World's 50 Best Restaurants

Congratulations to Maido in Lima, named the World’s Best Restaurant of 2025

Plus, every restaurant that’s ever topped the World’s 50 Best list
The latest in World's 50 Best Restaurants


The full list of winners from the second annual awards ceremony


There are lots of best-restaurants lists out there already, but this one may be a great opportunity for American chefs


The full list of winners from an exciting night in Las Vegas


A new list featuring the United States, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean will be dropping later this year




James Beard Foundation Awards, World’s 50 Best Restaurants, and Michelin stars — explained


How to watch, what to expect, and which restaurant will be named number 1


How to watch, what to expect, and which restaurant will be named number 1


How to watch, what to expect, and which restaurant will be named No. 1


Disfrutar in Barcelona takes the top spot, while Spain’s Asador Etxebarri and Paris’s Table by Bruno Verjus round out the top three


Only two U.S. restaurants made the list — and both were from New York City


Copenhagen’s Geranium takes the No. 1 spot, with Virgilio Martínez Véliz’s Central in Lima No. 2


Noma takes the number one spot


What Michelin, the James Beard Awards, and World’s 50 Best have planned in the wake of coronavirus


Everything you need to know


The organization plans to launch new initiatives to support the hospitality industry in light of the coronavirus pandemic


According to World’s 50 Best, the restaurant community in Asia requested that the rankings go on “to shine some positive light into the darkness”


Six key takeaways from the 2019 World’s 50 Best List


Everything you need to know


Dominique Crenn finally makes it onto the list, just not the top 50


Everything you need to know


Here’s everything you need to know


Dominique Crenn finally made her top 50 debut — and Noma makes its grand reentry


There’s guaranteed to be a new No. 1 this year, but it might not be that new


A new report suggests top chefs lobbied for a change the organization then passed off as a diversity initiative


Here are the restaurants ranked 51 - 120


Here are the official rankings


Any restaurant that’s held the no. 1 spot is now off the list for good


Plus, the forthcoming midterm elections may have a huge impact on American farmers, and more food news


The awards’ voting academy will be gender-balanced in 2019, but the organization will keep its controversial “best female chef” award

Winners should represent the entire industry, not just white dudes serving expensive tasting menus


In a time of change, one of the industry’s most prominent awards remains painfully regressive


Here’s everything you need to know


Osteria Francescana wins title of “World’s Best Restaurant,” while Eleven Madison Park takes No. 4, and Dominique Crenn is shut out entirely


Dominique Crenn’s San Francisco restaurant was notably absent from the 51-100 list that dropped today


What the award means for the California wine country tasting menu and inn


The official rankings


Lima restaurant Maido unseats Central to take the top spot


The Australian award-winner on international success and his quest for total hospitality

