The World's 50 Best Restaurants
The World's 50 Best Restaurants is produced by British magazine Restaurant based on a poll of international chefs, restaurateurs, gourmands and restaurant critics. In addition to the main ranking, the Chef's Choice list is based on votes from the fifty head chefs from the restaurants on the previous year's list. The top restaurants are often forerunners of molecular gastronomy. Most of the restaurants serve haute cuisine.
In 2010, Noma succeeded the 2006-2009 winner El Bulli as the world's best restaurant; Noma maintained first place in 2011.[1]
The next awards are scheduled for April 30th 2012 and take place at The Guildhall in London. [2]
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[edit] Methodology
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list is compiled from the votes of the "World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy", a group established to make the ranking.[3] The world is divided into regions, with a chairperson in each region appointed for their knowledge of their part of the restaurant world. These chairs each selected a voting panel, who cast a total of 5,859 votes.
There is no list of nominees; each member of the international voting panel votes for their own personal choice of 5 restaurants. To ensure that there are winners from many regions, they may vote for up to two restaurants in their own region, the remaining votes must be cast outside their home region. Nobody is allowed to vote for their own restaurant, and voters must have eaten in the restaurants they nominate within the past 18 months -- although it is not possible to ensure that they have.
The criteria are different from those of the Michelin Guide or other guides, which has allowed restaurants like Momofuku Ssam Bar, Asador Etxebarri and St. John to hold their own among the molecular or traditional cuisine of restaurants like The Fat Duck to Les Ambassadeurs to The French Laundry.
[edit] First place restaurants by year
- 2011 Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark[1]
- 2010 Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2009 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia
- 2008 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia
- 2007 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia
- 2006 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia
- 2005 The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire, England
- 2004 The French Laundry, Yountville (Napa Valley), California, US
- 2003 The French Laundry, Yountville (Napa Valley), California, US
- 2002 El Bulli, Roses, Spain
[edit] Chef's Choice restaurants by year
- 2011: Osteria Francescana, Italy (4)[4]
- 2010: The Fat Duck, UK (3)
- 2009: Noma, Denmark (3)
- 2008: Mugaritz, Spain (4)
- 2007: The Fat Duck, UK (2)
- 2006: Pierre Gagnaire, France (3)
- 2005: El Bulli, Spain (2)
- 2004: Tetsuya's, Australia (19)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Restaurant, The World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards: 2011
- ^ "Date announced for 2012 World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards". BigHospitality.co.uk. http://www.bighospitality.co.uk/Venues/Date-announced-for-2012-World-s-50-Best-Restaurants-Awards. Retrieved 19 Oct 2011.
- ^ World's 50 Best Restaurants: Academy
- ^ Restaurant, Osteria Francescana 2011
