How Does a Restaurant Get a Star in the Michelin Guide?

The way we hear about restaurants is always changing: whether it’s from the pages of magazines or an online article, a social media suggestion or even the long faithful word-of-mouth recommendation. Yet no matter how we discover them, the standard of how we measure them has remained the same for more than a century. Enter the Michelin Guide. 

Since it was first launched in 1900, the Michelin Guide has remained the benchmark for evaluating culinary excellence. The…