Top Restaurants

The top 50 Restaurants in the World were announced this week at a special ceremony in London. The S.Pellegrino World’s Best 50 Restaurants has celebrated it’s eighth year and the top restaurant, El Bulli, has held the position for the fourth year in a row. Number two was The Fat Duck in London.

4185 votes were collected and tallied against 837 restaurants across the world. Considering the huge number of restaurants across the world, and especially the 837 in contention, Australia has done well with two restaurants making the renowned list.

Tetsuya’s, in Sydney, was our top place at 17, a drop of 12 places from two years ago and eight places from last year. Another Sydney restaurant, Quay, was our other in the Top 50, at number 46. This tops off an outstanding year for Quay, with this being just the latest of many awards.

There is an extended list and another Australian restaurant made into this part – at number 94 Sydney’s Pier Restaurant made it into the Top 100 for the first time.

There were some surprise exceptions from this year’s list, including Gordon Ramsey’s flagship restaurant in London, which was number 13 last year. Rockpool, another Sydney restaurant, which was number four in 2002, was missing from this year’s list
Eating out is obviously not just about the food but about the whole experience and it is terrific to see Australian restaurants being recognized for their creativity and passion.