The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018: the results
The Oscars of the restaurant world took place in Bilbao, Spain, with the best and brightest of the cheffing world gathering to find out where they place in the global rankings. Take a look at the full list of results.
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018: the results
The Oscars of the restaurant world took place in Bilbao, Spain, with the best and brightest of the cheffing world gathering to find out where they place in the global rankings. Take a look at the full list of results.
There are a lot of restaurant guides vying to be the top authority on where to eat in the world, but The San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best list is the only one that covers every single country in the world. It’s also the glitziest, with a star-studded awards ceremony and a build-up that lasts days before and after the results are announced. The list is compiled from the votes of over a thousand food critics from across the globe, then written up by a chair of twenty-six. This year the event took place in Bilbao, Spain – a city known for its incredible food scene – and it was Massimo Bottura’s Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy that was voted the best in the world. This is the second time Osteria Francescana has taken the top spot after it won for the first time in 2016.
As well as the top fifty restaurants in the world, the awards hand out some separate gongs as well. The most controversial is for The World’s Best Female Chef (won by the UK’s own Clare Smyth, previously of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and now running her own restaurant Core by Clare Smyth), with many critics asking the question why gender should matter in an awards ceremony based on skill and talent. While Clare agreed that separating male and female chefs was ‘strange’, she also recognised that there aren’t enough women ‘coming through at the top and we need to do something about it’. Referencing the fact that she's constantly asked what it's like to be a female chef, she said: 'I'm not sure because I've never been a male chef!'
Other special awards on the night were The Ferrari Trento Art of Hospitality Award (given to Geranium in Copenhagen); the Diners Club Lifetime Achievement Award (given to Gastón Acurio for his work promoting Peruvian food at his restaurant Astrid y Gastón); The Sustainable Restaurant Award (given to Azurmendi in Spain) and the Chef’s Choice Award (given to Dan Barber of Blue Hill at Stone Barns in the US).
Four restaurants in the UK made the list, all of them in London – The Clove Club ranked the highest at 33, followed by Lyle’s at 38, The Ledbury at 42 and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at 45. Take a look below at the full list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018.
1 – Osteria Francescana, Modena, Italy
2 – El Cellar de Can Roca, Girona, Spain
3 – Mirazur, Menton, France
4 – Eleven Madison Park, New York, USA (last year’s winner)
5 – Gaggan, Bangkok, Thailand
6 – Central, Lima, Peru
7 – Maido, Lima, Peru
8 – Arpege, Paris, France
9 – Mugaritz, San Sebastiàn, Spain
10 – Asador Extebarri, Atxondo, Spain
11 – Quintonil, Mexico City, Mexico
12 – Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, USA
13 – Pujol, Mexico City, Mexico
14 – Steirereck, Vienna, Austria
15 – White Rabbit, Moscow, Russia
16 – Piazza Duomo, Alba, Italy
17 – Den, Tokyo, Japan
18 – Disfrutar, Barcelona, Spain (this year’s highest new entry)
19 – Geranium, Copenhagen, Denmark
20 – Attica, Melbourne, Australia
21 – Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, Paris, France
22 – Narisawa, Tokyo, Japan
23 – Le Calandre, Rubano, Italy
24 – Paul Pairet, Shanghai, China
25 – Cosme, New York, USA
26 – Le Bernadin, New York, USA
27 – Boragó, Santiago, Chile
28 – Odette, Singapore
29 – Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen, Paris
30 – D.O.M, Sao Paulo, Brazil
31 – Arzak, San Sebastiàn, Spain
32 – Tickets, Barcelona, Spain
33 – The Clove Club, London, UK
34 – Alinea, Chicago, USA
35 – Maaemo, Oslo, Norway
36 – Reale, Castel Di Sangro, Italy
37 – Restaurant Tim Raue, Berlin, Germany
38 – Lyles, London, UK
39 – Astrid y Gastón, Lima, Peru
40 – Septime, Paris, France
41 – Nihonryori RyuGin, Tokyo, Japan
42 – The Ledbury, London, UK
43 – Azurmendi, Larrabetzu, Spain
44 – Mikla, Istanbul, Turkey
45 – Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London, UK
46 – Saison, San Francisco, USA
47 – Schloss Schauenstein, Fürstenau, Switzerland
48 – Hisa Franko, Kobarid, Slovenia
49 – Nahm, Bangkok, Thailand
50 – Test Kitchen, Cape Town, South Africa
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