This is our selection, not a vote. No panel, no ballot, no averaging of other people's lists: fifty restaurants in fourteen cities, each reviewed in full and scored on the same scale, each restaurant for what it's for, whether it sits in Tokyo, Lima or Kobarid. The order is the score, printed to one decimal. Den leads at 9.7. Restaurants that print the same score share a rank, shown as =4, and are listed alphabetically within it. Where the fiftieth place falls inside a shared score, the ones that make the list are decided on the unrounded average. This is the Autumn 2026 edition. The list changes twice a year, in spring and autumn, and a newly reviewed restaurant takes a place only if it clearly outscores the one it would replace — by more than 0.3. Closer than that, the place stays where it is. Every price on these pages is one the restaurant published itself, and every award a page names carries its year.
The list is drawn from every restaurant we have published a review of, which today leans on Tokyo, Paris, New York and London, and it will widen as we cover more cities.
Corrected 30 September 2026: scores recalculated after we stopped award mentions influencing them.
Updated October 2026: each restaurant is now scored for what it's for.
