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Tokyo ‘world’s best place to eat’

Tokyo has leaped ahead of Paris as the city with the most Michelin three-star restaurants, confirming its status 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 to Tokyo.

The Japanese capital also has more of the coveted stars in total than Paris - 261 shared by 197 restaurants.

New York, by comparison, has four three-star restaurants.

After controversy over earlier Tokyo guides that used non-Japanese inspectors, Michelin said it used only Japanese inspectors for the latest edition.

Japanese restaurateurs and food critics had been sceptical that non-Japanese could adequately judge the country’s cuisine.

But the French need not feel their cuisine has plunged completely into disrepute. France still has more three-star restaurants than anywhere else, with 25 compared with Japan’s 18.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .