The best 100 restaurants in the world named, with a grand Swiss eatery ranked top, two U.S hotspots in second and third and Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck flying the flag for the UK at No11
- Private jet magazine Elite Traveler asked its cash-rich readers to vote for their favourite culinary spots
- Restaurant de L’Hôtel de Ville in Switzerland, where the tasting menu costs £310 per person, came out on top
- Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck has been named the top restaurant in the UK and 11th globally
A grand three-Michelin-starred Swiss restaurant has been named the number one in the world in a poll of private jet lifestyle magazine readers.
The voters, all readers of Elite Traveler, certainly know a thing or two about posh restaurants, because they eat in them. They voted Restaurant de L’Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, Switzerland – where the tasting menu costs 390 Swiss francs (£310) – as the top restaurant on planet Earth.
In second place on the list is Alinea in Chicago, New York’s famed Eleven Madison Park comes third and flying the flag for Britain is Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck, which comes first in the UK ranking and 11th globally.
Private jet lifestyle magazine Elite Traveler asked its cash-rich readers to vote for their favourite culinary spots, and Restaurant de L’Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, Switzerland, (pictured) came out on top
Elite Traveler’s expert editors say that Restaurant de L’Hôtel de Ville is a ‘somewhat surprising champion’ on this year’s list. It was number nine in 2018. The fine dining spot is helmed by chef Franck Giovannini (pictured)
Elite Traveler’s expert editors say that Restaurant de L’Hôtel de Ville is a ‘somewhat surprising champion’ on this year’s list, which is now in its eighth year.
The fine dining spot, helmed by chef Franck Giovannini, climbed all the way from ninth position in 2018 to steal the crown from six-time winner, Alinea.
Alinea offers a selection of innovative tasting menus costing from $190 (£149) to $395 (£311), and diners are told to expect a ‘delicious, fun, emotional, and provocative’ sensory experience.
Third-placed Eleven Madison Park offers lunch and dinner tasting menus for $335 (£264) a pop.
Elite Traveler reveals how head chef Daniel Humm rustles up ‘quirky and lighthearted’ dishes ‘offering up the very best in contemporary French cuisine’. There is also a selection of fine wines on offer, including one of the world’s priciest bottles of burgundy – a Domaine de la Romanée-Conti 2015 – priced at $15,000 (£11,848).
Turning traditional Italian cuisine on its head is Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, which has been ranked fourth by the Elite Traveler jetsetters.
Alinea, which is now ranked number two, offers a selection of innovative tasting menus, and diners are told to expect a ‘delicious, fun, emotional, and provocative’ sensory experience. Above, an example of one of the artistically crafted morsels one can expect
Plated up at third place is Manhattan’s Eleven Madison Park, which offers lunch and dinner tasting menus for $335 (£264) a pop
Head Chef Massimo Bottura is famed for his zany dessert ‘Oops, I Dropped The Lemon Tart!’, which is, quite literally, a lemon tart that has been dropped upside down onto the plate.
A 12-course tasting menu here, with wine included, costs €480 (£426/$539).
In at fifth place on the top 100 list is Azurmendi in Larrabetzu, Spain. The restaurant is housed within an impressive glass structure which looks out over farmland where ingredients are cultivated.
There are two tasting menus on offer, both priced at €220 (£195). Dishes include ‘fermented apple’, ‘flame roasted red mullet’, ‘stewed piglet’ and ‘truffled egg’. The eatery also prides itself on its milk and corn breads, with these fresh-baked goods highlighted on its website.
Rounding out Elite Traveler’s top ten best restaurants in the world is Per Se in New York, The Restaurant at Meadowood in California, Restaurant Guy Savoy in Paris, Le Bernardin in New York and El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain.
Top-ranked The Fat Duck offers a 14-course tasting menu priced at £325. Chef Heston notes on the website that he based the multi-dish meal on his ‘favourite childhood holiday memories, taking place over the course of a day’ (pictured, a dish served at The Fat Duck)
The lavish interiors of Monte Carlo’s Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse à l’Hôtel de Paris. The restaurant, co-led by chef Dominique Lory, comes in at 36th place
Diners get a taste of the outdoors at El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain, thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows around the property. The restaurant is No10 on the list
The UK once again proved a match for the world’s culinary giants after seven of its restaurants earned a place in the reader-voted ranking.
Top-ranked The Fat Duck offers a 14-course tasting menu priced at £325 ($411).
Chef Heston notes on the website that he based the multi-dish meal on his ‘favourite childhood holiday memories, taking place over the course of a day’.
To wash it all down, there’s a vast array of wine to choose from, or if it’s bubbles you’re after, a 125ml glass of 2000 Dom Perignon might pique your interest. The £155 price tag, however, might not.
The other British restaurants to make the list include London institutions Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (24th), The Ledbury (33th), Core by Clare Smyth (50th) Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (79th) and La Dame de Pic London (94th).
The UK once again proved a match for the world’s culinary giants after seven of its restaurants earned a place in the reader-voted ranking. British restaurants making the grade include the high-end French eatery La Dame de Pic London (pictured)
Vladimir Mukh was named the ‘rising star of the year’ for his ‘excellent work’ at the White Rabbit in Moscow. Above, one of the chef’s culinary creations crafted out of beetroot
New York and Paris are the most prolific cities on the Elite Traveler list, with 12 and 10 restaurants respectively while London, with five restaurants, comes in joint-third alongside San Francisco
Along with The Fat Duck, Nottingham’s Sat Bains was another non-London UK restaurant to impress the voters – it slid in at 92nd place.
There were a number of other categories Elite Traveler readers could vote on.
This year’s ‘lifetime achievement award’ was received by Guy Savoy. The legendary French chef was joined by his compatriot Anne Sophie-Pic, who also becomes the first female winner of the coveted ‘chef of the year’ title.
Finally, Vladimir Mukh was named the ‘rising star of the year’ for his ‘excellent work’ at the White Rabbit in Moscow.
Elite Traveller’s 2019 global restaurant ranking
1 Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville, Crissier, Switzerland, Franck Giovannini
2 Alinea, Chicago, Grant Achatz
3 Eleven Madison Park, New York, Daniel Humm
4 Osteria Francescana, Modena, Italy, Massimo Bottura
5 Azurmendi, Larrabetzu, Spain, Eneko Atxa
6 Per Se, New York, Thomas Keller
7 The Restaurant at Meadowood, California, Christopher Kostow
8 Restaurant Guy Savoy, Paris, Guy Savoy
9 Le Bernardin, New York, Eric Ripert
10 El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Spain, Joan Roca
11 The Fat Duck, Bray, UK, Edward Cooke
12 Robuchon au Dôme, Macau, China, Julien Tongourian
13 D.O.M., São Paulo, Brazil, Alex Atala
14 Pierre Gagnaire, Paris, Pierre Gagnaire
15 Daniel, New York, Daniel Boulud
16 Steirereck, Vienna, Austria, Heinz Reitbauer
17 Pujol, Mexico City, Enrique Olvera
18 Arpège, Paris, Alain Passard
19 Jean-Georges, New York, Jean-Georges Vongerichten
20 Restaurant Schwarzwaldstube, Baiersbronn, Germany, Torsten Michel
21 La Pergola, Rome, Heinz Beck
22 Le Calandre, Padua, Italy, Massimiliano Alajmo
23 L’Ambroisie Paris France Bernard and Mathieu Pacaud
24 Restaurant Gordon Ramsay London UK Matt Abé
25 The French Laundry California US Thomas Keller
26 Nihonryori RyuGin Tokyo Japan Seiji Yamamoto
27 Victor’s Fine Dining Perl-Nennig Germany Christian Bau
28 Mizai Kyoto Japan Hitoshi Ishihara
29 Restaurant Vendôme Cologne Germany Joachim Wissler
30 DiverXO Madrid Spain David Muñoz
31 Hof van Cleve Kruishoutem Belgium Peter Goossens
32 Maison Pic Valence France Anne-Sophie Pic
33 The Ledbury London UK Brett Graham
34 Da Vittorio Bergamo Italy Enrico and Roberto Cerea
35 Aqua Wolfsburg Germany Sven Elverfeld
36 Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse à l’Hôtel de Paris, Monte Carlo, Monaco, Dominique Lory
37 Amber Hong Kong China Richard Ekkebus
38 Maaemo Oslo Norway Esben Holmboe Bang
39 Villa Crespi Novara Italy Antonino Cannavacciuolo
40 Astrance Paris France Pascal Barbot
41 Next Chicago US Jenner Tomaska
42 Geranium Copenhagen Denmark Rasmus Kofoed
43 Saison San Francisco USA Joshua Skenes
44 La Maison Troisgros Ouches France Michel Troisgros
45 Test Kitchen Cape Town South Africa Luke Dale-Roberts
46 Martín Berasategui, San Sebastián, Spain, Martín Berasategui
47 Quique Dacosta, Alicante, Spain, Quique Dacosta
48 Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantinho Hills, USA Dan Barber
49 Auberge du Vieux Puits, Fontjoncouse, France, Gilles Goujon
50 Core by Clare Smyth, London, Jonny Bone
51 Les Prés d’Eugénie, Eugénie-les-Bains, France, Michel Guérard
52 Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark, René Redzepi
53 Epicure, Le Bristol, Paris, Eric Frechon
54 Atelier Crenn, San Francisco, Dominique Crenn
55 Manresa Los Gatos, California, David Kinch
56 Mugaritz, San Sebastián, Spain, Andoni Luis Aduriz
57 Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, Paris, Romain Meder
58 The NoMad, New York, Daniel Humm
59 Al Sorriso, Novara, Italy, Luisa Valazza
60 Ledoyen, Paris, Yannick Alléno
61 Narisawa, Tokyo, Japan, Yoshihiro Narisawa
62 Tantris, Munich, Germany, Hans Haas
63 Bras, Laguoile, France, Sébastien Bras
64 Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, New York, César Ramirez
65 Vue de Monde, Melbourne, Australia, Justin James
66 Arzak, San Sebastián, Spain, Juan Mari Arzak
67 La Vague d’Or, Saint-Tropez, France, Arnaud Donckele
68 Toque, Québec, Canada, Normand Laprise
69 Mirazur, Menton, France, Mauro Colagreco
70 Attica, Melbourne, Australia, Ben Shewry
71 Made in China, Beijing, China, Kent Jin Qiang
72 Coi, San Francisco, Erik Anderson
73 Momofuku Ko, New York, Sean Grey
74 Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud, Dublin, Ireland, Patrick Guilbaud
75 Kitcho, Kyoto, Japan, Kunio Tokuoka
76 Dal Pescatore, Mantua, Italy, Nadia and Giovanni Santini
77 Quay, Sydney, Australia, Peter Gilmore
78 Quintonil, Mexico City, Jorge Vallejo
79 Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London, Ashley Palmer-Watts
80 Taillevent, Paris, Alain Solivérès
81 De Librije, Zwolle, Netherlands, Jonnie Boer
82 Benu, San Francisco, Corey Lee
83 ABaC Restaurant, Barcelona, Jordi Cruz
84 White Rabbit, Moscow, Vladimir Mukhin
85 Le Cinq, Paris, Christian Le Squer
86 Cosme, New York, Enrique Olvera
87 La Palme d’Or, Cannes, France, Christian Sinicropi
88 Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad, India, Sajesh Nair
89 Single Thread, San Francisco, Kyle Connaughton
90 Marea, New York, Michael White
91 Masa, New York, Masayoshi Takayama
92 Sat Bains, Nottingham, UK, Sat Bains
93 The Modern, New York, Abram Bissell
94 Atelier Munich, Munich, Germany, Jan Hartwig
95 Quince, San Francisco, Michael Tusk
96 La Dame de Pic London, London, Anne-Sophie Pic
97 Brae, Birregurra, Australia, Dan Hunter
98 The Loyalist, Chicago, John B Shields
99 Central, Lima, Peru, Virgilio Martínez Véliz
100 Joel Robuchon, Las Vegas, Christophe De Lellis
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