The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for 2025 is being announced live tonight at an awards ceremony in Turin, Italy, with fine dining stalwarts all over the world vying for the top slot on the annual list. Eater will be updating the announcement of numbers 50 through No. 1 as the ceremony unfolds. Of the speciality awards, Khufu’s in Cairo won the “One to Watch Award,” while Maxime Frédéric was named World’s Best Pastry Chef.
The restaurants ranked at numbers 51 to 100, aka the “back half” of the list, were revealed in a press release last week, with 13 new entries this year. Among the U.S. restaurants on the latter half: César in New York City, which made its World’s Best debut at No. 98; San Francisco’s Atelier Crenn, a re-entry to the list at No. 96 after dropping off the list last year; and NYC icon Le Bernardin at No. 90, a drop from No. 71 last year. After ranking at No. 46 in 2024, SingleThread in Healdsburg, California dropped to the back half of the list, to No. 80.
This year’s winner will follow in the footsteps of the 2024 World’s 50 Best Restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona, which was named to the top spot after a steady climb: It was No. 2 on the 2023 list and No. 3 in 2022. In 2019, the World’s 50 Best organization announced a rule change that made any No. 1 winners ineligible for future lists, a move designed to ensure more turnover at the top. Follow along as we track tonight’s ceremony here:
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2025:
37. Orfali Bros, Dubai, UAE
38. Frantzén, Stockholm, Sweden
39. Mayta, Lima, Peru
40. Septime, Paris, France
41. Kadeau, Copenhagen, Denmark (new entry)
42. Belcanto, Lisbon, Portugal
43. Uliassi, Senigallia, Italy
44. La Cime, Osaka, Japan
45. Arpège, Paris, France
46. Rosetta, Mexico City, Mexico
47. Vyn, Simrishamng, Sweden (new entry)
48. Celele, Cartagena, Colombia (new entry)
49. Kol, London, UK
50. Restaurant Jan, Munich, Germany (new entry)
