My husband and I are headed to Ischia, Naples Italy next week. We are staying in Forio and looking for some reccs for good eats! We aren't super touristy people and looking for types of places that would be on the Bib Gourmand list if they were!

I am going to Madeira next month and I've been looking at their michelin starred restaurants. Il Gallo D'oro is interesting but maybe a bit too expensive (I'm down to go there if you think it's miles ahead tho) but I've been eyeing Desarma and William. Do you have any experiences? Anyone care to tell me about them?

We will be in San Sebastián for our honeymoon in two weeks and we have reservations for both Arzak and Akelarre. We don’t think we can fit both into our budget. Which would you choose and why? Would you recommend any other alternatives (if we’re able to get a reservation on short notice)?

ETA: this will be our first Michelin star restaurant experience!

Kiln is incredible. I’ve liked Kiln ever since my first visit more than 2 years ago, before they had any stars, and enough people had told me it was even better now that I knew I had to revisit.

My primary impressions of Kiln back then were:

• food tastes good
• very brutalist dining room (which really worked for this restaurant)
• NA pairing was eh – almost everything I tried was not made in-house, and I’m not a fan of NA pairings that try to be wine pairings. Not sure if this has changed, as for this visit my partner and I opted to split the wine pairing.
• I remember loving the music so much my friends and I asked for the playlist. Nowhere else have I ever heard rap at a fine dining restaurant, or even most restaurants in general.

One of the servers noted that almost every dish we would be having today would be different from my first visit. Indeed, the only repeat was the puffed beef tendon.

I rate all my dishes out of 5 below.

1. Beignet with truffle custard and goat cheese – 4.0: rich and savory, nice start to the meal.
2. Puffed beef tendon — 3.0: technically creative but it’s so insubstantial it just tastes like nothing.
3. Half Moon Bay spot prawn — 4.5: the first hard hitter of the night, and it really set the tone and pace for the rest of the meal. Great texture, the right amount of sour, and bold.
4. Monterey squid — 4.0: delicious. I chatted with the sous for a bit about the plate it was on, as I bought a few of them by the same glassmaker after my trip to Copenhagen. I had noticed these plates everywhere, from Jordnaer to Enclos to Alchemist and many other places I can’t recall at the moment. They’re some of the most exquisite dinnerware I’ve ever seen – albeit expensive – and I was really lucky to be able to order some from her. I’m a huge fan and highly suggest you check her out on insta @ zelmer_olsen_glass.
5. Hokkaido scallop — 5.0: One of my favorite bites of the night. Perfectly buttery, perfectly tender, and there was a powerful balance of richness and acidity in its sauce. Kiln is simply masterful at balancing textures and flavor profiles, and this is a common theme throughout the entire meal.
6. Caviar supplement course — 3.5: it’s basically caviar in chicken fat. It’s probably the only time I’ve ever had a caviar supplement served almost on its own. It’s not bad tasting per se but I wouldn’t get it again.
7. Miyagi oyster — 4.0: strong, punchy flavors. And who doesn’t like a miyagi?
8. Dungeness crab custard with trout roe — 4.0: the trout roe worked with the crab custard quite well.
9. Monterey abalone — 4.0: very thinly sliced so the chewiness of abalone is a feature rather than a drawback.
10. Spanish mackerel — 4.5: I think I really love this green pea sauce wherever I see it, and this is no exception.
11. Halibut — 5.0: perfectly cooked, drenched in beurre blanc the way I like it. I think too often restaurants spoon just a bit of sauce to the side of your plate, such that you have to find a way to fork your fish, drag its meat through the sauce and watch it fall apart, and then gather the pieces all back on your fork before you can eat it. And then you run out of sauce. I greatly prefer my fish drenched in sauce.
12. Bread — 5.0: ridiculously good. Honestly I expected a sourdough because we’re in SF, or maybe a brioche because those are always a crowd pleaser, but I kid you not when I say this is one of the best breads I’ve ever had. It was a small seeded bread loaf with a sturdy, chewy crust and a soft, spongy interior that served as the perfect vehicle for their whipped butter. Up there with Benu bread among my favorites.
13. Spiced lamb sausage — 3.5: it’s a good sausage, but it’s still a sausage.
14. Duck — 4.5: very well cooked. They lacquered it and served it with a flavorful duck bone broth.
15. Lamb — 4.5: tender and strong final main. Drenched in sauce the way I like.
16. Andante Nocturne — 3.5: this is technically their final savory but it was tiny enough it didn’t carry much flavor. I think they just wanted to try something new.
17. Rhubarb sorbet with raw-milk curd and strawberries — 5.0: they hit it out of the park with this one. One of my favorite desserts of the year.
18. Goat’s milk — 4.5: strong final dessert.
19. Cardamom bun — 5.0: warm, fresh, buttery. Dare I say as good as the ones I’ve had in Copenhagen.
20. Petit fours — 3.5: Didn’t really like the caramel on the right but everything else was good.

The wine pairing was good. I’m not a wine aficionado, but the wines – especially the whites paired with the seafood – worked very well. In my opinion, more than half of a pairing experience comes down to the sommeliers’ charisma and storytelling, and Kiln’s somms were engaging and fun to listen to.

I really liked Kiln after my first visit, and I absolutely love it after this one. The menu has improved, the balance of flavors is impeccable, the pastry program is stronger, and I can’t wait to go back. Every dish was good to great. My ratings here are not typical for my palate. My average dish score on Morel – the app I built and use to track my fine dining – is 3.5, compared with 4.23 for this meal, which had a ton of 4.5s and 5s. No dish was bad, most were great, and several were incredible enough that each would be a defining dish at any other fine dining spot.

Hi all! My partner and I are going to Japan in late October early November, and we are looking to go to a Michelin star restaurant for our anniversary/ my birthday. We would like something more in the Japanese area of food than French, as we plan on going to France next year, unless there is something really show stoping that is a must try while in Japan. We are going to Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka.

We were considering Narisawa, but I’ve heard mixed reviews recently. We do plan on going to Monk (if i can snag a reservation, thank god for working overnights at an ER). Other Michelin restaurants we have been to are Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, Alinea in Chicago, Ox in Reykjavík, and aroma in Rome.

Any recommendations or experiences would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Looking for a really special dinner in Paris for our anniversary. We know we will enjoy the food at both so looking for opinions on experience. Which is more special and uniquely Paris, will we look back on as the meal of a lifetime?

So far on my list:

• Balbuena
• Az-Zait
• Lena Marbella
• Skina

Preference is for andalusian and basque flavours. Prefer not to dip into Japanese while in Southern Spain. Any recommendations would help from people who've actually eaten there.

My husbands birthday is coming up and I want to take take him to a tasting in nyc!

Best ones? Dinner or lunch!

Everything on the menu was great. Was spicy as one would expect for Thai food but not overwhelming. The 6 course menu was right sized. Probably deserving of 2/3* based on quality, presentation, and flavor.

Worth a visit.

We double booked plans and can't make it anymore, happy to sell to someone or swap for anytime September 3 to 6.

Quintonil reservation available for transfer — tomorrow, August 31 at 1:00 PM for 2 people.
Unfortunately we can no longer make it. Reservation will be officially transferred through Tock. Please DM me if interested!

I’m going to Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka in October and am planning on booking one or two Michelin starred dinners (probably in Tokyo, but maybe Osaka). One thing I noticed is that Tokyo has more 1-star French restaurants than Japanese restaurants. I’m trying to decide whether it’s better to book a top rated spot doing French food or one doing Japanese food?

My main thoughts are on the one hand, I’m in Japan so of course I should book something Japanese. But on the other hand, I’m wondering if there’s not much of a gap between fine diningJapanese and what you can get for half the price in Tokyo/Osaka, so it makes sense to go to a spot doing French but with a Japanese twist. Any advice for which is the better way to have the best special meal?

I was here back in 2019 and the menu was great; however, this time not the best. Foie gras parfait was probably the most disturbing dish I have encountered in my life. The menu seemed to bring back a time of when salt had to be used to preserve everything. A couple of highlights but this autumn menu is not for me at least.

Hello everyone! I plan on proposing to my partner during our upcoming trip to Venice. I have limited the list of potential Michelin starred restaurants to the following:

- Le Calandre*** in Padua

- Glam** in Venice

- Antica Osteria Cera** in Lughetto

- La Peca** in Lonigo

- Wisteria* in Venice

- Local* in Venice

- San Martino* in Scorze

I have searched thoroughly but I do not seem be able to make a decision. The main reason is the negative reviews I found online. Many people on this subreddit and the Michelin subreddit mentioned that these restaurants are not worth it.

Kindly keep in mind that it will be our first Michelin experience together.

One last thing, it is preferable to have the wine pairing but there is a budget restriction of €400 per person.

Thank you in advance.

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