Exceptionally executed modern cuisine with an outstanding staff and some innovative touches. Dampened slightly by very high prices. 

Kashiwaya is easily one of the best 3-stars I’ve been to in Japan, and possibly the world. Warm, charming, creative, and just plain fun.

Set atop the gorgeous Shilla hotel Seoul, Kim Sung-il's extremely refined restaurants offers gorgeous views and a world-class Korean dining experience with a few small rough spots. 

Built in a spectacular sunlit space with the perfect combination of style and substance, this is one of the best restaurants in Europe, full stop. Run by the lovely couple Jonnie and Thérèse Boer.

Built inside a massive castle complex converted into a hotel, Vendôme is a rare combination of charm, excellent service, inspired food, and a truly unique and gorgeous setting. I would return here a dozen times.

Warm, creative, and exciting, Christian Bau proves why his name is a global brand at his headquarters restaurant in Perl.

Located in a formal mansion in a picturesque town in Germany, Erfort’s service was consistent, strong dishes with a handful of home runs. The experience was marred by distracted staff.

Unbelievably full-bodied in style and presentation, this is the ultimate traditional Three-Michelin-Star experience in the old French style - extremely rich. Be ready to spend a few hours walking this one off.

Located, rather oddly, in a soccer stadium, Rasmus Kofoed's hyper-modern and thoroughly Scandanavian Geranium is a precisely-engineered experience that is easy to love.

More arthouse than restaurant, David Muñoz's occasionally magical restaurant fell down on some easy basics; dirty, streaked dishes, forgetful and poorly-trained service got in the way of an otherwise out-of-this-world kitchen and physical space.

Hugging coastal Spain's attractive shores in orchard-rich Dénia, Quique Dacosta is the full and beautiful expression of its owner's (very) idiosyncratic personality and style. 

Extraordinarily formal even by 3-star standards, Martín Berasategui's Barcelona outpost does not achieve the same levels of culinary or service prowess as his flagship restaurant (located in Lasarte, Spain, interestingly) but it comes close.  

A charming, modern restaurant that is trying really, really, really hard. It is lovable for its effort and execution, but be ready for an intense experience that doesn't translate perfectly. 

The pinnacle of heartwarming, family-centric, gorgeous fine dining. If you're looking for a truly authentic experience from a restaurant that has honed the concept of fine dining service over generations, this is it.

A puffy, confused, self-indulgent experience overall with distant service and uncreative dishes, a vast but criminally overpriced wine list, and staid dining room. Can't recommend.

Led by Franck Giovaninni, Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville is a tribute to the perfection and hard work achieved by its former master. One of the most satisfying meals in Europe.

Also known as Paul Bocuse's place, this restaurant lives up to its legendary reputation as the capital of French cuisine.

If you're looking for the Frenchest French restaurant in the world, this is it. That's probably the nicest thing I can say.

Alain Passard explores the heights of vegetable-driven haute cuisine, and more or less nails it. Desserts got off to a rough start.

Covered in deep French Alpine snow, this place sets a new record for most remote and most romantic restaurant experience one could hope for, and the food and service matched that perfection. Highly recommend.

Below average by Joël Robuchon's global standards, this underwhelming and ludicrously overpriced restaurant delivers on classic dishes and desserts but falls short in many important categories, like service, just to pick one element at random. 

Though set in a dreamlike, gorgeous interior décor style that mirrors Ducasse's incredible Monaco restaurant, several dishes were serious misses, and like other Parisian 3-stars this place is among the worst-priced experiences out there. Seemingly lost in its own opulence, the restaurant presents a boring and rudely short menu for a comical price. I cannot recommend.