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I don't think they even try rating restaurants there. They may have brand concerns about giving ratings in countries where standards for food safety, ethical butchering, and/or labor may not be as high or not as well enforced as the developed world (this is just supposition on my part). The last thing you would want to do is hand out a michelin star to a restaurant that was eventually discovered to be using chickens that were beaten to death or something (hypothetical example). I think there are some restaurants in India with foreign locations that have been rated, and I think there was some hooplah a few years back about them/one of them falsely advertising in India that they were michelin rated when it was in fact their foreign location that was rated.
I don't think they even try rating restaurants there. They may have brand concerns about giving ratings in countries where standards for food safety, ethical butchering, and/or labor may not be as high or not as well enforced as the developed world (this is just supposition on my part). The last thing you would want to do is hand out a michelin star to a restaurant that was eventually discovered to be using chickens that were beaten to death or something (hypothetical example). I think there are some restaurants in India with foreign locations that have been rated, and I think there was some hooplah a few years back about them/one of them falsely advertising in India that they were michelin rated when it was in fact their foreign location that were rated.
china has 2, which is also unimpressive for a country their size.
This explains it. There simply isn't a Michelin Guide for India. Personally, I like eating at hole-in-the-wall/mom-n-pop type places with good food (you can learn about them by talking to locals) when I travel rather than fancy places/yuppie tourist magnets. Although, I will usually check out one raved about restaurant if I'm in a city for a few days.
This explains it. There simply isn't a Michelin Guide for India. Personally, I like eating at hole-in-the-wall/mom-n-pop type places with good food (you can learn about them by talking to locals) when I travel rather than fancy places/yuppie tourist magnets. Although, I will usually check out one raved about restaurant if I'm in a city for a few days.
This explains it. No Michelin Guide - No Michelin Star Restaurant
I enjoy just about every kind of ethnic cuisine I can think of except Indian (and Arabic). Tandoori Chicken is good but it's indistinguishable from every other cuisine's chicken.
Not much of a curry fan except in dishes where it is used very lightly. The smell of most Indian food is off-putting to me and after spending time in India while backpacking around the world, I've smelled and tasted a lot of it!
The fact that Michelin has given it a pass is not surprising to me at all.
YMMV!
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