World’s 50 best restaurants revealed: Where’s No. 1? How many are there in the US?
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants have been announced for 2022. Here are all the details including background on the US winners.
On 18 July The World’s 50 Best Restaurants anounced this year’s top restaurants in the world. The organization began making their signatures lists in 2002 aiming to reflect “the diversity of the world’s culinary landscape.” Each year 1,080 culinary expects evaluate the nominees and vote to create the list while also “being a barometer for global gastronomic trends.”
The number one spot went to Copenhagen’s Geranium, co-owned by Rasmus Kofoed and Søren Ledet. In 2016, Geranium became the first restaurant in Denmark to earn three Michelin stars. One aspect of the menu that sets Geranium apart from many on the list is that is meatless.
“Five years after he stopped eating meat, in 2022 Kofoed made Geranium a meat-free zone, focusing solely on local seafood and vegetables from organic and biodynamic farms in Denmark and Scandinavia,” said the judges.
US restaurants on the list
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants placed three US-based restaurants on the list: two in New York City, Atomix and Le Bernardin, and one in Healdsburg, California, SingleThread. New York City’s Atomix was also won the Gin Mare Art of Hospitality Award.
Atomix, ranked 33rd on this year’s list, is located in the NoMad neighborhood of Manhattan, which is situated near Koreatown. The restaurant is owned by Junghyun ‘JP’ Park, a chef, and his wife, co-owner and manager Ellia. The couple is famous for their “fermentation techniques in dishes such as Spanish mackerel with turnip and lentil, king crab with buckwheat waffle and blood orange, and yellowtail with dried scallop.”
Forty-fourth on the list is Le Bernardin, which is also located in Manhattan. The location in New York City is the second and opened in 1986. The first Le Bernardin was opened by brother and sister Gilbert and Maguy Le Coze in Paris almost fifty years ago. Wine lovers should be aware that the restaurant “has earned a reputation as one of Manhattan’s top sommeliers, having received the James Beard Award for Outstanding Wine Service in 2009.”
Located in Northern California near Sonoma, SingleThread is a famous feature in wine country. The couple who run the restaurant, “husband and wife team Kyle and Katina Connaughton – a chef and farmer respectively – SingleThread [...] combines Kyle’s unique Japanese cuisine with fresh ingredients grown on Katina’s smallholding.” For those heading to the area on vacation should know that “the restaurant set within a luxury boutique hotel where Kyle also serves an unmissable in-room Japanese breakfast.”