WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS...
YEAH, SURE.
Paris: 64 Guide Michelin stars
New York City: 42 Guide Michelin stars
Tokyo: 191 Guide Michelin stars!!
New York City: 42 Guide Michelin stars
Tokyo: 191 Guide Michelin stars!!
Has Le Guide lost its mind? Sacre bleu! Traitre! Doesn't being French mean what it used to? Not to put down Tokyo's food quality in the slightest; shojin ryori, for example, can hold its own with any cuisine in the world, to say nothing of my personally select ramen restaurants, but Japanese food just doesn't have any of that je ne sais quoi you get in Paris from arguing with the waiter. And three times as many stars as Paris! Scandale!
4 comments:
Tokyo has roughly eight times as many restaurants as either New York or Paris, yet only three times as many stars. The ratio of stars to restaurants is still safely a Parisian coup.
It's simply hard to believe that any true French institution would ever do this!
Well, there were 3 Japanese on the selection panel, and only two French. I'm not sure if it had to be a unanimous decision, or a majority vote.
Viva la France!
Correction: 3 European & 2 Japanese inspectors rated the restaurants.
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