Here are this year's new Michelin star awardees in Los Angeles and greater California.
“First and foremost, when we’re looking at a restaurant at the star category, we are evaluating the restaurant on five very specific criteria,” said a chief Michelin’s inspector who has served as such for more than one decade.
In 2022 no L.A. restaurants were newly awarded two stars. With the exception of Vespertine, which is currently closed, all area restaurants that held two stars in 2021 — Hayato, Mélisse, n/naka, Providence and Sushi Ginza Onodera — maintained them in 2022. Restaurants that did not maintain their one-star rating from 2021 include Bistro Na’s, Cut, Le Comptoir, Pasjoli, Rustic Canyon, Shunji and Sushi Inaba.
To Christian Davis, co-founder of Little Ethiopia’s Flavors from Afar, the Bib Gourmand news came as a welcome surprise. Davis learned of his restaurant’s award by way of his friend, who had texted congratulations that morning. The restaurateur never realized he’d been visited by a Michelin inspector, nor did he know his business could be considered for an award beyond Flavors from Afar’s general inclusion of notable spots announced earlier in the year.
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