You can't consider yourself a true foodie until you've tried the best restaurants in the world, right? Luckily, the official list of the world's 50 best restaurants has just been released. From the US to Thailand, the list includes restaurants beyond the world, which volition appeal to connoisseurs with a multifariousness of palates.

At the top of the list is Osteria Francescana located in Modena, Italy, an avant-garde Italian eating house that many volition recognize as being featured in the final season of Main of None on Netflix. Being #ane isn't new to Osteria Francescana, which took the pinnacle spot 2 years agone, before beingness dethroned by New York'south Eleven Madison Park. Now at #2 is El Celler de Tin can Roca in Catalonia, with Mirazur in Southern France at #3, and Xi Madison Park dropping to #4 later on endmost for renovations in 2017.

The listing, however, has taken some criticism from those who believe it isn't diverse enough, it lacks female chefs, and it focuses too much on European establishments. This criticism intensified with yet another white, European male chef taking the elevation prize. For instance, in 2016, the list named Chef Dominique Crenn the globe's top female chef, still her restaurant didn't even appear on the summit 100 that year. Crenn has called the female chef laurels itself "stupid" and accused the organization of treating women like "sport."

While the number of female chefs on the listing has increased to five from terminal year's three, the number still remains staggeringly pocket-size. One of the Top l announcers even declared, during the unveiling of the list that "it's all about girl power tonight", even so simply ii of the restaurants on the list are run past women. It only goes to bear witness that nutrient experts might have trained palates, merely they tin can still be tone deaf.

The 2018 earth's 50 best eating house list:

      1. Osteria Francescana (Modena, Italian republic)
      Chef: Massimo Bottura
      ii. El Celler de Tin Roca (Girona, Spain)
      Chef: Joan Roca
      3. Mirazur (Menton, France)
      Chef: Mauro Colagreco
      4. 11 Madison Park (New York City)
      Chef: Daniel Humm
      five. Gaggan (Bangkok, Thailand)
      Chef: Gaggan Anand
      6. Fundamental (Lima, Republic of peru)
      vii. Maido (Lima, Peru)
      eight. 50'Arpege (Paris, French republic)
      ix. Mugaritz (Errenteria, Kingdom of spain)
      x. Asador Etxebarri (Axpe, Spain)
      xi. Quintonil (United mexican states City, Mexico)
      12. Blue Loma at Stone Barns (Pocantico Hills, New York, USA)
      xiii. Pujol (Mexico City, Mexico)
      14. Steirereck (Vienna, Austria)
      15. White Rabbit (Moscow, Russian federation)
      sixteen. Piazza Duomo (Alba, Italy)
      17. Den (Tokyo, Japan)
      eighteen. Disfrutar (Barcelona, Spain)
      19. Geranium (Copenhagen, Denmark)
      xx. Attica (Melbourne, Commonwealth of australia)
      21. Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée (Paris, France)
      22. Narisawa (Tokyo, Japan)
      23. Le Calandre (Rubano, Italy)
      24. Ultraviolet past Paul Pairet (Shanghai, Red china)
      25. Cosme (New York City, USA)
      26. Le Bernardin (New York City, USA)
      27. Boragó (Santiago, Chile)
      28. Odette (Singapore)
      29. Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen (Paris, France)
      30. D.O.Thou. (São Paulo, Brazil)
      31. Arzak (San Sebastian, Spain)
      32. Tickets (Barcelona, Spain)
      33. The Clove Social club (London, United kingdom)
      34. Alinea (Chicago, U.s.a.)
      35. Maaemo (Oslo, Norway)
      36. Reale (Castel Di Sangro, Italian republic)
      37. Restaurant Tim Raue (Berlin, Germany)
      38. Lyle'due south (London, UK)
      39. Astrid y Gastón (Lima, Peru)
      40. Septime (Paris, France)
      41. Nihonryori RyuGin (Tokyo, Japan)
      42. The Ledbury (London, UK)
      43. Azurmendi (Larrabetzu, Spain)
      44. Mikla (Istanbul, Turkey)
      45. Dinner past Heston Blumenthal (London, Britain)
      46. Saison (San Francisco, United states of america)
      47. Schloss Schauenstein (Fürstenau, Switzerland)
      48. Hiša Franko (Kobarid, Slovenia)
      49. Nahm (Bangkok, Thailand)
      fifty. The Test Kitchen (Cape Town, South Africa)
        Best Female Chef: Clare Smyth (Core past Clare Smyth, London)
        Chef's Choice Award: Dan Barber (Blue Hill at Rock Barns, Pocantico Hills, New York)
        Best Pastry Chef: Cédric Grolet
        Lifetime Achievement Laurels: Gastón Acurio
        Art of Hospitality Laurels: Geranium (Copenhagen, Denmark)
        One to Watch: Single Thread (Healdsburg, California)
        BBVA Scholarship Winner: Jessie Liu (Taipei, Taiwan)
        Sustainable Restaurant Honor: Azurmendi (Larrabetzu, Spain)
        Highest New Entry: Disfrutar (Barcelona, Spain)
        Highest Climber Award: Den (Tokyo, Japan)

      H/T: Eater

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