Miele Guide

The Miele Guide is a regional guide book to restaurants in Asia. The 2008/2009 edition which was published at the end of October 2008, launched the first in an annual series, which ranked and showcased the top 20 restaurants in Asia, as well as categorised restaurants according to the city and country they are in. It is published by Singapore-based Ate Media, and officially sponsored by the German home appliance maker Miele. Other official partners include TIME Magazine, Visa Inc. and Hyatt Hotels. The guide does not accept advertising and none of the official partners have any influence on the multi-round judging process.

The Miele Guide is the brainchild of Singaporeans Aun Koh and Tan Su-Lyn, created out of what they perceive to be the lack of an authoritative reference to restaurants in Asia.Aun Koh is the director of Ate Media and also the noted blogger behind popular Singapore food blog Chubbyhubby.net [2]. As early as 2006, the blog featured entries discussing the lack of recognition for restaurants in Asia [3] in international listings and rankings such as Restaurant Magazine's annual Top 50 list Restaurant (magazine) Top 50. A predecessor of the Miele Guide was probably Koh's early efforts to compile an alternative list of Asia's best restaurants through online polling on his website.

The first printed edition of the Miele Guide was published at the end of October 2008. The 16 Asian countries evaluated by the Miele Guide in the first edition are: Brunei, Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong and Macau), India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.

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