GOSSIP: Michelin Tokyo shock!

Robuchon's crazy chateau plonked in the middle of Tokyo is one of the city's eight 3-star Michelin restaurants

A major job action sends new shudders through the local economy, but that's the least of Paris' worries today. The big deal: Tokyo wins 191 Michelin stars, nearly twice as many as Paris. It's the first guide to Tokyo. Also, this is more than three times the number of stars you'll find in New York.

This is a good thing. After all, Tokyo's enormouser than both cities, and its restaurants are incredible. (Shame that so few Americans will ever go.) According to Michelin, Tokyo was such good eatin', every restaurant included received at least one star.

One wonders if the French are annoyed, though. After all, some of the Tokyo 3-stars (there are eight in total, just a couple less than in Paris) are French.

Apparently not. Francois Simon, dining critic for Le Figaro had nothing but praise for the results.

"I have always thought that Tokyo was the world's gastronomic capital," he told the London Telegraph.

The man is right. And we're hungry just now, suddenly. Later.

Posted by David Landsel on November 20, 2007 09:34 AM