Features 1 minute 19 July 2018

The Illustrated Guide to Michelin's Inspection Process

How do the MICHELIN Guide's famously anonymous inspectors comb through tens of thousands of global restaurants every year? And what happens when inspectors disagree among themselves?

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160 hotel stays, 250 meals and 30,000 kilometres travelled per inspector, and 45,000 readers' letters received and read yearly - there's much, much more to the MICHELIN Guide's system of reviewing and awarding restaurants than meets the regular diner's eye. We break it down for you.

Written by Michelin Guide Digital-Singapore

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