After reading about Michelin's famous guide and its undercover inspectors in a recent issue of The New Yorker, it was fun to learn about the cheapest restaurant that has been awarded a highly-coveted star, "a hole-in-the-wall canteen in Hong Kong that offers dishes for less than $1.50."
World's cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant
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interesting write up about the secret society that is the michelin dining guide.
when are they going to make a michelin guide for south texas?
I've always liked Pulitzer Prize-winner Jonathan Gold's smackdown of the Los Angeles Michelin Guide, "Michelin Tires":
http://www.laweekly.com/2007-11-29/eat-drink/michelin-tires/