Restaurant (magazine)

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Restaurant is a British magazine aimed at chefs, restaurant proprietors and other catering professionals. It concentrates on the fine dining end of the industry. It produces an annual list of the best 50 restaurants in the world. The 2006 winner, based on a poll of 600 international chefs and critics, was El Bulli, in the village of Roses in Girona, Spain. The list has come under heavy criticism for being unduly biased in favour of British restaurateurs.

Location of the 2005 top 50:

United Kingdom: 14
France and the United States: 10 each
Spain: 4
Australia and Italy: 3 each
Barbados, Germany, Hong Kong, Monaco, South Africa and Switzerland: 1 each

Cities with most top 50 ranked restaurants:

London: 11
New York and Paris: 6 each

In 2006 the number of British restaurants in the top fifty fell to six as the panel was made more international, with just 30 judges out of 560 from the UK.