The Michelin-Starred Restaurant Sector as a Cultural Industry

This comparison of British and German Michelin-starred restaurants involves two countries without a historical tradition of haute cuisine but which nevertheless have made great strides in Michelin-accreditation, with Germany enjoying greater success than the UK. The paper pursues three objectives. The first is to establish why, in both countries, from the early 1980s onwards, a Michelin-starred restaurant sector gained critical mass. Second,...