These four San Francisco restaurants receive new Michelin Star honors - SFGATE

Chef David Yoshimura of Nisei was besides honored with the Michelin Young Chef Award. According to Michelin’s anonymous main inspector, Yoshimura is simply a cook who is “full of personality” with dishes elevated by his idiosyncratic culinary journey.

“Chef Yoshimura is conscionable nether 35, and I say, helium embodies precisely what we’re looking for successful a young talent,” the inspector told SFGATE. “His cuisine represents a unsocial position and inheritance and is captured successful his cooking that’s some ambitious and highly personal.” 

Nisei's tasting paper is "equal parts contented and invention, wherever a classical matsutake broth sits successful harmony with a wholly archetypal dessert of Okinawan purple saccharine potato."

Brianna Danner

In total, determination are 89 restaurants with Michelin-star presumption successful California and 7 of those establishments garnered the three-star ranking. Michelin’s concealed edifice inspectors besides awarded 2 caller Green Stars, bringing the authorities tally of restaurants starring successful sustainable practices to 11. There are lone 2 Green-Starred restaurants successful immoderate different U.S. states.

Green Stars are awarded to restaurants that are existent front-runners successful gastronomy and are relation models for their guests and peers. 

“That shows besides that chefs present are existent trendsetters, influencers and California arsenic a full is decidedly a culinary powerhouse,” said planetary manager of the Michelin Guides, Gwendal Poullennec. “California truly has thing to accidental and has a beardown dependable present successful the satellite of culinary conversation. It has a beardown individuality erstwhile it comes to the prime of the produce. It’s truly a portion of the California culinary identity.”

Poullennec added that the three-star Michelin level is the “crème de la crème” successful presumption of gastronomy restaurants successful the U.S. and beyond. There are 142 restaurants astatine the three-star level worldwide, with 40 three-star restaurants successful the U.S.

“When we look astatine the fig of three-stars successful the U.S., truthful present we person 7 successful California, and that’s a lot,” helium said. “If we look astatine the U.S. arsenic a whole, it’s the No. 3 destination successful the satellite successful presumption of the fig of restaurants with the three-star label.”

Chef Seth Stowaway puts his "heart, psyche and adjacent his nickname (osito means 'little bear') into this rustic, lodge-like spot."

Molly DeCoudreaux

Out of the 18 California restaurants recognized this twelvemonth for caller stars, 8 of them are promotions. These were restaurants that were already a portion of Michelin’s highly ranked selections and inspectors kept adjacent ticker implicit them passim the year. The anonymous main inspector listed Ssal successful San Francisco and Localis successful Sacramento listed arsenic examples of restaurants getting promoted.

The Michelin Guide is each astir consistency, according to Poullennec, who noted that the usher was started successful 1900 and hasn’t changed its attack and criteria since then. For much than 1 period Michelin’s inspectors person followed the aforesaid methodology based connected 5 cosmopolitan criterions: “the prime of the nutrient based connected the prime of the products, the maestro of cooking techniques, the equilibrium of flavors, the property expressed connected the plate, and lastly the consistency.”

Localis chef-owner Christopher Barnum-Dann "brings antithetic warmth to this intimate setting" successful Sacramento. This is Localis archetypal Michelin prima recognition.

Localis

Below is the database of San Francisco restaurants that took location the esteemed Michelin designation with comments from the concealed inspectors. For a afloat database of each 89 Michelin-starred establishments successful California sojourn here. 

Nisei 
San Francisco, Japanese/Contemporary cuisine

“‘Nisei’ refers to the American-born children of Japanese immigrants, which Chef David Yoshimura is; and the synthesis of that practice forms the ground of this cuisine. The room employs some boldness and subtlety successful their cooking, which abounds with property and method finesse. The tasting paper is adjacent parts contented and invention, wherever a classical matsutake broth sits successful harmony with a wholly archetypal dessert of Okinawan purple saccharine potato.”

Osito 
San Francisco, Contemporary cuisine

“Chef Seth Stowaway puts his heart, psyche and adjacent his nickname (osito means ‘little bear’) into this rustic, lodge-like spot wherever live-fire cooking takes halfway stage. The multicourse tasting paper is served astatine an expansive communal array and changes with the seasons. The nutrient is some elemental and elevated, with a subtle perfume of fume wending done the assorted courses, seen successful dishes similar a lightly cooked king salmon with fennel and porcini, oregon a slow-cooked brisket brushed tableside with an intensely savory mussel BBQ sauce.”

San Ho Won 
San Francisco, Korean cuisine

“Combining the prodigious talents of heavy-hitter Chefs Corey Lee and Jeong-In Hwang, present it’s harmless to expect the exceptional. The kitchen’s assiduously refined method deftly combines accepted Korean tastes with a consciousness of novelty, utilizing impeccable ingredients to marque for dishes of surpassing extent and purity of flavor, whether it beryllium the humble kimchi oregon a rarefied chopped of beef.”

Ssal 
San Francisco, Korean cuisine

“Hyunyoung and Junsoo Bae person ample good eating acquisition but were inspired to onslaught retired connected their ain to capable what they saw arsenic a void successful San Francisco’s Korean edifice scene. The effect is this tasting paper that draws upon acquainted flavors, but sets itself isolated with a consciousness of refined simplicity. Meticulously prepared seafood shows a dedication to craft, arsenic successful achromatic cod partially dried earlier being grilled to execute a tegument truthful crunchy it tin beryllium heard from crossed the room. Beef abbreviated ribs are thing of a signature, mildly cooked sous vide, past seared to signifier a sweet-savory crust.”