Akoko, a west African restaurant in Fitzrovia, receives its first Michelin star. Seeing the news, I dig around for my birth certificate to double-check something. Yeah, thought so. “General Hospital, Akoko.” We did it!
Here is another thought. In the past, a starred restaurant was somewhere that served French- or Italian-anchored cuisine. Japanese then penetrated that rarefied club. Notice the theme here. All high-income countries. All western or western-allied. When a challenger broke up their gastronomic triopoly, it came from within the OECD: Nordic, Korean, Basque, modern British, modern American, modern Australian. In fine dining, as in geopolitics, the west set the terms.
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