Cities with the greatest helping of Michelin-starred restaurants
Graph showing the number of Michelin-starred restaurants in world cities
If it’s a food-filled city break you’re after, you may be best heading east. The above table shows the relative number of 1, 2 and 3-starred Michelin restaurants in different cities. (The red plate at the centre of Paris’s setting, for instance, shows that it has a greater number of 3-star restaurants than London, even though the number of 2-star establishments in both cities is comparable.) It’s Tokyo that comes out top, though. The Japanese capital has, by some margin, the highest number of restaurants of any major city - some 160,000 - helped in part, no doubt, by its 35-million strong population. Of those, 173 are worthy of at least one Michelin star. According to the guide’s director Jean-Luc Naret, there’s even a good chance it will overtake Paris as the city with the greatest number of places boasting 3-stars. (The best sign of a city clawing its way into elite ‘3-stars-ville’ is how many 2-starred restaurants it has, and Tokyo, which is still pipped by Paris in the 3-star stakes, has 36 as against Paris’s 14.) Not that there’s any shortage of contenders wanting to nip at the incumbents’ heels. Says Naret: “We do get quite a lot of governments ringing us up saying: ‘When are you coming to visit?’”
(Source: Michelin)
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