The annual Michelin Guide release for the San Francisco Bay Area always creates a stir. For those of you who know me know that I love good food. Good food, good wine, good company. (And good food doesn’t always mean a 4 course meal at a 4 star restaurant- I am just as happy eating a burger at Big Al’s in El Cerrito)
That being said, I was thrilled to see this years list. (N) means newly starred.
Three Michelin stars mean exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey. One always eats here extremely well, sometimes superbly. Distinctive dishes are precisely executed, using superlative ingredients.
The French Laundry
mean excellent cuisine, worth a detour. Skillfully and carefully crafted dishes of outstanding quality.
Two Michelin stars
Coi
Cyrus
Manresa
The restaurant at Meadowood
One Michelin star means a very good restaurant in its category. A place offering cuisine prepared to a consistently high standard.
Acquerello Luce (N)
Ame Madrona Manor
Auberge du Soleil Masa’s
Aziza (N) Michael Mina
Bouchon Murray Circle
Boulevard One Market
Chez Panisse Plumed Horse
Chex TJ Quince (N)
Commis (N) Range
The Dining Room at the Ritz Carlton Redd
El Paseo (N) closed since the Guide has been printed Santé (N)
étoile (N) Solbar (N)
Farmhouse Inn & Restaurant Terra
Fifth Floor Trevese closed since the Guide has been printed
Fleur de Lys Ubuntu (N)
Gary Danko The Village Pub
La Folie
La Toque (N)
2010 MICHELIN Guide San Francisco Bib Gourmand Restaurants
Angèle Le Charm
Aperto Mamacita
A 16 Marinitas
BarBersQ Market
Bar Tartine Maykadeh
Bay Wolf Mirepoix
Bellanico Monti’s Rotisserie
Betelnut Pejiu Wu Nopa
Border (The) Perbacco
Brown Sugar Kitchen Picán
Burma Superstar Risibisi
Cafe Gibraltar rnm
Camino Sakae
Cena Luna Sakoon
Chevalier Sauce
Colibrí Slanted Door (The)
Cook St. Helena Slow Club
Corso Sociale
Crouching Tiger Tavern at Lark Creek
Cucina Paradiso the girl & the fig
Delfina Tokyo Go Go
Dosa Tommaso’s
Farina TWO
FIVE Universal Cafe
flour + water Vanessa’s Bistro
Henry’s Hunan Willi’s Wine Bar
Hong Kong Flower Lounge Xanh
Incanto Yank Sing
Insalata’s zazu
Junnoon
Kitchen (The)
K & L Bistro
Kokkari Estiatorio
Le Charm
Mamacita
Marinitas
Market
Maykadeh
Mirepoix
Monti’s Rotisserie
Nopa
Perbacco
Pican
Risibisi
rnm
Sakae
Sakoon
Sauce
Slanted Door (The)
Slow Club
Sociale
Tavern at Lark Creek
the girl & the fig
Tokyo Go Go
Tommaso’s
TWO
Universal Cafe
Vanessa’s Bistro
Willie’s Wine Bar
Yank Sing
Zazu
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