In November 2007, Michelin inspectors sprinkled 191 Michelin-stars on 150 restaurants in Tokyo, which is by far the highest amount of stars Michelin has awarded any city. While just about any city in Europe and the US would market itself as a gastronomical powerhouse if it had received just a few of those stars, Tokyo renounces...

The Michelin restaurant-guide has been extremely generous towards Tokyo. In the Tokyo-guide – Michelin’s first guide outside Europe and the United States – nothing less than 191 Michelin-stars are awarded to 150 Tokyo-restaurants. No city has ever been...