There are loads of lists and awards out there celebrating the very best that the hospitality industry has to offer, from the Michelin Guide to World’s 50 Best. One such annual ranking comes from La Liste, one of the most respected guides in the culinary world.
The ranking is compiled by aggregating thousands of sources ranging from critical reviews to online ratings. It celebrates restaurants for more than their great food (though that is, obviously, a pretty important factor). These spots have perfected everything that could possibly make a meal special: ambiance, taste, texture, wine pairings – you name it, they excel at it.
The list (liste?) recognises the 1,000 best restaurants on Earth. That may sound like a lot, but considering that there are over 45,000 eateries in Paris alone, you realise just how hard it is to make the cut.
This year marks the publication’s 10th anniversary, so it’s fitting that 10 restaurants are sharing the top spot. Each of them achieved a (pretty much) perfect score of 99.5 out of 100. The scores are drawn from ‘thousands of publications, over 1,100 professional sources, and millions of online reviews’, so you need to impress both professionals and the general public to earn a spot. Basically, these are the very best of the best, loved by Michelin critics and distinguished foodies alike.
Restaurants across the world made it into the top ten; from the 3 Michelin-starred SingleThread in California, to the traditional Cantonese Lung King Heen in a Hong Kong Four Seasons resort. La Liste said that this diversity within the top 10 is proof of the ‘global distribution of excellence’, as well as ‘shifting centers of influence and the emergence of a new international balance of taste’.
The 10 best restaurants in the world
Here are the best restaurants in the world, according to La Liste.
- Guy Savoy – Paris, France
- Schwarzwaldstube – Baiersbronn, Germany
- Lung King Heen – Hong Kong
- Le Bernardin – New York, USA
- Cheval Blanc by Peter Knogl – Basel, Switzerland
- Matsukawa – Minato-ku, Japan
- SingleThread – Healdsburg, USA
- Martín Berasategui – Lasarte-Oria, Spain
- Da Vittorio – Brusaporto, Italy
- Robuchon au Dôme – Macao, China
You can read La Liste’s full list here.
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