What to expect from Michelin’s new California guide

The definitive foodie guide to the Golden State has met with a mixed reception

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Michelin, the tyre company turned arbiters of taste, have just released the 2019 Michelin Guide California. While they’ve covered Californian cities in the past – including Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009 – in recent years, the inspectors have restricted themselves to San Francisco and the Bay Area, celebrating the likes of The French Laundry, The Farmhouse Inn, Quince and Commis in the process.

However, as Gwendal Poullennec, International Director of the Michelin Guides, tells me, because of the “quality of food, the quality of the produce they’re offering here”, casting the net across the entire state felt almost inevitable.

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