Massimo Bottura and theOsteria Francescana win the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2018. One of the chef most appreciated in the world climbs to the most coveted podium. And he does so for the second time, having occupied that glittering place back in 2016.
Patron Bottura's thanks go, as is appropriate in such cases, to the entire team.
At the award ceremony, held at the Basque Culinary Center of Bilbao, the chef left his personal reflection on the need for a More supportive cooking, to the need for change.
And next, after Massimo Bottura, for this edition of World's 50 Best Restaurants, El Celler de Can Roca, Girona (Spain) and Mirazur, Menton (France).
Also ranked Niko Romito Of the Royal of Castel di Sangro, Massimiliano Alajmo Of Le Calandre and Enrico Crippa.
With an outcome that was armored to the last, the Oscars of Gastronomy were received with great public acclaim, not without some detractors, who did not fail to raise some doubts about the transparency of the voting mechanism: 1,040 judges including journalists, chefs, restaurateurs and experts, divided into 26 regions, express 10 preferences each according to their taste, covering just over 20 countries on five continents.
Italian success also with Romito, Crippa and Alajmo.
Italy could not fail to stand out in this event. Spotlight on Massimiliano Alajmo with "Le Calandre," which climbed from 29th to 23rd place, Niko Romito, with the "Royal," 43rd to 36th, and Enrico Crippa with its "Piazza Duomo" in Alba), which went from 15th to 16th place.
A new way of thinking about the Kitchen also wins.
Wins a new philosophy in the kitchen, the one carried out by Bottura with Refectories, the social canteens opened all over the world, in the awareness that "Great Cuisine" is also the one that espouses important, current issues and that it is no longer possible to remain anchored in old patterns, that contingency forces one to look around.
