Magazine: Ranking, al dente

Restaurant Magazine’s tenth ‘The World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ ranking brought few surprises and a couple of changes. Once again the British magazine’s latest list showed that it is more difficult to make it to the list than to stay in the ranking. Rene Redzepi’s Noma in Copenhagen was crowned for the third time in a row, the second place went to the Roca brothers’ El Celler de Can Roca and the third best in the world became Andoni Luis Aduriz’s Mugaritz, which is also in Spain. There are no French restaurants in the top 10, where we find three Spanish, three American, one Danish, a Brazilian, an Italian and an English restaurant.

Asia’s Michelin star-studded restaurants earned six places in the top 50 – Iggys in Singapore was ranked the highest, 26th. In the voting process the world is divided into 27 regions and the heads of these regions select the voters (chefs, food critics, restaurateurs and highly regarded ‘gastronomers’), who name 7 restaurants – at least 3 outside their own region. In Central Europe it is Bianca Otero who gets to pick 30 voters in her region, from which 10 has to be replaced every year.