One of the most famous contemporary guides, in Western Europe, is the Michelin series of guides which accord from 1 to 3 stars to restaurants they perceive to be of high culinary merit.

The main competitor to the Michelin guide in Europe is the guidebook series published by Gault Millau.

Currently, " Kiin Kiin " is the only Thai restaurant with a Michelin star.

The company, the world ’ s fifth-largest tyre manufacturer behind Bridgestone, Michelin, Goodyear, and Continental, is present in over 160 countries, has 20 manufacturing sites around the world and a network of around 10, 000 distributors and retailers.

Nunc est bibendum ( now is the time to drink ), 1898 poster of the Michelin.

AXA is one of the world's largest insurance companies ; Air France is the world's largest airline company in incomes ; L ' Oreal is the world's largest cosmetic company ; LVMH and PPR are the world's largest and second-largest luxury product companies respectively ; GDF-Suez is the world's largest energy company ; EDF is the world's largest utility company ; Areva is a large nuclear-energy company ; Veolia Environnement is the world's largest environmental services and water management company ; VINCI, Bouygues and Eiffage are respectively world's 1st, 2nd and 4th building and public work companies ; Michelin is the world's pneumatic leader ; Lafarge is the world's largest cement company ; JCDecaux is the world's largest outdoor advertising corporation ; BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole and Societe Generale are respectively the world's 1st, 6th and 8th biggest banks in assets in 2010 ;

The economy of Vitoria-Gasteiz is diverse, and many manufacturing companies have operations there, including Mercedes-Benz, Michelin, Gamesa, and Heraclio Fournier, the latter being headquartered there.

Clermont-Ferrand is also famous for hosting one of the world's leading international festivals for short films, the Festival du Court Metrage de Clermont-Ferrand, as well as the corporate headquarters of Michelin, the global tyre company created more than 100 years ago in the city.

* André Michelin ( 1853-1931 ) and Édouard Michelin ( 1859-1940 ) creators of the group Michelin ( tire ) whose global headquarters is still located in Clermont-Ferrand

The town is noted for its small, pedestrian-friendly downtown, with boutique shops, upscale Michelin Star restaurants, and thriving arts community.

The area is well served with restaurants including a 2-rosette Michelin rated one, The Ledbury.

Fork Stables is located about 2 miles south of town and the Michelin tire plant which makes the aircraft tires for the space shuttle is located in town.

The Harwood Arms, behind Fulham Broadway, is the only pub in London to receive a Michelin Star, this fresh entry to the Michelin Guide looks to take diners to a “ rural haven in the middle of Fulham ”.

Restaurants with stars in the Michelin guide are formal, expensive establishments ; in general the more stars awarded, the higher the prices.

Three, four, and five star / diamond ratings are roughly equivalent to the Michelin one, two, and three star ratings while one and two star ratings typically indicate more casual places to eat.

A crash during practice on the banked corner ( the only banked corner on the F1 calendar ) led to Michelin realizing their tires were ill-equipped for the banking, and could complete no more than a fraction of the race before failing.

The 6. 9 suffered no mechanical problems and averaged a very respectable 72 mph ( 116 km / h ) throughout the test, completing it with little more than excess dust on the bodywork from the Michelin radial street tires on which the car was driven to Atlanta.

There has been discussion about which guide is more important, the Michelin Guide or the Gault Millau.

While Joel Robuchon, Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay all run restaurant empires which each hold more than ten Michelin stars, Ramsay is arguably the more famous chef due to his number of television shows broadcast internationally both in the UK, the United States and around the world.

Two more cars were made in 1885 followed by a series of lightweight two-cylinder tricars, which from 1892 had Michelin pneumatic tyres.

Godard's first act was to ask Bitsch to write a screenplay, saying that producer Michelin had been pestering him for a script because he needed it to help him raise finance from backers in Germany ( where Constantine was popular ).

Some enthusiasts even went as far as to send Michelin Mud tires ( a popular clincher tire ) to Dugast ( a manufacturer of high end tubular tires ) to have a modern tread pattern incorporated into a traditional tubular.

While assessment of the building's architecture has followed the vagaries of architectural style, design professionals in general have admired the design, and, at the time of its completion, the building was featured in popular publications throughout the world, and awarded three stars by the Michelin guide, among others.

Marco Pierre White became the youngest chef in the world to achieve three Michelin stars, which went on to make him a household name and have one of his cookbooks, White Heat, described in 2005 as " possibly the most influential recipe book of the last 20 years " by food critic Jay Rayner.

In 1950 Pierre-Jules Boulanger was killed in a car crash, while on the main road from Clermont-Ferrand ( the home of Michelin ), and Paris.

The Michelin teams were unable to find a solution, and while debates raged until the second, the Michelin teams pulled into the pits at the end of the parade lap, leaving only the 3 Bridgestone teams to contest the race.

While television is ultimately the primary way for a chef to become a celebrity, some have achieved this through success in the kitchen and achieving such awards as Michelin stars while others are home cooks.

The Ami Super and Ami 8 Break ( Estate ) were fitted with 135 15 ZX Michelin tires as standard while Ami 8 Saloon retained the Michelin 125 15 X although 135 15's could be ordered as an option.

Moisant died on December 31, 1910 in Kenner, Louisiana in an air crash while making a preparatory flight in his attempt to win the Michelin Cup and its $ 4, 000 prize.

John B. Moisant, the aviator, was killed to-day while making a flight preparatory to an attempt to win the Michelin Cup by setting new endurance and distance figures.

After four years out of the sport, Renault returned to supply engines to the Benetton team, while Michelin ’ s comeback as a tyre supplier would provide Bridgestone with competition for the first time since Goodyear left the sport at the end of the 1998 season.

With only Ferrari and Renault on Michelin tires, Villeneuve was able to use seven sets of qualifiers in the final session, while the Goodyear runners had only two sets per car.

René Arnoux ( 1: 26. 935 ) led Alain Prost, Patrick Tambay and Riccardo Patrese on the day's timing chart, while Nelson Piquet, Lauda and Watson found their Michelin qualifying tires virtually useless and set poor times.

In September 1996, Ben Rogers ate at the restaurant for The Independent before it had gained any Michelin stars or the awards it has today and while it was still using something close to its original menu.

Following the third Michelin star, Jan Moir of The Daily Telegraph visited the restaurant but disliked it, saying that " while many of the flavours are politely interesting, the relentless pappy textures of mousses and foams and creams and poached meats really begins to grate ".

Unlike the Michelin guide which takes the restaurant décor and service into consideration with its rating, Gault Millau only judges the quality of the food.

Photo of French chef | grands chefs, rewarded by Michelin Guide and Gault et Millau

A Jacques Lameloise ( a 3 star Michelin Guide chef ) nouvelle cuisine presentationThe modern usage can be attributed to authors André Gayot, Henri Gault, and Christian Millau, who used nouvelle cuisine to describe the cooking of Paul Bocuse, Alain Chapel, Jean and Pierre Troisgros, Michel Guérard, Roger Vergé and Raymond Oliver, many of whom were once students of Fernand Point.

Michelin has an important truck tire manufacturing plant in Waterville and the Department of National Defence has its largest air force base in Atlantic Canada located at CFB Greenwood along with an important training facility at Camp Aldershot, near Kentville.

No fewer than 17 Michelin starred restaurants are located in the region, among them two restaurants with 3 stars ( Restaurants Bareiss and Schwarzwaldstube in Baiersbronn ) as well as the only restaurant in Germany that has been awarded a Michelin star every year since 1966.

Stoddart has also repeatedly called for the resignation of the FIA's President, Max Mosley, particularly in the aftermath of the 2005 United States Grand Prix where the majority of teams withdrew from the race due to safety concerns about their Michelin tyres.

Barcelona has nine Michelin stars and has been chosen as the best gastronomical city by the American TV network MSNBC in 2009, topping the list of the ten best gastronomical cities in the world.

The castle has been adapted to house a restaurant, which has been recognised with one Michelin Star.

In Main Street can be found a coffee shop ( Blether by the Bridge ), due to re-open in 2011, and a small, family-run establishment called the Wee Restaurant, which has been awarded a Michelin Guide ' Bib Gourmand ' and was named best eating place in Scotland by The Independent.

The simplicity of traditional Finnish food has been turned into an advantage by placing an emphasis on freshness instead, and modern Finnish restaurateurs now blend high-quality Finnish produce with continental cooking techniques, culminating with Helsinki's Chez Dominique receiving two Michelin stars in 2003.

In recent years, development of the New Danish cuisine based on the rediscovery of local ingredients presented in interesting new recipes has led to a significant number of new, highly acclaimed restaurants in Copenhagen and the provinces, several with Michelin stars.

Gordon Ramsay has managed the less formal Savoy Grill in recent years, employing his protégé Marcus Wareing, during which it earned its first Michelin star.

He has earned the nickname " Michelin Man " as a result.

The mall also has several restaurants such as the Michelin 3-star Per Se, Masa ( allegedly the most expensive restaurant in New York ), an outpost of A Voce, a Samsung Electronics showroom, the East Coast flagship of Williams-Sonoma, and a Whole Foods Market.

In recent years, gaining a Michelin star has increased a chef's profile sufficiently for them to be featured on television and become a household name.

Vreeland has a Michelin star restaurant called " De Nederlanden ", a pancake house " Noord-Brabant " and a cafeteria.

Another Elizabethan house, Ockenden Manor, is a restaurant which has had one star from the Michelin Guide since 2001.

The hotel has 2 restaurants and bars – including two establishments by Michelin star winning chef Thierry Marx – as well as The Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Paris.

The village includes a coaching inn, The Talbot Hotel which dates back to 1453. as well as Drake's restaurant, which has been awarded a Michelin star and 3 AA rosettes.

The restaurant was opened in 1995 and is one of only four in the United Kingdom and Ireland that hold a three-star Michelin Guide rating ; this has been the case since 2004.

Despite its small local market, the Auvergne region has developed many national and international companies, such as Michelin, Limagrain ( seed ), the group Centre France-La Montagne ( regional daily press ), Volvic mineral water ( group Danone ) and numerous dynamic SMEs around the two universities and large schools ( engineers, doctors and business school ) of its capital, Clermont-Ferrand.