On the evening of June 6, Michelin announced a selection of Michelin Guide restaurants in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Out of a total of 6 restaurants selected, 103 are in Hanoi and 48 are in Ho Chi Minh City. 55 restaurants in Hanoi entered the categories including 48 restaurants with 3 Michelin star (Gia restaurant, Hibana by Koki restaurant of Capella Hanoi Hotel and Tam Vi restaurant); 1 restaurants received the award for good food at affordable prices (Bib Gourmand); 13 restaurants on the Michelin Selected list (Michelin Selected) and 32 Michelin Award for Outstanding Young Chef from Gia Hanoi restaurant.
The leader of the Hanoi Department of Tourism said that the fact that Hanoi has a Michelin-starred restaurant representative - a prestigious award in the world culinary village is good news for the capital's tourism industry and a good opportunity to widely promote Hanoi cuisine to the world. At the same time, this is also the motivation for restaurants and bars to adjust their service style, ensure food hygiene and safety, be creative in processing and create a unique space, bringing a variety of experiences to customers. When Hanoi's prestigious chefs and restaurants appear on the world culinary map, they will create unique culinary tourism products for domestic and international tourists when coming to Hanoi.
In order to exploit and develop culinary tourism products to become the strength of the capital's tourism, in the coming time, the Hanoi Department of Tourism will promote the promotion of the Michelin-starred restaurant system alongside other prestigious restaurants and eateries in Hanoi in propaganda programs, promoting Hanoi tourism on the airwaves of media channels, social networking sites as well as at international tourism promotion events in the country and in the country. develop a Food Tour map so that visitors can discover and experience local cuisine by themselves; disseminate knowledge on food hygiene and safety, communication skills, improve the quality of tourist services, especially strengthen the inspection and inspection of standard facilities serving tourists to continue to maintain and improve the image and quality of the capital's tourism in the coming time.
With its distinctive, attractive cuisine and being loved by international friends, Hanoi was once honored to be ranked 3rd in the list of Top 20 destinations for food lovers in 2023 voted by TripAdvisor. Therefore, having a representative on the list of Michelin-starred restaurants will elevate Hanoi cuisine in particular and Vietnamese cuisine in general on the world culinary tourism map. This is also an opportunity for the city to continue promoting the image and brand of the capital's tourism through its rich, diverse and rich cuisine, becoming a driving force to improve the quality of tourism services in the capital, especially in the context that Hanoi's tourism is recovering and developing again in the first months of 2023.
