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Nespresso and MICHELIN Guide have partnered to bring you this message to the future. Chef Kenichiro Sekiya has inherited the mantle of Joël Robuchon, a colossus in the world of French cuisine. Today, as every day, he is preparing food with the same care he would give a loved one.

Through his cuisine, Chef Shinsuke Ishii encourages conversations about sustainability. Just like the commitment to sustainability that runs through Audi’s electric vehicles.

Nespresso and MICHELIN Guide have partnered to bring you this message for the future. Shuzo Kishida is a role model for chefs today, making a major contribution to the success of the food and beverage industry.

The MICHELIN Guide is more than restaurants. It's also the best place to book the world's best hotels. Here are five reasons why.

This story is brought to you by MICHELIN Guide and N25 Caviar, an Official Caviar Partner of the MICHELIN Guide Tokyo 2023.

The free MICHELIN Guide app puts the world’s best restaurants and hotels right in your pocket — and lets you book them.

In the final of a 4-part video series co-produced by the MICHELIN Guide and Audi Japan. Hiroyasu Kawate tells us more about a new age of sustainability — and how the attention to details needed to be a chef is mirrored by the constant and innovative evolution of the Audi e-tron Sportback.

Osamu Matsuura, a One MICHELIN Star sushi craftsman, treks daily to the morning market at Toyosu Market, Japan’s largest fish market. For close on 20 years, since his apprenticeship days, Matsuura has been commuting to Toyosu and its forerunner, Tsukiji. We followed Matsuura on one of those daily errands as he stocked up on kohada (gizzard shad) and prepared it at his restaurant.

Kotaro Noda of modern Italian restaurant FARO talks about creating new things through combining sensibilities and taking away rather than adding

Chef-owners Hideaki Imahashi and Shoko Hirase of one-MICHELIN-starred L’aube in Tokyo share their insights on conveying a multi-sensory dining experience through the use of color and aesthetics - and how this is reflected in the stylish and comfortable experience of driving an Audi Q8.

Eight thousand kilometres from Japan in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, you can taste the flavour of true Japanese sushi. Hōseki, listed as a one-star restaurant in the MICHELIN Guide Dubai 2022, brings the ‘made-in-Japan’ sushi of Masahiro Sugiyama to the Middle East.

Motokazu Nakamura of three-MICHELIN-starred Isshisoden Nakamura in Kyoto, Japan, draws parallels between finding harmony in boldness and details in the pursuit of excellence in the kitchen and in driving an Audi A8 car.

Myojaku and SÉZANNE receive Two MICHELIN Stars, and 16 new restaurants are distinguished One MICHELIN Star, while the Bib Gourmand celebrates 38 new restaurants which have been rated as best value-for-money by MICHELIN inspectors.

Among these, 41 restaurants have been newly awarded by MICHELIN inspectors, receiving either Two MICHELIN Stars, One MICHELIN Star or a Bib Gourmand.

Eighteen recent discoveries from Tablet, the hotel experts at the MICHELIN Guide.

For half a century, Kondo has devoted himself to a single passion: spreading the joy of tempura to the wider world.

Experiencing Nara through the Seasons

Nara Kasugataisha Shrine The vivid vermillion-colored buildings of this large and ancient shrine contrast beautifully with the lush greenery of the ...