World’s 50 Best Restaurants – 2018 Edition

Yesterday the 2018 Worlds 50 best Restaurants List came out. What made the list:

1. Osteria Francescana (Modena, Italy)
2. El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain)
3. Mirazur (Menton, France)
4. Eleven Madison Park (New York City)
5. Gaggan (Bangkok, Thailand)
6. Central (Lima, Peru)
7. Maido (Lima, Peru)
8.  L’Arpege (Paris, France)
9. Mugaritz (Errenteria, Spain)
10.  Asador Etxebarri (Axpe, Spain)
11. Quintonil (Mexico City, Mexico)
12.  Blue Hill at Stone Barns (Pocantico Hills, New York, 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)
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. Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet (Shanghai, China)
25. Cosme (New York City, USA)
26. Le Bernardin (New York City, USA)
27.  Boragó (Santiago, Chile)
28. Odette (Singapore)
29. Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen (Paris, France)
30. D.O.M. (São Paulo, Brazil)
31. Arzak (San Sebastian, 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. Lyle’s (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. Hiša Franko (Kobarid, Slovenia)
49. Nahm (Bangkok, Thailand)
50. The Test Kitchen (Cape Town, South Africa)

• Best Female Chef: Clare Smyth (Core by Clare Smyth, London)
• Chef’s Choice Award: Dan Barber (Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, New York)
• Best Pastry Chef: Cédric Grolet
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Gastón Acurio
• Art of Hospitality Award: Geranium (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• One to Watch: Single Thread (Healdsburg, California)
• Sustainable Restaurant Award: Azurmendi (Larrabetzu, Spain)
• Highest New Entry: Disfrutar (Barcelona, Spain)
• Highest Climber Award: Den (Tokyo, Japan)

My Thoughts:

• There is a significant lack of women on the list.
• I’m glad Central overtook Maido in the list (although this is a top debate amongst my family and friends I vote for Central over Maido)
• I’m dissapointed that some of the restaurants that I thought had dropped from the 51-100 list to come up didn’t. La Colombe especially – such an amazing restaurant.
• Massimo Bottura not only is a great chef but a wonderful person so I was So glad he got top spot again. In his honor a little picture of our last meeting: 
• Pujol should be above Quintonil. There is no question in my mind about that.
• Cosme is such a huge surprise. IT is definitely one of my favorite restaurants in NY but to see it so high up with all the fancy ones is pretty impressive. Enrique Olvera is definitely having a good day with two restaurants in the top 50.
• I’m still dissapointed than in my only day in Copenhagen when restaurants actually opened I chose Relae over Geranium.

Coverage: 

• The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018: The Full List of Winners
• Eleven Madison Park Is No Longer the ‘World’s Best’ Restaurant
• Osteria Francescana Tops World’s 50 Best Restaurants List
• Here’s the Full List of the ‘World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ for 2018
• Daniel Humm on Eleven Madison’s Fall on ‘World’s Best’: Closing Was ‘Probably Not the Best Idea’
• The ‘World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ List Had a Chance to Do Better — They Blew It
• World’s 50 best restaurants for 2018 announced
• The World’s 50 Best Restaurants of 2018: The Full Winners List
• World’s 50 Best Restaurants: Clove Club crowned best restaurant in London
• Lyle’s in Shoreditch joins World’s 50 Best elite
• The new World’s 50 Best Restaurants are revealed – but where is Hong Kong?
• Why People Are So Frustrated with the World’s 50 Best Restaurants List