Most Famous Restaurant in the Top 10 World Cuisines 2022

                                                                         Italy

Osteria Francescana

• Known For: Modern Italian Cuisine
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: Via Stella, 22, 41121 Modena MO

Osteria Francescana is one of the most celebrated restaurants in the world. It’s located in Modena, Italy, and has been awarded three Michelin stars since its opening in 1995. 

In 2016 and 2019, Osteria Francescana ranked no. 1 in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, making it only the first Italian restaurant ever to receive such an honor. The restaurant was created by chef Massimo Bottura, who has been awarded many times for his cooking, including the 2011 Chefs’ Choice Award.

Osteria Francescana serves a seasonal menu with many small-scale dishes that change according to Bottura’s latest kitchen research. It offers tortellini, Emilia burger, seafood, and meats that are beyond fantastic.

Lido 84

• Known For: Seafood and Italian Cuisine
• Michelin Stars: 1
• Address: Corso Zanardelli 196, Fasano del Garda

Lido 84, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Brescia, is an intimate lakeside dining experience known for its amazing traditional dishes and perfect hospitality. It also ranked No. 8 on last year’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants List. 

The restaurant is located on the shore of Lake Garda. The space was converted from an old outdoor swimming pool into an elegant setting for dining and drinking in 2014. 

Lido 84’s chef, Riccardo Camanini, is regarded as one of the best in Italian cuisine. The restaurant has a creative menu with a keen eye toward local produce and fish from Lake Garda. It offers an array of fresh seafood and Italian cuisine, plus tasting menus to lure in more people. 

Riccardo Camanini has worked with international chefs, including Raymond Blanc and Jean-Louis Nomicos. He has also worked under the world’s most famous Italian chef, Gualtiero Marchesi. 

Roscioli

• Known For: Deli meats, cheeses, and Classico Roman Pasta
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address: Via dei Giubbonari 21, Rome

Located in the heart of Rome, Roscioli is a salumeria and a versatile restaurant with a broad menu and excellent service. It’s also listed in this year’s Michelin Guide!

The restaurant’s creative Italian menu is full of tasty Italian dishes. They offer traditional starters and main dishes, French & Italian cheeses, seafood from the Mediterranean and Tyrrhenian, roasted meats from all over Italy, and more. It also has a lovely terrace for enjoying the warm summer days of Rome. 

While the restaurant may be small, it offers excellent prices on food that you won’t find at many other places in town.

Greece

Todur Hall, Athens

• Known For: Authentic Greek seasonal dishes with a modern twist.
• Michelin Stars: 1
• Address: Vasileos Georgiou A 3, Athina 105 64, Greece

Situated on the seventh floor of the famous King George luxury hotel, Tudor Hall is a feat of luxury fine dining. With breathtaking views of the ancient city of Athens from the outdoor seating area, this restaurant would be perfect to visit for lunch or for dinner to enjoy the wonderful sight of the Acropolis in all its glory.

Featuring a contemporary take on Greek cuisine, Tudor Hall serves some of the best gourmet delights in Athens – from salads and meats paired with fine wines to delectable patisserie desserts. This restaurant also boasts several vegetarian options.

Peskesi, Crete

• Known For: Dakos, unique Cretan wines, cheesecake, baklava and slow-cooked goat
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address: Kapetan Charalampi 6-8, Herkelion, Iraklio 712 02, Greece

Located in the Heraklion city of Crete, Peskesi features Cretan cuisine delicacies paired with a rustic chic ambiance that highlights Cretan tradition. With its base principles tied to sustainable gastronomy and agriculture, you are sure to have a true Greek farm-to-table experience at this gem.

With dishes like the famous Dakos, unique Cretan wines, cheesecake, baklava and slow-cooked goat, it’s no wonder this restaurant is so popular. Be sure to reserve a table here well in advance.

Pelagos, Astir Palace Resort, Athens

• Known For: Octopus Ink Risotto and the Spinialo
• Michelin Stars:  1
• Address: Apollonos 40, Vouliagmeni 166 71, Greece

Four Seasons Astir Palace Resort is a fine luxury hotel in Athens that features several dining options. Their Mediterranean restaurant, Pelagos holds one Michelin star and is a luxurious fine dining delight for all gourmet food aficionados.

Astir Palace Resort also has a lovely Italian restaurant called Mercato that is worth a visit.

We highly recommend splurging for the 6-course menu at Pelagos. Their signature dishes include their Octopus Ink Risotto and the Spinialo, which is a red prawn dish.

Spain

Akelaŕe

• Known For: Kokotxa (a traditional Basque fish stew), Fried "Frantxineta" and rhubarb cream
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: Paseo del Padre Orcolaga 56, Donostia / San Sebastián, 20008

Akelaŕe is also in San Sebastian, which has grown into a hub of gastronomy. Here, the best of Basque cuisine is fused with the flavours of Spain and France and beyond. Traditionality is never forgotten in Akelaŕe, but it is given new life in inventive and artistic ways. Each dish is presented beautifully and the sweeping sea views create a dream-like ambience. Be sure to book a cookery class, which deeply enhances the experience.

DiverXO

• Known For: Toasted butter risotto and lobster with fried partridge eggs
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: Padre Damián 23, Madrid, 28036

Chef David Muñoz takes you on a subversive tour of global cuisine with his surprising but unfailingly thought-provoking dishes that dance with flavours and aromas. This quirkily designed restaurant is as much of a visual experience as it is one of taste and smell. Follow the menu into a world of exhibitionist indulgence. This is one of the best Michelin-star restaurants Spain has for those who love to break away from tradition. 

Aponiente

• Known For: Shrimp tortillas, Marine oyster and Curd
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: Francisco Cossi Ochoa, El Puerto de Santa María, 11500

Wander through the textures and flavours that Chef Ángel León has expertly captured to make a rounded culinary experience. His love of the sea shines through in his immaculate dishes and his commitment to sustainable practices, such as the "Cooks for Sustainability" initiative that seeks to share ideas for a better, cleaner industry. 

                                     Japan

Minamiazabu Sushi Yoshida

南麻布　鮨よし田

• Known For: fine wine, sushi and Japanese cuisine
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address:  2-5-5 Hatagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
  
  

A culinary and cultural journey through fine wine and fine food, Sushi Yoshida’s appeal is in a unique worldview that allows the chef to delight guests with creative sushi and heavenly pairings. In a city flooded with choices when it comes to sushi, be sure to put this one on the top of your list.

Even in the high-end neighborhood of Minami Azabu, the elegant and inviting Sushi Yoshida storefront stands out. The entrance is elegantly adorned with a restaurant signboard penned by a friend and standing paper lanterns, and as you approach the sliding door, you will notice the small metal handle is in the shape of an auspicious gourd.

Aurochs

• Known For: Omi-gyu sukiyaki, Kusahara Beef
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address: Nishi-ku, Nagoya-city, Aichi

An owner and a chef, both floored by their studies under Japan’s premier aged beef specialist, have joined forces to present Aurochs, transporting guests to another time in the historic Shikemichi district of Nagoya and deeply satisfying them with the sumptuous flavors of aged beef. Even for the aged beef uninitiated, dining here affords guests a deep understanding of different varieties and stories of the wonderful places and farmers that raise them.

Aurochs was a wild cattle variety that once roamed the earth – the ancestor of today’s livestock cattle. And the historical links continue in the restaurant’s superb location. Nagoya’s Shikemichi heritage district in Nagono is halfway between the resplendent Nagoya Castle and the modern Nagoya Station. It feels like a trip back in time as you wander past the white stucco walls contrasting with stone foundations, tiled rooves, and dark wooden trims, exploring the shops and restaurants interspersed between homes where people still live today. The district’s name translates literally as “Street of Four Measures”, so named because after a fire destroyed the district in the 1700s, the feudal lord ordered that buildings have a distance of four measures (about 7 meters) between them, as well as mud-plastered walls instead of wooden ones, all in the name of fire prevention.

Makiyaki Ginza Onodera

• Known For: Basque cuisine
• Michelin Stars: 1
• Address: 9fl Sunlight Ginza Building III, Ginza 5-chome−14−14, Chou City, Tokyo 104-0061

Nestled on the ninth floor of a building, Makiyaki Ginza Onodera is a hidden gem in the bustling shopping district of Ginza. The restaurant is led by head chef Keiichi Terada, whose skills derive from his experience working as a chef in Tokyo-based French restaurants– as well as studying Basque cuisine in France. Chef Terada embraces one of the oldest forms of cooking through the wood-fired grill that sits in the center of the restaurant’s open kitchen. Guests can enjoy a live experience with dishes meticulously crafted right in front of the table. The menu features dishes that blend the essences of French and Japanese cuisine together, such as their wood-fired Wagyu steak. One of the popular stars on the menu includes their famous Basque-style cheesecake. Expect a memorable experience with a warm ambiance and a well-crafted harmony between French and Japanese cuisine.

  India

Bukhara Restaurant, New Delhi

• Known For: Serves cuisine in a clay 'tandoor' oven with a special emphasis on kebabs
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address:Diplomatic Enclave Sardar Patel Marg Lobby Level, New Delhi 110021 India

Bukhara allows you to experience more than just the cuisine. It is the finest representation of Indian culinary traditions through the showcase of the region. The experience of the culture through the food is as subtle as the flavours themselves. In an era when change is the order of the day, Bukhara epitomizes timelessness with a menu that has remained unchanged for almost 4 decades. It stands testimony to the very roots of a culture that is defined by its 5,000-year old tradition.

Koh Restaurant- Mumbai

• Known For: Speared chicken, scallops wrapped in a vermicelli-like pasta 
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address:135, NSC Bose Road, Marine Drive, Churchgate, Mumbai, India

Koh is the creation of executive chef Ian Kittichai, born in Bangkok but who studied in London before cooking in Australia prior to returning to Thailand in 1993. There he worked in five star hotels including the Four Seasons, and then opened his own eponymous restaurant in New York in 2004. In 2008 he opened Murmuri in Barcelona, then in 2010 he established Koh in Mumbai. He has a high media profile, being one of the resident chefs on the Thai version of "Iron Chef".  He has since opened further restaurants in Bangkok. The person notionally in charge of the kitchen at Koh is Paul Kinny, the executive chef of the hotel.

Zen Restaurant- Bangalore

• Known For: Chilly Chicken, Zen special soup, Honey Chicken
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address:   23 Old Airport Road, Bangalore

Perfecting the art of Asian cuisine, Zen presents an exotic world where you are treated with a blend of lights, space, symmetry, colour and movement on your platter. One of the most sought-after restaurants for Pan Asian cuisine in Bengaluru, patrons get a chance to experience the flavours of Asia through subtle seasonings, aromas and textures.

Savour the best of Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese and Korean cuisines. Take a bite of our signature prawn and bamboo-shoot dumplings or sink your teeth into the steaming barbeque pork buns. Experience the best of sushi to dim sum counters.

Mexico

Pujol Mexican Restaurant – Miguel Hidalgo

• Known For: Baby corn, Taco omakase, Mole madra, and Veracruzana
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address: Tennyson 133, Polanco, Polanco IV Secc, Miguel Hidalgo, 11550 Ciudad de México.

Pujol is  run by chef Enrique Olvera, offering exquisite Mexican dishes with a modern twist. It’s renowned for innovation and never-ending perfection, where traditional and contemporary gastronomy coexists through conventional and innovative cooking methods. 

El Cardenal Restaurant – Mexican Gastronomy

• Known For: Chile En Nogada Sel Cardenal Con Pan de la Casa, Chocolate Caliente Con Pan Recién Hecho, Concha de Chocolate Con Nata, Sopa, and Pecho de Ternera.
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address:  C. de la Palma 23, Centro Histórico de la Cdad. de México

El Cardenal is a long-standing restaurant in Mexico that has been successfully serving people since 1969. Most dishes are perfect examples of classic Mexican items, prepared with locally sourced fresh ingredients. The most popular dishes at this restaurant are Pan Dulce and Chilaquiles.

El Turix in Polanco Mexico City

• Known For: Pork, Tortas, Tamales, Panucho Y Taco, Cochinita Pibil Tacos, and Salsa de Habanero
• Michelin Stars: None
• Address: Av. Emilio Castelar 212, Polanco, Polanco III Secc, Miguel Hidalgo

El Turix is a small taqueria offering modern Mexican and Latin cuisines in the heart of Mexico. The menu is small, and most dishes are served in Yucatan style, meaning there will be a touch of sweetness in every dish. Cochinita, Habanero salsa, and panuchos are some popular dishes in this restaurant.

El Turix offers 24 dishes on its menu, with a wide range of premium wines. You will find a homely atmosphere and sizeable crowds outside the front gate. Thus booking a table beforehand can do the magic for you.

Turkey

Turk Fatih Tutak

• Known For: famous for its delicious, acidic and smoked notes, superb ravioli
• Michelin Stars: 2
• Address: Cumhuriyet Hacıahmet Silahşör Cad, Yeniyol Sk. No:2, Sisli

Turk Fatih Tutak is one of the best fine-dining restaurants in Istanbul, located in the Bomonti district of Sisli, and offers a modern and sophisticated selection of typical Turkish flavors by chef Fatih Tutak.

Araka Restaurant

• Known For: excellent fine dining with vegetables and herbs
• Michelin Stars: 1
• Address: Kapali Bakkal Sokak No:8, Yenikoy, Sarıyer, Istanbul

Araka Restaurant is a fantastic one located in the Sariyer district of Istanbul. Araka restaurant has an amazing façade and welcomes its guests with Zeynep Pınar Taşdemir’s highly original style in its cozy, romantic interior and a rear terrace.

Mikla Restaurant

• Known For: Ezine Cheese, Olive Oil, and Sourdough Wholewheat Bread
• Michelin Stars: 1
• Address: The Marmara Pera, Mesrutiyet Str. No:15, Beyoglu, Istanbul

Mikla Restaurant is an award winning restaurant of Mehmet Gürs, located in the Beyoglu district of Istanbul, the Chef-Owner who pioneered the contemporary restaurant scene in Istanbul on the roof top floor of the fashionable the Marmara Pera Hotel.

USA

Alinea

• Known For: Innovative approach to modernist cuisine
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago

Alinea has been universally praised for its innovative approach to modernist cuisine. It has been named the Best Restaurant in the World by Elite Traveler, the Best Restaurant in North America by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, and the Best Restaurant in the U.S. by Gourmet and Business Insider. It is one of only 14 restaurants in the U.S. to earn the coveted Michelin 3-Star rating. It has also won James Beard Awards for Outstanding Restaurant in the U.S., Outstanding Service in the U.S., and Outstanding Chef in the U.S.

Every night, chef Grant Achatz and his team offer three distinct experiences at Alinea: the Kitchen Table, The Gallery, and The Salon.

Manresa Restaurant

• Known For: Red bell pepper pate de fruits, Granola nut crisp with goat cheese mousse
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: 320 Village Ln, Los Gatos, CA 95030-7218

Chef David Kinch serves up inventive Californian farm-to-fork cuisine at his restaurant, Manresa, in Los Gatos CA – known as the oldest American Viticultural Area in California and at the base of the Santa Cruz Mountains.Manresa features tasting menus that capture the terroir of the California coast featuring ingredients from his trusted network of local farmers, ranchers, foragers and fishermen and the dishes are created using novel culinary methods.

Le Bernardin

• Known For: Tuna tartare with sea urchin toast and a drizzled jus; and poached lobster with chanterelle mushrooms and baby turnips
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: 155 W 51st St, New York, NY 10019, USA

The restaurant holds several records in New York: it received its four-star review from The New York Times only three months after opening and is the only New York four star restaurant that has maintained its status of excellence for more than 3 decades. Reviews have come in 1986, 1989, 1995, 2005, and most recently in 2012, with the same verdict: four stars.  Le Bernardin has received more James Beard Awards than any other restaurant in New York City. In 1998, Maguy Le Coze won the coveted James Beard Award for "Outstanding Restaurant" in America, and in May 2003, the James Beard Foundation named Eric Ripert “Outstanding Chef.” In 2009, Le Bernardin was honored with the James Beard Award for “Outstanding Wine Service.” The Michelin Guide, which made its New York debut in 2005, honored Chef Ripert and Le Bernardin with its highest rating of three stars in 2005 and each year thereafter, and the restaurant ranks 26 on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. The New York Zagat Guide has consistently recognized Le Bernardin as top rated in the category of “Best Food” and the 2011- 2016 editions awarded it a 29 food rating: the highest in New York City. In the 2012-2014, 2016 & 2017 Zagat Guides, Le Bernardin is named the Most Popular Restaurant in the city, and in the 2015–2017 guides, it’s also rated the city’s top restaurant for service. New York magazine also rated Le Bernardin #1 in its annual ranking of the 101 best restaurants in New York City in 2006. In his year-end dining feature, Frank Bruni of The New York Times selected Le Bernardin as the “Best Meal of 2008.” Most recently for 2019, Le Bernardin was ranked No. 1 in the World by La Liste, the global food guide and review aggregator.

France

Alleno Pavillon Ledoyen, Paris, 8th Arrondissement

• Known For: His cuisine is dazzling and technical, and his jus and sauces (what the chef calls "the verb of French cuisine")
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: 8 avenue Dutuit Champs-Elysees, 75008 Paris France

Pavillon Ledoyen’s deep Parisian roots date back to 1842, when the restaurant was first erected in the Champs-Elysées’ gardens. While you can catch a glimpse of the original painted moldings and ceiling in the upstairs dining room, chef Yannick Alléno, who took over in 2014, brings a modern sensibility to the historic site, which earned the spot a third Michelin star just seven months after he started. Alléno’s pet technique for making sauces are “extractions.” This entails first extracting liquids from ingredients and then reducing them using a technique called cryoconcentration, which involves a combination of sub-zero temperatures and centrifugal force. Diners can enjoy the fruits of this methods in dishes like a dessert that features a coffee-flavored fir-tree extraction jelly.

Am par Alexandre Mazzia, Marseille

• Known For: Courgette flowers in a green satay and saffron beurre blanc and crystallised seaweed with bottarga
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: 9 Rue François Rocca, Marseille, 13008 Marseille

Chef Alexandre Mazzia’s eponymous restaurant draws inspiration not just from the produce and seafood available in France’s Cote d’Azur, this 24-seat restaurant boasts influences from beyond its Marseille home. Mazzia spent his first 14 years living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and before his culinary career, the chef was professional basketball player. His restaurant opened in 2014, earning its first star soon after. He’s become known for unique, globally inspired compositions that have made him beloved in the chefs world, like his scorched mackerel satay with tapioca, wasabi sorbet, red métis; or his marinated egg yolk with lemon panais, combawa mais granité and tarragon.

Arpege, Paris, 7th Arrondissement

• Known For: Arte aux pommes bouquet de roses
• Michelin Stars: 3
• Address: 84 rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris France

Today, there are few chefs quite as influential as Alain Passard, but back in 1986 he was simply trying to fill his mentor Alain Senderens’ big shoes. That’s the year Passard took over Senderens’ restaurant Archestrate. Passard renamed his new venture, Arpège, the French word for arpeggio, a name that like the establishment’s original name (which means orchestra en francais) pays tribute to his second love: music. Before arriving at Arpège, Passard cut his teeth at the Duc d’Enghien at the Casino of Enghien and the Carlton in Brussels, where he was awarded his first Michelin stars. Arpège earned its third in 1996 and has held onto them ever since—even after adopting a plant-centric menu in 2001. Guests can sample the signature dishes that put Passard on the map, such as his famous l’arpège egg—the hot-cold, hard-soft boiled amuse bouche you’ll now find tributes to at fine-dining restaurants around the globe.

Peru

Central & Kjolle

• Known For: Corn, Muña, Beef Heart
• Michelin Stars: 2
• Address: Av. Pedro de Osma 301, Barranco, Lima

Winning 6^th place in the World’s 50 Best in 2019, Central is a dining experience you absolutely must take if you wish to taste incredible plates made out of unique ingredients within Peru.The tasting menu goes through all kinds of altitudes, and the plates are named based on the altitude of which the ingredients were found. Negative numbers means the plate is composed of seafood, while thousands of meters imply the ingredients come from the mountains.

A classic on the menu is Extreme Stems and Land of Corn. Newer dishes include Waters of Nanay, which is composed of a piranha fish (apparently a favorite of Virgilio’s) served in an integral, sharp-tooth-filled piranha head.

Maido

• Known For: Nikkei cuisine
• Michelin Stars: 2
• Address: Calle San Martin 399, Miraflores, Lima

Representing Lima’s Nikkei cuisine, the menu proposes a Peruvian-Japanese fusion cuisine with a special focus on seafood.

An array of dishes is prepared, including classic sushi; cod marinated in miso with crispy nuts; sea urchin rice; beef short rib marinated for 50 hours; and tofu cheesecake ice-cream.

A special sushi counter is available as well as a business menu for everyday meals.

Malabar

• Known For: Plain Rotie and Mango Lassi 
• Michelin Stars: 1
• Address: Av. Camino Real 101, San Isidro, Lima

Taking 39^th place in the list of Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2018, Malabar menu includes dishes featuring ingredients from Peru’s Amazonian rainforest. What results is a colorful and contemporary fine dining experience like no other.The plates feature exotic ingredients, textures, flavors and ancient Andean cooking techniques. A meal at Malabar can include fresh sea bass ceviche with banana passion fruit, tiger’s milk and yucca as well as crunchy guinea pig with green pea hummus and fava beans.