re: Why is a tire company the most prestigious food critic?

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in December I'm going to start planning a European driving trip. Two weeks between Italy and Spain staying south. Want at least two knock your socks off dinners.

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My rec: cover less territory.....stick to Spain/France, or French & Italian Riveria, plus northern Italy. Do you really want to spend your entire vacation driving from one point to another? While the overall distances don't seem huge by US standards, it's worth remembering that Western Europe is much more densely settled than the US....meaning that you'll barely gloss over lots of fascinating history, food, culture, as you drive off to the next place. Slow your roll, dig in deeper...

Spain/Basque Country and then Bordeaux & the Dordogne: that's my 2-week suggestion.

I know that no ingredient is repeated but a few dishes I saw had Salmon.
Though I hated octopus until I had it and a good restaurant. Same with scallops.

Noma and French Laundry are on my bucket list.

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Yes I should rephrase my original statement.

I think August and Commanders could certainly be in the conversation for one star. Would they both get one star? Maybe, maybe not, but they're in that tier.

What I was trying to say was that they are nowhere close to being a two star place. That's an entirely different level of restaurant that 99.9% of places never achieve.

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I would argue, when Besh was on all cylinders there, really pushing hard, it was maybe the closest approximation NewOrleans has had to what might be considered two star. Would it have gotten such? Probably no. But he seemed to be striving in that direction, such that there was at least a point where you couldn't say it was "nowhere close."

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I know that no ingredient is repeated but a few dishes I saw had Salmon.

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You realize this is contradictory right? Ingredients don’t repeat so you will not see 2 dishes with the same ingredients, including protein.

And I just posted a link to yesterday’s menu. No salmon dishes. Salmon is in the name of a farm and the dish is a pork jowl, not salmon.

And salmon is delicious anyways.

And only 13 3 star as of 2018.

Yep. It would be tough to say it with the certainty that some like to use.

For those who ate at LeRuth's way back when, would that have had a chance at a Michelin star?

I ate at a 3 star, Lameloise, in Burgundy this summer. I've been to a few one stars and one 2 star, but this was another level. Everything, I mean everything, was perfect; from the service to the food to the wine. It was formal, but the servers and staff were so congenial that it did not feel snooty and we were very comfortable. We had a 12 course wine and food pairing over 3.5 hour lunch for about $600 for the two of us. By far the best meal and experience I've ever had, and well worth the money to us.

It's so hard to get into TFL it'll be years before I think of going.
I didn't mean to offend when the salmon remark.

I remember at Victoria o got octopus and scallop just because I normally don't like it.

I was mostly making a jest on the fact that you have to pay for your meal months in advance at TFL.