The Michelin Guides are a series of guide books that have been published by the French tyre company Michelin since 1900. The Guide awards up to three Michelin stars for excellence to a select few restaurants in certain geographic areas. Michelin also publishes the Green Guides, a series of general guides to cities, regions, and countries.
Michael Mina is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author. He is the founder of the Mina Group, a restaurant management company operating over 40 restaurants worldwide. He is the executive chef at his two namesake restaurants in San Francisco and Las Vegas, which each have earned a star in the Michelin Guide. He authored his first cookbook in 2006 and has made numerous television appearances.
Daniel Patterson is an American chef, restaurateur, and food writer, considered a leading proponent of California cuisine.
Momofuku is a culinary brand established by chef David Chang in 2004 with the opening of Momofuku Noodle Bar. It includes restaurants in New York City, Toronto (defunct), Las Vegas, and Los Angeles, a bakery established by pastry chef Christina Tosi, a bar (Nikai), and a quarterly magazine.
Tanya Holland is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, podcast host, writer, and cookbook author. She is known as an expert of soul food. Holland is an alumna of Bravo TV's Top Chef, where she competed on the 15th season. She was the owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen in Oakland, California, which received national recognition and multiple Michelin Bib Gourmand awards.
The Girl & The Fig is a restaurant in Sonoma, California in the United States. It was opened in Glen Ellen, California by Sondra Bernstein in 1997. In 2001, the restaurant relocated to downtown Sonoma.
Harvest Moon Cafe was a New American restaurant in Sonoma, California in the United States. The restaurant closed in September 2019 after thirteen years of service.
Adega was a Portuguese restaurant in the Little Portugal neighborhood of San Jose, California. Established in 2015, it became the city's first restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star in 2016. In Summer 2023, the owners announced that the restaurant would close at the end of the year, to be replaced by a second location of Petiscos, a more casual Portuguese restaurant with the same chefs. Ownership reversed course in October 2024 and announced Adega would reopen in November 2024.
The Bywater is a casual, New Orleans-inspired restaurant located in Los Gatos, California. The restaurant was founded in 2016 by chef David Kinch, the owner and chef of Michelin 3-star-rated Manresa, also located in Los Gatos. The name of the restaurant is a reference to the New Orleans neighborhood of the same name.
Jason Vincent is American, national award-winning chef and co-owner of the restaurant Giant, located in Chicago, Illinois.
Cafe La Haye is a restaurant in Sonoma, California in the United States. It was opened by owner Saul Gropman in 1996. When Michael Bauer was food critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, Cafe La Haye was a perennial listing in his annual Top 100 restaurants list and one of his favorite restaurants in Wine Country. Cafe La Haye sources food produced within 60 miles of the restaurant.
SingleThread is a farm, restaurant, and inn, located in Healdsburg, California.
Casey Thompson is an American chef and restaurateur from Dallas, Texas. Between 2020 and 2024, she was the executive chef at Folktable, a restaurant in Sonoma, California.
Nite Yun is a Cambodian American chef and restaurateur. She is the owner of the Cambodian restaurant Nyum Bai in Oakland, California.
Sunnys Chinese is a Chinese restaurant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The Ace is a restaurant and gastropub in the Parkdale neighbourhood of Toronto's West End.
