Here’s the 2024 World’s 50 Best Restaurants List

The World’s 50 Best Restaurants List was announced tonight at an awards ceremony in Las Vegas, with Disfrutar in Barcelona, Spain, named to the top spot in the annual restaurant ranking. Rounding out the top five: Asador Etxebarri in Atxondo, Spain at No. 2; Table by Bruno Verjus in Paris at No. 3; Diverxo in Madrid at No. 4; and Maido in Lima at No. 5.

Chefs Eduard Xatruch, Mateu Casañas, and Oriol Castro opened Disfrutar in December 2014, and it’s held spots on the 50 Best list in several years since. According to Eater’s 2021 guide to Barcelona, the restaurant is considered one of the city’s “most lauded fine dining destination[s] for good reason,” featuring a “elaborate brand of molecular cuisine packed with pomp and circumstance.” The restaurant’s march to the top of the World’s 50 Best list was a steady drumbeat in recent years: It took the No. 2 spot on the 2023 list, and was No. 3 in 2022.

Of note stateside were two entrants to this year’s top 50: NYC’s Atomix climbed two spots from last year’s placement to land at No. 6, while Healdsburg, California’s Single Thread re-entered the list this year at No. 46 (a jump from its No. 68 ranking in 2023).

As ever, the 50 Best list aims to rank the world’s global culinary output. Since a rule change in 2019, any restaurant that ascends to the top of the list is subsequently ineligible and removed from contention in following years, ending the onetime grip that restaurants like Noma and elBulli (which have both since closed or announced closures) once had on the top 10. The so-called “back half” of the list, numbers 51 to 100, was released last week and included NYC’s Cosme (No. 99), Le Bernardin (No. 71, a drop from its 2023 placement at No. 44), and Chicago’s Smyth (No. 90).

The full 2024 World’s 50 Best Restaurants list:

1. Disfrutar, Barcelona

2. Asador Etxebarri, Atxondo, Spain

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 Paulo

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. Frantzen, Stockholm

36. The Jane, Antwerp

37. Oteque, Rio

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. Arpege, Paris

46. Single Thread, Healdsburg

47. Schloss Schauenstein, Fürstenau

48. Hisa Franko, Kobarid

49. La Colombe, Cape Town

50. Uliassi, Senigallia