Tried one in Rome and my son got his first experience with a tasting menu. It was like our 12th choice but it was the one we could get based on our schedule and restaurant closing days. Mrs. Cad and Cad Jr. were not overly thrilled as it was a bit experimental but no where as bad as The Wolf’s Tailor. We did have an experience when we sat down with, “Do we eat this or look at it?” It turned out to be chips in a tree branch suspended from the ceiling.
We ate at the Inn at Little Washington years ago, which has 3 stars. It’s been so long I don’t remember much.
Either at 3 or 4. Longman and Eagle, and Girl and the Goat (this is the one I’m not sure about) in Chicago; Bresca in DC; and Marv and Ben in Copenhagen.
The two Chicago ones were the best, then Copenhagen, and Bresca was probably the most disappointing meal I’ve had in my life.
What a coincidence that this thread got bumped now – I just dined at Ever last week when I was in Chicago, which has 2 stars, my first time at a Michelin starred restaurant. The service was absolutely top notch, and each dish was like a work of art. I almost felt bad eating them, since they obviously put a lot of effort into the presentation. It was by far the most expensive meal I’ve ever had in my life, but as a bucket list experience it was worth it.
Tacos Oscar in Oakland, but it might not have got it’s star yet, and maybe a couple others locally, Nice tacos but over prettyfied. Tacos are food, not art.
In 1990 (or 1991, I forget) I took my girlfriend to The Maisonette in Cincinnati. It was a 5-star restaurant.
Since then, I am not even sure if I have been to a Michelin Star restaurant.
The most Michelin stars that there can be are three. It looks like that place had a thing called a Mobile 5 Star award and was extremely highly rated but never got a Michelin star.
According to Wiki,
A Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star rating is a considerable honor, with only 323 hotels, 102 spas and 74 restaurants receiving the top honor in 2022.
Also check out the first table on that page. (Though it looks like most are not around anymore.)
Rootstalk Breck in Breckenridge, CO doesn’t have a Michelin Star yet but probably will soon.
Right, not a Michelin Star restaurant. It got five starts from a different system.
Ahh, got it. Wasn’t aware there were different systems.
Neither was I but the five star rating tipped me off
I imagine that a five-star Michelin restaurant would have to engage in culinary excellence at a level that breaks the laws of physics. Like you have to make your reservation three years after the meal, the dining room is a non-Euclidean space, the tablecloth is a color that the human mind can’t process, and the main course is braised pterodactyl, served on fire inside a perfectly sealed vacuum and then spoon-fed to you by Yog-Sothoth himself.
You contradict yourself. 
Hell, I’ve worked at one (as a lowly kitchen porter). It’s been on and off for many years, but the Airds Hotel in Scotland. Food was fan-fucking-tastic including staff meals.
And the MC is Max Quordlepleen.
In the U.S., there’s been the Mobil/Forbes guides, the AAA guide, etc. Mobil/Forbes and AAA all give five stars (or diamonds) as their top rating; originally, they primarily rated U.S. and Canadian restaurants (and hotels). A five-star (or five-diamond) restaurant would be an excellent one, while ones with one or two stars would probably be an “approved” casual or quick-service restaurant.
The Michelin guides and ratings, on the other hand, are done by Michelin (yes, the French tire company). They did not begin rating American restaurants until 2005, and they limit their U.S. ratings to the biggest cities, and a few states – so, while there might be an amazing restaurant in, say, northern Wisconsin, Michelin doesn’t send reviewers up there, and so, it’ll never appear in their guides.
As noted, the highest rating which Michelin gives is three stars. And, with Michelin’s ratings, even receiving a single star is an exceptional honor, and signifies a really excellent restaurant: as of the last set of U.S. ratings, only 223 U.S. restaurants received Michelin star ratings, and only 13 received a 3-star rating.
Not true. Colorado has one in Boulder and one in Aspen.
You missed the second part of my phrase (bolding mine)
The list of where they currently do U.S. ratings, according to Wikipedia:
- Atlanta
- Chicago
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- New York City
- Washington D.C.
It indicates that, in their 2023 guide, five Colorado restaurants got a star, and another 9 received a “Bib Gourmand” rating – a newer rating, given for “exceptionally good food at moderate prices.”
I thought the two clauses were conjunctive not disjunctive.
I have clarified.