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Food|The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Announces Its 2025 List
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A Peruvian spot took No. 1, while five U.S. chefs kept places on the list.
June 19, 2025, 5:34 p.m. ET
The 2025 recipients of the restaurant world’s most influential global awards, the World’s 50 Best list, were announced last night at a ceremony in Turin, Italy.
Maido became the second restaurant in Lima, Peru, to reach the top spot. Asador Extebarri in the Basque region of Spain held onto its place at No. 2. Quintonil in Mexico City, DiverXO in Madrid, and Alchemist in Copenhagen filled out the top five.
“We talk a lot about sustainability of the environment, but we rarely talk about human sustainability,” said Mitsuhura Tsumura, Maido’s chef, who has helped redefine the centuries-old Japanese-Peruvian culinary tradition for a modern fine-dining audience. “I think this industry can be an example of how we can bring people together with the power of food.”
Overall, the list continued to recognize restaurants outside of the European fine-dining tradition, with innovative presentations, experimental flavors and hyperlocal ingredients.
The highest-ranking U.S. restaurant was Atomix, which reached No. 6 in 2024 but came in twelfth this year, fresh off winning a James Beard award for outstanding hospitality on Monday.
U.S. restaurants on the “extended” list of 100 included Single Thread in Healdsburg, Calif. (80), Le Bernardin (90) and César (98) in Manhattan (90) and Atelier Crenn in San Francisco (96). Cosme in New York and Smyth in Chicago fell off the list.
