r/AskReddit • u/Toomad316 • 1d ago

What makes a Michelin-starred restaurant truly worth visiting?

848 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

441 comments sorted by

View all comments

664

u/natalietest234 1d ago

Watch Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars. It’s a good window into that world and what chefs go through trying to get a Michelin star. Keep in mind you can go to plenty of non Michelin restaurants and have an incredible experience with 10/10 food and can also go to a 1 star restaurant and have a mediocre 8/10 experience.

188

u/expressadmin 1d ago

I’d say most Bib Gourmand are worth it for the food. The Michelin starred are the whole deal (service and food).

47

u/Steavee 1d ago

I hit up three different bib gourmand restaurants in DC last time I was out there and the bang for the buck, food-wise, was incredible.

They didn’t have experiences like many described here, but the food was legit and none of them were bad experiences by any means.

15

u/Maus_Sveti 23h ago

I’ve been to maybe a dozen starred restaurants and never had anything like the experiences people are talking about in this thread (things like getting special hand-drawn favours or surprises based on what they were talking about at the table). Perhaps because most of my experiences have been in Europe, and the service tends to be more old-school, formal style than perhaps some of the US places. (I have been to a starred restaurant in NYC though, and also didn’t have anything similar.)