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The latest edition of the Michelin Guide has not left anyone indifferent. The prestigious French guide, the one responsible for assessing the quality of wine and gourmet restaurants around the world, has given Tokyo 191 stars in its first Asian edition.
Thus, the Japanese capital becomes the main gourmet city placing it even over the delicious Paris, which barely achieved half the stars than Tokyo, or the cosmopolitan New York, which managed only 24 stars.
The sophisticated and distinguished culinary offer in Tokyo led the critics of Michelin acknowledge 150 restaurants. In eight of them gave the coveted three stars, the highest rating of the guide, which means "exceptional cuisine, which justifies a special trip." 25 restaurants have been awarded two stars and 117 with one star.
Of all the restaurants winners two of them are based on Spanish gastronomy: The Sant Pau owned by the awarded Carme Ruscalleda, which managed two awards and Ogasawara owned by Chef Junichi Nishimura. However, this culinary nationality is an exception because of all these 150 restaurants, almost 60% offer Japanese cuisine and the rest go mostly for French gastronomy.
In Spain the new edition of the guide has been a true disappointment for the national cuisine, since it has not appeared any new restaurant with a rating of three stars. However, 15 restaurants have achieved their first asterisk and one of them, Abac in Barcelona, has doubled from 1 to 2 stars. However, there is also bad news for nationwide restaurateurs: ten locals have lost their prize in the latest edition of the publication.
Among the "new stars" it must be highlighted the ones obtained by Dani Garcia, the young chef of the restaurant Calima, from the Hotel Melia Don Pepe in Marbella and the one by chef Carles Abellán of Barcelona’s Comerc 24. It is also interesting to note that the fifth star summed by Martin Berasategui, thanks to the award of the restaurant Kursaal in San Sebastian.
Six chefs hold the privilege of three stars in Spain: Pedro Subijana, Juan Mari Arzak, Martin Berasategui, Ferran Adrià, Santi Santamaria and Carme Ruscalleda. A number not too high compared to the 26 establishments that have three stars in France or Germany, with 9.
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