Two Swiss restaurants in Top 5 of La Liste, Hof Van Cleve is highest Belgian entry

La Liste, a new collective of 1,000 top restaurants in the world was launched for the first time in Paris on 17 December and there are a few surprises. Two out of the top 5 restaurants are Swiss with one of the top 5 restaurants being French.

The top restaurant on the list is Swiss Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville. It is followed by US based Per Se, Japanese Kyo Aji, French restaurant Guy Savoy and Swiss restaurant Schauenstein

Considered to be the French answer to the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, La Liste is being called the guide of guides as it compiles the results from 200 gastronomic guides such as (Michelin, Gault&Millau, Zagat), websites like TripAdvisor and Open Table as well as lists like the 50 Best and the Daily Meal apart from reviews of press critics.

A quick look at the top 3 restaurants in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list reveals some remarkable differences particularly for the third restaurant on the list Noma. While Cellar de Can Roca is placed in sixth position in La Liste (1st in World’s 50 Best), Osteria Francescana is in 18th position (2nd in World’s 50 Best) and Noma Restaurant is 217th in the list (3rd in World’5 50 Best and voted first for four times in the past six years).

La Liste says that gastronomy was once the privilege of the elite but is now undergoing a radical transformation. Gastronomic guidebooks are getting in on the act with hundreds now available featuring reviews of restaurants in their regions based on a wide variety of criteria. International rankings have also sprung up and there are also online comments in websites like TripAdvisor and Yelp which provide further information though they are sometimes disputed.

With the abundance of this information, there could be confusion or even manipulation if clear criteria are not established says La Liste. So the aim of La Liste is to provide these criteria by summarizing all available information on the world’s top 1,000 restaurants.

La Liste is the creation of Philippe Faure, Ambassador of France and former CEO of Gault & Millau. He is also head of the French Tourism Board. It has been co-founded with Thibaut Danancher who writes for Le Point magazine, Jean Claude Ribaut who writes for Le Monde, Jean-Robert Pitte, a geographer and head of the French Mission for culinary heritage and Jörg Zipprick, journalist and author since 1992.

The list is designed to be an aggregator or what is called a ‘best of the best’ based on the ATP model for tennis, the Shanghai Ranking for universities and Rotten Tomatoes for film reviews. Its aim is not to rank gastronomic cultures or pass judgment on the quality of restaurants, but simply to compile the reviews from all existing guidebooks and online comments.

Here is the link to discover the top 1000.

And below you will find the list of top 100 restaurants according to La Liste.

1. Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville (Switzerland)
2. Per Se (United States)
3. Kyo Aji (Japan)
4. Guy Savoy (France)
5. Schaufenstern (Switzerland)
6. El Celler de Can Roca (Spain)
7. Kyubey (Japan)
8. Maison Troisgros (France)
9. Auberge du Vieux Puits (France)
10. Joel Robuchon (Japan)
11. Regis et Jacques Marcon (France)
12. Flocons de Sel (France)
13. Les Pres d’Eugenie – Michel Guerard (France)
14. Nihonryori Ryugin (Japan)
15. Martin Berastegui (Spain)
16. Pierre Gagnaire (France)
17. Le Louis XV – Alain Ducasse (France)
18. Osteria Francescana (Italy)
19. Le Bernardin (United States)
20. Le Pre Catelan (France)
21. De Librije (the Netherlands)
22. Le Calandre (Italy)
23. De Leest (the Netherlands)
24. Kyo-Ryorui Nakamura (Japan)
25. Matsukawa (Japan)
26. Azurmendi (Spain)
27. Sant Pau (Spain)
28. Quintessence (Japan)
29. Lameloise (France)
30. Schwarzwaldstube (Germany)
31. Maison Pic (France)
32. L’Epicure (France)
33. L’Assiette Champenoise (France)
34. Vendome (Germany)
35. Le 1947 (France)
36. La Pergola (Italy)
37. Oryouri Hayashi (Japan)
38. Pavillon Ledoyen – Yannick Alleno (France)
39. Kikunoi Honten (Japan)
40. Hof Van Cleve (Belgium)
41. Gordon Ramsay (UK)
42. The Capital – Beijing Hong Kong Jockey (China)
43. Akelarre (Spain)
44. Astrance (France)
45. Huai Yang Fu at Andingmen (China)
46. Georges Blanc (France)
47. Arzak (Spain)
48. Bras (France)
49. Atrio (Spain)
50. Maruyama (Gion)
51. Jean- Georges (United States)
52. 28 Hubin Road (China)
53. Mizai (Japan)
54. Obauer (Austria)
55. Auberge de l’Ill (France)
56. La Vague d’Or (France)
57. Vue de Monde (Australia)
58. Hyo-tei (Japan)
59. Quique Dacosta (Spain)
60. Le Cinq (France)
61. Dal Pescatore (Italy)
62. Rockpool (Australia)
63. Otomezushi (Japan)
64. Ion Sasaki (Japan)
65. Ichiyanagi (Japan)
66. Attica (Australia)
67. Cheval Blanc (Switzerland)
68. L’Arpege (France)
69. Le Meurice Alain Ducasse (France)
70. Quay (Australia)
71. FU1015 (China)
72. Wakiya Ichiemicharou (Japan)
73. Mibu (Japan)
74. Reale (Italy)
75. Simon Taxacher (Austria)
76. The Ocean (South Africa)
77. Azumino Okina (Japan)
78. Piazza Duomo (Italy)
79. Le Petit Nice (France)
80. Meurin (France)
81. Maggie’s Restaurant (China)
82. Gastehaus Klaus Erfort (Germany)
83. La Madia (Italy)
84. La Pyramide (France)
85. Bakuzanbo (Japan)
86. Uliassi (Italy)
87. Gill Ashiya (Japan)
88. Sukiyabashi Jiro (Japan)
89. L’Osier (Japan)
90. Da Vittorio (Italy)
91. St. Hubertus (Italy)
92. DiverXO (Spain)
93. Adelboden (Switzerland)
94. Waldhotel Sonnora (Germany)
95. Kikunoi (Japan)
96. Yun Men Jin Cui (China)
97. Frantzen (Sweden)
98. Maaemo (Norway)
99. Taillevent (France)
100. Vissani (Italy)