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The French Laundry, a 3 Michelin-starred restaurant in Yountville, California. The Michelin Guides have been published by the French tire company Michelin since 1900. They were designed as a guide to tell drivers about eateries they recommended to visit and to subtly sponsor their tires, by encouraging drivers to use their cars more and therefore need to replace the tires as they wore out.
One of the earliest of the now-famous restaurant guides whose ratings of the restaurants are generated by readers' comments. 1993 Zagat San Francisco Bay Area Restaurant Survey, edited by Anthony Dias Blue, Jack R. Weiner, and Eric Wald, Coordinators, Zagat Survey, New York, 1992, ISBN 0-943421-79-9. Annual update to the earlier-cited book.
The Poodle Dog Restaurants trace their origin to San Francisco's earliest days as a city. The first iteration of the Poodle Dog appears to have been a California Gold Rush era restaurant that provided inexpensive French cuisine to those seeking their fortune. [3] [10] Historians do not agree on the origin story of the Poodle Dog's name.
Benu is the first restaurant in San Francisco to have received Three Michelin Stars. Located in the SoMa district, Benu was opened in 2010 by chef Corey Lee, the former Chef de Cuisine at the French Laundry. [2] [3] In 2019, Benu made its debut on The World's 50 Best Restaurants, and in 2024 celebrated ten consecutive years of receiving three ...
Atelier Crenn is a French [1] restaurant in the Cow Hollow neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Opened in 2011 by Dominique Crenn and Juan Contreras, the restaurant became the seventh restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area to be awarded three Michelin stars by the Michelin Guide in 2018. [2] [3]
Roland Passot is a French chef and restaurateur. His most well-known restaurant, La Folie, was open in San Francisco from 1988 to 2020. He is also owner of the more casual Left Bank Basseries and LB Steak restaurants. Passot was named one of "the eight wonders of Bay Area dining" by San Francisco Chronicle lead critic Michael Bauer. [2]
Dominique Crenn (born 7 April 1965) is a French chef. [1] As of 2016, she was the only female chef in the United States to attain three Michelin stars, for her restaurant Atelier Crenn, in San Francisco. [2]
Des Jardins apprenticed at several three-star French restaurants, including La Maison Troisgros, and was executive chef at Joachim Splichal's Patina in Los Angeles. [4] Later, she worked at notable San Francisco restaurants Aqua , Elka , and Rubicon before opening Jardinière in 1997.