As we learned in March, the San Francisco Bay Area won't have its own Michelin Guide starting this year, as we get folded into a new California-wide guide that once again brings Los Angeles into the Michelin fold (along with Sacramento and San Diego).

To be fair, the former Michelin Guide expanded the "Bay Area" to include Santa Cruz and Monterey, and Los Angeles did have its own guide for a couple of years (2007-2009), and the intervening decade has seen the LA food scene grow in stature and sophistication the likes of which it hadn't seen since the 1980s.

The Bay Area will likely dominate in the three-star realm regardless, with Providence in LA the likeliest candidate to join the three-star ranks. (One reason Michelin backed away from LA a decade ago was because it was having trouble finding three-star-worthy restaurants there.)

Now, in an announcement that probably puts us just a couple weeks out from the big release of the full guide, we get the new Bib Gourmand listings for the Bay Area. As Eater SF notes, there are also three restaurants in Sacramento making this list (Canon; the 80-year-old, James Beard-honored Frank Fat's; and new counter-service spot Mother), which now covers all of NorCal. (Here are the 62 LA restaurants getting Bib Gourmands, along with five in Orange County.)

Bib Gourmands, ICYMI, are restaurants the fall just short of earning a star rating, but which are recommended as great values by the Michelin inspectors, and theoretically one can order "two courses and a glass of wine or dessert for $40 or less" at all of these places, though that will require some seriously clever math at many of them these days — and that $40 cutoff has remained unchanged for the last 12 years that the guide has been published here, while the cost of dining out has soared

The only two newcomers here in SF are the Chinese spots Harborview and Z&Y Bistro.

A16
Anchor Oyster Bar
Backyard
Bistro Aix
Bravas
The Bywater
Canon
Chalkboard
China Village
Ciccio
Comal
Cook
Coqueta
Corso
Cotogna
Delfina
Del Popolo
Diavola
Dosa
Dyafa
El Molino Central
Farmhouse Kitchen Thai
Farmstead
Frank Fat’s (Sacramento, NEW)
Glen Ellen Star
Grace’s Table
Gran Electrica
Great China
Harborview (NEW)
Insalata’s
Ippuku
Izakaya Rintaro
Kokkari Estiatorio
La Calenda (Yountville, NEW)
Lai Hong Lounge
Luna Mexican Kitchen
Millennium
M.Y. China
Mother (Sacramento, NEW)
Nopalito
Nyum Bai
Oenotri
Okane
Orchard City Kitchen
Pausa
Pig in a Pickle (Marin, NEW)
Playa
Poggio
Ramen Gaijin
Redd Wood
Risibisi
Royal Feast
Sichuan Home
1601 Bar & Kitchen
Soba Ichi
Sociale
Starbelly
Stockhome (Petaluma, NEW)
Sushi Ran
Teni East Kitchen
Thai House
Trestle
Tsubasa
Vesta
Village Sake
Wonderful
Wood Tavern
YAFA (Monterey, NEW)
Yank Sing
Z&Y
Z&Y Bistro (SF, NEW)