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by dragonwriter 2684 days ago
> There is absolutely no Indian

The Michelin Guide itself disagrees: “The Michelin Guide isn't in any of the Indian cities but that doesn't mean the red book is void of the subcontinent’s cuisine. In fact, Indian restaurants are listed in most of the territories with the Guide, some of which are in truly surprising cities. Tokyo for instance, is home to three Bib Gourmand rated Indian eateries, while the first Indian restaurant awarded with a Michelin star in Asia happens to be in Macau.”

https://guide.michelin.com/hk/en/hong-kong-macau/travel/8-mi...

Also:

https://guide.michelin.com/us/san-francisco/indian-pakistani...

Two 1-star, One “The Plate”, and Five “Bib Gourmand” in SF Bay.

> South American

Alex Atala’s D.O.M.in São Paolo is a two-star “contemporary Brazilian” restaurant, the first counterexample I could find.

> Mediterranean

https://guide.michelin.com/us/san-francisco/mourad/restauran...

> Thai

https://guide.michelin.com/us/san-francisco/kin-khao/restaur...

EDIT: On review, you might have been referring to geography rather than cuisine, so we’ll do that again from that perspective to cover all bases.

> Indian

As noted above, geographically, that's correct

> South American

https://guide.michelin.com/br/rio-de-janeiro

https://guide.michelin.com/br/sao-paulo

> Mediterranean

Also a valid point, geographically.

> Thai

https://guide.michelin.com/th/bangkok

> Chinese

https://guide.michelin.com/hk/hong-kong-macau

https://guide.michelin.com/tw/taipei

2 comments

Sorry to be annoying, but as a Brazilian who constantly sees people making this mistake - it's São Paulo, not Paolo. Paolo is the Italian version of the name Paul, Paulo is the Portuguese (also Spanish) version.

But hey, at least you got the til (~ diacritic) right. A lot of people don't even know that's a thing.

>> Mediterranean

>Also a valid point, geographically.

Surely there must be loads of michelin-starred restaurants within the various Mediterranean culinary regions.

That appears to be correct for at least Greece and Italy, and France and Spain though, despite geography, they are usually not intended when people talk about Mediterranean cuisine (also, people often single out the European Mediterranean cuisines individually and use “Mediterranean” more for the cuisines of the African and Southwest Asian coasts); navigation on the Michelin Guide website has some bizarre path dependencies where what seems to be available depends on where you jumped in from, which I think contributed to me overlooking that before.

But there is no Michelin coverage for Africa or for Asia outside of East Asia. Unless I haven't found the right secret path into the guide.