Restaurant guide's Florida expansion latest effort to showcase new dining destinations

One of the world's astir prestigious culinary guides continues to broaden its North American reach.

The Michelin Guide announced this week it volition beryllium expanding its enactment successful Florida with 3 caller destinations successful 2025.

Restaurants in greater Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach County and Pinellas County, location to Clearwater and St. Petersburg, volition beryllium added this twelvemonth — joining the Miami, Orlando and Tampa areas.

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The Florida enlargement volition turn further to go a statewide enactment starting successful 2026.

"Florida continues to rise the barroom with its emerging culinary talent, planetary influences and the palpable passionateness of its section edifice communities," Gwendal Poullennec, planetary manager of the Michelin Guide, said successful a quality release. 

The Michelin Guide continues to broaden its scope successful North America with the summation of 3 caller Florida destinations successful 2025. (iStock)

"Over the past 3 years, we've seen the Florida enactment turn and fortify arsenic our inspectors shined a spotlight connected their discoveries. We look guardant to exploring these caller destinations and highlighting the excellence of their section edifice scene."

The archetypal Michelin Guide successful North America was released successful 2005 for New York. In the 20 years since, 14 much guides person followed – astir of them successful the post-pandemic era.

Guides were added for San Francisco successful 2007, Chicago successful 2011, Washington, D.C., successful 2017 and California successful 2019.

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Five regions – 3 successful Florida and 2 successful Canada – got their ain guides successful 2022. 

Miami, Orlando and Tampa were the archetypal cities to correspond Florida, portion Canada made its debut with Toronto and Vancouver.

"Inspectors measure the main large culinary blistery spots for the inaugural selection." 

Colorado and Atlanta were added successful 2023. Texas was added past year, on with Mexico and Quebec.

"Before a caller usher is established successful a fixed authorities oregon country, the inspection squad conducts an archetypal survey of the area," Michelin Guide spokesperson Carly Grieff told Fox News Digital. "During that destination assessment, the inspectors measure the main large culinary blistery spots for the inaugural selection." 

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Grieff added that "as the Michelin Guide works connected a semipermanent scale, we observe precise often the hold of its geographical scope wrong a country, a portion oregon a authorities implicit time, which is evident successful the enlargement to 3 caller destinations for the 2025 Florida selection."

The Michelin Guide is expanding its enactment to 3 caller Florida locations successful 2025. It volition grow statewide successful 2026. (Michelin Guide)

The latest enlargement gives restaurants successful these areas a accidental to gain a coveted Michelin star.

Michelin stars are considered 1 of the astir respected and influential edifice rankings, on with Zagat. 

A three-star standing is the best.

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Michelin Guide inspectors sojourn restaurants anonymously and justice them based connected the pursuing criteria: prime of the ingredients used, mastery of spirit and cooking techniques, property of the cook successful the cuisine, worth and consistency betwixt visits, according to the website.

Restaurants successful greater Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach County and Pinellas County volition present person the accidental to person Michelin stars. (iStock)

Inspectors are already scouting locations and making eating reservations successful the caller territories, according to a quality release.

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"We are ever evaluating breathtaking caller destinations for the usher astir the world," Grieff told Fox News Digital. 

"Once each the conditions are contiguous to item the prime of the culinary scene successful a fixed city, portion oregon country, the Michelin Guide begins its process."

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While the Michelin Guide has an oculus toward further expansion, Grief said, "we don't person immoderate quality to stock astir caller usher destinations successful North America astatine this time."