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The Dallas BVLGARI closed just after the pandemic. I’d suppose they’ll re-enter the market at some point.
They were booted from their spot in NorthPark to make room so the LV store could expand. It re-opened in a temp spot that was waiting for another luxury store to start construction, so it got booted from there after that. Like you suspect, I could see it re-opening in Dallas at a future spot in NorthPark or in HP Village.
Well this is the very nature of this thread, exclusivity right?
Michelin guides arent everywhere just like Chanel and Cartier are not everywhere.
SF had its own guide that was an actual expansion choice by Michelin, not solicited by SF at all, even after LA and Vegas both had their guides cancelled for weak demand and only now the rest of the state is being combined with the SF guide and has been renamed the California guide, otherwise the SF guide by itself had more 3-star restaurants than NY which is pretty impressive, who knows if that will last.
Anyhow, Vancouver's first guide just came out a few weeks ago:
Vancouver’s 2022 Michelin Stars
One star:
AnnaLena
Barbara
Burdock & Co
iDen & QuanJuDe Beijing Duck House
Kissa Tanto
Masayoshi
Published on Main
St. Lawrence
8 Vancouver restaurants scored 1-star ratings, none scored 2 or 3 stars.
But there's a difference between high-end shopping and high-end dining, namely, just about any city of 500,000 or more has at least one restaurant in it that can be considered luxe, and high-end dining is not dominated by chains or Big Name Establishments. Fine dining is local in a way luxury shopping is not.
And — as Soonhun's post linking that "5 Myths About the Michelin Guide Debunked" article demonstrates — the Michelin Guide is not focused on high-end dining. Like the James Beard Awards, Michelin Guide reviewers will give stars to any restaurant whose food they find worthy of eating, whether plain or fancy. (I suspect that were Michelin to rate Philadelphia restaurants, they would give stars to John's Roast Pork on the Delaware riverfront; that sandwich stand received a James Beard Award as an "American Classic" about four or five years ago.)
So: Michelin stars are status symbols, but they aren't about exclusivity, or at least not the kind of exclusivity this thread focuses on.
But there's a difference between high-end shopping and high-end dining, namely, just about any city of 500,000 or more has at least one restaurant in it that can be considered luxe, and high-end dining is not dominated by chains or Big Name Establishments. Fine dining is local in a way luxury shopping is not.
And — as Soonhun's post linking that "5 Myths About the Michelin Guide Debunked" article demonstrates — the Michelin Guide is not focused on high-end dining. Like the James Beard Awards, Michelin Guide reviewers will give stars to any restaurant whose food they find worthy of eating, whether plain or fancy. (I suspect that were Michelin to rate Philadelphia restaurants, they would give stars to John's Roast Pork on the Delaware riverfront; that sandwich stand received a James Beard Award as an "American Classic" about four or five years ago.)
So: Michelin stars are status symbols, but they aren't about exclusivity, or at least not the kind of exclusivity this thread focuses on.
Except that nearly all Michelin 2- or 3-star restaurants are expensive and definitely in the territory of fine-dining. Michelin has Bib Gourmand, which is more affordable, but most of the starred restaurants are expensive.
But there's a difference between high-end shopping and high-end dining, namely, just about any city of 500,000 or more has at least one restaurant in it that can be considered luxe, and high-end dining is not dominated by chains or Big Name Establishments. Fine dining is local in a way luxury shopping is not.
And — as Soonhun's post linking that "5 Myths About the Michelin Guide Debunked" article demonstrates — the Michelin Guide is not focused on high-end dining. Like the James Beard Awards, Michelin Guide reviewers will give stars to any restaurant whose food they find worthy of eating, whether plain or fancy. (I suspect that were Michelin to rate Philadelphia restaurants, they would give stars to John's Roast Pork on the Delaware riverfront; that sandwich stand received a James Beard Award as an "American Classic" about four or five years ago.)
So: Michelin stars are status symbols, but they aren't about exclusivity, or at least not the kind of exclusivity this thread focuses on.
I also don't find it relevant to to correlate Michelin Stars to high-end shopping for the purposes of this thread. Because Michelin rankings are not present in several American cities, the most egregious omissions are Houston and Philadelphia. But both cities have no storage of high-end shopping (especially Houston).
This random article was popular for some reason. Best shopping cities USA
1. SF
2. Seattle
3. Charleston
4. Vegas
5. LA
6. Chicago
7. NYC
8. Portland
9. Houston
10. Minneapolis
Terrible list regardless of what they were using to measure.
Yea, so many of these lists feel like picking cities out of a hat...
But I guess the criteria is... "THESE DESTINATIONS ARE BURSTING WITH LUXURY DESIGNER SHOPS, INDEPENDENT BOUTIQUES, AND VINTAGE HIDDEN GEMS."
Call me a homer, but any shopping list that doesn't have NYC at the top is flawed. NYC is the luxury designer epicenter of North America, plus factor in the 5 boroughs and you could spend weeks exploring independent boutiques and local hidden gems.
Yea, so many of these lists feel like picking cities out of a hat...
But I guess the criteria is... "THESE DESTINATIONS ARE BURSTING WITH LUXURY DESIGNER SHOPS, INDEPENDENT BOUTIQUES, AND VINTAGE HIDDEN GEMS."
Call me a homer, but any shopping list that doesn't have NYC at the top is flawed. NYC is the luxury designer epicenter of North America, plus factor in the 5 boroughs and you could spend weeks exploring independent boutiques and local hidden gems.
This is an undisputable fact that even NYC haters would agree on lol
Nothing to contribute here except to say that CityCenter DC is quite nice. Georgetown is nice but out of the way for most of DC. Can't wait to see it expand.
Nothing to contribute here except to say that CityCenter DC is quite nice. Georgetown is nice but out of the way for most of DC. Can't wait to see it expand.
CityCenter has that one parking lot on 9th and Nee York they can expand on but that’s it. Whatever office building it will be will likely have ground floor retail and it will be high end most likely.
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