Our daily gastro-trip around the world

🇲🇽 A star is born in Mexico: Michelin released its first ranking of restaurants in the country. The newly published Michelin Guide Mexico features a pair of two-star restaurants and 16 one-star locations, with no establishment attaining Michelin’s highest category of three stars. While the majority of restaurants named in the Mexico ranking are considered fine dining, Michelin also awarded one star to a 10-foot-by-10-foot taco stand in Mexico City.

🇷🇺 Russia has reportedly been secretly testing an anti-satellite weapon in space for more than two years. In a new WSJ report, multiple unnamed US officials confirmed that Russia launched a satellite into space in February 2022 designed to test components for a space-based weapon capable of destroying satellites in orbit with a nuclear blast. Officials say the satellite in question, which doesn’t carry a nuclear weapon, is still traveling around the Earth and operating as a research and development platform for the new weapon system.

🇪🇺 The EU is investigating Instagram and Facebook over their risks of child addiction and harm. The probe, announced yesterday, will assess whether the companies’ parent Meta has breached the Digital Services Act, a recently implemented EU law aimed at protecting minors online. EU officials specifically cite the social media sites’ online interfaces, which they say may be designed to “exploit the weaknesses and inexperience of minors and cause addictive behavior.”