The World's 50 Best Restaurants

The World's 50 Best Restaurants is a list produced by the British magazine Restaurant, based on a poll of international chefs, restaurateurs, gourmands and restaurant critics. In addition to the main ranking, the Chef's Choice list is based on votes from the fifty head chefs from the restaurants on the previous year's list. The top restaurants are often forerunners of molecular gastronomy. Most of the restaurants serve haute cuisine, which is characterized by the meticulous preparation and careful presentation of food.

The first place on the list has been dominated by elBulli and Noma. In 2002 and 2006–2009, elBulli was determined to be the world's best restaurant, winning more times than any other restaurant.[1] In 2010, Noma received the first place award. It was maintained in 2011 and again in 2012.[2] After defending its title for the third time, chef René Redzepi said that 1,204 customers were wait-listed for the evening, compared to 14 customers from two years before.[3] However, in 2013 El Celler De Can Roca took over the first position and Noma regained it in 2014. Eleven Madison Park in New York City is the current top restaurant, [4] the first American restaurant to top the list since Thomas Keller's The French Laundry in 2004.[5]

History

The list originated as a one-off stunt by the staff of Restaurant magazine, who came up with the idea at the Shaston Arms public house in London's Carnaby Street.[6] It was more successful than they expected and soon became established as a major event in the culinary world.[6]

The World's 50 Best Restaurants list is compiled from the votes of the "World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy", a group of 27 panels established to make the ranking.[7] The world is divided into regions, with a chairperson in each region appointed for their knowledge of their part of the restaurant world. These chairs each selected a voting panel of 35 members, who cast a total of 5,859 votes.

There is no list of nominees; each member of the international voting panel votes for their own personal choice of seven restaurants. To ensure that there are winners from many regions, judges are encouraged to vote for up to three restaurants in their own region, with the rest cast outside their home region. No voting member is allowed to vote for their own restaurant, or one in which they have an economic interest, and voters must have eaten in the restaurants they nominate within the past 18 months – although it is not possible to ensure that they have.

The criteria are different from those of the Michelin Guide or other guides, which has allowed restaurants like Momofuku Ssam Bar, Asador Etxebarri and St. John to hold their own among the molecular or traditional cuisine of restaurants such as The Fat Duck, Les Ambassadeurs or The French Laundry.

Best restaurants by year

elBulli
Noma's storefront
World's Best Restaurant
Year 1st 2nd 3rd
2002 Spain elBulli United Kingdom Gordon Ramsay United States The French Laundry
2003 United States The French Laundry Spain elBulli Monaco Le Louis XV
2004 United States The French Laundry United Kingdom The Fat Duck Spain elBulli
2005 United Kingdom The Fat Duck Spain elBulli United States The French Laundry
2006 Spain elBulli United Kingdom The Fat Duck France Pierre Gagnaire
2007 Spain elBulli United Kingdom The Fat Duck France Pierre Gagnaire
2008 Spain elBulli United Kingdom The Fat Duck France Pierre Gagnaire
2009 Spain elBulli United Kingdom The Fat Duck Denmark Noma
2010 Denmark Noma Spain elBulli United Kingdom The Fat Duck
2011 Denmark Noma Spain El Celler de Can Roca Spain Mugaritz
2012 Denmark Noma Spain El Celler de Can Roca Spain Mugaritz
2013 Spain El Celler de Can Roca Denmark Noma Italy Osteria Francescana
2014 Denmark Noma Spain El Celler de Can Roca Italy Osteria Francescana
2015 Spain El Celler de Can Roca Italy Osteria Francescana Denmark Noma
2016 Italy Osteria Francescana Spain El Celler de Can Roca United States Eleven Madison Park
2017 United States Eleven Madison Park Italy Osteria Francescana Spain El Celler de Can Roca

Chef's Choice restaurants by year

Other 2012 awards

Criticism

The World's 50 Best Restaurants list has been criticised; writing in The Guardian in 2003 Matthew Fort described the list as "humbug".[10] The French food writer and critic François-Régis Gaudry mentions the lack of reliability of this ranking,[11] while the Spanish chef Martín Berasategui spoke of "rigged" ranking, manipulated by an "important international food company" in order to "cause damage" to the Michelin guide.[12] The list has also been criticised for a lack of female representation and for being overly Eurocentric.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Spain's El Bulli named best restaurant in world". The Economic Times. India. 21 April 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 21 September 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Richard Vines (30 April 2012). "Noma Keeps World’s Best Restaurant Title, Fat Duck Sinks". Bloomberg. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  4. ↑ "Eleven Madison Park Tops List of World’s 50 Best Restaurants". New York Times. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  5. ↑ "These Are the World's 50 Best Restaurants". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  6. 1 2 Lauren Collins (2 November 2015), "Who's to Judge? – How the World’s 50 Best Restaurants are chosen", The New Yorker, retrieved 10 April 2017
  7. ↑ "About The Academy". Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  8. ↑ Restaurant, Osteria Francescana 2011
  9. 1 2 3 "Noma Keeps World's Best Restaurant Title as Fat Duck Slumps". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  10. ↑ Fort, Matthew (2003-04-29). "Questionable taste". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2008-04-02.
  11. ↑ "Que faut-il penser des World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2013?". Lexpress.fr.
  12. ↑ "“Restaurant’ es un montaje”". El País (in Spanish). 2 May 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2017.
  13. ↑ Bull, Marian. "The World’s 50 Best Restaurants List Is Also a Bad Bucket List". GQ. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
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