The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018: Osteria Francescana is number one again – full list and map

Tonight in Bilbao, Osteria Francescana has been crowned the world’s best restaurant for the second time. The international event celebrating global gastronomy has come back to Europe after a stop in New York (2016) and Melbourne (2018), taking place at Palacio Euskalduna.

Watch our interviews with all the top chefs from the ceremony here.

The top ten hasn’t changed much in terms of restaurants: the ranking isn’t the same but nine out of ten names haven’t changed – apart from Alain Passard’s L’Arpège that reached number eight. And it isn’t so surprising considering nothing really big has come out of the global food industry. The biggest exception is Disfrutar of Barcelona – a truly incredible restaurant – that broke the list at number 18, becoming the highest entry.

It wasn’t the most positive year for the UK; although Clare Smyth deservedly won the Best Female Chef 2018 Award, all the entries from the 2017 list saw a worsening of their position: The Clove Club is at number 33, The Ledbury at number 42, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal at number 45. There is, however, a new entry: James Lowe’s Lyle’s ranks at 38. London confirmed itself as a global food hub – the city with the most restaurants in the top 100 after New York – while being the only British city represented.

The World’s Best Restaurants 2018

1 Osteria Francescana
2 El Celler de Can Roca
3 Mirazur
4 Eleven Madison Park
5 Gaggan
6 Central
7 Maido
8 Arpège
9 Mugaritz
10 Asador Etxebarri
11 Quintonil
12 Blue Hill at Stone Barns
13 Pujol
14 Steirereck
15 White Rabbit
16 Piazza Duomo
17 Den
18 Disfrutar
19 Geranium
20 Attica
21 Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée
22 Narisawa
23 Le Calandre
24 Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet
25 Cosme
26 Le Bernardin
27 Boragó
28 Odette
29 Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen
30 D.O.M.
31 Arzak
32 Tickets
33 The Clove Club
34 Alinea
35 Maaemo
36 Reale
37 Restaurant Tim Raue
38 Lyle’s
39 Astrid y Gastón
40 Septime
41 Ryugin
42 The Ledbury
43 Azurmendi
44 Mikla
45 Dinner By Heston Blumenthal
46 Cosme
47 Schauenstein Schloss
48 Hiša Franko
49 Nahm
50 Test Kitchen

Some other interesting stats:

The cities with most ranked restaurants in 2018 (1-100)

1 New York City 8
2 London 6 
3 Paris, Tokyo 5
4 Bangkok, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Lima, Mexico City, Moscow, Sao Paulo 3
5 Berlin, Buenos Aires, Singapore 2