{"id":655373,"date":"2026-05-20T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655373\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:42:11","slug":"michelin-adds-7-bay-area-restaurants-to-its-california-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/655373\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelin adds 7 Bay Area restaurants to its California guide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a little over a month before this year\u2019s California Michelin Guide<\/a> announcements, the guide has added another crop of eateries to its recommendations<\/a>. Seven Bay Area restaurants, from an Oakland Korean banchan shop<\/a> to a San Francisco soul food restaurant, have been added to the California guide \u2014 a distinction that means they may earn Bib Gourmand or star awards at the ceremony on June 24 in San Diego.<\/p>\n

Four of the new recommendations are San Francisco restaurants. Turkish wine bar Kitchen Istanbul, which overhauled its food menu last year, impressed the Michelin Guide with its \u201csilky\u201d hummus, \u201cdeeply browned\u201d chicken legs over pearl couscous and \u201ccrispy, buttery, syrup-kissed\u201d k\u00fcnefe kadayif with melty cheese for dessert. Maria Isabel<\/a>, the new Presidio Mexican restaurant from the fine dining power couple behind Dalida, drew praise for cooking that \u201cdraws upon Californian ingredients and the flavors of Guerrero,\u201d which are \u201claced through with heirloom corn from Oaxaca and other regional specialties.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chef-owner Fernay McPherson\u2019s Fillmore restaurant Minnie Bell\u2019s Soul Movement<\/a> is another new recommendation, thanks to her perfectly crunchy, rosemary-scented fried chicken and sides like brown butter cornbread. And at\u00a0Via Aurelia<\/a>, the sprawling new Mission Rock fine dining Tuscan restaurant from the\u00a0Che Fico team, \u201cadroit service underscores the upscale ambiance,\u201d the Michelin Guide wrote.<\/p>\n

Across the bay in Oakland, the Michelin Guide recognized\u00a0Joodooboo and Popoca<\/a>. Joodooboo is a neighborhood Korean restaurant with California flair, known for its house-made tofu and seasonal banchan, while Popoca is a \u201cprogressive Salvadoran\u201d restaurant known for its pupusas and other dishes made with live wood-fire cooking. At Los\u00a0Gatos restaurant Vicinity, located in the back room of wine bar Tasting House, the Michelin Guide loved the modern tasting menu featuring a \u201ctiny everything bagel filled with salmon and cream cheese rillettes\u201d and lamb with spring vegetables, jus and mole.<\/p>\n

The Michelin Guide added even more recommendations from Los Angeles. The nine new additions range from casual, order-at-the-counter taqueria Sonoratown<\/a>, beloved for its flour tortillas, to fine dining restaurant Lielle from Swedish chef Marcus Jernmark. The LA recommendations also include Alto, Casa Leo, Electric Bleu, Kojima, Lynx, The Mulberry and Sora Craft Kitchen. SORA Craft Kitchen\u00a0in Beverly Hills, Lucien in La Jolla, Alice B. in Palm Springs, Good Alley in Rosemead\u00a0and Monte\u2019s in Santa Barbara rounded out the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a little over a month before this year\u2019s California Michelin Guide announcements, the guide has added another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,13499],"class_list":["post-655373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-sfgfood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}