Nearly a century after Michelin started rating restaurants around the world for an annual guide, its anonymous inspectors descended on Philadelphia for the first time this year. On Tuesday, the tire company that can elevate a restaurants' reputation with just one star announced that it had given that designation to three dining establishments in the city.

Her Place Supper Club, Friday Saturday Sunday and Provenance earned one star during a ceremony held at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

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"I wish that we had more people standing up on that stage, but there's another year and there's going to be way more of us up there," Provenance chef Nicholas Bazik

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