What do Michelin, one star, two stars and three stars stand for?

One Michelin star represents a good restaurant worth stopping to taste, two Michelin stars represent first-class cooking, providing excellent food and wine matching, and three Michelin stars represent perfect and extreme cooking, which is worth a special trip.

Michelin stars are judged by a group of screened "food spies", who are called "inspectors". One Michelin star represents a good restaurant worth stopping to taste, and two Michelin stars represent first-class cooking, providing excellent food and wine, which is worth detouring, but the cost is not low. Michelin's three stars represent perfect and extreme cooking, which is worth a special trip.

You can enjoy exquisite dishes, excellent table wine, zero-defect service and elegant dining environment, but it costs a lot of money. Every time Michelin inspectors go to a restaurant or a hotel for review, they need to hide their identity, sneak into accommodation and taste. The scoring items they need to refer to include food (60%), dining environment (20%), service (10%) and wine matching (10%).

Restaurant distribution

As the birthplace of Michelin, France has the largest number of Michelin-starred restaurants. Among them, French cuisine, as a traditional dish in Michelin restaurant, has a long history and is deeply loved by food lovers all over the world. Due to the strict evaluation requirements of three-star restaurants, as of 20 12, there are only 106 three-star restaurants in the world, even less than one third of the three-star restaurants in France.

In other European countries, there are countless Michelin-recognized restaurants, among which Italy has the most Michelin-starred restaurants and Germany has the most Michelin-starred restaurants. In addition, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Britain, Ireland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland were selected as European star-rated restaurants.