World’s 50 Best announces 2024 slate

On Wednesday evening, the World’s 50 Best announced who was on its list of best restaurants in the world. The ceremony was held in Las Vegas, marking it as the culinary destination it has grown to be. In addition to the list of restaurants, there were additional awards, such as Neil Perry winning the Woodford Reserve Icon Award. You can see the list of the restaurants as well as the other awards such as World’s Best Pastry Chef and Highest Climber Award on The World’s 50 Best website.

Many chefs on the list list have written cookbooks, mainly about their highly regarded restaurants. These books are coffee-table expositions boasting incredible photography and often featuring highly complicated recipes that serve more as inspiration than practical instruction. Restaurants and/or chefs in the top 50 (either now or in recent years) with cookbooks include: 

• Disfrutar Vol I: The first book of Castro, Xatruch and Casañas, about the restaurant Disfrutar by Oriol Castro and Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas (Disfrutar, #1) – this restaurant will now be ineligible for the award going forward)
• Etxebarri by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Jon Sarabia (Asador Etxebarri, #2)
• Quintonil. Food as Agent of Change by Alejandra Flores and Jorge Vallejo (Quintonil, #7)
• Books by Bertrand Grébaut (Septime, #11)
• Elkano: A Culinary Landscape by Juan Pablo Cardenal and Aitor Arregi (Elkano, #28)
• Boragó: Coming from the South by Rodolfo Guzman (Boragó, #29)
• My Way: From the Gutters to the Stars by Tim Raue (Restaurant Tim Raue, #30)
• Combinações Improváveis (Bilingual Edition): Receitas do Programa de Televisão /Recipes from the TV show by by José Avillez (Belcanto, #31)
• Books by Enrique Olvera (Pujol, #33)
• Books by Björn Frantzén (Frantzén, #35)
• Mugaritz. Vanishing Points and Mugaritz: A Natural Science of Cooking by Andoni Aduriz (Mugaritz, previous years)
• Books by Eric Ripert (Le Bernardin, previous years)