Michelin Red Guide New York City 2010, 5e: Restaurants & Hotels

The Michelin guide can be counted on. Every restaurant I've been to which they recommended has been great

I'm not sure if the other reviewers work for Michelin, but I can't believe we're reviewing the same guide. Maybe I'm just looking for something different from my review guide, like some sort of guidance.

Briefly, because I can't believe I'm wasting more time on this particular book, this guide DOES contain write-ups of many restaurants. They are arranged alphabetically by neighborhood. So the first issue is that you have to know EXACTLY which neighborhood you're in. No problem - I live here now, except that means I know that there are different levels of granularity that are used to distinguish neighborhoods. This book is minutely detailed for mid-town, but lumps most of Brooklyn together in one. In other words, it's inconsistent in it's organization, which makes it hard to navigate.

As far as the reviews go, I've never come across a more confusing grading system. I'd heard of Michelin stars and I know they are given out sparingly. Very few...Read more

It is good, but it is hard to trust that they really visit and review every restaurant every year.

In the introduction description of the upper west side,on page 330, they mention 2 restaurants (Tavern on the Green and Cafe des Artistes) that closed in 2009. They closed long before this guide was published. To be fair, they don't include reviews of these restauarants. But, they didn't proof read the neighborhood descriptions to remove references to closed restaurants. That lowers the credibility of the reviews that they did publish.