Food wank palaces squabble over Michelin Star corporate welfare

ByMartyn Bradbury

New Zealand Michelin Guide’s launch in four cities disappoints regional restaurateurs

New stars are on the horizon with the Michelin Guide announcing its launch in New Zealand, but its decision to only focus on four cities has drawn criticism from restaurateurs in areas that have been snubbed.

The inaugural New Zealand guide, due to be released in June next year, will cover restaurants in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown – a disappointment for businesses based outside those centres, some chefs say.

Meanwhile, Michelin Guide said the four cities were selected as the starting point to establish the guide’s foundations in Aotearoa and hinted at future expansion.

Tourism New Zealand last week announced the three-year and $6.3 million partnership to bring the Michelin Guide, the world’s most famous restaurant ranking system, to New Zealand for the first time.

Last week the NZ Government paid $6.3 million for the French Michelin Star program to rate our posh restaurants.

Since the National/ACT/NZF coalition took office, government funding for food banks has been cut by $20 million dollars.

600,000 Kiwis rely on food banks every single month.

We don’t have money for starving Kiwis at our food banks, but we do have $6.3million for the French Michellin Star program to rate Queenstown food wank palaces.

This kind of corporate welfare food wankery is beneath the mana of the gift of our harvest when so many kiwis are going hungry.

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7 Comments

  2. Listening to my pakeha associates some who are right wing National Party supporters are so fucken brainwashed they blame everything on Jacinda even the state todays shocking NZ economy it’s Jacinda fault, but Luxon can do no wrong fucken pathetic

    1. It’s snobbery Stephen. They want to be seen on the ‘winning side’ and the side that ‘wealthy people’ vote for. They hope some of that will rub off on them.
      I managed to score a hit with my very blue-voting cousin yesterday. She had not heard that hospitals could not hire people and poo-pooed what I was saying. They talk over you, have you noticed?
      They do not listen and just keep ploughing headlong into the mud, in their rush to be the one to know best!!!!
      She obviously doesn’t keep up with the news, yet she will shout people down without a moment’s thought.
      She went quiet after that.
      I’m an old lady and that’s the second time I’ve been shouted down by other old ladies. Left leaning people seem to have more manners.

  3. More snobbery on show with these Michelin stars.
    NZ does best when it doesn’t try to compete with long established standards for minor things like cooking or fashion.
    When we stick to being kiwis, we often scoop the pool.
    Why should we have to defend or adjust our standards to suit some nebulous opinion shaped on the other side of the world. People don’t come here to eat the same food they’d expect in Paris or London.
    They come to be intrigued, informed and challenged a bit. We do that well.
    Very few people give a toss about fancy food like that.
    Let’s try to fairly feed all of our people first. That’s much more important and school lunches are far too important to be entrusted to a clown like seymour, the man-child with no parental or educational experience. But, he knows it all!

  4. I didn’t realise we actually had to pay to get these bastards out here to look at restaurants. Why can’t it be “user pays”? That’s what pre-much everything else is these days.

    1. It’s yet another example of how we always shoot ourselves in the foot.
      Snobbery knows no bounds.

  5. I hope the servo on the corner of K Rd and Ponsonby Rd gets a Michelin star for their steak and cheese pies…

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