Massimo Bottura, from Osteria Francescana, best restaurant in the world according to the 50 Best
Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore at Gucci , the fabulous kimono with that air Hiroki Nakamura as Jessie Liu and the slightly hipster glasses jordi rock . Virtual reality helmets for Cinco Jotas and liquid nitrogen from Norway.
No, it's not the MET gala, it's the circus (without a trace of breeching: life is a circus) of 50 Best Restaurants. The “hottest list on the planet”; Fernando's word. The nonsense of who will be the best (the best!) restaurant in the world has won the game of run run and what they call ‘virality’ to the Stars and the Suns : it's time to live pending the hashtag and there 50 Best Restaurants has no rival , it is not expected. Welcome to the party.
The detail was nice. William Drew remembering **Anthony Bourdain, Gualtiero Marchesi and Paul Bocuse**; they were part of all this. The absence (protected by the transfer, we suppose) of Noma and René Redzepi is very strange, but he misses even more the feeling of “But the same thing again?” that the gala has been raising for us: Massimo Bottura's Osteria Francescana returns to the top of the ranking as the best restaurant on the planet and the ** Celler de Can Roca climbs a little step. Slowly. Sweet.**
** Andoni Luis Aduriz's Mugaritz remains at No.9, Etxebarri falls from sixth to No.10** (this surprised many of us who were expecting it at the top) and the most beautiful thing of the night: bombshell for Enjoy that goes up to the No.18 from 55 (award for the best entry on the list), Enjoying is fucking crazy . enjoy is Macondo, Camelot and the Shire : Congratulations.
The great PASS of Barcelona
SPAIN, SLOW
As for the rest of our chefs: Spain, punished in her own house; and that is ugly, friends of San Pellegrino. But here we go: **Arzak goes down (and goes down) to No.31** —yes, it was one of the ovations of the night; ** Albert Adrià tickets at No.32** (down from 25) and Azurmendi's Eneko Atxa is No.43 (down from 38).
Seven Spanish restaurants among the top fifty and what we already knew about the section from 51 to 100: ** Nerua , Quique Dacosta , Martín Berasategui , Elkano , Enigma and DiverXO **. Nobody understands anything about 50 Best with David Muñoz but... who understands anything about life? I think it was Eldon Tyrell's last sentence in Bladerunner.
It goes to prizes: Jessie Liu is the best "stagier" on the planet, Cedric Grolet of the hotel Le Meurice in Paris the best pastry chef , the British chef Clare Smyth the best cook (what a silly award, excuse me; are they perhaps the crumbs of a gala with almost no female presence?), Azurmendi wins again the most sustainable restaurant, Gastón Acurio pays tribute to his entire career under the bombastic title of ' Diners Club Lifetime Achievement Award ’ and ** SingleThread by Kyle and Katina Connaughton**, a restaurant with a future.
In the end, as usual. But impossible not to finish without remembering, once again, the irreplaceable Anthony Bourdain: “Your body is not a temple, it is a theme park. Enjoy the trip".
Massimo Bottura, from Osteria Francescana, best restaurant in the world according to the 50 Best
HOW DOES 50BEST WORK?
First, your manifest. Second who votes? Almost 1,000 professionals from all over the world vote confidentially (through a web page), divided between great chefs, restaurant owners and gastronomic journalists.
The Restaurant divides the world into 27 regions and each region has its own panel of 37 experts, in Spain the person in charge is Cristina Jolonch from La Vanguardia. How are these 37 experts chosen? Cristina chooses them and there is no more talk.
Each “expert” votes for seven restaurants, of which at least three votes must be for establishments located outside their region (and they must have eaten at some time in the last 18 months). This last point, obviously, remains in the hands of the "honorability" of the voter; Do you hear the laughs too?
FROM 25 TO 1
25. cosimo (New York)
24. ultraviolet by Paul Pairet (Shanghai, China)
23. Le Calandre (Ruban, Italy)
22. Narisawa (Tokyo)
twenty-one. Alain Ducasse at the Plaza Athénée (Paris)
twenty. Attica (Melbourne)
19. geranium (Copenhagen)
18. Enjoy (Barcelona)
17. give (Tokyo)
16. Piazza Duomo (Dawn, Italy)
fifteen. WhiteRabbit (Moscow)
14. Steirereck (Vienna)
13. Pujol (Mexico City)
12. Blue Hill at Stone Barns (New York State)
eleven. Quintonil (Mexico City)
10. Etxebarri (Axpe, Biscay)
9. Mugaritz (Errenteria, Guipuzcoa)
8. L'Arpege (Paris)
7. maid (Lime)
6. Central (Lime)
5. Gaggan (Bangkok)
Four. Eleven Madison Park (New York)
3. Mirazur (Menton, France)
two. Cellar de Can Roca (Girona)
1. Osteria Francescana (Modena, Italy)