What You Should Know About Michelin Restaurant Guide Tokyo

Find out which Tokyo Restaurant is gets the Top restaurant Ratings in the Japanese capital.

The Michelin restaurant guide for Tokyo restaurants 2011 was first released in Nov 2007.

Michelin guide publishes an yearly updated edition.

Not many people don't know this, but Tokyo is one of the most amazing cities in the world in terms of restaurants.
The city is building a reputation as the ‘dining capital of the world'.

Michelin's secret criteria are traditionally unpublished.
One star indicates a very good restaurant, two stars mean excellent cuisine worthy of a detour, while three denotes exceptional cuisine deserving of a “special journey”, Michelin says.

"Tokyo remains by far the world capital of Gastronomy and also has the most three-star restaurants," said Michelin guide director Jean-Luc Naret.

Tokyo has succeeded Paris as the city with the most Michelin three-star restaurants, and confirmed its position as the 'world capital of gastronomy'.

Tokyo now has 11 three-star restaurants compared with 10 for Paris according to the latest edition of the Michelin guide Tokyo. New York by comparison has four three-star restaurants.

Tokyo also has more stars in total than Paris - 261 shared by 197 restaurants.

Tokyo's sheer size helps explain why it has so many Michelin stars. Tokyo is much bigger than Paris and has 160,000 restaurants compared with about 40,000 in Paris.

Of the 197 restaurants selected in this Michelin Guide Tokyo, two-thirds serve Japanese food while the other Tokyo Restaurants prepare French, Spanish, Chinese and Italian.

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