{"id":17310,"date":"2013-10-27T17:20:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=17310"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:45:16","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:45:16","slug":"voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars","title":{"rendered":"Voxpop: Why does Wales lack Michelin stars?"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the closure of The Crown earlier this year, Wales has just three Michelin starred restaurants.<\/p>\n

September saw the publication of the latest Michelin Guide but only three Welsh eateries made it into the 2014 edition. The Walnut Tree, Tyddyn Llan and The Checkers all managed to retain their coveted stars.<\/p>\n

Bryan Webb, chef and owner of Tyddyn Llan, suggested that the lack of establishments with prestigious stars is due to the steep wage bill. He said, \u201cto employ a chef of Michelin star standard, you are looking at a minimum wage of \u00a350,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the only cost attached to creating dishes that are worthy of a star, as a full time kitchen brigade, made up of six or seven staff, is also needed.<\/p>\n

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Tyddyn Llan, considered one of Wales’ best restaurants, charges \u00a355 per person for a three-course dinner meal.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With only three Michelin Stars, Wales lacks top nosh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[31,2866,946,2869,2870,2867,2868],"yoast_head":"\nVoxpop: Why does Wales lack Michelin stars? - alt.cardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Voxpop: Why does Wales lack Michelin stars? - alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With only three Michelin Stars, Wales lacks top nosh.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"alt.cardiff\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-10-27T17:20:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-10-07T10:45:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/\",\"name\":\"alt.cardiff\",\"description\":\"If it\\u2019s offbeat and in Cardiff then it\\u2019s online here.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/michelin-food-478x312.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars\",\"name\":\"Voxpop: Why does Wales lack Michelin stars? - alt.cardiff\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-10-27T17:20:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-10-07T10:45:16+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/34d0ea86f9ec8130e4085bb0592503c0\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/food\/voxpop-why-does-wales-lack-michelin-stars\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#\/schema\/person\/34d0ea86f9ec8130e4085bb0592503c0\",\"name\":\"altcardiff\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/251d18ae391aa476d090c1eb0e8b3365?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"altcardiff\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18079,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions\/18079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}