news/michelin: 2023 MICHELIN TAIWAN STARS REVEALED

Wow! This year, Michelin decided award two new restaurants with 3 Michelin Stars, changing the predictable result of Le Palais being the only one in Taiwan holding 3 stars since 2018. 

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 

de nuit 

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) 

news/michelin: 2022 TAIPEI TAICHUNG KAOHSIUNG MICHELIN STARS ⭐️

I spotted some friends posting from the 2022 Taipei Michelin Guide Awards, so I hopped onto Facebook to watch the livestream and screencap some highlights for you guys! 

The Michelin Guide now has four cities in Taiwan in their guide- adding Tainan and Kaohsiung for the first time this year to Taipei and Taichung. 

Michelin awarded 38 restaurants with stars for 2022, along with Michelin Green Stars, Bib Gourmand and Michelin selected restaurants (which confuses me a little bit- it's not a star, but I guess like an honorary mention. I'm not sure if the previous Plate category is still included also, or if this mention replaces Plate). 

Kaohsiung's Liberte and Sho managed to catch new stars, but none for Tainan. 

Five of the seven restaurants who were newly starred were in Taipei- Holt, Paris 1930 de Hideki Takayama (at Landis Hotel), Shin Yeh (yay!), Sushiyoshi and Yu Kapo. 

Chef Hiroki from Sushiyoshi seemed to be having the most fun with the mandatory photo ops onstage, making silly faces and heart signs with the Michelin Man and head of Michelin Taiwan. 

It was also a sweet moment when host Alex Niu made sure that Shin Yeh's founder Mrs. Lee got a photo of her chef receiving their first star. 

Le Palais remains the only 3 starred restaurant in the Taipei Michelin Guide, for the fifth year in a row, while JL Studio, Logy, Tairroir, Raw, Shoun Ryugin, Guest House and Robuchon kept their 2 star status. 

Highlighting Chef Justine Li of Fleur de Sel in Taichung and the wife owner of Ming Fu in the sea of male dominated chefs onstage. 

Congrats to all the chefs and restaurants that were honored this year. What do you guys think of the list this year? Any surprise inclusions or snubs? Comment below or DM me! 

2022 TAIPEI TAICHUNG KAOHSIUNG MICHELIN STARS 

1 MICHELIN STAR TAIPEI ⭐️ 

• Danny's Steakhouse 
• De Nuit 
• Fujin Tree Taiwanese Cuisine 
• Golden Formosa 
• Holt (new)
• Impromptu by Paul Lee 
• Ken Anhe 
• Kitcho 
• Longtail
• Ming Fu
• Mipon 
• Molino de Urdaniz 
• Mountain and Sea House 
• Mudan 
• Paris 1930 de Hideki Takayama (new)
• Shin Yeh (new)
• Sushi Akira 
• Sushi Nomura 
• Sushi Ryu
• Sushiyoshi (new)
• T+T
• Tien Hsiang Lo 
• Ya Ge 
• Yu Kapo (new)

1 MICHELIN STAR TAICHUNG ⭐️ 

• Fleur de Sel 
• Forchetta
• Oretachi No Nikuya 
• Sur 

1 MICHELIN STAR KAOHSIUNG ⭐️ 

• Liberte (new)
• Sho (new)

2 MICHELIN STARS ⭐️ ⭐️ 

• JL Studio (Taichung) 
• L'Atelier de Joel Robuchon (Taipei)
• Logy (Taipei)
• Raw (Taipei)
• Shoun Ryugin (Taipei)
• Tairroir (Taipei)
• The Guest House (Taipei)

3 MICHELIN STARS ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ 

• Le Palais (Taipei)

Sommelier Award 

Paris 1930 de Hideki Takayama

Lin Yun Shu

Welcome and Service Award

Fleur de Sel 

Pauline Pei-Ling Yu

Young Chef Award 2022

T+T 

Kei Koo and Johnny Tsai

Green Star 2022 for sustainable gastronomy

Mountain and Sea House

Yangming Spring
Embers 

Little Tree Food 

READ ABOUT PREVIOUS YEARS

2020 Michelin Guide Taipei Taichung post 

2019 Michelin Guide Taipei post

chinese/dim sum: i recommend YA GE at MO TAIPEI

YA GE 

at MANDARIN ORIENTAL TAIPEI 

No. 158, DunHua N Rd, Songshan District, Taipei

(02) 2715 6788

hours: 12PM- 2:30PM; 6:30PM - 10PM

$$$

Kid friendliness: environment on quieter side; no high chairs or children spotted

Visit reviewed: 11/2021

[TAIPEI] 🥟Michelin starred dim sum at @mo_tpe . Faves include the honey bbq pork, crispy taro puffs with foie gras, and rice roll with crispy shrimp. I’ve missed eating with a table full of dim sum and Cantonese food. 

Ya Ge is now headed by chef Tommy Cheung Kwok Pong who was previously at Peninsula Hotel in HK for over 10 years with signatures such as birds nest dumpling,  garoupa with chicken and duck au jus, pork ribs with aged vinegar and pear and wok fried rice noodles with crab. 

Thank you Mandarin Oriental for the lovely lunch and hospitality. 

modern/japanese: i recommend LOGY spring 2021

LOGY
No. 6, Lane 109, Anhe Road, Sec. 1 

MRT: Xinyi/Anhe

website: logy.tw/reservation.html

hours: lunch: Thursday - Sunday 12:00 - 15:00 (Last order 12:30)
            Dinner: Wednesday - Sunday 17:30 - 19:30 (Last order 17:30)
                                                             19:30 - 22:30 (Last order 19:30)

$$$ (NT$3750 + 10% per tasting menu) 

Kid friendliness: logy's website says they only allow children 12 and above

Visit reviewed: April 2021