Eat and travel, travel and eat. A plan that we love and that, as soon as possible, will once again be the mission of the Spanish as an excuse to travel the world. The question is: where to go to do it? If they are not Michelin Stars, they are listed as 50 Best and Opinionated About Dining those that set the standard to know which are the best restaurants in the world in which to drop by. At the gala held yesterday, June 14, it was the expert members of this last platform who decided your favorites to reign in 2021.
the new yorker Steve Plotnicki Years ago, it launched the first survey on the OAD blog so that its readers could expose what they considered to be the best restaurants around the world. Fast-forward to 2021, with 14 years of experience and a legion of fans eagerly awaiting the establishments to visit on their next culinary adventure, and we'll find the 354 best restaurants from Europe: the list includes 74 Spanish names and they are divided into three categories – Top 150, Highly Recommended and Recommended –. Your judges? 220,000 reviews contributed by the 7,000 registered voters at opinionatedaboutdining.com.
Now, like all the lists of his lineage, OAD follows a subjective basis in its classification system, based on experience as one of the determining factors that lead it to have weight problems in its classifications, a shortage of female references, a diversity that is conspicuous by its absence and an approach that is becoming increasingly obsolete in the face of the demands of the new generations.
In what was the first online gala on the list, Aitor Arregui's Elkano grill, in Getaria, took first place on the list of 150 Casual restaurants , while Víctor Arguinzoniz's Etxebarri commanded third place in the Top 150 , led by the Danish restaurant Alchemist and the swedish Frantzén.
In the meantime, Quique Dacosta ranks number 8; the Barcelonan Enjoy –Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas– number 12 and Azurmendi, by Eneko Atxa, number 13; leaving beyond the first ten winners to names like The cellar of Can Roca , Els Casals, Diverxo and Aponiente.
Still pending publication of their favorites in North America and already defined those that make up their organization chart in Asia , OAD published the list of restaurants classics with 150 names, in which only appear, from position number 80, Spanish references such as Zuberoa, Atrium and Gazebo of Amós.
In the category of Affordable Bites , the Danish Møller Kaffe & Køkken rules in first place with appearances from Jordi Roca's Rocambolesc, the Churreria Santa Lucía Chocolatería and the Mawey Taco Bar from Madrid, showing that there is also room here for those who play in the minor leagues , but which are just as important within the gastronomic panorama of their corresponding countries and, therefore, of the world.
Top 150 (from 1 to 50)
1.Alchemist / Rasmus Munk (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2.Restaurant Frantzén / Björn Frantzén (Stockholm, Sweden)
3. Etxebarri / Victor Arguinzoniz (Axpe, Spain)
4.Schloss Schauenstein / Andreas Caminada (Fürstenau, Switzerland)
5.Lido 84 / Riccardo Camanini (Gardone Riviera, Italy)
6. Victor's Fine Dining by Christian Bau / Christian Bau (Perl, Germany)
7.Ernst / Dylan Watson-Brawn (Berlin, Germany)
8. Restaurant Quique Dacosta / Quique Dacosta (Denia, Spain)
9.De Librije / Jonny Boer (Zwolle, The Netherlands)
10.Geranium / Rasmus Kofoed (Copenhagen, Denmark)
11.Noma 2.0 / René Redzepi (Copenhagen, Denmark)
12. Enjoy / Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas (Barcelona, Spain)
13. Azurmendi / Eneko Atxa (Larrabetzu, Spain)
14.L'Arpège / Alain Passard (Paris, France)
15.Le Calandre / Massimiliano Alajmo (Rubano, Italy)
16. Maaemo / Esben holmboe Bang (Oslo, Norway)
17. Osteria Francescana / Massimo Botttura (Modena, Italy)
18. Reale / Niko Romito (Castel di Sangro, Italy)
19.St. Hubertus / Norbert Niederkofler (San Cassiano, Italy)
20.Kadeau / Nicolai Nørregaard (Copenhagen, Denmark)
twenty-one. The cellar of Can Roca / Joan Roca (Girona, Spain)
22. Els Casals / Oriol Rovira (Sagas, Spain)
23.Piazza Duomo / Enrico Crippa (Alba, Italy)
24.La Marine / Alexandre Couillon (Noirmoutier, France)
25.Fat Duck / Heston Blumenthal (Bray, UK)
26. Hiša Franko / Ana Ros (Kobarid, Slovenia)
27. Vendôme / Joachim Wissler (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany)
28. diverse / David Munoz (Madrid, Spain)
29.Astrance / Pascal Barbot (Paris, France)
30.Konstantin Filippou / Konstantin Filippou (Vienna, Austria)
31. aponiente / Ángel León (El Puerto de Santa María, Spain)
32. Kadeau Bornholm / Chef Nikolai Norregaard (Bornholm, Denmark)
33.White Rabbit / Vladimir Mukhin (Moscow, Russia)
34.Henne Kirkeby Kro / Paul Cunnungham (Henne, Denmark)
35.Mirazur / Mauro Colagrecco (Menton, France)
36.Uliassi / Mauro Uliassi (Senigallia, Italy)
37.Atelier Munich / Jan Hartwig (Munich, Germany)
38.AOC / Søren Selin (Copenhagen, Denmark)
39.Koks / Paul Andrias Ziska (Leynavatn, Faroe Islands)
40.L'Air du Temps / Sang-Hoon Degeimbre (Éghezée, Belgium)
41. Martin Berasategui / Martin Berasategui (Lasarte, Spain)
42.L'Enclume / Simon Rogan (Cartmel, UK)
43.Essigbrätlein / Yves Ollech & Andree Köthe (Nuremberg, Germany)
44.Kei / Chef Kei Kobayashi (Paris, France)
45. Bagá / Chef Pedro Sánchez (Jaén, Spain)
46. Steirereck / Heinz Reitbauer (Vienna, Austria)
47.Restaurant Amador / Juan Amador (Vienna, Austria)
48.The Jane / Sergio Herman and Nick Brill (Antwerp, Belgium)
49. David Toutain / David Toutain (Paris, France)
fifty. Mugaritz / Andoni Aduriz (Errenteria, Spain)