Mutyala Culinary: List of Michelin Restaurants

Every Michelin-starred restaurant on Earth

There are now 163 restaurants with at least one Michelin star in the UK, plus 14 in Ireland. They include four with three stars (The Waterside Inn, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester join Heston's HQ) and 21 with two.

France - quelle surprise - tops the charts, with a whopping 600 starred restaurants, followed by Japan with 419, Italy with 333, Germany with 290. But the UK comes next, pipping the US (148), Belgium (129), Switzerland (116) and Netherlands (107). Hong Kong and Macao, which feature in the same guide, punch well above their weight with a combined 77. A further 13 countries are rated by Michelin's inspectors.

The term "Michelin Star" is a hallmark of fine dining quality and restaurants around the world proudly promote their Michelin Star status.

Michelin has a long history of reviewing restaurants. In 1900, the Michelin tire company launched its first guidebook to encourage road tripping in France. In 1926, it started sending out anonymous restaurant reviewers to try restaurants.

To this day, Michelin relies entirely on its full-time staff of anonymous restaurant reviewers. The anonymous reviewers generally are very passionate about food, have a good eye for detail, and have a great taste memory to recall and compare types of foods. A reviewer has said that they must be a "chameleon" who can blend in with all of their surroundings, to appear as if they are an ordinary consumer.

Each time a reviewer goes to a restaurant, they write a thorough memorandum about their experience and then all of the reviewers come together to discuss and decide on which restaurants will be awarded the stars.

Michelin does not use any consumer reviews in making its restaurant determinations.

Michelin awards 0 to 3 stars on the basis of the anonymous reviews. The reviewers concentrate on the quality, mastery of technique, personality and consistency of the food, in making the reviews. They do not look at interior decor, table setting, or service quality in awarding stars, though the guide shows forks and spoons which describes how fancy or casual a restaurant may be. (If you're interested in looking at a reviewing company that looks at ambiance and decor, try the Forbes reviews which look at over 800 criteria, such as whether the restaurant offers solid or hollow ice cubes, freshly squeezed or canned orange juice, and valet parking or self-parking.)

Michelin, on the other hand, focuses entirely on the food. The reviewers award the stars as follows:

One star: A good place to stop on your journey, indicating a very good restaurant in its category, offering cuisine prepared to a consistently high standard.
Two stars: A restaurant worth a detour, indicating excellent cuisine and skillfully and carefully crafted dishes of outstanding quality

Three stars: A restaurant worth a special journey, indicating exceptional cuisine where diners eat extremely well, often superbly. Distinctive dishes are precisely executed, using superlative ingredients.

Michelin also awards a "bib gourmand" for quality food at a value price. In New York, that would be two courses plus wine or dessert for $40 or less, excluding tax and tip.

Restaurants covet these stars because the vast majority of restaurants receive no stars at all. For example, the Michelin Guide to Chicago 2014 includes almost 500 restaurants. Only one restaurant received three stars, four restaurants received two stars, and 20 restaurants received one star.

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay cried when the Michelin Guide stripped the stars from his New York restaurant, calling the food "erratic." Ramsay explained that losing the stars was like "losing a girlfriend."

Of course, the hilarious part of all this is that this prestigious restaurant rating is from a tire company.

Yes, the same Michelin that sells tires also hands out restaurant ratings.

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Michelin Guide Criticisms
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Many have criticized the guides as being biased towards French cuisine, style, and technique, or towards a snobby, formal dining style, rather than a casual atmosphere. That being said, in 2016, the Michelin guide awarded a one-star rating to two Singaporean hawker food stalls where visitors can stand in line to get a cheap and delicious meal for around $2.00 USD. Ellis explained that these hawker stalls receiving the star, "signifies that these hawkers have managed to hit the ball out of the park....In terms of the quality of the ingredients, in terms of the flavors, in terms of the cooking techniques, in terms of just the general emotions, that they are able to put in their dishes. And that is something that I think is really unique to Singapore.”

A tell-all book from a Michelin inspector in 2004 complained that the guides are understaffed, out of date, and pander to big name chefs.

Map of every restaurant in the world with three Michelin stars

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compare with other culinary powerhouses when it comes to Michelin stars? As the map below shows, it stands up pretty well. Tap on different countries for more information.

Michelin stars are a rating system used by the red Michelin Guide to grade restaurants on their quality. The guide was originally developed in 1900 to show French drivers where local amenities such as restaurants and mechanics were, the rating system was first introduced in 1926 as a single star, with the second and third stars introduced in 1933. According to the Guide, one star signifies "a very good restaurant", two stars are "excellent cooking that is worth a detour", and three stars mean "exceptional cuisine that is worth a special journey". The listing of starred restaurants is updated once a year.