Michelin Guide New York City: A Selection of Restaurants & Hotels

The Michelin Guide is a standard in the restaurant review business. It has a pedigree that is much more revered in France than in the United States. Personally, I feel Zagat tried harder and won. Ideally, you should own both red books and consult with each before planning a dining experience but inevitably, the one that you would resort to most of the time is Zagat, not Michelin. Michelin is not laid out in a cohesive user frienndly manner. It is divided by neighborhoods which is fine if you suffer from agoraphobia and your primary goal is to seek out a restaurant in a small definitive radius. Usually, when one dines out one is looking for a particular type of restaurant i.e. a romantic restaurant, a before theatre prix fix, a small tapas place, an over the top restaurant to max out your expense account, etc. To identify these restaurants and many many more, Zagat is the top choice. Michelin confines their reviews not only to particular neighborhoods but to a small number of particular restaurants as well! It only chooses to review what they consider Michelin worthy. If you're interested in only THE top restaurants, Michelin is for you. You will learn which restaurants, mostly French, in Manhattan have earned the coveted Michelin stars. However, if you want to have a glimpse of each and every restaurant in NYC from the pizza place downtown to the 5 star establishment in midtown... buy the Zagat. Go ahead... if you're like me and want to have the best of both worlds, buy both!

The Michelin guide was a great resource to find great food in what ever area we found ourselves in a the time.

I had the opportunity to spend last summer in NYC and the 2006 edition of this book was a lifesaver! I bought the 2007 edition as soon as it came out and was excited to see a number of changes that made the guide even better. The restaurants are organized in a much simpler way and the index is extremely useful. I go up to NYC regularly on business trips and this guide is a wonderful tool for picking out exactly where to take my clients.

Clearly one of the best available guides for NYC. I prefer it to Zagat because it has Star restaurant's recepies. Also, as opposed to Zagat, the restaurants are listed by area, which also helps alot.

Wow, its like going from using Black and White to Color. What a difference from the other books. I love the color maps, the detailed info and the receipes from the chefs.