The first restaurant the Michelin Guide honored with new 3 stars was JL STUDIO in Taichung, and Michelin mentioned it’s the first time Singaporean cuisine + chef has gotten THREE STARS!! Huge huge congrats for Chef Jimmy Lim, who looked visibly shook (not shiok, haha) and taking in the moment, and the JL family!
The second milestone of the day was chef Kai Ho receiving his first shiny THREE STARS for TAIRROIR, putting modern Taiwanese flavors on the Michelin 3 star map for the first time ever. Congrats Chef Kai and your team!!
Ten other restaurants received new Michelin stars, including chef Kunihiro Hagimoto’s playful INITA, which has been on my to eat list for too long, and ZEA, a modern Latin American restaurant by chef Joaquin Elizondo that I enjoyed very much when it opened, and MUDAN, a refined (and expensive but still very difficult to book) restaurant serving an amazing tempura tasting menu.
Congrats to all the chefs and their teams! Here is the 2023 Michelin Stars for Taiwan- Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung. (Will add more tomorrow, typing this out from East Coast 230AM!)
2023 MICHELIN GUIDE TAIWAN
★ MICHELIN ONE STAR
Danny's Steakhouse
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Fleur de Sel (Taichung)
Forchetta (Taichung)
Fujin Tree Taiwanese Cuisine & Champagne
Holt
Impromptu by Paul Lee
Ken Anhe
Longtail
Ming Fu
Mipon
Mountain and Sea House
Oretachi No Nikuya (Taichung)
Paris 1930 de Hideki Takayama
Shin Yeh Taiwanese Signature
Sho (Kaohsiung)
Sur（Taichung)
Sushi Akira
Sushi Nomura
Sushi Ryu
Sushiyoshi
T+T
The Guest House
Tien Hsiang Lo
Ya Ge
Yu Kapo
Golden Formosa
2023 NEW ★ MICHELIN ONE STAR
A Cut
Ad Astra
Ban Bo
Haili (Kaohsiung)
Inita
La Maison de Win (Taichung)
Zea
★ ★ MICHELIN TWO STARS
L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon
logy
RAW
2023 NEW ★ ★ MICHELIN TWO STARS
Liberte （Kaohsiung）
Molino de Urdaniz
Mudan
★ ★ ★ MICHELIN THREE STARS
Le Palais
2023 NEW ★ ★ ★ MICHELIN THREE STARS
JLStudio（Taichung）
Taïrroir
MICHELIN GREEN STAR ★
Embers
Little Tree Food
Mountain and Sea House
Yangming Spring
NEW 2023 MICHELIN GREEN STAR ★
Hosu
Thomas Chien (Kaohsiung)
