The 12 Best Restaurants in the World
Dish Shown: White asparagus with poached egg yolk and sauce of woodruff
This Scandinavian restaurant focuses on seasonal food. You’ll get 20 servings on the tasting menu at a cost of $300 per person. The standout dish is the winter potato cooked in fermented barley.
Dish Shown: Selection of small bites from the “El Mon” section of the kitchen
This modern Spanish restaurant was opened in 1986 by three brothers who remain faithful to their ancestors’ cuisine. The Mandala, which consists of slivers of Iberian suckling pig with artichokes, artichoke flowers, orange, lemon and beetroot, is one of its signature dishes. A tasting menu costs roughly $200.
Dish Shown: Mora romagnola ribs lacquered with traditional balsamic vinegar from Moden
With its avant-garde food creations, this restaurant’s three menus range in price from $180 to $260. One of its most popular dishes is shown here.
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Dish Shown: Suckling pig with broccoli rabe and pickled mustard seeds
This modern French restaurant with a New York twist is the highest-rated American restaurant on the list. The tasting menu costs $225 per person. Dishes range from roasted eel with foie gras and swiss chard to poached lobster with escarole and almond.
Dish Shown: Ragout of pigs ears
This restaurant is reinventing historical British food by working with recipes from as far as back as the 1300s. Its dishes include meat fruit, an appetizer consisting of a chicken liver and foie gras parfait with grilled bread. Main courses range in price from $45 to $130.
Dish Shown: Leaves, fruits and flowers
A specially-created barbecue smell emanates from the restaurant as patrons approach it, reminding them of their childhood. You’ll pay $220 for the 24-dish tasting menu, which includes ice shreds perfumed with scarlet shrimps.
Dish Shown: Cod brandade with marrow
This South American restaurant offers contemporary Brazilian and Amazonian food, such as fresh heart of palm with scallops and coral sauce. There are several tasting menus ranging from $70 to $100.
Dish Shown: Leguado (sole) and colored beans
The focus is on modern Basque cuisine at this restaurant, which is run by a father-and-daughter team. One of its standout dishes is squid with onion and lemon sauce. The tasting menu costs roughly $260 per person.
Dish Shown: Canard a la cussy (duck, fois gras, braised cockscomb, wine sauce and puff pastry, topped with duck skin)
Alinea opened in 2005 in Lincoln Park and has since been known for its cutting-edge modern cuisine. You’ll find several tasting menus comprising 15 to 19 courses with a price tag around $210. for dishes that include black truffle explosion with romaine and parmesan.
Dish shown: Wild salmon with asparagus and edible flowers
Four courses will cost you about $150 for dinner this modern French restaurant while you’ll pay more than $180 for an eight-course tasting menu, which includes dishes such as salad of violet and Chinese artichokes with hazelnuts, cured duck, grapes.
Dish Shown: Galinette (a seafood dish with zucchini, bok choy and cauliflower)
Mirazur is a modern French restaurant near the Italian border. A meal of one entrée, one main course and one dessert will cost $117, while the four tasting menus range between $65 and $195. The standout dish is the red prawns with asparagus, borage and wild garlic flowers.
Dish Shown: Kalbsbries (roasted sweetbread with a miso espuma, beef broth jelly and salsify)
This modern German restaurant is located near Cologne in a magnificent hotel. The tasting menu of appetizers, five main dishes and sweets costs $235 but you can get the mascarpone ravioli with truffles in white tomato sauce for $50.
21 - Le Bernardin, New York
30 - Per Se, New York
40 - Daniel, New York
44 - The French Laundry, Yountville, CA.
49 - Coi, San Francisco
Dish Shown: Herb Roasted Elysian Fields Fram's "Selle D'Agneau" at Per Se