Something has shifted in the global restaurant market and the evidence is visible in the opening announcements. The world’s most ambitious restaurant groups are not spreading out across an increasingly global map. They are converging on the same four cities simultaneously. If you track where the serious openings are happening in 2026, the pattern is impossible to ignore: Miami, Dubai, London, and New York are absorbing nearly all of it.
This is not a function of where the talent is. The…

