Three Catalan restaurants – El Celler de Can Roca (2), in Girona, Disfrutar (18) and Tickets (32), in Barcelona – and four Basque restaurants – Mugaritz (9), in Errentería; Asador Extebarri (10), in Atxondo; Arzak (31), in San Sebastián, and Azurmendi (43) in Larrabetzu – appear in the ranking of the best restaurants in the world of the prestigious list “The World’s 50 Best Restaurants” of this year 2018.
The ranking of the best restaurants in the world is headed by the Osteria Francescana in Modena (Italy), and the second place is occupied by El Celler de Can Roca, the gerundense restaurant of the brothers Joan, Josep and Jordi Roca.
The creativity of the prestigious chef Andoni Luis Aduriz has placed Mugaritz in the ninth position of the list, only one above the Asador Extebarri restaurant by Víctor Arguinzoniz, located in the valley of Atxondo.
The 18th place is occupied by the restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona by Mateu Casañas, Oriol Castro and Eduard Xatruch after years of intense work at elBulli, where they met and trained professionally.
In the 18th place, the restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona, which was born by the hand of Mateu Casañas, Oriol Castro and Eduard Xatruch, who were trained professionally in El Bulli.
In the 31st place of this ranking is Arzak restaurant, in San Sebastián, runs by the chef Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena.
The next place on the list, the 32nd, is for the restaurant by Albert Adrià located in the Paral.lel de Barcelona, Tickets. And the sixth Spanish restaurant included among the top 50 of the world is another local Basque, Azurmendi, by chef Eneko Atxa.
In the PostData section of The New Barcelona Post we have prepared a Google map with the location of the 50 restaurants listed on this year’s list. The map can be expanded to consult the list more easily.