Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Michelin Guide today raised one Swiss restaurant to two-star status and awarded eight more a single star, ensuring Switzerland keeps its rank as the country with the highest number of stars per capita in 2010.

The new two-star eatery is Anne-Sophie Pic in the Beau- Rivage Palace in Lausanne. Pic, who comes from a family of chefs, is the only French woman chef to have received three stars, for her Maison Pic in Valence, France.

New one-star restaurants include Le Chat Botte and Vertig’O, both in hotels in Geneva, and Sankt Meinrad and Sein in Zurich. Michelin also awarded the first star to an Indian restaurant in Switzerland: Rasoi by Vineet in Geneva’s Mandarin Oriental hotel. Seven restaurants lost stars.

Switzerland’s two three-star restaurants kept their ranking: Philippe Rochat in Crissier, Canton Vaud, and Le Pont de Brent in Montreux, also in Canton Vaud. Michelin said it may also upgrade Schauenstein, a two-star restaurant in Fuerstenau in the canton of Graubuenden, “once it has demonstrated greater consistency over time and across the entire menu.”

Under the Michelin ranking system, one star means a very good restaurant in its category, two means excellent and worth a detour and three stars means among the very best restaurants and worth a special journey.

Michelin & Cie., the world’s biggest tiremaker, is based in Clermont-Ferrand, France, and has been publishing dining guides for more than a century.

The 520-page Michelin Guide Switzerland 2010 goes on sale on Nov. 19.

The restaurants awarded new stars are:
2 Michelin stars:        Anne-Sophie Pic, Lausanne
1 Michelin star:         c21, Champery
                         Le Chat Botte, Geneva
                         Rasoi by Vineet, Geneva
                         Vertig’O, Geneva
                         Le Trianon, Mont-Pelerin
                         Auberge de L’Onde, Rotisserie, Vevey
                         Sankt Meinrad, Zurich
                         Sein, Zurich

To contact the writer on the story: Catherine Hickley in Berlin at chickley@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: November 17, 2009 03:00 EST