The year of Michelin honors is officially under way. The dining world’s prestigious Michelin Guide on Wednesday named 15 restaurants in the Bay Area, Central Coast and Southern California as “new discoveries” — a prelude to the release later this year of its California stars. These “culinary gems” include a seasonal California tasting menu in Oakland, a buzzy Cantonese hot spot in San Francisco that was named Esquire magazine’s restaurant of the year for 2024, along with new Southern and French menus in the Bay Area and creative sushi specialists in Los Angeles. Michelin highlighted “new discoveries” for the first...