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Written by Live coverage of the 2013 San Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants.
The international restaurant worlds eyes will be firmly focused on the Guildhall in London tonight where the San Pellegrino Worlds 50 Best Restaurants Award ceremony will take place.
These awards have been dominated by Nomu over the past three years and one wonders if Rene Redzepi will be able to replicate this amazing feat for a fourth consecutive occasion despite the food poisoning scare the took place earlier in the year.
Last year two South African restaurants featured in the Top 100, Le Quartier Francais in Franschhoek and The Test Kitchen in Woodstock, Cape Town. Naturally South Africans will be hoping that these two restaurants will be able to repeat that feat with maybe a couple more joining them on the World’s Top 100 List.
Awards already announced include French chef Alain Ducasse’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Italian Nadia Santini, is the winner of the Veuve Cliquot World’s Best Female Chef Award.
The 2012 Top 10 looked like this:
1. Noma (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2. El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain)
3. Mugaritz (San Sebastián, Spain)
4. D.O.M. (São Paulo, Brazil)
5. Osteria Francescana (Modena, Italy)
6. Per Se (New York, USA)
7. Alinea (Chicago, USA)
8. Arzak (San Sebastián, Spain)
9. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (London, UK)
10. Eleven Madison Park (New York, USA)
57. The Tasting Room at le Quartier Francais (Franschhoek, South Africa)
74. The Test Kitchen (Cape Town, South Africa)
How it works
The lists of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants and Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants are organised and compiled by William Reed Media. The list is created from The Diners Club® World’s 50 Best Restaurants Academy, an influential group of over 900 international leaders in the restaurant industry, each selected for their expert opinion of the international restaurant scene.
The Academy comprises 26 separate regions around the world. Each region has its own panel of 36 members including a chairperson to head it up. The panel is made up of food critics, chefs, restaurateurs and highly regarded ‘foodies’ each of whom has seven votes. Of the seven votes, at least three of which must be used to recognise restaurants outside of their region. At least 10 panellists from each region change each year. The results are published online as soon as they have been announced to the assembled chefs and academy members in February in Singapore for Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants and in London in April for The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Every restaurant in the world is eligible.
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