'Exceptional': San Diego Restaurant Awarded Three Michelin Stars, World's Highest Culinary Honor



A San Diego edifice acquired the highest culinary grant connected Monday, incomes 3 Michelin Stars for its "superb cuisine."

Addison joins the likes of the Bay Area's French Laundry and Manresa, becoming 1 of 7 California restaurants with 3 Michelin stars.

A wide of 18 California eating places earned Michelin Stars connected Monday, with the bulk located successful Southern California.

Addison, placed successful San Diego's Fairmont Grand Del Mar, has obtained galore honors done the years, consisting of 5 diamonds from AAA and 5 stars from Forbes Travel.

"Chef William Bradley has helmed the stoves astatine Addison since 2006, remodeling this Southern Californian oasis close into a international-magnificence eating destination," the Michelin inspector said.

Addison is present lone 1 of 142 3-megastar eating places wrong the international.

The Michelin inspector's remarks spotlight the chef’s “Californian sentimentality,” specially successful his sesame-pro Koshihikari atom with applewood-smoked sabayon and Regiis Ova reserve caviar.

The restaurant's afloat tasting revel successful is by preservation handiest, though clients tin locomotion successful to acquisition beverages wrong the beforehand room.

San Diego's Addison is present a "international-magnificence eating destination," acknowledgment to the Michelin honor.

"From hen liver churros to a riff connected chips and dip, dishes are playful yet polished," the Michelin inspector noted. "Opening bites including Kumamoto oysters with pickled greenish strawberry oregon Iberian ham folded implicit a gloriously aureate murphy show finely tuned flavor."

Addison's nine-direction tasting paper is priced astatine $298 per person, successful keeping with the eating place's net site.

The terms origin isn't antithetic amongst 3-starred restaurants. The tasting paper astatine Napa Valley's famed French Laundry tops $300, with acquisition reviews starting astatine $950. The tasting paper astatine Manresa successful Los Gatos is $595 successful keeping with impermanent successful December, the restaurant's net tract says.

California eating places awarded 1 Michelin personage this week encompass: