Yahoo Finance The 10 Best Restaurants in the World: There’s a New No. 1
Gastronomes, take note: The world officially has a new best restaurant. Italy’s three-Michelin star Osteria Francescana was crowned the world’s best restaurant Monday night in New York at a ceremony to mark the unveiling of the 2016 edition of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.
Osteria Francescana Founder Massimo Bottura has been credited with bridging traditional and modern innovations in Italian cooking at his 11-table restaurant, which has been operating in Modena, Italy since 1995.
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The U.S. grabbed six spots among the world’s top 50 restaurants this year, up from five last year. This year’s top American restaurant was New York’s Eleven Madison Park, which ranked third. Other American restaurants include Chicago’s Alinea (15), New York’s Le Bernardin (25), San Francisco-based Saison (27), New York’s Estela (44) and Blue Hill at Stone Barns at Pocantico Hills, New York (48).
Dominque Crenn, owner of San Francisco’s Atelier Crenn, was named best female chef, even though her restaurant did not make the list.
Here’s the top 10 for 2016:
1. Osteria Francescana (Modena, Italy)
2. El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain)
3. Eleven Madison Park (New York, USA)
4. Central (Lima, Peru)
5. Noma (Copenhagen, Denmark)
6. Mirazur (Menton, France)
7. Mugaritz (San Sebastian, Spain)
8. Narisawa (Tokyo, Japan)
9. Steirereck (Vienna, Austria)
10. Asador Etxebarri (Axpe, Spain)
The full list can be found here.
Danish restaurant Noma slipped to fifth place after occupying third place last year and holding the title of best restaurant in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014. Lima’s Central held on to its No. 4 position on the list, making it the top restaurant in Latin America, and Narisawa of Tokyo was the top Asian restaurant. Among the top 10 from last year, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal fell the furthest as it dropped from seventh to 45th.
The rankings are voted on by a worldwide panel of judges made of up food writers, critics, chefs and other noted ‘gastronomes,’ according to organizers. The list has come under fire by groups such as Occupy 50 Best, who accuse organizers of having no objective criteria to judge restaurants and for results that skew towards male-run, European restaurants. Twenty-seven of this year’s winners were from Europe, nine were from North America (of which six were from the U.S.), seven from Asia, five from South America, one from Australia and one from Africa.
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