{"id":96,"date":"2010-10-30T22:41:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T02:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:11:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T23:11:02","slug":"2011-bay-area-michelin-guide-published-for-san-francisco-the-peninsula-and-the-wine-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"2011 Bay Area Michelin Guide published for San Francisco, the Peninsula, and the Wine Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The 2011 Michelin Guide was released this week, much to the relief of many restaurants in the Bay Area \u2013 including San Francisco, Santa Clara, Berkeley, the Wine Country, and Los Gatos \u2013 that had been holding their collective breath to see what their star status would be.<\/p>\n

Michelin Guides began in Europe in the first part of the 20th<\/sup> century. The first US guide was published in 2005, for New York restaurants. The first San Francisco and Bay Area version was published in 2006. Restaurants that make it to the guide either get one star (\u201cA very good restaurant in its category\u201d), two stars (\u201cExcellent cuisine, worth a detour\u201d) or three stars (\u201cExceptional cuisine, worth a special journey\u201d).<\/p>\n

Michelin director Jean-Luc Naret commented on this year\u2019s guide: \u201cThe Bay Area is a particularly fertile farming region. There is so much to choose from – we spend a full year studying this region to produce our guide and the effort is immensely satisfying. This is quite simply one of the finest culinary regions in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the biggest pieces of news? St. Helena\u2019s The Restaurant at Meadowood<\/a>, a first-timer to the guide, received three stars. Now The French Laundry<\/a><\/a> and Meadowood are the only Bay Area three-star venues. Also, Berkeley\u2019s Chez Panisse<\/a> has lost its star (!) while San Francisco\u2019s Spruce gained a star, appearing in the guide for the first time (I had the opportunity to taste Chef Sullivan\u2019s cuisine at the 2009 SF Chefs Food Wine festival and it was definitely delicious).\u00a0 Our local South Bay\/Peninsula region made it with several newcomers. Besides Spruce, the 11 additions to the one-star section are, in alphabetical order: Alexander\u2019s Steakhouse (Cupertino), Applewood (Guerneville), Baum\u00e9 (Palo Alto), Campton Place (San Francisco), Dio Deka (Los Gatos), Frances (SF), Madera (Menlo Park), Mirepoix (Windsor), Saison (SF), and Wakuriya (San Mateo). Other one-star restaurants include Saratoga\u2019s Plumed Horse<\/a> and Oakland\u2019s Commis<\/a> which is run by James Syhabout, former Chef de Cuisine of Los Gatos restaurant Manresa.<\/p>\n

Our local Manresa<\/a> still has two stars, along with Coi<\/a> (SF) and Cyrus (Healdsburg). The heads of Manresa and Coi, extraordinary chefs David Kinch and Daniel Patterson, actually joined forces in February at Coi for a special benefit dinner for Bocuse d\u2019Or<\/a>.\u00a0 Read my interview<\/a> with David Kinch. Chef Kinch, as you may recall, won a James Beard Award<\/a> earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Here is the full list of Michelin star-winners:<\/p>\n

Three stars:<\/strong><\/p>\n

French Laundry (The)<\/p>\n

Restaurant at Meadowood (The) (New)<\/p>\n

Two stars:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coi<\/p>\n

Cyrus<\/p>\n

Manresa<\/p>\n

One star:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acquerello<\/p>\n

Alexander\u2019s Steakhouse (New)<\/p>\n

Ame<\/p>\n

Applewood (New)<\/p>\n

Auberge de Soleil<\/p>\n

Aziza<\/p>\n

Baum\u00e9 (New)<\/p>\n

Bouchon<\/p>\n

Boulevard<\/p>\n

Campton Place (New)<\/p>\n

Chez TJ<\/p>\n

Commis<\/p>\n

Dining Room at the Ritz Carlton (The)<\/p>\n

Dio Deka (New)<\/p>\n

\u00e9toile<\/p>\n

Farmhouse Inn & Restaurant<\/p>\n

Fleur de Lys<\/p>\n

Frances (New)<\/p>\n

Gary Danko<\/p>\n

La Folie<\/p>\n

La Toque<\/p>\n

Luce<\/p>\n

Madera (New)<\/p>\n

Madrona Manor<\/p>\n

Masa\u2019s<\/p>\n

Mirepoix (New)<\/p>\n

Murray Circle<\/p>\n

One Market<\/p>\n

Plumed Horse<\/p>\n

Quince<\/p>\n

Redd<\/p>\n

Saison (New)<\/p>\n

Sant\u00e9<\/p>\n

Solbar<\/p>\n

Spruce (New)<\/p>\n

Terra<\/p>\n

Ubuntu<\/p>\n

Village Pub (The)<\/p>\n

Wakuriya (New)<\/p>\n

If you’re on Twitter please follow me @santacruzfoodie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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