Kyoto has the most Michelin-starred restaurants per capita, according to a new ranking. Paris and Washington, D.C., come in second and third.
The Japanese city is home to the highest density of eateries ranked by the French tire company, including five three-starred restaurants, according to afrom website Chef’s Pencil. With 100 Michelin-ranked spots and a population of almost 1.5 million, Kyoto has one restaurant for every 14,637 people.A Wine-World Grifter Gets Two Years in Prison for Scamming N.Y.C. Oenophiles Out of $7 MillionComing in a close second is—unsurprisingly—Paris: The city’s 122 Michelin-starred restaurants serve 2.
Of course, there are some caveats for the Chef’s Pencil report. The website looked only at cities with 500,000 or more residents. And the restaurants had to be located within the city limits, rather than the larger metropolitan area. The Michelin Guide itself often includes eateries in a broader region, so this list may be slightly more abbreviated than the official selection.
To address some of that disparity, Chef’s Pencil has also released a ranking of Michelin density in midsize cities, those with 100,000 to 500,000 residents. At the top of that list is Nara, Japan, which has 23 starred restaurants for a population of just 367,000 . That’s followed by Maastricht, Netherlands , and Geneva, Switzerland ., Switzerland actually has the most starred spots per capita.
While many people travel to the areas with the most Michelin-starred restaurants, they may be better served by going to the areas where they’re the densest. Neither Kyoto nor D.C. may be called its respective country’s culinary capital, but both are teeming with Michelin-ranked spots relative to their size.Tori Latham is a digital staff writer at Robb Report. She was previously a copy editor at The Atlantic, and has written for publications including The Cut and The Hollywood Reporter.
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