These Are the World’s 50 Best Restaurants of 2018

Brb, gotta book a flight to Italy.

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Our condolences to anyone who has just nabbed a table at last year’s “world’s best restaurant,” Eleven Madison Park in New York City.

Because it’s just been dethroned by Italy’s best, Osteria Francescana from chef Massimo Bottura, on the 2018 “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list. 

It’s arguably the most important culinary ranking in the world, as winners are voted by a panel of 1,000 culinary experts. Although, it has been criticized for favoring fancy European fare and excluding female chefs in the past. 

We’re also seriously confounded about why that Cheetos-themed restaurant was left off the list, but whatever…

Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy won top honors once before in 2016, but it was unseated by Eleven Madison Park in 2017. Eleven Madison Park has since fallen to fourth place, but keep in mind that the restaurant was under renovations for much of 2017.

Nonetheless, the list is set to determine where gourmands will travel in 2018… and how long they’ll be willing to wait for a reservation. 

Here, the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” in 2018:

1. Osteria Francescana — Modena, Italy

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkP3EgQAFLP

2. El Celler de Can Roca — Girona, Spain

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkBFsWSjtVz

3. Mirazur — Menton, France

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkKhAQZlIyQ

4. Eleven Madison Park — New York City

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjIv8geFcCY

5. Gaggan — Bangkok, Thailand

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkGoFX9H7js

6. Central — Lima, Peru

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGZzKWaJhVC

7. Maido — Lima, Peru

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkGrXFmh1NC

8. L’Arpege — Paris, France

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj43I1zh08d

9. Mugaritz — Errenteria, Spain

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkPw0Udj1ix

10. Asador Etxebarri — Axpe, Spain

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkNeP97lgs1

11. Quintonil — Mexico City, Mexico

12. Blue Hill at Stone Barns — Pocantico Hills, New York

13. Pujol — Mexico City, Mexico

14. Steirereck — Vienna, Austria

15. White Rabbit — Moscow, Russia

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkP-WcED_oc

16. Piazza Duomo — Alba, Italy

17. Den — Tokyo, Japan

18. Disfrutar — Barcelona, Spain

19. Geranium — Copenhagen, Denmark

20. Attica — Melbourne, Australia

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bjwer7RA_01

21. Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée — Paris, France

22. Narisawa — Tokyo, Japan

23. Le Calandre — Rubano, Italy

24. Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet — Shanghai, China

25. Cosme — New York City

https://www.instagram.com/p/Be_ph_CjE-U

26. Le Bernardin — New York City

27. Boragó — Santiago, Chile

28. Odette — Singapore

29. Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen — Paris, France

30. D.O.M. — São Paulo, Brazil

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj-v-5QjrVV

31. Arzak — San Sebastian, Spain

32. Tickets — Barcelona, Spain

33. The Clove Club — London, UK

34. Alinea — Chicago

35. Maaemo — Oslo, Norway

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjVknjtB-xk

36. Reale — Castel Di Sangro, Italy

37. Restaurant Tim Raue — Berlin, Germany

38. Lyle’s — London, UK

39. Astrid y Gastón — Lima, Peru

40. Septime — Paris, France

https://www.instagram.com/p/BjFBbulnN48

41. Nihonryori RyuGin — Tokyo, Japan

42. The Ledbury — London, UK

43. Azurmendi — Larrabetzu, Spain

44. Mikla — Istanbul, Turkey

45. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal — London, UK

https://www.instagram.com/p/Biyf2nHA793

46. Saison — San Francisco

47. Schloss Schauenstein — Fürstenau, Switzerland

48. Hiša Franko — Kobarid, Slovenia

49. Nahm — Bangkok, Thailand

50. The Test Kitchen — Cape Town, South Africa

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkN_Hlng5rk

h/t Eater

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