France - The Michelin Guide 2024: Restaurants & Hébergements (Michelin Red Guides) [French Edition] (Michelin Red Guides and National Guides)

It is in French Would prefer English version

I am a regular reader of this excellent guide which is published annually. I use it only for restaurants, and disregard the hotel element. I thoroughly recommend it if you are a serious foodie who is contemplating a visit to France. To get the full value out of it, you need to be able to read French, although there are a few pages in English at the beginning which explain the various awards. To get a mention at all a restaurant has to be pretty good. If it offers seriously good food at a reasonable price, it earns a ‘bib gourmand’. If it offers culinary excellence, it earns one, two, or three ‘rosettes’ as determined by the Michelin inspectors. While the small number of three rosette restaurants tend to be expensive, there are a number of one or even two rosette restaurants which offer very reasonable prices. The categorisation by the anonymous Michelin inspectors is rigorous and consistent. I have not yet found any restaurant which did not live up to its Michelin categorisation. Enjoy!

Excellent as ever

pour visiter certaine région ou rester sur place le guide permet de faire une sélection de restaurants ou d'hébergements et de découvrir de belles maisons. Afin de changer nos habitudes je le consulte régulièrement

Comparando con l'edizione 2012, che avevo acquistato a suo tempo, ho visto una trasformazione che me la rende quasi inutile. Le recensioni dei ristoranti ci sono e sono integrate da brevi saggi su argomenti gastronomici; senz'altro servono ai buongustai che fanno scorribande per la Francia. Ci sono anche alcune recensioni di alberghi, molto stringate, in cui l'ubicazione non è neppure segnalata sulle mappe presenti: aggiungono qualcosa, ma non molto, alle informazioni reperibili in rete. Sono state completamente soppresse le menzioni di musei, monumenti e luoghi d'interesse. Quindi: consigliata a chi è interessato ai ristoranti, sconsigliata agli altri.

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This guide provides an excellent overview of restaurants and accommodation. The maps are easy to read and provide a thorough understanding of locations and points of interest.

This guide was my family's trip planner for generations but the recent version lacks information on hotels (making the city maps useless), has no prices, and dropped so many familiar cities that I found it uninteresting.