This year I was lucky enough to cover the 10th World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards for Canadian magazine The Tomato. I was pleased to see so many new entries into the top 50 and indeed the top 100, showing a much more diverse collection of restaurants than last year. Especially Dinner by Heston Blumenthal which was the highest new entry at number nine and where I recently did a stage. I was also surprised, as I’m sure many were, to see some of the movers and shakers on the list. And of course, there were some lovely canapés by Massimo Bottura and Rhubarb. More words to the effect of what happened at the awards will mostly be disseminated there, to be posted in due course.
In the mean time though, here are the winners and a few of my snaps of the event before glasses of Veuve Clicquot turned into champagne slur:
The winner’s list:
| 1 | Noma |
| 2 | El Celler De Can Roca |
| 3 | Mugaritz |
| 4 | D.O.M |
| 5 | Osteria Francescana |
| 6 | Per Se |
| 7 | Alinea |
| 8 | Arzak |
| 9 | Dinner by Heston Blumenthal |
| 10 | Eleven Madison Park |
| 11 | Steirereck |
| 12 | L’Atelier Saint-Germain de Joel Robuchon |
| 13 | The Fat Duck |
| 14 | The Ledbury |
| 15 | Le Chateaubriand |
| 16 | L’Arpege |
| 17 | Pierre Gagnaire |
| 18 | L’Astrance |
| 19 | Le Bernardin |
| 20 | Frantzén/Lindeberg |
| 21 | Oud Sluis |
| 22 | Aqua |
| 23 | Vendôme |
| 24 | Mirazur |
| 25 | Daniel |
| 26 | Iggy’s |
| 27 | Les Creations de Narisawa |
| 28 | Nihonryori RyuGin |
| 29 | Quay |
| 30 | Schloss Schauenstein |
| 31 | Asador Etxebarri |
| 32 | Le Calandre |
| 33 | De Librije |
| 34 | Fäviken |
| 35 | Astrid Y Gaston |
| 36 | Pujol |
| 37 | Momofuku Ssam Bar |
| 38 | Biko |
| 39 | Waku Ghin |
| 40 | Quique Dacosta |
| 41 | Mathias Dahlgren |
| 42 | Hof van Cleve |
| 43 | The French Laundry |
| 44 | Amber |
| 45 | Vila Joya |
| 46 | Il Canto |
| 47 | Bras |
| 48 | Manresa |
| 49 | Geranium |
| 50 | Nahm |
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