{"id":374021,"date":"2026-06-25T04:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374021\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T04:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:45:09","slug":"lucien-in-la-jolla-earns-san-diegos-only-new-michelin-star-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374021\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucien in La Jolla Earns San Diego\u2019s Only New Michelin Star for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi82 va4xi80 va4xi87 va4xi85 e8cira1 va4xi8b\">On Wednesday, June 24, Michelin hosted its 2026 ceremony at Eve in San Diego to unveil this year\u2019s California Guide. At the ceremony, the tire company recognized restaurants from across the state with Michelin star designations in one of the hospitality industry\u2019s biggest nights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">At the 2025 Michelin California ceremony, only one San Diego restaurant was given a new star: chef Eric Bost and partner John Resnick\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/dining-report\/61903\/lilo-carlsbad-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lilo<\/a>, which sits behind their casual all-day restaurant, Wildland. Lilo joined San Diego\u2019s only three-starred restaurant, Addison, and Bost\u2019s modern French restaurant, Jeune et Jolie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">Since the 2025 ceremony, Michelin has <a href=\"https:\/\/la.eater.com\/restaurant-news\/303002\/los-angeles-san-diego-new-may-2026-michelin-guide-additions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released a handful of updates<\/a> to its California guide, putting more restaurants in contention for stars or Bib Gourmand recognition, the latter of which spotlights \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/guide.michelin.com\/us\/en\/california\/restaurants\/bib-gourmand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">good quality, good value cooking<\/a>.\u201d The Bib Gourmand designation tends to highlight more affordable restaurants \u2014 at these restaurants, diners can expect two courses and a glass of wine or dessert for about $50 before tax and tip. In San Diego, chef Elijah Arizmendi\u2019s La Jolla tasting menu restaurant, <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiego.eater.com\/restaurant-news\/61417\/lucien-tasting-menu-restaurant-opening-la-jolla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lucien<\/a>, which opened in July 2025, joined the guide. Although Michelin previously announced it would phase out its green stars, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/06\/24\/michelin-green-star-sustainability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recognized restaurants for sustainability<\/a>, a new slate of green stars was unveiled at the 2026 ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 e8cira1\">In past years, the San Diego area has received minimal recognition from the Michelin Guide, compared to its California siblings of Los Angeles and San Francisco. At this year\u2019s ceremony, Savannah Riedler of Lilo took home the Michelin Sommelier Award. Lucien, Elijah Arizmendi\u2019s celebrated La Jolla restaurant, received San Diego\u2019s only new Michelin star, earning a one-star rating. Valle lost its single star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph u67w0ti va4xi81 va4xi80 va4xi8a e8cira1\">Here are all of San Diego\u2019s Michelin stars. New entrants, or changes to stars, are marked with an asterisk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, June 24, Michelin hosted its 2026 ceremony at Eve in San Diego to unveil this year\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75,7621],"class_list":["post-374021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-restaurant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}