Restaurant magazine has put out their annual list of the world’s 50 best restaurants. The list hasn’t changed too much in the last year, with only four new entries. The top 6 remaining the same, while numbers 7-10 only shifted around a little. Eight restaurants from the US made the list - French Laundry, Per Se, Jean Georges, Le Bernardin, Daniel, Charlie Trotter’s, Alinea and Chez Panisse - which is more than any other country except France. The UK had seven restaurants on the list, found below:
1 El Bulli, Spain
2 The Fat Duck, UK
3 Pierre Gagnaire, France
4 The French Laundry, USA
5 Tetsuya’s, Australia
6 Bras, France
7 Mugaritz, Spain
8 Le Louis XV, Monaco
9 Per Se, USA
10 Arzak, Spain
11 El Celler de Can Roca, Spain
12 Gambero Rosso, Italy
13 L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, France
14 Hof van Cleve, Belgium
15 Noma, Denmark
16 Le Calandre, Italy
17 Nobu London, UK
18 Jean Georges, USA
19 Hakkasan, UK
20 Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, France
21 L’Astrance, France
22 Can Fabes ,Spain
23 L’Ambroisie, France
24 Restaurant Gordon Ramsay UK
25 Troisgros, France
26 Le Bernardin, USA
27 Martin Berasategui, Spain
28 Le Gavroche, UK
29 Le Cinq, France
30 Charlie Trotter’s, USA
31 Dal Pescatore, Italy
32 Daniel, USA
33 Rockpool, Australia
34 St John, UK
35 Chez Dominique, Finland
36 Alinea, USA
37 Bukhara, India
38 DOM, Brazil
39 Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, Sweden
40 Chez Panisse, USA
41 Enoteca Pinchiorri, Italy
42 Cracco Peck, Italy
43 L’Arpège, France
44 River Café, UK
45 Oud Sluis, Netherlands
46 Combal Zero, Italy
47 Le Quartier Français, South Africa
48 Taillevent, France
49 Bocuse, France
50 Les Ambassadeurs, France
I discovered two things of note to me - not one of the restaurants is from Canada. Likely more from a lack of the magazine writers ever coming here rather than quality. The second thing is that I have been to NONE of them!
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