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Some instantly mixed feelings on this one. Where is Saint Paul and the greater metro area in all this? And why is Minneapolis mixed in with five cities that are sort of or EXTREMELY different in terms of location / people? Feels arbitrary in that regard.

I've personally (James Norton) found Michelin ratings to be super useful in massive cities like New York. Two and three star places are almost guaranteed to be hyper competent, very expensive and typically extremely samey and generically cosmopolitan. But the one stars are the secret sauce.

If you want to find a place that's doing terrific food with a lively atmosphere, usually firing on all thrusters and sometimes offering a great value, the one star spots are the thing. So, it'll be cool to see where Michelin thinks those spots are, locally.

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Don't love the (apparent) exclusion of the greater metro area, which misses the point - for dining purposes, we're a metro of 3.5 million people, not a city of 428K. Also don't love the eclectic company we're keeping, no offense to Indianapolis, etc.