Macau casinos have fewer Michelin-starred restaurants
Macau has three fewer Michelin-starred restaurants in the Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau 2021.
Macau.- Casino resorts in Macau have three fewer Michelin-starred restaurants after the publication of new Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau.
The new list includes 18 restaurants in Macau, down from 20 in the previous year. All of them are located inside a casino resort.
Three restaurants have kept their three Michelin stars, the highest rating in the international guide. Two of them are located at the Grand Lisboa casino, which has won several awards for its restaurants: the Robuchon au Dôme and the Chinese fine-dining restaurant The Eight.
The other three-star restaurant is Jade Dragon, a Cantonese restaurant at Melco Resorts’ City of Dreams Macau.
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In May, Melco Resorts closed The Tasting Room, a French contemporary restaurant at City of Dreams Macau which used to hold two Michelin stars, due to its refurbishment of the Nüwa hotel.
Macau restaurant retaining two Michelin stars for 2021 included: Alain Ducasse at Morpheus, as a French contemporary restaurant at the Morpheus hotel tower, also at City of Dreams; and Feng Wei Ju, a Sichuan-style Chinese restaurant at Galaxy Entertainment’s StarWorld Macau.
The others are Golden Flower and Wing Lei, two Chinese restaurants at the Wynn Macau resort; Mizumi, a venue specialising in Japanese cuisine at the same property; and Sichuan Moon, a Chinese restaurant at Wynn Palace.
Wing Lei Palace, a Cantonese fine-dining venue at Wynn Palace, has won its first one-star rating.
Restaurants retaining their one-star ratings in the 2021 guide include: Lai Heen, the Cantonese restaurant at Galaxy Macau; the Italian restaurant 8 ½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana also at Galaxy Macau; Pearl Dragon (Cantonese at Studio City); Ying (Cantonese at Melco Resorts’ Altira Macau, Taipa).
The others are: The Kitchen, a steakhouse at SJM Holdings’ Grand Lisboa Hotel; Tim’s Kitchen (Cantonese) at SJM Holdings’ Hotel Lisboa; Zi Yat Heen at Sands China’s Four Seasons Macao; and The Golden Peacock, an Indian restaurant at Sands China’s Venetian Macao.
Dropped from this year’s one-star rating list were the sushi restaurant Shinji by Kanesaka at City of Dreams, which is also closed because of the renovation at Nüwa; and King, a Cantonese restaurant in the AIA Tower in downtown Macau.
