It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for…the top 50 restaurants of the year have been announced, and we would like to congratulate them all on their hard work. The list is chosen by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. The rankings were sponsored by S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna. This is the 20th year the award has been given. To jump to the list, click here.
How Are The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Selected?
- 1,080 independent people vote.
- The voting panel is made up of international chefs, food journalists, and food personalities.
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022
Pork beans, pork jowls and bean reduction at Alcalde Restaurant
ALCALDE – Guadalajara
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Under the premise of an open kitchen, sincere and attached to the cycles of the earth; Alcalde was born in 2013.
We make living cuisine that respects the seasons and their virtues, we seek the excellence of the simple and transfer the product and our culinary heritage to a current gastronomy without artifice, only flavor and affection.
Chef: Paco Rwana
Cuisine: Mexican
Features: Offers vegetarian, vegan, and gluten free options.
Price Range: $15 – $25
Location: at Av. México 2903, Vallarta Nte., 44690 Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico
Tel: +52 33 3615 7400
Herb-Infused Tomatoes, Chocolate Chip Cookie, and Black Olive
SUD 777 – Mexico City
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Located in the heart of Pedregal, Sud 777 is a restaurant that honors the tradition of an area designed by leading urban planners and architects. Since its opening in 2008, it has been a watershed in the gastronomic offer of the south of Mexico City for the culinary proposal of chef Edgar Núñez who has positioned himself worldwide for his prodigious technique and his Mexican vegetable cuisine. It has obtained a position in Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants list for four consecutive years. Today, the restaurant offers a tasting menu that changes according to the best ingredients offered by the season – much of it comes from the restaurant’s orchards. Visitors can also enjoy an experience on the lounge terrace to try the cocktail bar or a glass of wine and take a break from the hustle and bustle of the city.
Chef: Edgar Nuñez
Cuisine: Mexican
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $50 – $70
Location: Avenida de La Luz 777, Mexico City 01900 Mexico
Tel: +52 55 5568 4777
Mini Oxtail with watercress
D.O.M – São Paulo
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Currently elected the 9th best restaurant in the world by S. Pellegrino “World´s 50 Best Restaurants”, D.O.M. is a unique restaurant without claiming to be eloquent. On the contraty, its message is syntactic and poignant: to step out the comfort zone and propose a new gastronomic experience, rescuing the most authentic flavours of Brazilian cuisine according to a contemporary gaze.
Chef: Alex Atala
Cuisine: Brazilian
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options
Price Range: $30 – $500
Location: Rua Barao de Capanema 549, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 01411-011 Brazil
Tel: +55 11 3088-0761
Sea Aster, Whelks & Mussel Butter
Lyle’s – London
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: A stone’s throw from Shoreditch’s Overground station lies one of the UK’s hottest tables (a regular on the World’s 50 Best list and one of only two UK entries). Here, pared-back design and utilitarian edge puts new British cuisine centre stage. Chef James Lowe takes diners on a journey through the culinary year to bewitching effect with his micro-seasonal offering. Heritage ingredients play a key role, bolstered by Lowe’s acute attention to detail. Dishes like potted guinea fowl with damson and turbot with samphire and Jersey royals – plus plenty of guest series – keep people coming back. Game season is a highlight.
Chef: James Lowe
Cuisine: European, British
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $45 – $75
Location: The Tea Building 56 Shoreditch High Street Tea Building, London E1 6JJ England
Tel: +44 20 3011 5911
Iberian pork, duxelle and butter foam.
Azurmendi – Larrabetzu
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: The Azurmendi restaurant is the place where our culture, customs, and way of doing things walk together towards the future. A sea of authenticity where you feel the tradition and the cutting edge. The essence, intensity, and flavor of the cuisine of Eneko Atxa.
Chef: Eneko Atxa
Cuisine: Mediterranean, European
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $145 – $150
Location: Barrio Legina, s/n Corredor del Txorierri, Salida 25, 48195 Larrabetzu Spain
Tel: +34 944 55 83 59
Truffled cherry parfait
La Colombe – Cape Town
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Taking guests on a gastronomic voyage in an atmospheric, treehouse-like setting atop the Silvermist Wine Estate (following a move from Constantia Uitsig in 2014), La Colombe is the grande dame of Cape Town dining. In a minimalist space decorated in a muted colour palette, chef James Gaag’s swoon-inducing dishes feature all manner of culinary theatre. Think smoking Cape Malay snacks, tuna ‘La Colombe’ – a tinned miniature yellowfin tuna creation featuring micro herbs, avocado puree and an umami-rich broth – and the complex, perfectly balanced masterpiece of Karoo lamb.
Chef: James Gaag
Cuisine: French, European
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $35+
Location: Constantia Main Rd Silvermist Wine Estate, Constantia 7806 South Africa
Tel: +27 21 794 2390
Charred lobster tail and corn curry
Trèsind Studio – Dubai
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Trèsind Studio is annexed to fine dining Indian restaurant Trèsind, which opened in 2014. Think of Studio as an elevated version of its neighbor, with fewer covers and a more experimental style of food alongside a tasting-menu-only concept – it opened in 2018 and has been considered the epitome of Indian dining in Dubai ever since.
Chef: Himanshu Saini
Cuisine: Indian, Asian
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options
Price Range: $140 – $280
Location: R002, East Wing Rooftop Nakheel Mall – The Palm Jumeirah, Dubai 27385 United Arab Emirates
Tel: +971 58 895 1272
Crispy milk-fed veal sweetbreads, Ossetra caviar in condiment and heart of burrata
Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen – Paris
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Some of the grandest food in town at an exceedingly grand address. Yannick Alléno brings his exquisite neo-French cuisine to this neo-classical mansion in the Champs-Élysées gardens, where there’s been a restaurant since 1792. Steamed morels come with smoked scamorza (a South Italian cow’s milk cheese), and Iranian black citrus powder; turbot is flavoured with orange blossom and served with jasmine flower fritters and hot turnip cream; and mushroom marshmallow is seasoned with chocolate, sea salt and apricot touches for dessert. In the same building is L’Abysse, his Michelin-star sushi counter.
Chef: Yannick Alléno
Cuisine: French, European
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $160 – $425
Location: Carré des Champs-Elysées, 8, avenue Dutuit, 75008 Paris, France
Tel: +33 1 53 05 10 00
Schezuan Dan Dan Cold Noodles
Sazenka – Tokyo
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Sazenka strive to embody “kokoro”, as modern cuisine, Japanese cuisine, and Chinese cuisine find harmony together. Chef Kawada’s draws on his years of experience to bring out delicious bold flavors using seasonal Japanese ingredients from throughout Japan. We wish to communicate traditional Chinese cuisine to Japan and the world.
Chef: Tomoya Kawada
Cuisine: Chinese
Price Range: $260 – $360
Location: 4-7-5 Minamiazabu, Minato 106-0047 Tokyo Prefecture
Tel: +81 50-3188-8819
Pappardelle, chicken livers and sage.
Rosetta – Mexico City
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Rosetta is made up of a series of distinctive individual spaces in a once-grand but now-welcoming townhouse in Mexico City’s artistic Roma district. Service is attentive but down-to-earth, reflecting the contemporary but not over-elaborate Mexican food sourced from small-scale producers.
Chef: Elena Reygadas
Cuisine: Mexican
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $40+
Location: Calle Colima 166 Between Orizaba and Cordoba, Mexico City 06700 Mexico
Tel: +52 55 5533 7804
Coussin soufflé
La Grenouillère – La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: A rural restaurant and hotel that roots its avant-garde food strongly in the surrounding Pas-de-Calais region and the Côte d’Opale, the coast of northern France facing the English Channel. Chef Alexandre Gauthier turned heads as soon as he took over his father’s restaurant in 2003. The interiors of the 16th-century cottage (which he soon renovated to compliment his cooking) still shock first-timers: the dining room, part open to the garden, has more in common with a modernist art gallery than a fine-dining restaurant and the huge open kitchen is all stainless steel and bright lights.
Chef:
Cuisine: French, European
Features: +33 3 21 06 07 22
Price Range: $115 – $150
Location: 19 Rue de la Grenouillère, La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil, 62170 La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil
Tel: +33 3 21 06 07 22
Tamago dofu made with duck eggs and niban dashi. Glazed with katsuobushi and nasturtium flowers.
Ernst – Berlin
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Ernst is an eight-seat counter restaurant in Berlin, Germany. Our philosophy and our techniques are grounded in Japanese cuisine with a strong focus on the sourcing of produce.
Chef: Dylan Watson-Brawn
Cuisine: Japanese
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options
Price Range: $205+
Location: Gerichtstraße 54, Wedding, Berlin, 13347
Email: [email protected]
Aji Nigiri
Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare – New York
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Surely the world’s only three-Michelin-star restaurant that’s hidden behind a grocery store, Chef’s Table is a sparkling oasis in the urban chaos of Midtown Manhattan. Here, chef César Ramirez serves up seafood and shellfish-focused tasting menus inspired by Japanese cuisine and French technique. The experience doesn’t come cheap, and competition for a place at the 18-seat counter that surrounds the open kitchen is fierce, but, for a lucky few, the investment is well-rewarded.
Chef: Cesar Ramirez
Cuisine: French, Japanese
Price Range: $360+
Location: 431 West 37th Street, Greenwich Village, New York, NY 10018
Tel: +1 718 243 0050
Maitake Mushroom
Fu He Hui – Shanghai
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: The atmosphere in this stone-and-wood clad sanctuary is so serene there is something almost sacred about it. Tony Lu celebrates the plant kingdom through artfully presented tasting menus that showcase considerable technique. Porcini mushrooms are served in a glass jar filled with the smoke from a small grape vine, while the ‘flower pot’ dessert features layers of roselle and apple ice cream topped with cocoa powder and a dehydrated enoki mushroom flower. Sophisticated Chinese tea pairings (rather than alcohol) complete the sense of inner zen.
Chef: Tony Lu
Cuisine: Chinese, Healthy, Asian
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options
Price Range: $400 – $1,200
Location: 1037 Yuyuan Road, Changning District, Shanghai 200050 China
Tel: +86 21 3980 9188
Tiger Prawn, Tamarind and spicy seafood gel
Le Du – Bangkok
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Le Du actually comes from a Thai word – “ฤดู”, a synonym for the word “season” in Thai. The name reflects an emphasis on our culinary creations out of seasonal produce. Le Du is a modern Thai-inspired eatery. We offer 4 courses and tasting menus featuring the extraordinary agricultural bounty of Thailand and on the centuries-old culinary cultures that have taken roots here. Our wines are carefully chosen by our certified sommelier. The wine list features many unique and intriguing wines from around the world.
Chef: Thitid Tassanakajohn
Cuisine: Asian, Thai
Price Range: $80 – $90
Location: 399/3 Silom Soi 7 Silom, Bangkok 10500 Thailand
Tel: +66 92 919 9969
Duck glazed with aromatic spices, butternut squash, liver jus and cafe
Sühring – Bangkok
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: At Sühring, twin chefs Matthias and Thomas have created a modern German tasting menu inspired by family recipes, childhood memories and travel experiences. From first bite to last, dishes are beautifully presented and feature seasonal ingredients expertly prepared, often with traditional German techniques like fermenting, pickling and curing. The restaurant is in a leafy restored 1970s villa; for an exceptional experience, book seats at the counter in the kitchen.
Chef: Thomas and Mathias Sühring
Cuisine: German
Price Range: $135 – $180
Location: 10 Soi Yen Akat 3, Chong Nonsi, Bangkok, 10120, Thailand
Tel: +66 2 107 2777
Bluefin, chili pepper and focaccia
Evvai – São Paulo
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Following eight years working in Evvai’s kitchen, Luiz Filipe Souza’s hard work paid off once he took the helm, with a Michelin star in 2019 the reward for his creativity. Souza delivers inventive takes on upscale Italian dishes while paying tribute to migrant food culture. Splash out with the elegant nine-course ‘Oriundi’ tasting menu with drinks pairing or scale down for the five-course ‘Immigrante’ version, both with vegetarian options – with a three-course customer choice also available. Prepare to be surprised by sourdough with seven types of butter, foie gras lollipops, burst-in-the-mouth Grana Padano ravioli and a dessert centered around Brazilian honey paired with stout.
Chef: Luiz Filipe Souza
Cuisine: Italian, European, Contemporary
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options
Price Range: $50 – $125
Location: Rua Joaquim Antunes, 108, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 05415-000 Brazil
Tel: +55 11 3062-1160
Super crispy pork cheek with chili seeds
Kjolle – Lima
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Named after an Andean flower that grows at high altitude, Kjolle has the pressure of being the young sibling to acclaimed sister restaurant Central, three-time winner of Latin America’s 50 Best. But like its namesake, this first solo venture by Pía León (wife of Virgilio Martínez of Central, where she was previously head chef) is made to bloom under difficult conditions. León was named as Latin America’s Best Female Chef just a couple of months after Kjolle opened in August 2018. Much like at Central, dishes revolve around making the best of Peru’s bounty of ingredients, but the vibe here is more relaxed and informal in the warming, open dining room.
Chef: Pía León
Cuisine: Peruvian, Latin
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Gluten-Free Options
Price Range: $80 – $150
Location: Avenida Pedro de Osma 301 Barranco, Lima 15063 Peru
Tel: +51 1 2428575
Duck enmoladas, mole negro, crème fraiche
Cosme – New York
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Cosme is a restaurant in New York City’s Flatiron District serving contemporary cuisine inspired and rooted in Mexican flavors and traditions while celebrating local and seasonal ingredients from the Hudson Valley and surrounding region. Cosme’s beverage program focuses on artisanal spirits and mirrors its cuisine, letting the high-quality ingredients shine.
Chef: Gustavo Garnica
Cuisine: Mexican, Latin
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Location: 35 E 21st St, New York City, NY 10010-6212
Tel: +1 212-913-9659
Buckwheat blini with dry aged veal dressed with barley koji brown butter
Zén – Singapore
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Zén is the first foray into Asia for acclaimed chef Bjorn Frantzén, whose Stockholm namesake restaurant was the first in Sweden to gain three Michelin stars. Opened in late 2018, Zén took over the three-storey Bukit Pasoh shophouse previously occupied by Restaurant André, bringing a slice of Scandinavia to Singapore. The nine-course tasting menu – one of the most expensive in the city – begins with canapes in the kitchen, before moving up a floor to the 24-seat dining room. The Scandi offering has been tweaked to suit local tastes, with new dishes making up 85 percent of the menu. However, Frantzén signatures can also be found. Meals finish in the cozy living room.
Chef: Tristin Farmer
Cuisine: French, Japanese
Price Range: $330+
Location: 41 Bukit Pasoh Road, Singapore 089855 Singapore
Tel: +65 6534 8880
Doenjang consomme with Morel and cabbage mandu filled with beef brisket and vegetables
Mingles – Seoul
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Mingoo Kang has trained under Basque master Martín Berasategui in San Sebastian and worked in the Miami and Bahamas outposts of renowned Japanese restaurant Nobu, but it is his travels around Korea in search of exciting ingredients that is the missing piece in the culinary puzzle at Mingles. This melding of eastern and western cuisines and techniques has seen the Seoul venue voted as the Best Restaurant in Korea for four years in a row. An industrial-chic basement space is the setting for Kang’s seven-course tasting menu full of reinterpreted Korean classics, many of which call for his homemade ‘jang’ (the trio of fermented sauces that form the backbone of the country’s cuisine).
Chef: Mingoo Kang
Cuisine: Asian, Korean, Contemporary
Features: Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $30 – $100
Location: Dosan-daero 67-gil, Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-948 South Korea
Tel: +82 2-515-7306
Daisy Flower: delicate meringues, citrus mousse, passionfruit, sorrel and marigold
Atelier Crenn – San Francisco
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: At the hands of accomplished Chef Dominique Crenn, guests have rightly come to expect a thrilling meal inside her singular atelier. Another exclusive hallmark of dining here is the deeply hospitable and exemplary staff. Original is the name of this culinary game—one that is as thoughtful in serving brioche with cultured butter as it is with caviar crowned by turbot gelée and gold leaf. Spiny lobster with dots of apple butter and a warm ginger-whey foam is a wondrous creation brimming with flavor and depth. Not far behind, tender abalone with smoked mussel sauce and cabbage is deliciously divine.
Pastry Chef/partner Juan Contreras’ desserts make for a novel finale. His snowflake, subtly redolent of eucalyptus, is as much a conversation piece as it is confection.
Chef: Dominique Crenn
Cuisine: French
Features: Healthy, Vegetarian Friendly
Price Range: $365 – $490
Location: 3127 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94123-3416
Tel: +1 415-440-0460
Pork belly carnitas, with rhubarb borracha and xnipec
Kol – London
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: ‘Mexican soul, British ingredients’ is the tagline of this big, bold restaurant, and it proves a unique and exhilarating combination. The inventive, talented kitchen team takes recipes rooted in tradition from various regions of Mexico to which they add their own creativity, while using top drawer produce from around the British Isles. This results in a varied and imaginative set menu of colourful, vibrant dishes that have you gripped from the first bite to the last. Tostadas, whether with chalk stream trout or salt-baked beetroot, are a highlight, as are the generous, family-style dishes like succulent pulpo or melt-in-the-mouth pork cheeks. The open central kitchen really adds to the energy of the room, while the downstairs Mezcaleria offers a range of Mexican spirits to those who don’t want the night to end.
Chef: Santiago Lastra
Cuisine: Mexican
Price Range: $60 – $100
Location: 9 Seymour Street Marylebone, London W1H 7JW England
Tel: +44 20 3829 6888
Petite Beet Burger
Blue Hill at Stone Barns – Pocantico Hills
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: A sprawling estate an hour north of Manhattan is home to one of America’s truly unique restaurants. In a beautifully appointed barn, vegetable guru Dan Barber – winner of the 50 Best Chefs’ Choice Award in 2018 – shares an edible snapshot of the surrounding farm in his mammoth 30-course tasting menu. From the bountiful produce harvested each day in the fields to just-laid eggs and the cellared pickles and preserves that carry one season’s bounty into the next. An endless tinkerer, Barber has also developed his own seeds, like habanero peppers with no heat; miniature, super-sweet honeynut squash; even a strain of wheat that bears his name and goes into the restaurant’s excellent bread.
Chef: Dan Barber
Cuisine: American, International
Features: Vegetarian Friendly
Price Range: $245 – $898
Location:630 Bedford Rd, Pocantico Hills, NY 10591-1202
Tel: +1 914-366-9600
Thai-Chinese drunken clam
Samrub Samrub Thai – Bangkok
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant:Samrub Samrub Thai serves progressive Thai food that rethinks national cooking traditions. The tasting menu changes monthly according to what Polsuk has been researching and what’s in season, and the compact size makes it possible for him to serve hyper-seasonal, hyper-local ingredients. Even when a theme is repeated, it’s presented from uniquely different angles: when Polsuk cooks southern Thai cuisine, on one occasion it might be dishes with roots in the ancient Srivijaya Kingdom. Next time, you may find the region represented through the food heritage of the Urak Lawoi people, an uncelebrated, yet living ethnic fishing community in Satun province.
Chef: Prin Polsuk
Cuisine: Thai
Price Range: $30 – $80
Location: 100 Maha Set Rd, Khwaeng Si Phraya, Khet Bang Rak Bangkok, Thailand
Classic apple tarte tatin
Neighborhood – Hong Kong
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Discreetly tucked in an alley within the hustle and bustle of Hollywood Road, Neighborhood is the latest offering from chef and restaurateur David Lai. Having learned his trade on the West Coast of the US, Lai returned hometown of Hong Kong to help open Spoon by Alain Ducasse. But at this Asia’s 50 Best regular, European cuisine – specifically French and Italian – is the focus of the weekly changing menu, but not without an elevated twist: wild boar is added to garganelli pasta, pigeon eggs are prepared escargot-style, and monkfish and lobster are the mains in the bouillabaisse.
Chef: David Lai
Cuisine: European
Features: Vegetarian Friendly
Price Range: $35+
Location: 61-63 Hollywood Road, Hong Kong
Tel: +852 2617 0891
Albacore tuna with infusion of beefsteak tomatoes
Table by Bruno Verjus – Paris
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: The beauty of Bruno Verjus’ fuss-free cuisine is its simplicity. Verjus has cultivated a loyal following of Parisian gourmands with his ever-changing seasonal menu that puts the quality of the ingredients centre stage. Take recent triumphs Mallemort green and purple asparagus or Île d’Yeu wild turbot as examples. The former is flash poached in sea water before being roasted and served with olive oil and guinea fowl egg yolk; the latter is steamed in marine crista and grilled and served with violet asparagus and sabayon of lobster. Simple and elegant.
Chef: Bruno Verjus
Cuisine: French
Features: Vegetarian Friendly
Price Range: $75 – $205
Location: 3 rue de Prague, 75012 Paris France
Tel: +33 1 43 43 12 26
Oyster with radish, finger lime and honey
Lasai – Rio de Janeiro
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Lasai, the cosmopolitan restaurant of chef Rafa Costa e Silva and his wife Malena Cardiel, has a footprint: its gastronomy is at the same time unprecedented, vibrant, light, mature and sensual. Using modern techniques and Brazilian inputs grown in his own gardens and that of small farmers in Rio de Janeiro, Rafa creates dishes with an emphasis on vegetables without sacrificing the use of the freshest products from the sea and the best meats.
Chef: Rafael Costa e Silva
Cuisine: Brazilian, Contemporary
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $60+
Location: Rua Conde de Iraja 191 Humaitá, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro 22271-020 Brazil
Tel: 21 3449-1834
Lobster with green chickpeas and woodear mushrooms
Estela – New York
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: One of the most celebrated restaurants in the United States, Estela is an intimate downtown bistro from chef Ignacio Mattos that can be experienced in many ways, whether it’s a thrilling dinner in the dining room, a leisurely weekend brunch with friends, or a late-night drink at the bustling bar. Since opening in 2013, the restaurant has served several signature dishes that are now considered New York City classics, while always offering guests something new to try.
Chef: Ignacio Mattos
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $85+
Location: 47 E Houston St, New York City, NY 10012-2749
Tel: +1 212-219-7693
Cassava veil in meat juice. Langoustine cooked juxtaposed, pomade of carrot tops in carrot water, ginger condiment with beer, vegetable textures, (herbs and flower tails in seawater) the famous “chicken milk”… egg yolks rice vinegar eggs sprinkle with cumin.
AM par Alexandre Mazzia – Marseille
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Tucked away on a residential Marseille street, only those in the know bag a seat at Alexandre Mazzia’s AM. And only a lucky two of the 24 covers get to sit at the coveted bar spots overlooking the kitchen. Mazzia grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, accounting for the African influences scattered across a menu that focuses on vegetables, fish and seafood ingredients. Dishes such as courgette flowers in a green satay and saffron beurre blanc and crystallised seaweed with bottarga form part of what he calls a ‘cuisine of emotion’.
Chef: Alexandre Mazzia
Cuisine: French, European, Healthy
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options
Price Range: $250 – $400
Location: 9 rue Rocca, 13008 Marseille France
Tel: +33 4 91 24 83 63
Velvet crab rice
Brat – London
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: A wood-lined bistro that’s adored by East London sophisticates. Tomos Parry, who made a name for himself at fashionable Kitty Fischer’s in Mayfair, draws on earthy techniques such as flame grilling to create robust Basque-inspired plates. Simplicity is the buzz word here. Whole grilled seafood (‘brat’ is an old English word for turbot) sits alongside sizzling lamb chops and chopped eggs on toast that are saline with bottarga. Throw in an interesting selection of sherries and wines, ranging from the classics to lesser-explored regions such as Georgia, and you’ll understand why it’s such a Shoreditch must-visit – and claimed second spot at the 2019 UK National Restaurant Awards.
Chef: Tomos Parry
Cuisine: European, British, Grill, Fusion
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $95 – $145
Location: 4 Redchurch Street Shoreditch, London England
Sea urchin with fava beans and extra virgin olive oil
Sézanne – Tokyo
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: On the 7th floor of Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi, Michelin star restaurant SÉZANNE offers a new dining experience with classically rooted modern French cuisine by Michelin star Chef Daniel Calvert. The high-concept cuisine is complemented by thoughtful interiors, brought to life by award-winning interior designer/architect André Fu from Hong Kong. The restaurant’s salon is complete with carefully selected champagnes, while the main dining area overlooks the kitchen. Guests can also opt for the chef’s table to have a first-person experience of SÉZANNE’S orchestra-like performance.
Chef: Daniel Calvert
Cuisine: French
Price Range: $115 – $255
Location: 1-11-1 7F Pacific Century Place, Marunouchi, Chiyoda 100-6277 Tokyo Prefecture
Tel: +81 3-5222-5810
Chocolate cake: cocada, açaí, pata de cacao gelatin
El Chato – Bogotá
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Seasonal, unusual, and forgotten Colombian ingredients make the cut at this hip venue – the highest new entry on 2018’s Latin America’s 50 Best list – in bohemian Chapinero Alto. The two-story space is intimate and bustling, with a moodily lit dining room on the ground floor and the open kitchen, spice library, and chef’s table up top. Alvaro Clavijo, who has returned to his homeland after stints in some of the best kitchens in Europe and North America, takes classic, local dishes and throws in twists: think chicken hearts, young potatoes, egg yolk, and sorrel or a mushroom tartare. For dessert, beg the waiting staff to bring you the off-menu avocado soufflé.
Chef: Álvaro Clavijo
Cuisine: Contemporary, Colombian
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $40+
Location: Calle 65 4 76, Bogota 110231 Colombia
Tel: +57 1 7439931
Cape Otway crayfish roasted in the wood oven on a bed of saffron rice
Gimlet at Cavendish House – Melbourne
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Inspired by the glamour of 20th-century Chicago, Gimlet at Cavenish House is grand and contemporary, with intimate booths set in an elegant dining room. The à la carte menu retains all the hallmarks of a McConnell classic, featuring the likes of dry-aged Muscovy duck breast with Corella pear and liquorice, and grass-fed tomahawk cooked over coals. Stay for dessert to sample the quince choux pastry with hazelnut praline gelato.
Chef: Colin Mainds
Cuisine: Australian, European
Features: Vegetarian Friendly
Price Range: $23 – $150
Location: 3 Russell St, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 Australia
Tel: +61 3 9277 9777
Prawn in Yellow Curry
Raan Jay Fai – Bangkok
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Located on Maha Chai Road, Raan Jay Fai has become a culinary institution in Bangkok. The seven-table restaurant may have had humble beginnings as a hawker stall (and to this day keeps its hyper-casual format), but it has also become a Michelin-starred, unmissable destination for food lovers. Over the years, one constant has been the chef: legendary Supinya ‘Jay Fai’ Junsuta, who can still be found in the kitchen wearing her trademark goggles.
Chef: Supinya ‘Jay Fai’ Junsuta
Cuisine: Thai
Price Range: $15 – $30
Location: 327 Mahachai Road Samranras Subdistrict, Phra Nakon District, Bangkok 10200 Thailand
Tel: +66 2 223 9384
İskenderun Prawn; Şevketi bostan, muhammara, fresh almond, green olives
Mikla – Istanbul
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Come to Mikla for the best-in-Istanbul views; stay for the visionary interpretations of traditional Turkish plates. Brainchild of Turkish-Scandinavian chef Mehmet Gürs, the daily-changing menu focuses on ‘noble’ Anatolian produce: hamsi fried anchovies come paired with a crisp Cappadocia white; and dried beef tenderloin with sugar snap peas, Isot chilli and Ezine cheese is served alongside a native red. Whether you opt for the three-course fixed-price à la carte or seven-course tasting menu, be sure to finish with a nightcap upstairs in the dazzling rooftop bar of The Marmara Pera.
Chef: Mehmet Gürs
Cuisine: Turkish, Contemporary
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $50 – $100
Location: Meşrutiyet Caddesi 15 The Marmara Pera, Istanbul 34430 Turkey
Tel: +90 212 293 56 56
DUCKYANG: Mix herbs with cucumber, kumquat nam chim, roasted rice and sesame
Orfali Bros Bistro – Dubai
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: An unlicensed restaurant set in a new development in Jumeirah, one of Dubai’s old residential areas, Orfali Bros Bistro was founded by three food-loving brothers (Mohammad, Wassim and Omar) from Syria. They’ve created their own brand of cuisine comprising the food they love to eat. Irrespective of where it comes from, if they like it, you’ll find it on the menu.
Chef: Mohamed Orfali
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Price Range: $111+
Location: D92, Jumeirah 1, Dubai, UAE
Tel: +971 4 2592 477
Guefiltefish in cold cooking broth, pickle salad, gribenes, jrein and carrot caviar.
Mishiguene – Buenos Aires
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Chef Tomás Kalika tells a very personal story at Mishiguene (‘crazy’ in Yiddish) honouring his Jewish immigrant heritage and modernising his grandmother’s recipes. His transformation of traditional dishes such as Russian-Polish Borscht, spit roasted-Moroccan lamb and baba ganoush saw the restaurant win the Highest Climber Award in the 2018 Latin America’s 50 Best list. Bold photographs of Israeli markets adorn the low-lit dark-wood salon, which bursts with the energy of live music on Friday nights to celebrate Shabbat. Groups can also gorge on the special tasting menu at the kitchen-side chef’s table.
Chef: Tomás Kalika
Cuisine: Jewish
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $50 – $120
Location: Calle Lafinur 3368, Buenos Aires C1425FAJ Argentina
Tel: +54 11 3969-0764
Garganelli with braised beef cheek
Máximo Bistrot – Mexico City
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Since our inception, our culinary journey has always focused on the principle of cuisine that distinguishes the best of the product at hand. Ours is a sustainable cuisine, with seasonal national ingredients of the best quality, based on a close and open relationship with our suppliers. We bring fresh ingredients directly from the countryside and the sea to your table, and we cook with traditional and ancestral techniques to maximize flavor and bring out the best of every ingredient. We look forward to welcoming you in pure Mexican style: our home is your home.
Chef: Eduardo ‘Lalo’ García
Cuisine: International
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $300 – $500
Location: Av. Álvaro Obregón 65 Bis, Mexico City 06700 Mexico
Tel: +52 55 5264 4291
Wild sage smoked mussels, amasi curd and buttermilk rusk, with spicy leaves
Wolfgat – Paternoster
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: With a heavy focus on sustainability, Kobus van der Merwe’s restaurant in beautiful coastal Paternoster serves a seven-course menu built on local indigenous ingredients in dishes inspired by the surrounding landscape. With only 20 diners per sitting, the restaurant has an intimate atmosphere and, more importantly, maintains sustainability by keeping it small.
Chef: Kobus van der Merwe
Cuisine: Seafood
Features: Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $45+
Location: 10 Sampson St, Paternoster, Saldanha Bay Municipality 7381 South Africa
Caraway capellini with yeast and a heap of shaved white truffles
Oriole – Chicago
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Oriole is a contemporary-American restaurant located in Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood featuring Executive Chef and Owner Noah Sandoval’s award winning tasting menu. Since Oriole’s opening in 2016, it has repeatedly earned two Michelin stars and recently received the Jean Banchet Award for Restaurant of the Year. Chef Sandoval is also a James Beard nominated chef and was named one of Food & Wine’s Best New Chefs in 2017.
Chef: Noah Sandoval
Cuisine: American
Features: Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $170+
Location: 661 W. Walnut St., Chicago, IL 60661
Tel: +1 312-877-5339
Chicken seekh on beurre blanc, pickled shallots and grape tomatoes
Indian Accent – New Delhi
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Indian Accent showcases inventive Indian cuisine by complementing the flavours and traditions of India with global ingredients and techniques. Indian Accent, New Delhi is ranked as the #22 Restaurant in Asia by Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants. It has been awarded the San Pellegrino ‘Best Restaurant in India’ by Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants for seven consecutive years (from 2015-2021). The restaurant has also been rated as the ‘No.1 Restaurant in India’ by TripAdvisor consistently from 2014 – 2019. Recognized by Time Magazine ‘Amongst the World’s 100 Greatest Places’ and awarded the Number 1 Restaurant in India by Condé Nast Traveller.
Chef: Manish Mehrotra
Cuisine: Indian
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $25+
Location: The Lodhi – Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110065 India
Tel: +91 11 6617 5151
Hertog Jan at Botanic Sanctuary – Antwerp
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: A meal at Hertog Jan, in the capable hands of chef Gert de Mangeleer and sommelier Joachim Bouden, is quite unique. The chef crafts subtle, intense and surprising cuisine, of Asian inspiration. A treat for all five senses and a total culinary experience that both overwhelms and is entirely unforgettable.
Chef: Gert De Mangeleer & Joachim Boudens
Location: Leopoldstraat 26, 2000 Antwerpen
Tel: +32 3 2699090
Toast, Tomatoes & Lardo
Burnt Ends – Singapore
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Founded by Chef-Owner Dave Pynt, Burnt Ends is a modern barbecue restaurant in Singapore’s Dempsey Hill serving modern Australian barbecue and boutique wines and spirits in a fun, relaxed atmosphere. At the heart of this modern barbecue restaurant is an open-concept kitchen with a custom four-tonne, dual cavity oven and four elevation grills. Burnt Ends writes new menus daily and believes that there is magic that comes from cooking with wood. Burnt Ends has held its One-Michelin star since first awarded in 2018.
Chef: Dave Pynt
Cuisine: Barbecue
Price Range: $45 – $110
Location: 20 Teck Lim Road Singapore 088391, Singapore 088391 Singapore
Tel: +65 6224 3933
Smoked Samchi with Ponzu, Leek and Caviar
Meta – Singapore
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: With its black awnings, concrete floors and gleaming glass panels, Meta’s interiors are cool, composed and creative. This philosophy perfectly reflects chef Sun Kim’s cooking, a bold combination of French technique, ingredients such as hand-dived abalone from his native Korea and Japanese influences. As well as plundering childhood memories, Sun Kim draws on his training at Tetsuya Wakuda’s world-famous restaurant in Sydney to create five and seven-course menus that are as textural as they are balanced. Meta – the name is short for metamorphosis – is the sort of place you go to impress a date or show you friends that you have your finger on the pulse of Singapore’s constantly evolving food scene. It won the One To Watch Award at Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021.
Chef: Kevin Wong
Cuisine: European, Asian, Fusion
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $45+
Location: 1 Keong Saik Road, Singapore 089109 Singapore
Tel: +65 6513 0898
Breaded pork steak, potato salad and arugula
Maní – São Paulo
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Award-winning chef Helena Rizzo opens up diners’ emotional memories by playing around with Brazilian, Asian and European ingredients at this fine-dining establishment. It’s an exciting combination that ensures Maní a regular place on Latin America’s 50 Best, with Rizzo taking home the title of Latin America’s and World’s Best Female Chef in 2014. Choose a table on the calming, tucked-away courtyard and order à la carte or the tasting menu paired with natural wines. Menu highlights include jabuticaba (Brazilian grapetree) cold soup with cachaça-steamed crayfish, pickled cauliflower and amburana nuts and Rizzo’s stylish version of moqueca fish stew.
Chef: Helena Rizzo
Cuisine: Brazilian, Contemporary
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $25 – $100
Location: Rua Joaquim Antunes 210, Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo 05415-000 Brazil
Tel: +55 11 3085 4148
Crispy spring vegetable salad with angelica shoots and magnolia peas.
Benu – San Francisco
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: Benu is an oasis in the center of the city. Patience seems to define this kitchen in its relentless pursuit of excellence, whether that may be perfecting technique or waiting for just the right moment to serve an ingredient at its peak. Meals begin with a series of highly technical small bites. While these delicacies alone may rival some of the country’s most ambitious tasting menus, there’s more. Faux-shark’s fin and xiao long bao are a delightful classic, but Chef Corey Lee continues to reimagine and redefine his nightly offerings. Dishes like barbecued quail with house-made XO sauce and an elevated take on traditional Korean beef barbecue convey a distinct personality and reflect a singular marriage between contemporary Asian influences.
Chef: Chef Corey & Seunghyun Cho
Cuisine: Contemporary
Features: Vegetarian Friendly
Price Range: $50+
Location: 22 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA
Tel: +1 415 685 4860
White asparagus blancmander, early peas and green mustard sorbet
Tantris – Munich
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: The space – a monolithic, brutalist structure on the nondescript outskirts of Munich – is more time-capsule seventies disco than sophisticated fine diner. Indeed, much of the decor has been in situ since its 1971 launch. But that’s the charm. This well-oiled machine has held two Michelin stars for almost 40 years and become a go-to gastronomic pilgrimage. Chef Hans Haas’s modern European plates lean on French, Austrian and Swiss heritage. A sublime degustation might include poached duck liver terrine with smoked breast and Austrian truffle cream, venison saddle with chanterelles and beautifully balanced curd dumplings with blueberries and banana-chocolate ice cream.
Chef: Hans Haas
Cuisine: European
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $150 – $300
Location: Johann-Fichte-Str. 7, 80805 Munich, Bavaria Germany
Tel: +49 89 3619590
Flocons de Sel – Megève
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: An alpine retreat with a menu that reads like a celebration of its Haute-Savoie location. Parsnip and beetroot gnocchi comes with horseradish garden consommé and old Beaufort; fillet of venison is served with blackberries, blackcurrant and fir; and veal head is paired with vinegar sabayon and truffles. Les Flocons draws visitors to Megève as much as the resort’s ski slopes, and its simple and sophisticated dining room shares views across the alpine terrain.
Chef: Emmanuel Renaut
Cuisine: French, European, Healthy
Features: Vegetarian Friendly, Vegan Options, Gluten Free Options
Price Range: $95 – $215
Location: 1775 route du Leutaz, 74120 Megève France
Tel: +33 4 50 21 49 99
Steamed Threadfin with salted pork and preserved vegetable
About The Restaurant By The Restaurant: The second venture from owner-chef Vicky Cheng who runs the well-acclaimed Vea upstairs, Wing is named after his Chinese name, meaning eternity. The tasting menu features contemporary Chinese courses made with mostly local ingredients but underpinned by European techniques. He reinterprets classic recipes and familiar flavours with creative twists and playful food combinations. Online reservations open at midnight for up to 28 days ahead.
Chef: Vicky Cheng
Cuisine: Chinese
Price Range: $230 – $650
Location: 198 Wellington Street 29f, The Wellington, Central, Hong Kong China
Tel: +852 2711 0063