The Michelin Guide published annually by the Michelin tire company in France has awarded one of its prestigious stars to a restaurant in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

An entry for Sushi Nakazawa was added to Michelin's website as of Tuesday, and describes the restaurant as "elegant and intimate, with lots of dark wood and gorgeous gold accents."

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"The team works in a tidy fashion, their hands moving as silently and seamlessly as a surgeon along meticulously organized counters. Ingredients are sourced both locally and from abroad, and freshness is paramount," Michelin's guide reads.

One inspector for the guidebook told Bloomberg that the restaurant's location inside a hotel owned by the president was not factored into the company's decision. Sushi Nakazawa's other location in New York also has one star.

“There was no pause about the hotel that it’s located in. It’s all about the food on the plate for the star," the Michelin inspector told Bloomberg, adding that the fish served at the restaurant was of relatively good value.

Michelin awards a small number of stars to top-performing restaurants in cities around the world every year, with most restaurants being ignored completely.

Restaurants that earn a star must work to retain it every year, and some earn two or a maximum of three stars.

Sushi Nakazawa was one of four restaurants in the D.C. area to be added to the one-star list in 2019, which was only expanded to the city four years ago.

"We are pretty certain to add new destinations in the U.S., but we expand step by step. We don’t want to compromise,” Michelin Guide international director Gwendal Poullennec told Bloomberg.

Trump's hotel, located in the historic Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, has been the subject of controversy during Trump's time in office. Critics have pointed to the business and other Trump-branded properties in arguing that the president improperly benefits from their patronage.