I think it is unrealistic when you do this for a very, very small subset (PA area) of a large area (Bay Area). Also, do you compare each New American, French. Italian, Vietnamese, Thai place dish by dish or how do you determine what is a better restaurant - for us it is more to find the places with the best overall impression at each location and than try them out
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its certainly an unrealistic bar, but one unique to having LA as a baseline reference… but i agree all the places you listed are perfectly good places!
Wakuriya is very good and is harder for me to get a reservation than SY. For wakuriya you need to leave a voice mail exactly 1 month in advance from when you want to visit, at 12am on their analog answering machine and hope you don’t get a busy tone.
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The one place in the Palo Alto area that’s on my list of places I’m eager to try is Meyhouse in Sunnyvale. I don’t think there’s anything like it in LA. For a year or more they’ve been promising to open a new place in the middle of the Palo Alto food desert, which would be a lot more convenient on the rare occasions business takes me to that neighborhood.
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Meyhouse in Sunnyvale is closed for the last 2 months already
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fascinating to see michelin writing about … villa’s tacos!
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I know there’s a lot of hype around that place but is it actually any good?
I had it when he was still doing it in front of his house, and it was good then, but haven’t checked out the b&m yet
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Yeah, I go every few weeks. I wouldn’t tell you to drive across town for it, but if you were in hlp it’s certainly worth a stop.
The mulitas are one hundred percent the move. But it’s charcoal grilled meats, handmade tortillas, a cheese crust, and a ton of tasty guacamole. Can’t really go wrong with them.
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yeah that sounds pretty good, if i’m in the area I’ll check them out
next reveal july 18th in oakland. will kato get 2?
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The Michelin app is really quite good
Carnes Asadas Pancho Lopez
Cobi’s
Eat Joy Food
Villa’s Tacos
Mabel’s Gone Fishing
Maligne
Bansang
Bombera
Snail Bar
Petiscos
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Snail Bar is great but the prices are kind of high for Bib Gourmand. You could maybe order three dishes for under whatever the price cap is these days (is there one?), but it might not be much food.
What Bib restaurants do have in common is their simpler style of cooking, which is recognisable and easy-to-eat. A Bib Gourmand restaurant will also leave you with a sense of satisfaction, at having eaten so well at such a reasonable price.
Pretty mystified by the Pancho Lopez choice tbh. I think it’s perfectly good but also totally unremarkable in the landscape of casual homestyle Mexican. Feels like someone at Michelin went to their first ever casual Mexican restaurant this year.
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$49 in 2022
Seems like they have some experience with which to compare.
Birria en consommé is another warming, brothy hit, packing in more delicacy and nuance than the typical effort.
Same! I like their carne en su jugo and am by no means an expert but prefer versions made with flank or sirloin or chuck vs the ground beef style I was served.
Maybe it was an off day? Most of the online photos of Pancho Lopez’s version show steak not ground beef…
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Oh sorry thought it would be obvious but I didn’t mean that literally. Just a rhetorical technique to emphasize that choosing an unremarkable, pretty standard place in the genre makes it seem like they have only recently discovered that this category can be quite good.
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