With Taiwan considering opening up to tourists from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia by October, foodies can consider snapping up reservations for the island’s newest Michelin-star restaurants. The newly released 2022 Michelin Guide to Taipei, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung recognises 321 restaurants, 38 of which have been awarded one, two, or three Michelin stars. The 2022 guide includes restaurants...
The Michelin Guide covering Taiwan now includes restaurants from the south of the island. Le Palais chefs Ken Chan and Matt Chen with Jay Mao, chairman of Michelin Taiwan.With Taiwan considering opening up to tourists from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia by October, foodies can consider snapping up reservations for the island’s newest Michelin-star restaurants.
“By adding Tainan and Kaohsiung – two cities with their own distinctive culinary identities which have impressed our inspectors – to our restaurant selection, we also hope our selection will further satisfy local and international gourmets looking for unforgettable experiences, from fancy places to night food market stalls,” said Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the Michelin Guides.
Neither of the top-rated Kaohsiung restaurants specialise in Taiwanese cuisine. Liberté by chef Kenji Takeda veers towards modern French gastronomy, while Sho by chef Fujimoto Shoichi is the first overseas outpost of Asia’s #1 restaurant in 2022, Den in Tokyo. Other new one-Michelin-star restaurants in Taipei include Holt’s by Canadian chef Jeffrey Downs; Paris 1930 de Hideki Takayama; and Sushiyoshi, the third overseas outpost of the Osaka original.