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Michelin Guide Los Angeles (Michelin Guides) (Paperback)
by Michelin
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Restaurant guide, Food & lodging, Travel guide, Los Angeles |
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Author: Michelin
Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications; 1 edition
Pub. in: October, 2007
ISBN: 2067129902
Pages: To be provided.
Measurements: 7.4 x 4.4 x 0.7 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA01069
Other information: ISBN-13: 978-2067129900
Language: English
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- Awards & Credential -
The Michelin Guide to Los Angeles 2008 is the latest title to be updated in a world-renowned series of hotel and restaurant guides. |
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A little glitch in the Michelin guide website let the world, at least several restaurateurs around town, figure out which restaurants received stars, days before the official announcement. According to the LAT, the web page is no longer available, and Michelin reps say "It was a mistake" and "only up for a short time." Oh, oops. (Don't worry our fine French friends, it happens to the best of you.)
Now, on to the good stuff. We have the full list of starred chefs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas just a click away. Not so shocking: Exactly as we said yesterday, Patina, Providence, Sona and Joe's are all among the one stars, and the only two stars go to Urasawa, Spago and Melisse. Sort of shocking: A.O.C, Lucques, Grace, La Cachette, Hatfield's, Jar, the Mozzas, and Campanile are missing from the list, but Saddle Peak Lodge is present. The most shocking of all: LA did not get three stars, but Las Vegas did. Go figure.
2008 Michelin starred restaurants:
One star: "A very good restaurant in its category"
Two stars: "Excellent cooking and worth a detour"
Three stars: "Exceptional cuisine and worth the journey"
LOS ANGELES
Two-star restaurants
Mélisse, Santa Monica
Spago, Beverly Hills
Urasawa, Beverly Hills
One-star restaurants
Asanebo, Studio City
Cut, Beverly Hills
Joe's, Venice
La Botte, Santa Monica
Matsuhisa, Beverly Hills
Mori Sushi, West Los Angeles
Ortolan, Los Angeles
Patina, Los Angeles
Providence, Los Angeles
Ritz-Carlton Huntington Dining Room, Pasadena
Saddle Peak Lodge, Calabasas
Sona, West Hollywood
Trattoria Tre Venezie, Pasadena
Valentino, Santa Monica
Water Grill, Los Angeles
LAS VEGAS
Three-star restaurants
Joël Robuchon, MGM Grand
Two-star restaurants
Alex, Wynn
Guy Savoy, Caesars
Picasso, Bellagio
One-star restaurants
Alizé, the Palms Hotel
Andre's (the original or in Monte Carlo, we're not sure)
Aureole, Mandalay Bay
Bradley Ogden, MGM Grand
DB Brasserie, Wynn
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon, MGM Grand
Le Cirque, Bellagio
Mesa Grill, Caesars
Michael Mina. Bellagio
Mix, Mandalay Bay
Nobu, Hard Rock Hotel
Wing Lei, Wynn
(From quoting www.la.eater.com)
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LOS ANGELES (March 28, 2007) - Michelin announced today that it will expand its exclusive hotel and restaurant guide series in North America to include guides for Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The Michelin Guide Los Angeles 2008 and Michelin Guide Las Vegas 2008 are scheduled to arrive in stores November 2007. The Michelin Guide Los Angeles will cover hotels and restaurants in Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Westwood, Downtown, Santa Monica, Ventura Blvd. and Pasadena; the Michelin Guide Las Vegas will include Las Vegas Blvd. and Downtown, as well as areas east and west of the Strip.
For their debut in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, the Guides will provide a selection and rating, in all categories of comfort and prices, of area restaurants and hotels, in a reader-friendly layout made especially for the American market and its distinctive culinary and hotel landscape.
“These two cities offer residents and visitors alike an eclectic mix of restaurant options, with an amazing variety of cuisine choices from all over the world,” said Christian Delhaye, President Michelin Maps and Guides. “The inspectors have enjoyed getting a taste for these exciting, dynamic cities and discovering the restaurants that bring character and flavor to the region. In Los Angeles, these restaurants are found throughout the metro area, in the most popular parts of the city to off-the-beaten-path neighborhoods. In Las Vegas, however - as you might expect - the top restaurants are concentrated in a small geographic area.”
As part of its meticulous and highly confidential evaluation process, Michelin inspectors - both European and American - are currently conducting anonymous inspections in Los Angeles and Las Vegas restaurants and hotels. As with all Michelin Guide inspections, the process involves test meals or overnight stays at each establishment by Michelin inspectors, in order to assess the level and the consistency of the establishment. As with all of the Guides for all countries, inspectors pay all of their bills at restaurants and hotels and are all full-time Michelin employees.
The Michelin Guide offers a broad selection of hotels and restaurants in each price and comfort category, taking into account each country’s local environment. This rating is unique and consistent across all countries covered by the Michelin Guide. It is expressed in two ways:
A general listing in the Guide indicates “a quality restaurant that stands out from others” in the same category of comfort, definitely worth trying.
The star ratings are as follows:
• One star () indicates “a very good restaurant in its category,” a place offering cuisine prepared to a consistently high standard.
• Two stars () denote “excellent cooking, worth a detour,” skillfully and carefully crafted dishes of outstanding quality.
• Three stars reward () “exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey.” One always eats extremely well here, often superbly. Distinctive dishes are precisely executed, using superlative ingredients.
For more information, visit www.michelinguide.com.
(From quoting www.michelinguide.com)
Target readers:
Business travelers and tourists to Los Angles/California, USA.
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What distinguishes the Michelin Guide from other restaurant and hotel guides?
Michelin has been in the business of evaluating and recommending restaurants and hotels for over a century. We employ full-time professional inspectors who anonymously visit restaurants and hotels, and evaluate them on a range of criteria. Our evaluation process has been honed over time to identify consistently high-quality establishments to suit a range of budgets and across a range of styles and cuisines.
If our inspectors are impressed by a restaurant or hotel, they visit the establishment again. And again. It is this sort of obsessive research that makes the Michelin Guide such a reliable source of recommendations. No matter what the occasion, we think you'll find that the Michelin Guide will help you make the perfect choice.
The Michelin Guide. How to find perfect.
(From www.michelinguide.com)
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From Publisher
The Michelin Guide to Los Angeles 2008 is the latest title in a world-renowned series of hotel and restaurant guides. Each listing is recommended by Michelin's team of anonymous, independent inspectors based on a process that has stood the test of time.
Michelin awards select restaurants stars for culinary excellence. The guide is organized by neighborhood and detailed descriptions of each listing provide the reader with a picture of everything from the ambience to the cuisine. This guide celebrates the culinary diversity of Los Angeles and is perfect for locals and visitors alike.
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Betty Hallock (MSL quote), USA
<2007-11-22 00:00>
Restaurateurs and chefs across Southern California were congratulating one another Friday on their Michelin ratings, even though the highly anticipated restaurant guide - the first ever for Los Angeles - wasn't scheduled to be announced until Monday.
Some chefs already had figured out a way to access the list of starred restaurants on the Michelin guide website in advance of the official announcement.
No Los Angeles restaurants earned Michelin's highly coveted three-star rating, but two-star ratings were awarded to Spago, Wolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills flagship; Mélisse, a California-French dining room in Santa Monica; and Urasawa, a rarefied 10-seat Japanese restaurant on Rodeo Drive.
The 2008 Las Vegas ratings were also accessible online. French chef Joël Robuchon received Vegas' only three-star rating. "This morning one of our patrons called me," he said. "He looked on the Internet site and saw all the results of the guide. There were rumors circulating, but nothing official. I'm really happily stunned." Robuchon, who received his first three-star Michelin rating in 1981 for his eponymous Paris establishment, has renowned restaurants all over the world.
The Michelin guide, published for more than 100 years by the French tire company, is considered the bible of European gastronomy. For many chefs, it is the ultimate accolade. In 2003, Bernard Loiseau, the chef-owner of La Côte d'Or in Burgundy, feared losing his third star and committed suicide. In recent years, though, a number of Parisian chefs have been dismissive of the guide.
With Michelin stars, however, comes enormous prestige, as well as business. "It was one of the single greatest factors in affecting our business and the demographic of our clientele," said David Kinch, chef-owner of Manresa in Los Gatos. Last year the restaurant received two stars when the "Michelin Guide San Francisco, Bay Area & Wine Country" was published for the first time. "It changed everything. It's been amazing. Visitors coming from all over the world. All of a sudden we became a part of the trail."
Director Jean-Luc Naret has been at the forefront of the company's push to become the preeminent arbiter of global dining. The annual guides cover 22 countries. The first North American guide, "Michelin Guide New York City 2006," was published in 2005. The guide for Tokyo, Michelin's first foray into Asia, also will be released this month.
Michelin announced in March that it would be publishing its first Los Angeles guide this month. And the local restaurant industry had been atwitter since then - wondering when Michelin inspectors had visited their restaurants, and if anyone would receive three stars. Now all the talk is about who got how many stars.
In the weeks before Michelin's announcement, speculation among restaurateurs and chefs was that no Los Angeles restaurant would receive three stars. Robuchon and Guy Savoy in Las Vegas were considered contenders. Guy Savoy earned two stars.
"I had never thought Michelin would be coming to L.A.," said Josiah Citrin, chef-owner of Mélisse, whose two stars came as something of a surprise. "Of course, I am very happy about two stars. This isn't just L.A. two stars; this is two stars across the world. Americans might not know how hard it is to have even one star and how few there are... And who knows? Maybe this will raise the bar in Los Angeles."
"I'm interested to see people's reaction to the guide and how it's embraced in the community," said Lee Hefter, executive chef at Spago, which also garnered two stars. "My staff certainly is motivated to do even a better job. I think naturally we're expected to perform at an even higher level."
The 15 one-star restaurants include Providence, Michael Cimarusti's highly regarded Melrose Avenue seafood restaurant; Sona, David Myers' formal spot in West Hollywood; Water Grill, the downtown seafood house; Ortolan, Christophe Emé's ornate French place on Beverly Boulevard; Patina, Joachim Splichal's flagship at Walt Disney Concert Hall; Ritz-Carlton Huntington Dining Room in Pasadena; Mori Sushi in West Los Angeles; La Botte in Santa Monica; and Joe's in Venice. Many in the food world were surprised that Providence received only one star and that Lucques, in West Hollywood, and Hatfield's, on Beverly, were not on the list.
"I'm glad to be on the list at all," said Cimarusti. "If I wasn't there, I'd be upset. Now I have something to shoot for. Onward and upward."
According to the guide, one star "indicates a very good restaurant in its category, a good place to stop on your journey." Two stars denote "excellent cuisine, worth a detour, with specialties and wine of first-class quality." And three stars reward "exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey, where diners eat extremely well, often superbly. The wine list features generally outstanding vintages, and the surroundings and service are part of this unique experience, which is priced accordingly."
"I'm the most delighted; we're really proud," said La Botte owner Stefano DeLorenzo. "I grew up in Italy, admiring Michelin-starred restaurants. This is completely different from Zagat. Zagat is a survey; the Michelin guide sends out professional inspectors."
According to Michelin's Naret, five West Coast inspectors cover Los Angeles and Las Vegas. "We really try to appreciate what Los Angeles and its diversity have to offer," Naret said.
Christian Delhaye, worldwide head of maps and guides for Michelin, said Los Angeles and Las Vegas were impressive for "the great quality of the restaurants there and the great diversity of what we found there."
"The Michelin selection is not a French selection of French restaurants," Delhaye said. "Michelin is doing a selection of all the best restaurants -- whatever the style, whatever the origin."
When the guide was first released for the Bay Area, there had been some criticism that inspectors were biased toward French cuisine.
"You could see in our guide that there is a balanced selection," Naret said. "We cover all kinds of food. The French Laundry would have received three stars whether it was called the French Laundry or the Spanish Laundry."
Naret is scheduled to call L.A. and Las Vegas chefs who earned a star or stars Monday morning in advance of the planned official announcement at noon. The "Michelin Guide Los Angeles 2008" will be on sale at bookstores Wednesday.
Leaks surrounding Michelin's announcements have become something of a tradition, though they're not always accurate: Last year in Paris, it was expected that Hélène Darroze would receive three stars, but when the official results were announced, her eponymous restaurant received two. In 2005, a bookstore in Corsica put the Michelin guides on display a week ahead of schedule and a local newspaper published an article on the three-star changes.
This time around, the leak was traced to Michelin's own website, where, by changing a few characters in the Web address, anyone was able to pull up lists of the starred restaurants in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Delhaye confirmed Friday that the list was official. "It was a mistake" that it was available on the website, he said. "It was only up for a short time." The Web page is no longer viewable on the Michelin site, but the rankings are outlined here in an accompanying list.
So how did the Los Angeles leak come about? Did some clever gastronome figure out the side-door entry to the list of starred restaurants, or were restaurateurs tipped off by someone in the know? The restaurateurs aren't talking - much. One L.A.-area restaurant owner who did not want to be identified said he was tipped off in an e-mail from a friend.
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