Local restaurants snag Michelin Bib Gourmand status

dont jump in fron of train. you will just be in another life.might as well stay and talk to friends. next life might not be as good as this.anyway, the darbar has the best sauces on their dishes,perfect korma ,yellow rice, that cauliflower dish with that tangy yellow sauce. all their dishes are well put together, not vague and runny and questionable liker some places. not many mention darbar as being one of best but it is. perfect pakoras too. no other pakoras are quite as good ass theirs. they must have good recipes. if you were a rock star, they would be your cooks.

Something for folks to be aware of if they are not accustomed to reading the actual printed Michelin guidebooks is that most of the useful information in them doesn't surface at all in the "star" or "bib gourmand" lists. Michelin editors promote those lists each year for pre-release publicity, and the lists preoccupy casual online buzz about the Michelin Guide.

But to be included at all in the Guide is a distinction for any restaurant; the few hundred recommended in each year's SF-area guidebook are only a percent or two of all the area's restaurants. Each listed restaurant gets a desciption, recommended dishes, and detail ratings such as forks for food. Almost none of this information surfaces in the bib gourmand or star selection lists, which are more of a highlight (Win, Place, or Show) to the main info in the Guide. Once on a restaurant discussion site I mentioned that Mountain View's Bamboo Garden (Central at Rengstorff, Shanghainese and Dongbei specialties) had just been recognized in the Michelin, but another poster disputed it -- on the basis of seeing just the bib-gourmand and star lists, which are online and "free," unlike most of the Guide's contents. Yet most restaurants recommended in the actual guidebook, including that one, are absent from those lists.