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Top chef closes Michelin-starred Singapore eatery
Is this the start of a new trend?
A top chef in Singapore has served up a final dinner at his popular restaurant, months after shocking the city-state's culinary scene by announcing he was closing the eatery and returning his Michelin stars. His announcement in October that he was closing Restaurant Andre and returning his Michelin stars shocked foodies in the affluent city-state, which has one of Asia's best restaurant scenes.
Chiang, Taiwan's most famous chef, is returning to the island to focus on his high-end Taipei restaurant RAW, as well as running several other restaurants he co-owns and manages.
Do Restaurants Love Instagram? It's Complicated
The power of Instagram, of course, is that it allows diners to visually share their experience in a way that is much more tangible than word of mouth. At the same time, posting a shot of yourself at the hottest restaurant in town conveys status.
And for most restaurants, this form of marketing can pay for itself: Build something extremely Instagrammable, and you can bet it’ll end up there. Plus, restaurants have measurable metrics of their social reach on Instagram in a way they never had previously.
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