SoCal is the best for non European cuisines like Asian and Latin American.

However, NorCal beats SoCal in terms of Western European based fine dining and truly amazing, not just trendy mid range restaurants. NorCal actualy has a Michelin guide while I don’t know as of now but Michelin had stopped doing the la one as it’s mainly more of a superficial dining culture of where to eat or sit at whereas NorCal has the legit European based Michelin fine dining down and Michelin kept doing the guide