Among the special awards dished out were The World’s Best Pastry Chef Award, which went to Nina Metayer, and the peer-voted Estrella Damm Chefs’ Choice Award 2024, won by Mitsuharu ‘Micha’ Tsumura from Maido in Lima.
Lauded Australian chef and restaurateur Neil Perry received the Woodford Reserve Icon Award while Berlin’s Nobelhart & Schmutzig (No.43) won the Sustainable Restaurant Award for advocating for better agricultural policies and the voices of producers.
Several special awards were announced ahead of the official ceremony, which saw over 1,200 attendees from 26 territories across five continents.
Champions of Change winners include Jessica Rosval and Caroline Caporossi — founders of Roots in Modena, a social enterprise restaurant that hosts a training programme for migrant women — and Joao Diamante of Diamantes Na Cozinha in Rio de Janeiro, founder of a culinary initiative which creates opportunities for young people in vulnerable situations.
Janaina Torres is the winner of The World’s Best Female Chef Award; Paris’ Plenitude earned the Gin Mare Art of Hospitality Award and Kato in Los Angeles picked up the Resy One To Watch Award.
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024 list is created from the votes of 1,080 restaurant industry experts and well-travelled gourmands around the world that make up The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy. The gender-balanced Academy is comprised of 27 separate regions around the world, each of which has 40 members including an Academy Chair. No sponsor from the event has any influence over the voting process, which is adjudicated by Deloitte.
Once a restaurant is voted as number one, it cannot compete in the following year. Instead, it joins an elite group of number one ranked restaurants in the Best of the Best Hall of fame, which now comprises last year’s winner Central from Lima as well as UK’s The Fat Duck, Copenhagen’s original Noma and New York’s Eleven Madison Park.
World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2024
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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