Alain Passard’s restaurant L’Arpege has been voted the number one restaurant in the newly released top 100 plus European restaurants 2016 list released by Opinionated about Dining on 23 May 2016.
The chef who mentored some of the top chefs in the world including Pascal Barbot, Magnus Nilsson and Mauro Colagreco, is known for fostering the vegetable-oriented minimalist cuisine movement.
Eneko Atxa, chef of Azurmendi, who was number 1 on the list last year placed second followed by Belgian chef Kobe Desramaults (the latest chef to be interviewed by Food and Wine Gazette here) who placed third.
Fourth was Magnus Nilsson with his restaurant Faviken and fifth came Noma’s Rene Redzepi.
Four Belgians are in the top 50 positions of the list. San Degeimbre of L’Air du Temps is in 29th position, Gert De Mangeleer of Hertog Jan is in 34th place while Peter Goossens of Hof Van Cleve was in 44th place.
There are 10 French restaurants and 1o Spanish restaurants in the top 50.
The list was announced at the Nimb Terrace in Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen during a barbecue that featured Christian Pugliesi, Daniel Berlin, Nicolai Norregard, Niklas Eksted, Paul Cunningham, Rene Redzepi, Tim Raue and Torsten Vidgaard.
Opinionated about Dining is a list that is composed of a survey rating the restaurant experience. The 2015 results were based on 160,000 reviews by more than 4,500 people who registered for the survey.
The following are the results.
- L’ Arpege (France)
- Azurmendi (Spain)
- In De Wulf (Belgium)
- Faviken (Sweden)
- Noma (Denmark)
- La Marine (France)
- Etxebarri (Spain)
- Divexo (Spain)
- Vendome (Germany)
- Restaurant Quique Dacosta (Spain)
- De Librije (Netherlands)
- Daniel Berlin (Sweden)
- Astrance (France)
- Osteria Francescana (Italy)
- Le Calandre (Italy)
- Restaurant Frantzen (Sweden)
- El Celler de Can Roca (Spain)
- Pierre Gagnaire (France)
- La Vie (Germany)
- Sant Pau (Spain)
- Sa.Qua.Na (France)
- Schloss Berg (Germany)
- Kadeau Bornholm (Denmark)
- Maemmo (Norway)
- Tim Raue (Germany)
- Geranium (Denmark)
- Piazza Duomo (Italy)
- Bras (France)
- L’ Air du Temps (Belgium)
- Elkano (Spain)
- Restaurant Guy Savoy (France)
- Il Povero Diavolo (Italy)
- Flocons de Sel (France)
- Hertog Jan (Belgium)
- Tickets (Spain)
- Le Cinq (France)
- Uliassi (Italy)
- Disfrutar (Spain)
- Pic (France)
- Studio (Denmark)
- Relae (Denmark)
- Mugaritz (Spain)
- Gaestehaus Klaus Erfort (Germany)
- Hof van Cleve (Belgium)
- The Sportsman (UK)
- Torre del Saracino (Italy)
- Andreas Caminada (Switzerland)
- Le Petit Nice (France)
- La Vague D’Or (France)
- Oaxen (Sweden)
- Araki (UK)
- Epicure (France)
- Mirazur (France)
- Aqua (Germany)
- Ledoyen (France)
- Martin Berasategui (Spain)
- Combal.Zero (Italy)
- Hedone (UK)
- Jin (France)
- Passage 53 (France)
- Le Grenouillere (France)
- Steirereck (Austria)
- Reale (Italy)
- La Pergola (Italy)
- De Leest (Netherlands)
- Kei (France)
- Bon-Bon (Belgium)
- David Toutain (France)
- The Ledbury (UK)
- Auberge de Vieux Puits (France)
- Kadeau (Denmark)
- Villa Crespi (Italy)
- Arzak (Spain)
- De Kromme Watergang (Netherlands)
- Pure C (Netherlands)
- Don Alfonso 1890 (Italy)
- Ibai (Spain)
- Okuda (France)
- Lido 84 (Italy)
- Del Cambio (Italy)
- La Bouitte (France)
- Taubenkobel (Austria)
- Gastrologik (Sweden)
- Da Vittorio (Italy)
- HKK (UK)
- Devero Ristorante (Italy)
- La Belle Epoque (Germany)
- Restaurant Jean Sulpice (France)
- A.T. (France)
- The Jane (Belgium)
- Madonnina del Pescatore (Italy)
- L’Assiette Champenoise (France)
- L’Enclume (UK)
- Ekstedt (Sweden)
- Henne Kirkeby Kro (Denmark)
- Inter Scaldes (Netherlands)
- Mathias Dahlgren (Sweden)
- Seta (Milan)
- Pakta (Spain)
- Neige d’Ete (France)
The subsequent list from 101 to 200 can be found on the website of Opinionated About Dining.
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