It’s pretty global, anywhere with a good restaurant culture will probably have at least one or two. I believe Tokyo is the city with the most stars for example, I would have assumed it was Paris or somewhere else french before I found that out
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notsosure@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Are there actually Michelin stars given to us restaurants (except for Burger King)?
9point6@lemmy.world 1 week ago
MCHEVA4EVA@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s not global, Michelin stars aren’t a thing in Australia atleast. I imagine there’s a lot of places where people don’t get food recs from a tyre company.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh that’s interesting, you’ve got me curious. I looked into it and some other company has already established a similar system involving “chef hat” ratings apparently. I guess maybe they didn’t want to bother competing with it.
Apparently Michelin seems to focus on Europe, the Americas and South East Asia. Africa and the rest of Asia seem to be left out, though they seem to be expanding every year (the Philippines got their own guide this year for the first time apparently), so I guess it’s probably just a matter of time before other places are covered.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week ago
I’ve eaten in US restaurants that rival restaurants in Paris I’d say the average restaurant in France is definitely better than the average in the US - but this is comparing apples and oranges.
New Yorkers would actually take offense at this question: they believe they have the best restaurants in the world (I don’t agree, but they have an argument given the great variety of immigrants that settled there since before the US existed).
kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’d agree that NYC has probably the most diverse food scene in the world.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 1 week ago
About 1500 of them apparently.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I stand accused.