Melbourne’s Attica restaurant has scored a coveted place in the inaugural publication of Travel + Leisure and Food & Wine‘s World’s Best Restaurants list. The unranked list was compiled by an experienced and anonymous critic who travelled the world over four months, visiting 81 restaurants in 24 countries.
“If someone were to plan an around-the-world trip based on these recommendations, we’d want them to feel as though they’d truly experienced the breadth of the world, not just found themselves in very nice dining rooms eating very nice meals in various locations,” said Travel + Leisure Editor-in-Chief, Jacqueline Gifford. “We searched for balance, excellence, and mix.”Comprising 30 establishments from Fez to Kobarid and Lima to Seoul, the list is as much about the destination as it is about the food.
Food & Wine and Travel + Leisure‘s World’s Best Restaurants 2019:
4Roomed The Restaurant, Cape Town, South Africa
Antichi Sapori, Montegrosso, Italy
Attica, Melbourne, Australia
Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, New York, USA
Burnt Ends, Singapore
El Soussi, Beirut, Lebanon
Fuunji, Tokyo, Japan
Ganbara, San Sebastián, Spain
Hiša Franko, Kobarid, Slovenia
Jose Enrique, San Juan, Puerto Rico
La Mar, Lima, Peru
Le Wine Chambre, Johannesburg, South Africa
Maní, São Paulo, Brazil
Mariscos Ruben, Tijuana, Mexico
Masque, Mumbai, India
MIL, Moray, Peru
n/naka, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nang Loeng Market, Bangkok, Thailand
Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
Restaurante Alfonsina, San Juan Bautista la Raya, Mexico
Samcheongdong Sujebi, Seoul, South Korea
Saturne, Paris, France
Shree Thaker Bhojanalay, Mumbai, India
Sorbillo, Naples, Italy
St. John, London, UK
Sushi Yoshitake, Tokyo, Japan
Swan Oyster Depot, San Francisco, California, USA
The Grey, Savannah, Georgia, USA
The Ruined Garden, Fez, Morocco
VEA, Hong Kong
The list was curated by an anonymous critic, James-Beard-Award-winning writer Besha Rodell, who has been reporting on food and culture for almost two decades, in multiple cities and across two continents.Rodell is one of the few restaurant critics who has remained truly anonymous, and currently serves as a critic for the New York Times‘ Australia bureau after a five-year tenure as critic for LA Weekly from 2012 to 2017.To develop the World’s Best Restaurants list, Rodell accepted recommendations from a global panel of experts across the hospitality and restaurant industries made up of Food & Wine and Travel & Leisure editors and 22 noteworthy culinary personalities including Ruth Reichl, Enrique Olvera, Gail Simmons, Alex Atala, Anne-Sophie Pic, Nina Compton, and Marcus Samuelsson.
During her trip, Rodell stayed in 37 hotels, spent 279 hours in the air, and travelled over 160,000 kilometres to research what would ultimately create the first editorial collaboration on a signature franchise between Food & Wine and Travel + Leisure.“The cultural touchstones on this new list don’t prioritise one style of dining or one culture over another,” says Food & Wine Editor-in-Chief Hunter Lewis. “Whether it’s a food truck in Tijuana, a 20-course tasting menu in Denmark, or the next big thing in Slovenia, each of these 30 restaurants is the kind of venue that we’d cancel all other reservations for, just so we could dine there and soak up the culture. These restaurants are that special and delicious.”For details about some of the restaurants in North America, South America, Africa & the Middle East, click here.For details about some of the restaurants in Europe and Asia, including Attica in Melbourne, click here.Lead image: Attica’s black-ant lamington Want to be in the luxury travel know? Subscribe to our free eNewsletter here to keep up to date with everything in the luxury travel industry.
