How does the Michelin Guide come up with its ratings? The Guardian gives a Q&A about Michelin stars, describing what Michelin inspectors do and the criteria they use to award stars....
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Clare Smyth has taken over the kitchen at Gordon Ramsay’s flagship restaurant, making her the first female chef in Britain to run a restaurant with three Michelin stars....
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Yesterday the second edition of the Michelin Guide San Francisco was released. Eater SF has a nice wrap-up of industry reaction, and this morning Michael Bauer weighs in....
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According to Russ Parsons of the Los Angeles Times, Michelin has just announced that their little red books will be coming out in Southern California and Las Vegas editions this fall, marking Michelin's third and fourth additions to the North American market (after New York and San Francisco Bay Area) and only the fourth and fifth guides for non-European cities (after the Tokyo Guide announced two weeks ago). "Los Angeles has a full-time team of six inspectors and Las Vegas four, says Christian Delhaye, the Paris-based president of Michelin Maps & Guides. Each local inspector averages more than 300 restaurant meals per year, he says. Their reports are supplemented by visits from inspectors from outside the area — from...
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Anne-Sophie Pic is the first female three-star Michelin chef in France in more than 50 years. This interview in the Observer Food Monthly also includes some great background on and comments from the other female three-star Michelin chefs. One of Pic's observations of the differences between men and women chefs: "Yes, I see the way male chefs shout, the macho thing. Fine. But it's just not the way I want to run it. I think it's an odd way of getting through to people. Not a good way. If you shout it gives out the impression that there's something wrong. But I don't mean there's some kind of peace. We are very tense. People are very, very concentrated in the...
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