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Summary: get the regional guides for depth information
Review: I have fond memories of the French Michelin Guide I had 20 years ago. But it was a regional Guide (Provance). What I loved about that book was that it seemed anything of cultural importance in a town (or village) was mentioned in the Guide. That is not the case with this overview version for all of France.The other problem with this book is that it is organized alphabetically. If you want to plan a day trip from Paris you will need either another book or a lot of map reading to decide what to look up in this Guide. The regional Michelin Guides are unique, and clearly worth the high ratings they receive. I can't see why anyone would buy this excerpted version.
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Summary: Red guides are not green!
Review: Reviewer Mr Munger is confusing red and green guides. The red guide is a guide to hotels and restaurants in France, nothing more. As such, it is unparalleled.
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Summary: Others offer opinions, the Michelin is fact!
Review: The London reviewer is right. Michelin's guides have acquired such authority over the years that you might say that while others offer just opinions, the Michelin is fact. Those coming to Michelin for the first time will have to learn the symbols and codes: unlike most restaurant guides, written as a series of "restaurant reviews", Michelin has almost no descriptive text at all (the little there is was a novelty introduced only 100 years after the first edition) so its rating is all the more lapidary. No qualms here about being judgmental! As a result, you may want to carry other hotel and restaurant guides with you when visiting France, but you will always, always rely on the Michelin to tell you the truth about levels of comfort and the quality of cooking. And only the Michelin offers such comprehensive coverage. If there's somewhere decent to eat in the remotest corner of Brittany or the Correze, Michelin will know. Conversely, if a town has neither hotel nor restaurant in the guide, you just don't go there, it's a simple as that. By the way, when driving around France, use Michelin road maps. Any city, town or village with a place in the guide is underlined in red, so wherever you are, when you start to feel hungry, you know where to go!
One reservation as regards the London review: Michelin is not as reliable on restaurants in other countries, where you should always compare with a local guide; but you can still use it to double-check hotel standards before booking.
By the way, all the ratings are on Michelin's web site - but you'll still need the book of course when travelling around.
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Summary: The best reference for hotels and restaurants in France
Review: The Red Michelin Guide for Hotels and Restaurants is without doubt the best reference guide book - not only for Parisian but also all for all other French Hotels and Restaurants. This is thanks to a qualified experience, which Michelin has accumulated in over 100 years. The original Michelin Guide for Hotels and Restaurants was originally produced in 1900 by the French tire company Michelin in order to give the chauffeur of a auto a good guide of where he could stop and relax in an an adequate way with his employer. In addition , the original Michelin guide also listed petrol stations, which were rare a the time. In fact, petrol was actually first sold in pharmacies in those very early days of the automobile. Today, the Red Michelin Guide is the reference for hotels and restaurants - not only in France, but for all other European countries. For restaurants, the most important verdict every year is, of course, the Michelin stars - it can make or break them.
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