On the 2009 list, El Bulli is at No. 1 for the fourth year in a row. Fat Duck at No. 2 again. Rounding out the top ten are: Noma (Copenhagen), Mugaritz (San Sebastián, Spain), El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain), Per Se (NYC), Bras (Laguiole, France), Arzak (San Sebastián, Spain), Pierre Gagnaire (Paris), and Alinea (Chicago)....
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You know, I kinda wondered about it when S. Pellegrino released its 50 Best Restaurants in the World listing this year—you know, the fact that the top dog three years running was El Bulli in ol' España. But I figured, well, Michael Jordan and the Bulls did a threepeat. And the Forbes richest dudes list seems to be pretty static. But Terry Durack in The Independent calls BS on the El Bulli win: As El Bulli only opens for only six months of the year, and all seats are booked on the day they are released, I'm amazed that so many judges were able to get in. I was a judge, and I couldn't. So I suspect that some judges...
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S. Pellegrino released its annual list of the world's 50 best restaurants last night in Paris. And it's a threepeat in a couple different ways: The top three, El Bulli (Spain), The Fat Duck (U.K.), and Pierre Gagnaire (France), haven't changed for the past three years. The complete list, after the jump....
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