The Opinionated About Dining annual list of the Top 100 European Restaurants has been released and it’s the L’Arpège restaurant by chef Alain Passard that comes out on top. Passard also recently won The World's 50 Best Restaurant's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Second on the list is the Azurmendi restaurant in Spain and third sits with the In de Wulf restaurant in Belgium.
The list breaks down mist favourably for France who have 48 restaurants included, this is followed by the United Kingdom with 28 and Italy in third with 27.
The Special Culinary Achievement went to Rene Redzepi’s Noma in Copenhagen and the Best New Restaurant award was given to the Disfrutar restaurant in Barcelona.
Below you can see the top 20 restaurants on the list - head to Opinionated About Dining to see the rest.
1 L’Arpège
2 Azurmendi
3 In de Wulf
4 Faviken
5 Noma
6 La Marine
7 Etxebarri
8 Diverxo
9 Vendôme
10 Restaurant Quique
11 Di Librije
12 Daniel Berlin
13 Astrance
14 Osteria Francescana
15 Le Calandre
16 Restaurant Frantzén
17 El Celler De Can Roca
18 Pierre Gagnaire
19 Le Vie
20 Sant Pau
