Margo Reuten loses Michelin star after 27 years
Restaurant Da Vinci in Maasbracht is no longer included in the Michelin Guide 2026’s one-star selection.
Restaurant Da Vinci, run by chef Margo Reuten and maître d’hôtel Petro Kools, has lost its Michelin star. According to the restaurant’s own history, the Maasbracht restaurant received the star in 1999 and was informed on Monday that the distinction would lapse with the new guide.
Da Vinci is absent from Michelin’s new Dutch selection for 2026. Michelin announced the new guide in Maastricht on Monday, featuring a total of 119 restaurants with one, two or three stars.
Reuten and Kools say the decision came unexpectedly. In statements about the matter, they say the restaurant intends to continue in the same way and that the team wants to keep offering guests the same cuisine and hospitality.
Da Vinci received its first Michelin star in 1999. A second star followed in 2009. That second star was lost in 2018; the remaining star stayed for another eight years.
A Michelin star is not a legal recognition, but an assessment by a commercial restaurant guide. For restaurants, inclusion can have implications for reputation, bookings and international visibility, although the precise financial consequences of losing one vary from case to case.
Michelin does not publish detailed reasons for every change to its selection. As a result, the public sources do not show which individual criteria proved decisive in Da Vinci’s case.
The restaurant remains open and the owners have said they will continue. The establishment therefore retains its history, staff and operations, but from now on must present itself without the Michelin star.
The decision comes in a sector in which staff costs, ingredients and customer expectations carry considerable weight. At the same time, the new guide shows that Michelin is maintaining the number of distinguished restaurants in the Netherlands at a high level; the loss of one star therefore does not automatically say anything about the quality of every aspect of a restaurant.
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The new Michelin selection and independent hospitality media confirm that Da Vinci is losing the star. The text gives no unsubstantiated reason for the decision and distinguishes between reputation and demonstrable financial consequences.
- confirmed Da Vinci is losing its Michelin star in the 2026 guide. — Confirmed by the new Michelin selection and De RestaurantKrant. source
- confirmed Da Vinci received its first star in 1999. — Reported by the restaurant and De RestaurantKrant. source
- confirmed The second star was lost in 2018. — Reported by De RestaurantKrant. source
- confirmed Michelin published no substantive reason for the loss. — The public selection records the change but gives no separate explanation for Da Vinci. source
- confirmed The restaurant remains open. — The owners say they will continue; the restaurant website shows its business information and opening hours. source
Editor's note
The loss of the star has been confirmed by the new Michelin selection and by two independent trade media outlets. Michelin published no substantive reason for the decision; no speculation is made about it.Sources
- De volledige lijst van de Sterren in de MICHELIN Gids Nederland 2026 — MICHELIN Guide
- Restaurant Da Vinci van Margo Reuten en Petro Kools verliest Michelinster — De RestaurantKrant
- Margo Reuten totaal verrast door verlies Michelinster — Chapeau Magazine
- Over Da Vinci — Restaurant Da Vinci
More on this in Dutch media
- De Telegraaf — „margo reuten”
- AD — „margo reuten”
- de Volkskrant — „margo reuten”