The world's most celebrated dining rooms, blended from the major global authorities: The World's 50 Best Restaurants, its Best of the Best hall of fame, and La Liste. Every venue here also holds or has held the highest Michelin distinction.
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The world's most celebrated dining rooms, blended from the major global authorities: The World's 50 Best Restaurants, its Best of the Best hall of fame, and La Liste. Every venue here also holds or has held the highest Michelin distinction.
Disfrutar (Barcelona)
Founded by three elBulli alumni, this three-Michelin-star Barcelona restaurant was named the World's Best in 2024 for its playful, technically dazzling tasting menus.
Maido (Lima)
Mitsuharu 'Micha' Tsumura's temple of Nikkei cooking, the fusion of Japanese technique and Peruvian ingredients, was named the World's Best Restaurant in 2025.
Asador Etxebarri (Atxondo)
In a Basque village, Bitor Arginzoniz cooks almost everything over custom wood-fired grills he built himself, from house-made chorizo to seafood and milk-caramel ice cream.
Central (Lima)
Virgilio Martinez and Pia Leon present Peru by altitude, with each course drawn from a different ecosystem and elevation; named the World's Best Restaurant in 2023.
Geranium (Copenhagen)
Rasmus Kofoed's three-Michelin-star dining room high above Copenhagen serves a refined, largely seafood and vegetable menu; it was named the World's Best in 2022.
Quintonil (Mexico City)
Jorge Vallejo and Alejandra Flores serve refined contemporary Mexican cooking rooted in native ingredients and their own garden, long ranked the best restaurant in North America.
DiverXO (Madrid)
Dabiz Munoz's wildly theatrical three-Michelin-star flagship is Madrid's avant-garde landmark, known for roaming 'canvases' and provocative, boundary-pushing tasting menus.
Noma (Copenhagen)
Rene Redzepi's hugely influential Copenhagen restaurant, a four-time World's Best, pioneered new Nordic cuisine through foraging and fermentation.
Alchemist (Copenhagen)
Rasmus Munk's 'holistic cuisine' unfolds across roughly fifty 'impressions' inside a domed theater, blending fine dining with art, performance and social commentary.
Mirazur (Menton)
On the French Riviera, Mauro Colagreco cooks a garden-led, lunar-calendar menu from terraced gardens above the sea; three Michelin stars and World's Best in 2019.
Ranked across 3 sources: The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025; The World's 50 Best, Best of the Best (Hall of Fame); La Liste 2026 (global top tier, all tied at 99.5). Full scoring is on the Methodology tab above.
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