Michelin 2016 Announced Star Recipients

The guide’s reviewers (commonly called “inspectors”) anonymously award restaurants with either one star, two stars, or three stars. The stars are awarded as follows:

• One star: A good place to stop on your journey, indicating a very good restaurant in its category, offering cuisine prepared to a consistently high standard.
• Two stars: A restaurant worth a detour, indicating excellent cuisine and skillfully and carefully crafted dishes of outstanding quality
• Three stars: A restaurant worth a special journey, indicating exceptional cuisine where diners eat extremely well, often superbly. Distinctive dishes are precisely executed, using superlative ingredients.

Congratulations to all the Michelin 2016 winners! We’re excited to congratulate the following ICC’s alumni and faculty who made us incredibly proud this year:

THREE STARS (“EXCEPTIONAL CUISINE, WORTH A SPECIAL JOURNEY”)

Manresa // David Kinch

320 Village Ln.
Los Gatos, CA

Saison // Josh Skenes

178 Townsend St.
San Francisco, CA

TWO STARS (“EXCELLENT CUISINE, WORTH A DETOUR”)

Momofuku Ko // David Chang

8 Extra Pl.
New York, NY

ONE STAR (“A VERY GOOD RESTAURANT IN ITS CATEGORY”)

Blue Hill // Dan Barber

75 Washington Pl.
New York, NY

Sepia // Andrew Zimmerman

123 N. Jefferson St.
Chicago, IL

Public // Dan Rafalin

210 Elizabeth St.
New York, NY

Meadowsweet // Polo Dobkin

149 Broadway
Brooklyn, NY

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