These establishments shine for the creations of their chefs, for the flavors and ingredients they mix. Experts in the kitchen chose the 50 best restaurants on earth.
Every year The World’s 50 Best publishes a list of the best restaurants in the world based on the opinion of its panel of experts in the culinary arts. The list of 50 restaurants across the globe keeps some of the establishments constant.
However, as of last year the committee agreed that the first place in the prestigious list could only be held once. In other words, no first place can be repeated. Another recent decision was that due to the global health emergency, the 2020 list and celebration were postponed to 2021.
In total, the list has two Mexican restaurants, one Colombian, one Chilean, one Argentine, one Brazilian and two Peruvian representing Latin cuisine. The two Mexicans are Pujol at No. 12 and Quintonil at No. 24, both in Mexico City.
Below the complete list of the best restaurants in the world with type of food, chef and other awards they have.
- Mirazur
The chef’s creations are inspired by his Italian and Argentine roots. The predominant flavors are the sea, the mountains and the fruits and vegetables that are grown in the gardens and orchards of the place.
Country: France
Specialty: International
Chef: Mauro Colagreco
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: First place The World’s 50 Best
Website: Mirazur
- Noma
The quality of a restaurant is that its menu changes according to the seasons of the year. Seafood dishes are served from January to June while plant-based dishes are served from July to the end of the year.
Country: Denmark
Specialty: Nordic
Chef: René Redzepi
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: Best restaurant in the world by Restaurant Magazine (2010, 2011, 2012, 2014)
Website: noma
- Etxebarri Grill
All the dishes in this place are cooked over wood, on the fire, or on the embers so that the smoked flavor is a constant. Due to the techniques used, only a maximum of 30 people per service can be seated at the table.
Country : Spain
Specialty: Grill
Chef: Bittor Arguinzoniz
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: 3rd Best Restaurant in the World (The World’s 50 Best) and National Gastronomy Award (to its Chef).
Website : Asador Etxebarri Erretegia
- Gaggan (closed)
The restaurant featured a mix of Indonesian flavors with contemporary reinterpretations. It closed after differences between the partners.
Country: Thailand
Chef: Gaggan Anand
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: 4th Best Restaurant in the World 2020.
- Geranium
The Danish restaurant is multi-award-winning, so to go it is necessary to make a reservation months in advance and, in addition, it requires a deposit to be paid to secure a place.
Country: Denmark
Specialty: Danish Gourmet
Chef: Rasmus Kofoed
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The World’s 50 best (2013)
Website: Geranium
- Central Restaurant
The classic Peruvian flavors are reinvented in this restaurant that constantly changes its menu and adapts it to the local flavors and ingredients that emerge from the land by season.
Country: Peru
Specialty: Peruvian
Chef: Virgilio MartÃnez Véliz
Other awards: Number 50 of the World’s Best Restaurants by Restaurant Magazine (2013)
Website: Central Restaurante
- Mugaritz
This place offers a culinary experience of three hours that is divided into the tasting of 20 different dishes. Every year the chef’s creations change so the menu is renewed over time.
Country: Spain
Specialty: Urban Cuisine
Chef: Andoni Luis Aduriz
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: First place in The World’s 50 Best and 4th place.
Website: Mugaritz
- Arpege
One of the characteristics of the place that has been open since 1986 is that the vegetables and most of the ingredients are grown around the restaurant in gardens supervised by the same chef.
Country: France
Specialty: International
Chef: Alain Passard
Michelin stars: 3
Website: Arpége
- Enjoy
The tasting menu reveals avant-garde cuisine. The dishes are of Mediterranean heritage. The flavors, according to the chefs, are daring, fun and modern in search of “taste” as the main premise.
Country: Spain
Specialty: Mediterranean
Chef: Mateu Casañas , Oriol Castro and Eduard Xatruch
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: Best New Restaurant in Europe
Website: Enjoy
- Maido
The place mixes Peruvian flavors with Japanese cuisine. It is a fusion restaurant in which the stove is essential to make the dishes.
Country: Peru
Specialty: Nikkei Cuisine (Peruvian Japanese)
Chef: Mitsuharo Tsumura
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best (2019) and Latin America 50 Best (2017)
Website: Maido
- Den
The purpose of Den’s cooking is to make the flavors taste like homemade recipes. It is for this reason that the space in which the dishes are served is cozy and warm so that diners can feel comfortable.
Country: Japan
Specialty: Japanese
Chef: Zaiyu Hasegawa
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best (2019), Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2017 Hospitality Award
Website: Den
- Pujol
The restaurant’s most famous dish is mole madre. However, the chef recognizes that his cuisine is always changing and transforming. Corn or the sea are the constant on the tasting menu.
Country: Mexico
Specialty: Mexican
Chef: Enrique Olvera
Other awards: Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants, The World’s 50 Best (Best restaurant in Mexico), Diners Club Award, Global Gastronomy Awards 2017.
Website: Pujol
- White Rabbit
Russian cuisine takes on a special meaning when dishes are served on tables surrounded by glass that lets you admire the city. Russian products are used for the creation of the menu.
Country: Russia
Specialty: European
Chef: Vladimir Mukhin
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
Website: White Rabbit
- Azurmendi
The restaurant is completely sustainable in its architecture. On its menu, it presents a journey through Basque cuisine that begins with its roots and ends with contemporary interpretations of the chef. A perfect restaurant for a romantic date.
Country: Spain
Specialty: Basque
Chef: Eneko Atxa
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: Best restaurant in Europe of the year 2015, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
Website: Azurmendi
- Septime
For the daily menu, the chef offers five courses paired with wine. While for the evening menu the proposal is based on seven times that are also paired with wines.
Country: France
Specialty: French
Chef: Bertrand Grébaut
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
Website: Septime
- Alain Ducasse
The love of vegetables is the essence of this restaurant. Both the fruits and vegetables that are used on the menu are grown on the premises and are picked just a few hours before they are cooked.
Country: France
Specialty: French
Chef: Denis Courtiade
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The World’s Best Pastry Chef 2019, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2017
Website: Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée
- Steirereck
Your tasting options are divided into breakfast, lunch, and dinner. According to these three aspects, the flavors fluctuate between Viennese, Austrian or classic country flavors.
Country: Austria
Specialty: European
Chef: Heinz Reitbauer
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2017
Website: Steirereck
- Odette
The restaurant offers contemporary French cuisine. For the chef, it is essential to respect the ingredients by season, the land and the artisanal process to take care of the growth of each of its inputs.
Country: Singapore
Specialty: French
Chef: Julien Royer
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
Website: Odette
- Twins Garden
It is a project that enhances Russian cuisine. The restaurant is led by two chefs who, in addition to being brothers, are twins in search of natural flavors.
Around 150 vegetables used daily are supervised from planting to growth by the chefs themselves.
Country: Russia
Specialty: International
Chef: Ivan and Sergey Berezutsky
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants (2019)
Website: Twins Garden
- Tickets
The restaurant offers tapas. It is recognized as a playful space in which haute cuisine becomes a fun and entertaining experience between chefs, space and food.
Country: Spain
Specialty: Tapas
Chef: Albert Adrià (Fran Agudo)
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants (2019)
Website: Tickets
- Frantzen
The place is very jealous of its cuisine and its offerings. So the tasting menu that is the same for lunch and dinner is revealed until the diners arrive on the premises.
Country: Sweden
Specialty: Nordic
Chef: Björn Frantzén
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: Best Chef in the World, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants (2019)
Website: Frantzén
- Nariwawa
Sustainability is key for this restaurant that aims to feed the body and spirit of its guests in the same way. Due to the importance of nature for the chef, the menu is constantly changing.
Country: Japan
Specialty: Japanese
Chef: Yoshihiro Narisawa
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants (2019)
Website: Nariwawa
- Cosme
It offers contemporary Mexican food . The dishes are based on the roots of Mexican flavors mixed with ingredients that grow in and around the Hudson Valley.
Country: United States
Specialty: Mexican
Chef: Enrique Olvera and Daniela Soto-Innes
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants (2019)
Website: Cosme
- Quintonil
The restaurant offers dishes that are part of classic Mexican cuisine. In the words of the chef, the objective is to express in his menu the flavors of the ingredients of the Mexican territory under a personal gaze.
Country: Mexico
Specialty: Mexican
Chef: Jorge Vallejo
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Quintonil
- Pavillon Ledoyen
The ingredients that accompany the dishes of the restaurant are worked in a meticulous way with supervision of the chef about where all the ingredients come from.
Country: France
Specialty: French
Chef: Yannick Alléno
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Pavillon Ledoyen
- Boragó
The tasting menus are only made with the best endemic product of the Chilean territory.
Much of the food is cut from untouched soils by collecting communities and small producers throughout Chile, so the flavors change even with each service.
Country: Chile
Specialty: Chilean
Chef: Rodolfo Guzmán
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Boragó
- The Clove Club
The tasting menu collects the flavors of the British Isles with inspiration from the chef’s travels around the world.
Country: England
Specialty: Nordic Fusion
Chef: Isaac McHale
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: The Clove Club
- Blue Hills at Stone Barns
This restaurant is actually an agricultural education center so that the ingredients that are used grow around it. The dishes consist of supplies that were collected that same day.
Country: United States
Specialty: Farm cooking, on the farm
Chef: Dan Barber’s
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: Best Restaurant in the US in 2015, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Blue Hill Stone Barns
- Piazzo Duomo
The most remarkable thing about the restaurant is that it has 11 tables and in each one a different menu is created according to the tastes of the diners. Each service is invented at the mercy of the ingredients available.
Country: Italy
Chef: Enrico Crippa
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Piazzo Duomo
- Elkano
Elkano – The gastronomic proposal of the place is divided by zones, by species and by biological temporality. So dishes can be made from cephalopods, whitefish, rockfish, or flatfish.
Country: Spain
Specialty: Fire, charcoal and grill
Chef: Aitor Arregi
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Elkano
- Le Calandre
The menu changes with the season and is the result of the flavors that have been harvested from your chef’s travels. Diners can choose from three different tasting menus or they can create their own menu.
Country: Italy
Specialty: Italian
Chef: Massimiliano Alajmo
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: La Calandre
- Nerua
The place bets on a local cuisine that is born in the orchards, in the sea and in the farms. The entire restaurant seeks to offer a gastronomic and cultural experience.
Country: Spain
Chef: Josean Alija
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Nerua Guggenheim Bilbao
- Lyle’s
The menu consists of dishes made with seasonal British ingredients. His reinterpretation of the classic and minimalist flavors as well as the facilities of his place.
Country: England
Specialty: International
Chef: James Lowe
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Lyle’s
- Don Julio
Meats are the protagonists of the menu that is cooked on the grill. The restaurant also has a shop for cuts to prepare at home.
Country: Argentina
Specialty: Grill and meat
Chef: Guido Tassi
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019, Fourth Best Restaurant in Latin America
Website: Parrilla Don Julio
- Atelier Crenn
The inspiration behind the dishes that fill the menu of the place has to do with the chef’s personal experiences and her idea that constant evolution is necessary for her kitchen and for life.
Country: United States
Specialty: United States
Chef: Dominique Crenn
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: Best Female Chef in the World, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Atelier Crenn
The mainstay of the restaurant is to serve fish in a simple way but with the best technique. The entire menu is an ode to marine flavors and seafood.
Country: United States
Specialty: French seafood restaurant
Chef: Eric Ripert
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: 4 stars from The New York Times, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Le Bernardin
- Align
To try the dishes of the place it is necessary to choose between three different spaces.
The first is an intimate space and the most expensive, the second is an experience to share with 16 people and the third consists of a cheaper but equally delicious menu.
Country: United States
Specialty: American
Chef: Grant Achatz
Michelin stars: 3
Other Awards: Outstanding Restaurant James Beard Foundation, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2013, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Alinea
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- Hisa Franko
The food is based on three essential pillars: the ingredients provided by the territory where the restaurant is located , the seasons of the year and the personality of its chef.
Country: Slovenia
Specialty: Slovak
Chef: Ana Roš
Other awards: Best chef in the world 2017, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Hiša Franko
- A casa do Porco
To try the restaurant’s food, it is not necessary to make a reservation. In fact, the premise of the place is that diners enter in order of arrival. Meat, of course, is the main ingredient.
Country: Brazil
Specialty: Grill
Chef: Jefferson Rueda
Michelin stars: 1
Other awards: Best chef in Brazil, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: A casa do Porco
- Restaurant Tim Raue
The cuisine is inspired by Asian flavors, specifically Japanese, Thai and Chinese. No dairy is included in the menu, neither are breads, pasta or rice.
Country: Germany
Specialty: Asian
Chef: Tim Raue
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants since 2016, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Restaurant Tim Raue
- The Chairman
This restaurant serves Cantonese food based on its ancient traditions and flavors. The philosophy is that the simplest flavors demand the most refined culinary skills.
Country: China
Specialty: Cantonese
Chef: Danny Yip
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: The Best Cantonese Restaurant
- Belcanto
The menu is understood as contemporary Portuguese cuisine. The dishes are based on traditional recipes and are paired with regional and international wines.
Country: Portugal
Specialty: Portuguese
Chef: José Avillez
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Belcanto
- Hof Van Cleve
The tasting menu can be six or seven courses. Since the ingredients are chosen on a daily basis, the bases of the dishes can change from day to day.
Country: Belgium
Chef: Peter Goosens
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: Best restaurant in the world since 2016, Golden score 19.5 / 20 Gault & Millau 2020, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019, Top100 chefs in the world
Website: Hof Van Cleve
- The Test Kitchen
Their cuisine is based on traditional South African dishes. The space is divided into two rooms through which dishes decorated with different textures, flavors and colors parade.
Country: South Africa
Chef: Luke Dale-Roberts
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019; Top 100 Restaurants 2014, 2015, 2016
Website: The Test Kitchen
- Suhring
Classic German food takes place in this restaurant run by two brothers who put together their childhood memories with new ingredients and flavors.
Country: Thailand
Specialty: Thai
Chef: Mathias and Thomas Sühring
Michelin stars: 2
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Restaurant Sühring
- ​​From Librije
The chef recognizes that his restaurant does not have any specialty and that is precisely what distinguishes it as one of the best. The whole team discovers the flavors on a daily basis and that is what they offer the diner.
Country: Holland
Specialty: Dutch
Chef: Jonnie Boer
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: De Librije
- Benu
At least three hours are needed to finish the restaurant’s tasting menu. They offer different food according to the dietary restrictions of each diner.
Country: United States
Specialty: Korean and Cantonese
Chef: Corey Lee
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The 40 Most Important Restaurants of the Decade, Inquire; America’s 38 Essential Restaurants, Eater; Five Diamond Award, AAA; 5 Stars, Forbes Travel Guide; Outstanding Wine Program 2019, James Beard Awards; Best Chef: West 2017, James Beard Awards; 10 Restaurants Worth a Plane Ride, The New York Times and The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: benu
- Ultraviolet
The avant-garde food of the place blends perfectly with the avant-garde and modern interior design. The website of the place reveals it as indescribable and unique.
Country: China
Specialty: International
Chef: Paul Pairet
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet
- Leo
The restaurant’s objective is to develop strategies and dishes that adjust to the well-being of the surrounding communities. The restaurant is run by the chef and his mother who is the sommelier.
Country: Colombia
Chef: Leonor Espinosa
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Leo
- Schloss Schauenstein
The menu is divided into tastings that can be between three and six times. The flavors are based on international flavors. To make a reservation it is necessary to have eight months in advance.
Country: Switzerland
Specialty: International
Chef: Andreas Caminada
Michelin stars: 3
Other awards: The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2019
Website: Schauenstein Schloss