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Actually Michelin is not up to the task. They lacked the resources in 2010 to do Las Vegas and LA and don't do the rest of the country.
Michelin is a very good guide to cuisine raised to the highest idiot level...and not much else.
Las Vegas cuisine cleans the clock of all the US cities with perhaps an exception for NYC. SF is a great food city in its own mind...but that view likely does not reach to those who live outside it.
Nope, LA was dropped because it's "not a food city" according to Michelin.
Michelin lies and then lies some more. See the book by the Michelin inspector. The belief that they provide some insight is simply the fantasy of various social climbers who believe food must be pronounced in the french way or second class.
There are few things in life better than a properly aged Kansas City steak eaten in the stockyards...or oysters broiled on a grill anywhere in the north east...
They ceased publishing guides in Los Angeles and Las Vegas because sales were poor, and, sniffed Naret, "the people in Los Angeles are not real foodies. They are not too interested in eating well but just in who goes to which restaurant and where they sit." [LEFT]
Read more: Jean-Luc Naret on Michelin Guide New York 2011 - Jean Luc Naret Interview - Esquire
I will admit the comments on the link cited have to be one of the better trips of our time...There will always be an LA and it is "different".
On the other hand it is clear that pretty much no one in the west gave a damn what Michelin thought and would not pony up for the Guide.
So no more Guide Michelin outside of the lunatic fringe USA.
People in the bay have them... I know people in Chicago have the guides too, not just Michelin, but BYOB guides, Wine, Zagat, etc... I just go over to somebodies house or somebodies desk at the office and I see them. They will sell no worries. Why? Because these cities are foodie cities. Las Vegas has good restaurants but they are all on the strip and the people patronizing them are tourists.
They ceased publishing guides in Los Angeles and Las Vegas because sales were poor, and, sniffed Naret, "the people in Los Angeles are not real foodies. They are not too interested in eating well but just in who goes to which restaurant and where they sit." [LEFT]
Read more: Jean-Luc Naret on Michelin Guide New York 2011 - Jean Luc Naret Interview - Esquire
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But if people in L.A. are so focused on being seen at the "right" places, then shouldn't sales have been through the roof since all the shallow people in SoCal want to eat where its cool to?
Seems pretty contradictory to me. The fact that sales were poor says more to the fact that people in L.A. actually don't give a damn about eating at the "right" places where people "should" eat and would rather just dine wherever the hell they want.
But if people in L.A. are so focused on being seen at the "right" places, then shouldn't sales have been through the roof since all the shallow people in SoCal want to eat where its cool to?
Seems pretty contradictory to me. The fact that sales were poor says more to the fact that people in L.A. actually don't give a damn about eating at the "right" places where people "should" eat and would rather just dine wherever the hell they want.
Nah the fine cuisines aren't necessarily the "hot" places to go. They are judging based on food excellence, not how hip or cool some place is. I mean a lot of places where the food is excellent, the dining scene is rather stuffy. The food in LA is great though, no worries. I just don't think they have been doing the "high end" cuisine as much as other cities as of late. Why this is, I am not sure, but the guy from Michelin stating that isn't a revelation this has been going on for quite awhile, probably since the sell out of Wolfgang Puck LoL. I think instead of opening restaurants, he is now into acting...opening sub par restaurants in Tulsa, and staring as the Chef Smurf in the upcoming Smurfs 3D.
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