubrovnik | 1 star |
Four of the 14 are in Istria, three of those in Rovinj. Two are in Zagreb. One is in Split and one in Dubrovnik. If a starred meal is a fixed point of the trip, that table is the routing constraint, and it points north-west rather than down the Dalmatian coast.
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entries in the 2026 Croatian selection are recorded in Split — against 18 in Zagreb
The county-level picture is barely better and it is worth stating carefully, because the county field in this dataset was derived from the city rather than quoted: on that derivation Splitsko-dalmatinska županija holds 2 entries in total against Istarska županija’s 20.
Reading any “Michelin restaurants in Split” list as complete
The dataset behind this page has two holes and both matter. The cuisine field is empty for all 113 entries, so nobody working from it can tell you what kind of place any of them is. And 46 of the 85 Selected entries carry no city at all — more than half of that tier.
So the correct reading of “one entry in Split” is *one entry whose city is recorded as Split*. There may be Selected entries in the city sitting in the block with no city recorded. A page that presents the count as a complete municipal list is presenting a gap as a finding, and this one will not. Use it as a floor, never as a total.
What Split does have a primary source for
The protected-designation register is a different matter: it is published by the agriculture ministry, it is primary, and it has something specific to say about this stretch of coast. Two of the five protected olive oils are registered on the islands directly across the channel from the city.
Šolta holds Šoltansko maslinovo ulje, registered in 2016, and is one car ferry from the Split terminal on line 636. Brač holds Bračko maslinovo ulje, registered in 2022, reached by car ferry 631 to Supetar. Beyond the oils, five further names in the register carry the Dalmatian designation rather than a local one, which is the register’s way of saying that much of what is sold as local here is defined at the scale of the whole coast.
That is the genuinely useful split for anyone planning meals around Split: the guide points somewhere else, and the register points at the two islands you can see from the Riva. The day trips that use the ferry network reach both.
Common questions
How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Split?
One is recorded in the 2026 Croatian selection used here, a one-star. The whole country has 14 starred entries: one two-star and 13 one-star. This is a secondary source, compiled from Croatian National Tourist Board and trade press reporting.
Why does this page not recommend restaurants?
Because a recommendation needs something behind it, and the only restaurant dataset this site holds has an empty cuisine field for all 113 entries and no city for 46 of the Selected. Reporting what it records is honest; extrapolating from it is not.
Where is the 2026 selection concentrated?
Zagreb, with 18 entries, and Istria, with 20 on the derived county field, including all 5 of Rovinj’s. Split is not a centre of it.
Is there a primary source for food around Split?
The protected-designation register. Šolta and Brač both hold a protected olive oil, and both are a single ferry from the city.
What do you need to work out next?
The guide is one input. These are the others.
Where to stay
Which part of Split suits an evening plan?
Twenty-three registered ferry services touch the port, ten of them state lines.
Getting around
Which island holds the protected oil?
Brač, registered 2022, and Šolta, registered 2016.
When to go
Does September change the island half of this?
Six of Brač’s eleven services are commercial lines with no obligation to sail.
Planning
What does the national register hold?
Seventy-five protected names, and all five olive oils are island entries.
Restaurant distinctions: MICHELIN Guide Croatia 2026 selection, as reported by the Croatian National Tourist Board and Croatian trade press. Secondary source — guide.michelin.com could not be retrieved directly. Protected designations: Ministarstvo poljoprivrede, Republic of Croatia — registers of ZOI / ZOZP / ZTS, wine designations of origin and spirit geographical indications. Ferry data: Agencija za obalni linijski pomorski promet (ZOLPP), 2026 state coastal line register and per-line timetables.