Tokyo is the culinary capital of the world

According to the number of restaurants that received three stars in Michelin’s guide for restaurants, Paris is no longer a culinary capital of the world.

Tuesday’s edition of Le Point said that, according to the Michelin’s 2010 guide for restaurants, Tokyo has the highest number of three-star restaurants. He has 11 of them, one more than the former record holder, Paris.

- We give the stars where we find them, and Tokyo is unusually rich in its culinary market - said Jean-Luc Naret, director of Michelin guides.

But he added that Tokyo has four times more restaurants than Paris. Tokyo has 160 thousand of them and Paris ‘only’ 40 thousand.