'50 Best Restaurants': Maido wins, up to 6 Italians in the rankings
The Peruvian restaurant is number 1 in the world. Italians went from 4 to 6, led once again by Lido84 in 16th place. For the first time the award ceremony in Italy, in Turin
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Here comes for the first time from Italy, from the Lingotto in Turin, the name of the winner of 'The 50 World's Best Restaurants'. It is the Peruvian Maido of chef Mitsuharu 'Micha' Tsumura (last year in fifth place and sixth in 2023) to take the place of Barcelona's Disfrutar (no longer in the race like all former number 1s from 2019, which enter the 'Best of the Best').
For the Italians steps forward
.Italians go from 4 last year to 6 this year. Riccardo Camanini's Lido 84 Gardone Riviera is confirmed first in the tricolour ranking, in 16th position, but was 12th in 2024. Niko Romito with the Reale di Castel di Sangro goes from 19th to 18th place. Norbert Niederkofler's Atelier Moessmer jumps from 51st to 20th place. In 31st place we find Le Calandre di Rubano, a re-entry in the 50Best. Chef Enrico Crippa's Piazza Duomo di Alba continues its climb, now at number 32, it was 39th last year, when it climbed three positions. Uliassi di Senigallia is in 43rd place (it was in 50th last year, when it had lost 16 positions, now it therefore recovers seven).
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Only Thailand can boast 6 restaurants in the list of the top 50 (followed by Peru, France, Spain and Japan, which have 4), so we can speak of a satisfactory result for our country, which, however, no longer manages to come close to the top positions after the seventh place of Lido 84 in 2023. and the triumphs of Osteria Francescana in 2016 and 2018.
The Woodford Reserve Icon Award, a sort of lifetime achievement award, went to Massimo Bottura and Lara Gilmore, for their ability to "redefine the role of hospitality in society". From the stage, Bottura dedicated the award to all the people who work in the restaurant world ("dishwashers, sous chefs, wait staff") and recalled the importance of social commitment carried out, among other things, with projects such as Food for soul and Tortellante. 'A pasta dish cooked with love can be extraordinary. I have learnt that the main ingredient is culture. We will never stop cooking,' he said from the stage. The guesthouse Casa Maria Luigia was the only Italian ranked in the 51-100 positions released a few weeks ago.
The excellence of Peru and Nikkei cuisine
The first place in Maido is a new recognition for all Peruvian haute cuisine (Virgilio Martinez's Central in Lima was number 1 in 2023) increasingly appreciated worldwide, but also to the contamination between different culinary traditions, which result in that innovation always rewarded by the 50Best that ideally unites all the chefs who recognise themselves in the vanguard of this international 'community'.
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