{"id":71990,"date":"2026-04-17T07:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/why-did-michelin-snub-st-paul-in-its-guide-to-the-best-restaurants-in-the-great-lakes-region\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:55:18","slug":"why-did-michelin-snub-st-paul-in-its-guide-to-the-best-restaurants-in-the-great-lakes-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/why-did-michelin-snub-st-paul-in-its-guide-to-the-best-restaurants-in-the-great-lakes-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Michelin snub St Paul in its guide to the best restaurants in the Great Lakes region?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics warn smaller and immigrant-run restaurants risk being overlooked as city-funded deal shapes dining map<\/p>\n<p>When Michelin announced that it was expanding its world-renowned restaurant guide into the Great Lakes region of the United States, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/minneapolis\">Minneapolis<\/a>, one prominent city was <a href=\"https:\/\/guide.michelin.com\/us\/en\/event\/american-great-lakes-to-join-the-global-culinary-map-with-new-michelin-guide-edition\">left off<\/a> the map \u2013 Saint Paul<strong>, <\/strong>the state capital.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being just 11 miles apart, the second half of Minnesota\u2019s \u201cTwin Cities\u201d was absent from the highly anticipated announcement. The omission has raised concerns among food critics and locals that Saint Paul \u2013 and, more widely, smaller local restaurants in Minneapolis and elsewhere \u2013 could be left behind.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/17\/michelin-guide-st-paul-minneapolis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics warn smaller and immigrant-run restaurants risk being overlooked as city-funded deal shapes dining map When Michelin announced that it was expanding its world-renowned restaurant guide into the Great Lakes region of the United States, including Minneapolis, one prominent city was left off the map \u2013 Saint Paul, the state capital. Despite being just 11 &#8230; <a title=\"Why did Michelin snub St Paul in its guide to the best restaurants in the Great Lakes region?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/why-did-michelin-snub-st-paul-in-its-guide-to-the-best-restaurants-in-the-great-lakes-region\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Why did Michelin snub St Paul in its guide to the best restaurants in the Great Lakes region?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}