About Pearl
A curated passport to the world's best places.
Pearl is the curated travel passport for the world's most exceptional restaurants, hotels, bars, and wineries. Every venue on Pearl is editorially vetted — with detailed reviews, awards context, and the curated lists it belongs to — drawn from the Michelin Guide, World's 50 Best, the James Beard Foundation, La Liste, Wine Spectator, and other authoritative sources.
Curation here is editorial, not aggregation. Every verdict has to answer a single question before it ships: strip the recommendation and the comparison out, and does the page still help you decide? If it doesn't, it goes back to draft. How we evaluate venues and what each award classification means is documented in our editorial standards.
Who's behind Pearl
Co-founder & Editor at Large
Co-founder and editor at large of Pearl. A collector with deep cellar work on Burgundy and Bordeaux, and the fieldwork behind each booking-decision verdict on the site: 100+ five-star hotels, 1,000+ restaurants and 100+ Michelin stars in person.
Co-founder & Editor at Large
Co-founder and editor at large of Pearl. Brings the field record that makes Pearl's peer-comparison verdicts hold: 568+ restaurants, 125+ Michelin stars, 143+ wineries and 100+ bar programs across 49 US states and 17 countries.
Get in touch
Questions, corrections, or press? hello@joinpearl.co.

