In its first Asian guide, announced on Monday, Michelin has awarded
more of its famed stars to Tokyo restaurants than any other city, with
a total of 191 stars compared with 64 for Paris and 42 in New York.
This is not seigniorage, we are told:
Anyone who complains about this has never travelled to Tokyo, because
if they do, they can see for themselves the fantastic quality of
restaurants here,” added Mr Naret.
There are some fantastic cheap restaurants in Tokyo too, if you can believe it. (And I’m sure that you can.) Certain yakitori places, for example.
While I am not too fond of Tokyo as a city, the food there is amazing. It’s probably reason #1 that I look forward to my annual Tokyo visits.
And the fact that Japanese people are crazy perfectionists (watch them buy fruits – they’ll only choose the most perfectly flawless fruit they can buy) has nothing to do with it?
Even the McDonalds are better in Toyko (Teryaki McBurger needs to be sold in the USA!)
Also I wish we had fried squid croquette places.
“Asian” is a ridiculous adjective when used to describe food, people, or anything other than a continental land mass.
Umm, let us not forget that Tokyo is by far the world’s largest conurbation. I was privately
told in person by Tokyo’s housing minister that the actual population of the total metro area
is about 40 million people, although I have not seen that in any official figures. But it is
not an unreasonable estimate. Tokyo is simply way huger than any other metro area, certainly
including Paris. Indeed, on a per capita basis the population number I just gave would put
Tokyo and Paris about on the same level in terms of stars per capita.
That said, it is still a pretty impressive performance for Tokyo. My own view is that Japan
and France have the world’s two best cuisines, period, although Tyler kind of shies away from
them because they are so expensive, and he likes those hole-in-the-wall obscure ethnic joints
in shopping malls in Fairfax, which may indeed be better values in terms of quality per dollar.
Finally, I would bet that on a stars per capita basis Kyoto beats Tokyo, although I have not
seen the Guide. It is generally recognized within Japan, if not by the Guide, that Kyoto has
the absolutely best restaurants in Japan. And, for what it is worth, Kyoto also has the
absolutely most expensive restaurants in the world, although I have not had the kaiseki at
those really top of the line in terms of cost joints (I have had kaiseki in Kyoto, and it does
beat what I have had in Tokyo for about the same very high price), so cannot comment on them
personally.
> there is no down-to-earth Mexican
Good Mexican food in Tokyo is hard to find but Junkadelic in Naka-meguro is pretty good.
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