Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2015 Announced, Here's the Full List

Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2015, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, have ended with the Gaggan restaurant in Bangkok, Thailand, by chef Gaggan Anand taking the title as the Best Restaurant in Asia. Chef Yoshihiro Narisawa took second position for his Les Creations de Narasawa restaurant in Tokyo, Japan and third place was awarded to Paul Pairet’s multi-sensory dining experience, Ultraviolet, in Shanghai.

Speaking just after the event a visibly shocked and emotional Anand said: “I was so emotional I was just crying - I phoned my mum, I couldn’t believe it. I still have tears in my eyes, I’m not used to this and I don’t have a script. She was very scared because she heard me seriously crying, I don’t remember what I said I just told her ‘mum I’m number one, number one in Asia… I think you have to buy a new house. It’s the proudest moment in my life… I’m lucky that my heart is in India and my soul is in Thailand.”

It was a night of many changes with two new countries, the Philippines and Cambodia, making the list for the first time. Nahm, which was number 1 in 2014, dropped to seventh place on the list with the crowd audibly shocked.

The Chef’s Choice Award went to Richard Ekkebus' Amber restaurant in Hong Kong and the loudest applause of the evening came for Tetsuya Wakuda who was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.

1. GAGGAN Bangkok, Thailand

2. NARISAWA Tokyo, Japan

3. ULTRAVIOLET BY PAUL PAIRET Shanghai, China

4. NIHONRYORI RYUGIN Tokyo, Japan

5. RESTAURANT ANDRÉ Singapore

6. AMBER Hong Kong, China

7. NAHM Bangkok, Thailand

8. 8 1/2 OTTO E MEZZO BOMBANA Hong Kong, China

9. WAKU GHIN Singapore

10. JUNGSIK Seoul, Korea

11. JAAN Singapore

12. L'EFFERVESCENCE Tokyo, Japan

13. LES AMIS Singapore

14. HAJIME Osaka, Japan

15. FOOK LAM MOON Hong Kong, China

16. FU1015 Shanghai, China

17. L'ATELIER DE JOËL ROBUCHON Hong Kong, China

18. IGGY'S Singapore No.19 FU HE HUI Shanghai, China

20. LUNG KING HEEN Hong Kong, China

21. MR AND MRS BUND Shanghai, China

22 INDIAN ACCENT New Delhi, India

23 ROBUCHON AU DÔME Macau, China

24 TENKU RYUGIN Hong Kong, China

25 EAT ME Bangkok, Thailand

26 LE MOÛT Taichung, Taiwan

27 RYUNIQUE Seoul, Korea

28. BO INNOVATION Hong Kong, China

29. WASABI BY MORIMOTO Mumbai, India

30. BURNT ENDS Singapore

31. NIHONBASHI Colombo, Sri Lanka

32. SHINJI BY KANESAKA Singapore

33. TAKAZAWA Tokyo, Japan

34. 28 HUBIN ROAD Hangzhou, China

35. THE CHAIRMAN Hong Kong, China

36. TIPPLING CLUB Singapore

37. BO.LAN Bangkok, Thailand

38. LA YEON Seoul, South Korea

39. ISSAYA SIAMESE CLUB Bangkok, Thailand

40. SUSHI SAITO Tokyo, Japan

41. BUKHARA New Delhi, India

42. CAPRICE Hong Kong, China

43. MINISTRY OF CRAB Colombo, Sri Lanka

44. SUKIYABASHI JIRO Tokyo, Japan

45. OSTERIA MOZZA Singapore

46. HAKKASAN Shanghai, China

47. IMPERIAL TREASURE SUPER PEKING DUCK Singapore

48. ANTONIO'S Tagaytay, Philippines

49. QUINTESSENCE Tokyo, Japan

50. CUISINE WAT DAMNAK Siem Reap, Cambodia