Restaurant is a British magazine aimed at chefs, restaurant proprietors and other catering professionals that concentrates on the fine dining end of the industry. It produces an annual list of what it considers to be the best 50 restaurants, based on the votes of 600 "chefs, restaurateurs, critics and fun-loving gourmands".[1] The list is reported in the press, but is not universally accepted or considered as definitive.[2]
In 2009 the list was headed by El Bulli restaurant in Roses, Spain,[3] for the fourth consecutive year, and fifth year overall. But in 2010 Ferran Adria's restaurant was beaten by the Scandinavian restaurant Noma.[4]