What rings true and false for Los Angeles in Michelin's new California guide

Restaurant critic Bill Addison weighs in on the Los Angeles star ratings, snubs and more in Michelin’s first guide to California.
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • June 4, 2019
No three-star restaurant ratings outside the San Francisco Bay Area in the Michelin tire company’s debut guide to the entire state of California? No surprise, really. I think it will be years — if ever — before the guide’s parachuting mystery...
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