Some diners find the Michelin Guide Colorado's Bib Gourmand list deflating.
Which Denver restaurants, if any, will be getting a Michelin star when the tire/tourism company releases its first-ever Colorado guide? We still don't know — that information will be announced at an invite-only ceremony on September 12 at the Mission Ballroom.Colorado restaurants that have received the first Bib Gourmand
designations in the state, and nearly all of them are in Denver. Bib Gourmand restaurants offer"a meal of good quality at a good value," according to Michelin. "The Bib Gourmand amount can fluctuate often due to economic situations in different places, so now we define it as a high-quality meal at a good value," explains Andrew Festa, who handles external communications for Michelin North America."Generally, at Bib Gourmand restaurants in the U.S.
While the Michelin Guide Colorado has been hotly anticipated since it was announced back in June, in their comments on theThere are some solid restaurants here, but there are a lot of similar or better restaurants in Denver that are nowhere near good enough for a star. Are we just going to lower the bar for a star and call it"Denver good"? It's like restaurant purgatory between Bib Gourmand and a coveted star.
. And by the way, the name of the award doesn't refer to a napkin around some glutton's neck:"Bibendum," or"Bib" for short, is the name of the tire company's Michelin Man mascot.
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