The Michelin scale is brilliant because it's just varying degrees of exceptional and below that threshhold there's no rating. Average simply does not exist! Oh to live that life.
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Lean all the way into ReMap, use elevations as a score. Tears of the kingdom, that's 1265ft above sea level. Elden Ring, feels like Everest to climb, let's use that height. Helldivers 2, what would be the elevation of hell?
mar 11, 2024, 4:46 pm • 1 0 • view
This is also true of NYT restaurant reviews, but a lot of people don't know that. A friend working as a cook on the west coast was insulted when a customer from NYC exclaimed "this is as good as any two-star restaurant!" A bunch of other cooks set her straight after work at the industry bar ;)
mar 11, 2024, 8:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes and I love how being listed in the guide even without a star is a statement. I really like the original the scale was based on car journeys. One star worth stopping on your way. Two stars worth taking a detour for. Three stars, you should plan your journey around this.
mar 11, 2024, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
The other funny thing about the Guide is that it seems like it is still really well regarded but it is *paid* to cover the areas it covers, if I understand it correctly. And for that expense there's a good chance they come in and just write off most of your restaurants as not being worth discussing.
mar 11, 2024, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Sorry to come back to this after some time but is this not a good thing? I have never had a bad meal at a starred restaurant. The ratings on the non-stared places I have been to have been accuratish (we could quibble). But it’s like journalism in a way and they do play full price for the food.
mar 11, 2024, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
It's a good thing just so different from other models.
mar 12, 2024, 1:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I did not know that. There are cases in Europe where certain restaurants were given stars they did not want and wanted removed which doesn’t quite fit with a purely commercial arrangement. Do you know if anyone has written about the details? Is there different companies at play between US and EU?
mar 11, 2024, 6:54 pm • 0 0 • view
The shakedown is regional: city/national institutions ante up, not individual restaurants.
mar 11, 2024, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
So I found this article www.eater.com/2018/7/18/17... which seems like Michelin took payments to set up the infrastructure for a guide in places that didn’t have one before. Do we think established places are making payments?
mar 11, 2024, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
"Unlike the handful of new guides rolling out in Asia, no U.S. cities have ever paid a “commission” to Michelin, according to the report." So seems like no?
mar 11, 2024, 9:41 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s why the James Beard award is a bigger deal in the South. The region between Miami and D.C. doesn’t exist in the guide.
mar 11, 2024, 6:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Always liked the Penguin guide system which was a four star system but the reviewer could award a rose which had nothing to do with the score and meant the performance had something special that some may enjoy. Binary Domain as a whole might be a 2/4 but I’d give it a Rose for its story and vibes
mar 12, 2024, 2:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh that's a very good system. Kind of captures the head / heart thing I so often feel when I step back from a creative work.
mar 12, 2024, 11:37 pm • 2 0 • view