Robuchon Gets 3 Michelin Stars; Keller Snubbed

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Joel Robuchon at the MGM Grand, one of the most expensive eateries in America, gained three stars in the first Michelin guide to Las Vegas, while not a single restaurant in Los Angeles achieved the top accolade in the first such ratings for that city.

Three Los Angeles-area restaurants won two stars: Melisse, in Santa Monica, and Spago and Urasawa, in Beverly Hills. An additional 15 venues won one star, including Matsuhisa, in Beverly Hills; Ortolan, in Hollywood, and Trattoria Tre Venezie, in Pasadena.

In Las Vegas, Alex, Guy Savoy and Picasso each gained two stars. A total of 12 restaurants achieved a single star, including another Robuchon venue, L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon, also at the MGM Grand; and Le Cirque, Nobu, and Wing Lei.

Los Angeles has “some very good restaurants,” while Las Vegas is “one of the beautiful gastronomic destinations of the world,” the president of the Michelin Guides, Jean-Luc Naret, said in a phone interview.

The guide snubbed Thomas Keller’s Las Vegas outpost of Bouchon by giving it no stars. Mr. Keller’s flagship Bouchon in Yountville, Calif., holds a star.


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