Andy Hayler

Food Critic / Author

Andy Hayler is the first person to have eaten at every three-Michelin-star restaurant in the world, a list he first completed in 2004 and kept up to date, as the stars changed, until the pandemic. An independent critic who pays his own bills, he has reviewed restaurants at andyhayler.com since 1994, with a hundred reviews of Tokyo alone drawn from thirteen trips to Japan.

He was a guest critic on the first four series of BBC MasterChef: The Professionals, is restaurant critic for Elite Traveler magazine, wrote The London Transport Restaurant Guide and the Paris section of National Geographic's Food Journeys of a Lifetime, and was the largest contributor to 1001 Restaurants to Experience Before You Die. A WSET Level 3 in wine, he also works in technology and writes on artificial intelligence. On The BEYOND Podcast he explains how Michelin really judges a kitchen, and what any of us can take from the world's best restaurants into our own.

Credentials

• First person to have eaten at every three-Michelin-star restaurant in the world (list first completed 2004)
• Independent restaurant critic at andyhayler.com since 1994
• Guest critic, BBC MasterChef: The Professionals (first four series)
• Restaurant critic, Elite Traveler magazine
• Author of The London Transport Restaurant Guide; largest contributor to 1001 Restaurants to Experience Before You Die; wrote the Paris section of National Geographic's Food Journeys of a Lifetime
• WSET Level 3 in wine
• Author of two books on artificial intelligence; The Hallucination Game is due January 2027

Find Andy

• andyhayler.com
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Their episode

You're Paying Too Much for Bad Food. A Michelin Expert on What's Actually Worth It | Andy Hayler, on The BEYOND Podcast with Aleksandra King.