When the Michelin Guide first launched in Colorado in 2023, its authors specified it only covered restaurants in a few select cities: Denver, Boulder, Aspen, Vail, Beaver Creek and Snowmass Village.

The reason had to do with which municipalities chose to give money to the state in order to promote the restaurants that are mentioned in the guide. But the exclusion of the rest of the state angered some restaurant owners like Caroline Glover, who owns Annette and Traveling Mercies in Aurora. “I don’t think it’s a great representation of the state since Aurora is one of the most diverse food communities we have, and it’s a big loss for the city and restaurateurs here,” she told The Denver Post at the time.

Three years later, the French tire company is expanding its efforts, and the travel guide’s infamously anonymous dining inspectors will now cover all of the state, the guide’s director said Wednesday.

“Last year, we awarded the first two Michelin-starred restaurant in Colorado, and we look forward to continuing to discover and promote dining establishments across the state, going beyond the main urban areas,” Gwendal Poullennec, International Director of the Michelin Guide, said in a statement.

Read more from Miguel Otarola at DenverPost.com.