Here Are the 50 Best Restaurants in the World for 2024

Jeremy Repanich
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For only the second time in its history, the World’s 50 Best Restaurants unveiled its flagship list in America, but it was Spain that reigned supreme tonight.

At a gathering of the world’s leading chefs and restaurateurs in Las Vegas, three of the four highest-ranked restaurants hailed from Spain, with Disfrutar in Barcelona (ranked No. 2 in 2023) capturing the crown as the world’s best. The modernist restaurant, led by the chef team of Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch, and Mateu Casañas, who all worked at El Bulli, joins the ranks of Central, Noma, the French Laundry, and more that have topped the list in its 22 years since its founding. It is the third restaurant from Spain to win the honor, following in the footsteps of Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli and the Roca brothers’ El Cellar de Can Roca.

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“We are so excited, we are so proud, and we think our struggle will be quieter now,” Casañas said with a chuckle as he acknowledged the journey to become the world’s top-ranked restaurant. And when asked if a younger generation of diners may not understand or appreciate long tasting menus with an avant-garde streak, Casañas replied, “Maybe it’s not the more fashionable way to do things, but for us, we do the things we want, and we never change our way. And today we are here.”

In the second spot was legendary live-fire restaurant Asador Etxebarri in the Basque country. When we named the 10 Most Influential Restaurants of the 2010s, Etxebarri was on the list, with chef Aitor Zabala telling us that it “brought a new dimension to cooking with fire and brought it around the world.” He added, “How many chefs put grills in their kitchen because Etxebarri has them?”

A dish from Disfrutar
A dish from Disfrutar.

After Table by Bruno Verjus in Paris moved up from 10 last year to No. 3 in 2024, yet another Spanish restaurant, Diverxo in Madrid, joined a top five that was rounded out by Maido in Lima, Peru. At No. 6 Atomix in New York City once again ranked the highest of any American restaurant, further cementing its position at the forefront of Korean fine dining not just in the U.S. but around the world. The other U.S. restaurant to rank in the top 50 was Kyle and Katina Connaughton’s SingleThread in Healdsburg, Calif.

This year’s list was determined by 1,080 voters around the world. And for all the criticisms of the awards, being included can move the needle for a restaurant. Chef Jeremy Chan, whose Ikoyi in London joined the list in 2022 and slotted in at 42 this year, told Robb Report his restaurant saw an immediate increase that has since settled into a steady flow of diners. Elena Reygadas, last year’s World’s Best Female Chef echoed the sentiments, saying that after her Rosetta in Mexico City ranked 49, it boosted business. This year, her establishment rose to 34, so perhaps the impact on her bottom line will be even greater.

The 50 Best Restaurants in the World 2024

  1. Disfrutar, Barcelona

  2. Asador Etxebarri, Atxondo

  3. Table by Bruno Verjus, Paris

  4. Diverxo, Madrid

  5. Maido, Lima

  6. Atomix, New York

  7. Quintonil, Mexico City

  8. Alchemist, Copenhagen

  9. Gaggan, Bangkok

  10. Don Julio, Buenos Aires

  11. Septime, Paris

  12. Lido 84, Gardone Riviera

  13. Trèsind Studio, Dubai

  14. Quique Dacosta, Dénia

  15. Sézanne, Tokyo

  16. Kjolle, Lima

  17. Kol, London

  18. Plénitude, Paris

  19. Reale, Castel di Sangro

  20. Wing, Hong Kong

  21. Florilège, Tokyo

  22. Steirereck, Vienna

  23. Sühring, Bangkok

  24. Odette, Singapore

  25. El Chato, Bogotá

  26. The Chairman, Hong Kong

  27. A Casa do Porco, São Paolo

  28. Elkano, Getaria

  29. Boragó, Santiago

  30. Restaurant Tim Raue, Berlin

  31. Belcanto, Lisbon

  32. Den, Tokyo

  33. Pujol, Mexico City

  34. Rosetta, Mexico City

  35. Frantzén, Stockholm

  36. The Jane, Antwerp

  37. Oteque, Rio de Janeiro

  38. Sorn, Bangkok

  39. Piazza Duomo, Alba

  40. Le Du, Bangkok

  41. Mayta, Lima

  42. Ikoyi, London

  43. Nobelhart & Schmutzig, Berlin

  44. Mingles, Seoul

  45. Arpège, Paris

  46. SingleThread, Healdsburg

  47. Schloss Schauenstein, Fürstenau

  48. Hiša Franko, Kobarid

  49. La Colombe, Cape Town

  50. Uliassi, Senigallia

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