This is Day 49 of our 53-day global journey.  Yesterday was a day to remember.  I would place it among the top three days we've had on this trip.  #1 was probably  Keukenhof Tulip Gardens  in the Netherlands.  Not sure what might else might be in this top list. We began with a 2PM lunch at Le Bernardin.  There are  13 Michelin 3-star restaurants in the United States , 4 in New York City.  So we sought one close to the Marriott Marquis, and was able to get a reservation at Le Bernardin.  We prefer lunches, and luckily enough, they offered this service. San Francisco has 3 and Chicago 2.  None in Los Angeles.  I went to Joel Robuchon in Las Vegas 15 years ago when it was on this list, but it got dropped in 2009, and that could well be because Michelin does not review Nevada anymore.  There are around 150 3-star restaurants in the world.  I've been to a few of these 3-stars on my previous around the world trips. A competing restaurant organization is the  World's 50 Best Resta

We leave the Tokyo Westin at 6:30AM Sunday morning to catch a flight from Narita Airport to Singapore.  Thus, I won't have time to post an article that day.  So, I send this now, and not long after midnight Hawaii time will come a second posting to cover that absence.   By the way, did I tell you that it is cold in Tokyo?  44 F. As I indicated yesterday, I've been to Robuchon many times. Click on this  to see some of my previous visits.   Ten years ago I indicated that Joel Robuchon, a quarter century ago, was named Chef of the Century, and that he is five years younger than me. He first retired in 1995 at the age of 50. His cuisine is retrogressive, harking back to the earlier days of French cooking before all the micro-stuff you now see, called  molecular gastronomy , created in 1988, but only began to become prominent around 2000. He passed away five years ago at the age of 73. It was another perfectly clear day in Tokyo today, so we had a perfect view of Mount Fuji from sun