As an appetizer to the upcoming ranking of the 50 Best Restaurants in the world that will be announced in Las Vegas on June 5, the organizers of the prestigious competition have unveiled the venues ranked from 51st to 100th in this year’s extended list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.
This ranking of runners-up is the first release of this year’s iteration of the global contest and features establishments in 23 destinations across the globe, including 12 new entries from 11 cities stretching from Berlin and Mumbai to Seoul, Sydney, Bogota and beyond.
#51 Restaurant La Calandre, Italy
Topping the new, extended ranking — and despite several of its flagship fine-dining establishments falling down the list — sits Europe with 23 restaurants with two Italian ones at the top of the list: La Calandre in Rubano (#51) and the new Atelier Moessmer in Brunico (#52).
Five other new European entries join Atelier Moessmer: Coda, #62 in Berlin; Bozar, #63 in Brussels; Le Doyenné, #70 in Saint- Vrain; Restaurant Jan, #84 in Munich and Mountain, #94 in London.
#63, Bozar, Brussels: pigeon, foie gras and smoked eel
France and the United Kingdom lead the European list with four restaurants each. France has Flocons de Sel, #76 in Megève; La Grenouillère, #77 in La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil; Alléno Paris Au Pavillon Ledoyen, #79 in Paris and Ceto, #85 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin.
The U.K. list includes four in London: Brat, #65; The Clove Club, # 80; Lyle’s, #87; and Core by Clare Smyth, #97.
Germany lobbed four on to the list, including Ernst, #75 in Berlin and Tantris, #88 in Munich. Spain follows with three: Enigma, #59 in Barcelona, Aponiente, #72 in El Puerto de Santa María and Mugaritz, #81 in San Sebastián.
Belgium’s Willem Hiele, in Oudenburg returns at #83; Denmark has Kadeau, #54 in Copenhagen and Turkey has Neolokal, #91 in Istanbul.
#71 Le Bernardin, New York
The U.S, the jurors and the downgraded
North America has two new entries: Smyth in Chicago at #90 and Fauna in Valle de Guadalupe, Mexico, at #100. There are two more restaurants in Mexico: Guadalajara’s Alcalde at #67 and Mexico City’s Sud 777 at #82.
In the U.S., Le Bernadin in New York is at #71 and Cosme (formerly the top-ranked restaurant in America), also in New York, at #99.
Asia has 13 entries, South America five, while the Middle East, Africa and Oceania each have one.
#100, Fauna, Valle De Guadalupe, Mexico
A number of restaurants have descended in the rankings, including seven that appeared last year among the Top 50: Mugaritz in Spain was # 31 and is now at #81, while Clove Club in London dropped from #38 to #80 and Le Bernardin in New York from #44 to #71.
Another surprise is the downgrading of chef Massimiliano Alajmo’s Italian restaurant, Le Calandre, from #41 last year to #51 now.
Forbes India notes that the French Le Doyenné in Saint-Vrain, an “unassuming restaurant” that appears at #70 “ranks higher than the triple-Michelin-starred chef Emmanuel Renaut’s Flocons de Sel #76, or chef Alexandre Gauthier’s two-starred Grenouillère at La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil (#77), currently closed due to the bad weather that flooded it, and even above Yannick Alléno’s prestigious, triple-Michelin-starred Pavillon Ledoyen in #79.”
#79, Alléno Paris Au Pavillon Ledoyen, Paris
A panel of 1,080 independent, gender-balanced experts from the world of gastronomy and ranging from food journalists and globally-renowned chefs to traveling gastronomes decide the rankings based on strict rules that, among others, include having eaten at the establishment during the prior 19 months in order to cast a vote and to abstain if they have economic interest in any of them.
The awards ceremony for The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024 will be held in Las Vegas on June 5 and will be livestreamed beginning at 20:25 (Pacific).
The World’s Best Restaurants, Nos. 51 to 100
- 51. Le Calandre, Rubano
- 52. Atelier Moessmer, Brunico
- 53. Leo, Bogotá
- 54. Kadeau, Copenhagen
- 55. Mérito, Lima
- 56. Narisawa, Tokyo
- 57. Potong, Bangkok
- 58. Lasai, Rio de Janeiro
- 59. Enigma, Barcelona
- 60. Fyn, Cape Town
- 61. Nuema, Quito
- 62. Coda, Berlin
- 63. Bozar, Brussels
- 64. Orfali Bros Bistro, Dubai
- 65. Brat, London
- 66. La Cime, Osaka
- 67. Alcalde, Guadalajara
- 68. Burnt Ends, Singapore
- 69. Fu He Hui, Shanghai
- 70. Le Doyenné, Saint-Vrain
- 71. Le Bernardin, New York
- 72. Aponiente, El Puerto de Santa María
- 73. Mil, Cusco
- 74. Nusara, Bangkok
- 75. Ernst, Berlin
- 76. Flocons de Sel, Megève
- 77. La Grenouillère, La Madelaine-sous-Montreuil
- 78. Masque, Mumbai
- 79. Alléno Paris Au Pavillon Ledoyen, Paris
- 80. The Clove Club, London
- 81. Mugaritz, San Sebastián
- 82. Sud 777, Mexico City
- 83. Willem Hiele, Oudenburg
- 84. Restaurant Jan, Munich
- 85. Ceto, Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
- 86. Mosu, Seoul
- 87. Lyle’s, London
- 88. Tantris, Munich
- 89. Indian Accent, New Delhi
- 90. Smyth, Chicago
- 91. Neolokal, Istanbul
- 92. Labyrinth, Singapore
- 93. Sazenka, Tokyo
- 94. Mountain, London
- 95. Meta, Singapore
- 96. Onjium, Seoul
- 97. Core by Clare Smyth, London
- 98. Saint Peter, Sydney
- 99. Cosme, New York
- 100. Fauna, Valle De Guadalupe
More details on each of the restaurants is available here.