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Chinese New Year 2019 in Singapore will begin on Tuesday, 5 February and ends on Wednesday, 6 February. In the beginning of a great Year of the Earth Pig, you can expect awesome pig-themed festive dishes, from suckling pig to yusheng, as well as other traditional goodies such as pineapple tarts and more!

Many of you have asked which is my favourite restaurant for Chinese New Year? It’s difficult to mention a particular restaurant, depending on the dishes which I have enjoyed. Here are the five best restaurants that I’ve tried and enjoyed best. If you are having a reunion dinner in a restaurant or at the comfort of your home, you’re well covered.

Pan Pacific Singapore

Pan Pacific presents a series of Cantonese specialities that will entice one’s appetite for more. Also, expect traditional lion dance performances, elegantly-decked interiors this Chinese New Year!

Hai Tien Lo at Pan Pacific Singapore

At award-winning Hai Tien Lo, Executive Chef Ben Zeng has prepared nine sumptuous set menus this festive season. There’s nothing like a steamy bowl of Double-boiled “Buddha Jumps Over The Wall” with Morel Mushrooms. Enjoyed the natural sweetness of the broth, light yet satisfying.

A pleasant surprise to find a plate of Japanese Inaniwa udon at a Chinese restaurant. The Inaniwa udon is easy to slurp, chewy with a perfectly QQ texture stewed in a supreme stock. This complements with the firm springy lobster meat very well. The meat of a lobster’s tail was so fresh and can be easily pulled out of a shell using a fork!

Chinese New Year Set Menus from 21 January to 19 February starting from S$138.80 per diner.

Chinese New Year Reunion Dinner Set Menus on 4 February 2019 starting from S$158.80 per diner.

Everyone enjoyed poon choy because there are enough luxury ingredients to keep everyone happy.

Premium Wealth Treasure Pot includes a whole abalone, dried oysters, sea cucumber, dried fish maw, pork knuckle, fresh prawns, poached chicken, roasted duck, bean gluten, Chinese mushrooms, black moss, lotus roots, white radish, black truffle and homemade meatballs. I’ve enjoyed the most of thick yet tender sea cucumber chunks, chewy abalone, sponge-textured fish maw and roasted duck all soaked up the delicious abalone enriched gravy.

Premium Wealth Treasure Pot starting from S$438 (serves six).

Probably the most symbolic food for Chinese New Year in Chinese culture for jiaozi (dumpling). It has a meaning behind, bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new year. If you wanna HUAT in the new year, you must have more of the dumplings as it is a sign of good luck and prosperity. What’s more these cute steamed crystal dumplings are deliciously filled with tender sea perch and foie gras.

Edge at Pan Pacific Singapore

If you’re too last minute to make a reservation for Chinese New Year, head over for a lavish myriad buffet of traditional Chinese delicacies and contemporary interpretations including Seafood on Ice, Mandarin Orange Scented Smoked Salmon DIY Yusheng, Roasted Five Spice Crackling Pig. And ends off with 年年有余 (May every year ends with ample surplus) sweets such as Orange lapis Surabaya cake and Nian gao.

Chinese New Year Lunch on 5-19 February 2019 starting from S$65 per adult and S$32.50 per child.

Chinese New Year Dinner on 4-19 February 2019 starting from S$98 per adult and S$49 per child.

Hai Tien Lo at Pan Pacific Singapore

Address: 7 Raffles Blvd, Singapore 039595

Phone: +65 6826 8240

Email: [email protected]

Jiang-Nan Chun at Four Seasons Hotel

Sometimes dining experience offers a unique concept as well. Transport into the springtime of Jiang Nan through its new interiors at Jiang-Nan Chun, the Cantonese fine dining restaurant at Four Seasons Hotel. these poignant elements of Jiang-Nan including fine traditional wood carvings, bespoke entrance centrepiece made of over 600 chopstick holders, touches of rich jade and ox-blood for craftsmanship and culture appear throughout the carpets and furnishings and more.

Sumptuous delicacies and festive menus crafted by Executive Cantonese Chef Tim Lam, with over 24 years of culinary experience in prestigious Chinese restaurants in Hong Kong and Macau. Jiang-Nan Chun is awarded One Star in MICHELIN Guide 2018.

Giving an extra boost at the start of the meal with one of the most luxurious delicacies in Chinese cuisine, superior bird’s nest. The comforting Double-boiled Superior Bird’s Nest is served with Fish Maw and Chinese Cabbage. The soup tasted naturally sweet with Chinese cabbage that has absorbed all the flavours around it. Not forgetting soft bird’s nest and crunch from the fish maw.

Braised Sea Cucumber with Three Head Abalone is definitely one of the best abalones that I had so far for the Chinese New Year menu. Braised sea cucumber was soft and absorbed the essence and flavour of the sauce. It’s so slippery bouncy that I can’t hold using my chopsticks. One of the most amazing tenderised Three Head abalones that you can simply slice through effortlessly.

The texture of Braised Boston Lobster was bouncy with a slight hint of sweetness to the meat in superior stock. The superior stock was perfectly on point without covering the natural taste of the lobster. Notice the lobster is off shell, I can simply ease the meat out of the body of the lobster in one piece.

A very delicate steamed cod fillet texture and almost melts in your mouth with an oily quality. It is brilliant to add sliced Yunnan ham at the side for a nice savoury taste.

Barbecued Suckling Pig’s skin is perfectly crisp at first bite and shattered as brittle as glass. This is served on two thin soft steamed buns and spring onion that is beautifully crafted.

Festive Dining at Jiang-Nan Chun is available until 19 February 2019. Festive menus starting from S$148 per diners for 6 courses and S$1088 per table of 8 diners to S$5688 per table of 10 diners for 8-courses. The vegetarian set menu is available too.

If you wish to order the same set menu as above, it’s 福星高照 FU XIN GAO ZHAO priced at S$2188 for 8 diners and S$2688 for 10 diners.

Jiang-Nan Chun at Four Seasons Hotel

Address: 190 Orchard Blvd, Level 2, Singapore 248646

Phone: +65 6831 7220

Email: [email protected]

Li Bai at Sheraton Towers

Just in case you were wondering, Li Bai is under the name of the famous Tang Dynasty Poet, serves Cantonese cuisine prepared in the convention of Grand Emperors under the restaurant’s eminent stylistic layout and lavish table setting of jade, silver and fine bone china. Celebrate the Lunar New Year with a series of comfort reunion feasts and not to miss some of the healthier choice dishes crafted by Chef Chung Yiu Ming.

Pleasing to the eyes with Braised Bird’s Nest Soup served in a mini pumpkin and comforting to the tummy. I adore the taste of the natural pumpkin sweetness found in this soup, which is further drawn out with servings of luxurious soft bird’s nest.

The beancurd skin pocket seemed like a big ingot (元宝) all packed with the best for the year 2019. It is generously stuffed with braised abalone (guaranteed wealth; Bau Yu), dried oyster (great things; 好事) and black moss (be prosperous; 发财). The silky and chewy abalone compliments the sweet beancurd skin alongside with dried oyster and black moss.

Crunchy and juicy Japanese purple wild mountain yam and asparagus wrapped with Pan-fried Kurobuta rolls are delish. This pan-fried Kurobuta roll brings out the taste of Chinese New Year Year of Earth Pig season wrapped in a slice of juicy and savoury pork. It is also served with crispy noodles and matsutake mushroom.

Trio dessert including Almond Cream with Hasma, Pan-fried Nian Gao with Cane Sugar and Water Chestnut Cake. Chef Chung has integrated a healthier way of preparing desserts with cane sugar. Light and smooth almond cream with hasma crunch. The only nian gao that I’ve managed to finish everything. It was very soft, having a texture and taste similar to Japanese mochi with a natural sweetness from the apricot. Refreshing water chestnut cake with lots of mini chestnut crunch and light fragrance of the osmanthus. The trio desserts were well-prepared, not overly sweet and you can keep on munching.

Nian Gao with Cane Sugar & Apricot and Water Chestnut Cake with Osmanthus (S$50 each) are available for takeaway only.

Li Bai’s Lunar New Year Set Menus is available until 19 February 2019.

Prosperity Delights Set Menu starting from S$168 per diners (Minimum 2 diners).

Lunar New Year Set Menu price starts from S$1038 for 8 diners.

Prosperity Reunions 2018 from 21 January to 19 February 2019, price starts from S$888 for a table of 10 diners.

Li Bai at Sheraton Towers

Address: 39 Scotts Rd, Sheraton Towers Singapore, Lower Lobby Singapore 228230

Phone: +65 6839 5623

Email: [email protected]

Man Fu Yuan at InterContinental Singapore

Exhibits a specially curated eight auspicious festive menus by Executive Chef Eric Neo and his team until 19 February 2019. The Chinese New Year incorporate festive traditions including perennial favourites and restaurant signatures and priced from S$108 per diner. Staying true to the city’s rich heritage and multi-faceted cultures inspired by the surrounding locale. You might also spot food served on a reflective of the Peranakan tablewares.

Double-boiled chicken consomme with nameko mushrooms, sea cucumber, fish maw, and bird’s nest served on a beautiful Peranakan soup bowl that is fit for a king! This soup is flavour-packed and yet, it’s light on texture. Also enjoyed these textural ingredients including nameko mushrooms, sea cucumber, fish maw, and bird’s nest.

One of my favourite dishes, Roasted pork belly roulade with minced seafood is good for takeaway to share with your family and friends. The melted fat seemed to keep the lean meat juicy and tender. Stuffed with minced seafood which adds a nice sweet touch to the roasted pork belly. Not forgetting the highlight, pork belly skin. It’s irresistibly crisp and delicious.

Roasted pork belly roulade stuffed with minced seafood (4kg) at S$368.

Dig into Man Fu Yuan’s Abundance Treasure Pot featuring braised pig’s trotters, 10-head whole abalone, fish maw, sea cucumber, Hokkaido scallops, roast duck, goose web, dried oysters, prawns, sea whelk, chicken wing, flower mushrooms, cabbage, fried beancurd skin, fried yam, cured meat sausage, liver sausage and fatt choy.

Various herbs penetrate deeply into the meaty and tender rolled chicken with a nice scent of the lotus leaf. I can see the herbal goodness of the sauce splashed on in generous proportions. The strong herbal sauce was tasty enough to be slurped by itself!

Various Chinese New Year goodies prepared by pastry Chef Ben Goh Kai Chuen and his team. Ranged from the sweet prosperity pineapple balls to savoury steamed yam cake with roasted duck meat are available from 26 December 2018 to 19 February 2019. Chinese New Year goodies may be placed online at InterContinentalShoppe.sg and collect from the Man Fu Yuan Shoppe located at the entrance of InterContinental Singapore from Bugis Junction from 4 January to 3 February 2019, and at Man Fu Yuan restaurant on Level 2 of the hotel from 4 to 19 February 2019.

Man Fu Yuan at InterContinental Singapore

Address: InterContinental Singapore, 80 Middle Rd, Level 2, Singapore 188966

Phone: +65 6825 1131

Email: [email protected]

Yan Restaurant at National Gallery

Happy reunions swarm with tasty festive manifestations at Yàn this Lunar New Year. Enjoy a dazzling choice of auspicious set menus starting from S$128 per diners and À la carte menu, specially curated by Executive Chinese Chef Lai Chi Sum to celebrate the Year of the Pig. This Chinese New Year Menu is available until 19 February 2019.

Superior Chicken Broth with Fish Maw, dried scallops, and goji berries. The secret behind thick and rich collagen chicken broth goes to the long preparations. The broth is boiled for about 10 hours using 老母鸡 (old hen). Double-boiled first and cooked over high heat to achieve the smooth consistency. Old hen soup is not only rich in nutrient (as compared to the normal chicken) but also richer and sweeter in taste. Notice the thick fish maw? It’s smooth and full of collagen.

À la carte at S$24 per person

Signature Roast Crispy Suckling Pig where you can enjoy it in three ways. The crisp skin is served with house-made pancake, plum sauce, cucumber stick, and spring onions. If you think this is the end of the story? Nope, you can further enjoy this roast suckling pig by glazing the meat and grilling it with lemongrass and BBQ sauce. It’s absolutely one of the best ways to ensure that not a single scrap goes to waste.

À la carte at S$288 (whole).

This lobster delicacy is steamed together with nu er hong rice wine. Half lobster was fresh with sweet briny flavours remain in the meat and I can easily tug out the tail meat in one piece. Not forgetting the perfect soft lobster roe. It is served with an additional serving of nu er hong rice wine that you may enjoy on its own or enhance the taste of the lobster. Never thought of nu er hong rice wine and its minerality marries perfectly with the lobster.

Steamed Half Lobster with 18yrs Nu Er Hong Rice Wine À la carte: S$20 per 100 grams, minimum order of 1kg.

Yan Restaurant at National Gallery

Address: 1 Saint Andrew’s Road, #05-02 National Gallery Singapore, 178957

Phone: +65 6384 5585

Email: [email protected]

Prices are subjected to 10% service charge and prevailing Goods and Services Tax.

Wishing you good fortune on the Chinese New Year 2019. Hope your days ahead are filled with immense joy and prosperity. Happy Chinese New Year!!! Hope the rising sun will bring with its bundles of joy, happiness and luck.

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Every year, Singapore throws a massive bash to celebrate Chinese New Year. As the start of the new traditional Chinese calendar year is one of the most major events in Singapore, it's no surprise that the city is painting the town red to usher in the Year of the Pig this 2019. The festive period runs from the last day of the final month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th day of the first month. This year, celebrations take place from February 5 to 19.

Don't blink an eye as the city amps up the annual celebration with all your favourite festive tunes, family reunion dinners, colourful parades, stunning fireworks displays and plenty of lion dances. Read on to find out the best Chinese New Year activities happening around town, which performances to catch and the top restaurant to book for your family get-togethers.

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Langkawi, Malaysia: journey, luxurious and rest

By Michael Edwards on Dec 13, 2019 in Lodging, Air Journey, Asia, Points of interest, Meals and Drink, Going Out, Lodges, Malaysia, Areas, Resorts, Eating places, Spas & Pampering, Speciality Journey, Journey Miscellany

Langkawi, on the west coast of Malaysia, is an idyllic archipelago of 101 islands sun-bathing within the heat of the Andaman Sea.

It may be an action-packed, excessive adrenaline vacation spot with jet-skis and zip wires. For nature lovers, it is likely one of the most bio-diverse environments on the planet. And for individuals who simply want to calm down, it has luxurious motels with infinity swimming pools and the sugary white-sand seashores.

New flights from Qatar Airways have made Langkawi an accessible paradise for everybody: for honeymooners looking for a supremely romantic vacation spot, for households and for these looking for journey.

Qatar Airways

Winners of the Skytrax 2019 Airline of the Yr Award, Qatar Airways is the uber- luxurious selection for travellers heading to Langkawi.

Flying from London’s Gatwick and Heathrow airports in addition to Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Manchester the airline offers quick access for travellers on their technique to Doha; the primary leg of the journey to Langkawi.

As Qatar Airways additionally scooped the Skytrax 2019 awards for Greatest Enterprise Class and Greatest Enterprise Class Seat the primary flight of round seven hours to Doha, with a lot to get pleasure from on the Oryx Leisure system, nearly passes too shortly.

Qatar Airways present crisp white table-clothed eating places, aspiring to Michelin star requirements, at excessive altitude. That is fine-dining full with amuse-bouche, three-warm breads with a selection of three oils and Godiva goodies to complete.

After a welcome glass of Champagne or orange juice, employees take your order from the menu and wine listing. Impressively. passengers not solely choose what they need to eat but in addition once they need to eat.

Watch a movie on the 17-inch display with noise-cancelling headphones earlier than having your cocktail and starter delivered. Benefit from an hour’s free Wi-fi to make amends for some e-mails, then savour your primary course and dessert.

With a two hour turn-around in Doha there’s the chance to pattern Qatar Airway’s smooth Enterprise lounge earlier than the following flight.

Flying over the Indian Ocean it’s time to make the most of the 14 button management panel to create an 80 inch lengthy flat-bed. Use the toothbrush within the rest room, placed on the complimentary pyjamas, pull-up the blanket and get some good high quality sleep. Breakfast, with a Starbucks-like vary of espresso or tea, shall be served if you order it.

The Danna Langkawi

Approaching its 10th birthday, The Danna Langkawi is Langkawi’s model of Singapore’s Raffles however with some great benefits of a main beach-front location and sheltered harbour. White blossoms from the tall frangipani timber float serenely on the huge infinity pool. It’s no shock that the Danna, simply 15 minutes from the airport, is first selection for therefore many honeymoon {couples}. A couple of years later, pining for the Danna’s colonial stylish luxurious, they return to e book their off-spring into the Children’ Membership.

Nostalgic photos of Penang within the days of the British Empire, cooling followers, rattan chairs on intensive verandas and deep luxuriant baths recall the comforts of colonial days.

If the spacious rooms are luxurious then the secluded villas, with direct entry to the seashore and a personal swimming pool, are A-Record superstar opulent. Fairly than heading to the 9 therapy rooms in Danna’s spa, the masseuse will present a therapy on a devoted desk within the privateness of your villa.

Stay the colonial life-style with a recreation of billiards earlier than dinner or a cocktail from the bar. With 118 types of gin on supply the Danna has one of many widest picks in Asia.

Planters’ Restaurant menu celebrates Malaysian meals as one of many nice fusion cuisines. As soon as situated on one of many world’s busiest commerce routes, Chinese language and Indian and Sumatran travellers all introduced tasty influences to the Malaysian dinner desk. As Langkawi is near Thailand’s southern border there’s a robust affect of fragrant rice and aromatic noodle dishes too.

The Malaysian Tasting Platter of sea bass sambol, hen percik, beef rendang, king prawn curry, papadum, Malay pickle and steamed rice is the right introduction to Langkawi’s numerous culinary traditions and the talent of Planters’ cooks.

Planters’ Champagne Breakfasts additionally present the chance for a feast, both Asian or Western type, from an immense buffet. Then for lighter choices – or only a espresso – there may be additionally the extra casual Straits and Co.

The Meritus Pelangi Seashore Resort and Spa, Langkawi

Designed within the type of a Malaysian village the Meritus Pelangi Seashore Resort and Spa, Langkawi consists of 355 rooms and suites unfold over 34 acres specialising in heartfelt 5* hospitality. As quickly as you arrive there’s a chilled flannel and funky fruit juice welcome.

Expert topiary shapes Casuarina timber into pure sun-umbrellas as company calm down on sun-loungers alongside the one kilometre of white sanded Cenang Seashore. It’s a seashore that finally leads right into a energetic stretch of native bars, fireplace jugglers, eating places and outlets.

Rooms are spacious, effectively cooled and dark-wood colonial fashionable. Massive balconies look out throughout the azure Andaman sea to different islands within the Langkawi archipelago or on to one of many resort’s two swimming swimming pools or decorative lakes.

Breakfast on the Meritus Pelangi takes some planning. The Spice Market, with scores of tables each in and out, provides the last word Asian breakfast buffet. A tour of the restaurant is important to evaluate what’s on supply from Chinese language, Indian, Malay and Thai classics.

If you happen to nonetheless favor a Western breakfast, ordering your eggs as you want them and topping up on pancakes and toast, there’s additionally CBa. Phonetically it’s “sea-bar” which sums up its beachside sand-between-your-toes laid-back location. Come sundown, it’s a favorite romantic selection for honeymooners’ al fresco eating.

Luxurious afternoon tea was all the time a key ingredient within the decadent colonial life-style and that’s simply one of many causes to belong to the Membership Lounge. Cold and hot drinks all through the day, in addition to complimentary cocktails within the night, additionally construct the case.

Though presently being refurbished, there’ll quickly be a small water park for kids in addition to a petting zoo, so as to add to the Children’ Membership programme.

In the meantime grown-ups can preserve themselves occupied with the spa, the sea-view health suite with steam-room, archery, cookery programs, mini-golf, squash and tennis.

What to do in Langkawi

Langkawi could be a high-octane vacation spot with jet-ski island-hopping safari, supplied by Mega Watersports, skimming over aquamarine seas.

Or high-adrenaline flying with the Umgawa Legendary Adventures zipline whizzing via the rain-forest cover of flying squirrels, flying snakes and eagles. Alternatively, Langkawi is a e book, cocktail and sun-lounger vacation spot on pristine sugary-white-beaches.

Cruising via the mangroves with – Dev’s Journey Excursions – and visiting the limestone caves, travellers can see why Malaysia is likely one of the planet’s most bio-diverse locations. Cave bats eat 400 mosquitoes an hour while outdoors eagles soar above the tree-line.

Stepping again in time, the Previous Langkawi Attraction Expertise, once more supplied by Dev’s Journey Excursions, takes guests via paddy fields the place white egrets perch on the backs of water buffalo to reach at a standard Malaysian home for a cookery course, creating your personal dinner.

One other unmissable spotlight is a sundown cruise via a seascape resembling Vietnam’s Halong Bay or a James Bond film set. Avante Boat Charters present dinner, limitless drinks, reside music, dancing and an unimaginable feel-good social gathering vibe.

Discuss to anybody who has visited Langkawi and they’re going to have thrilling reminiscences of the Sky Bridge.

The world’s steepest cable automobile ascends to the Sky Bridge, a 410 toes curving pedestrian bridge, at 2,170 toes above sea-level. It offers astounding views over each the Langkawi Peninsula and throughout to Thailand too. Again down nearly at sea-level on the Oriental Village there are additionally SkyRex, SkyDome (3D Cinema) and a 3D Artwork gallery to go to all supplied for us by the Langkawi Improvement Company.

Disclosure: Our go to was sponsored by The Danna Langkawi, Meritus Pelangi Seashore Resort and Qatar Airways.

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The World’s Best Restaurants: 2019

(Bloomberg) — Mirazur in Menton, France, is the No. 1 restaurant in the world.

This is the first time chef Mauro Colagreco and his sunny Provencal dining room have clinched the top spot; previously the restaurant was No. 3. This is also the first time France has gotten the No. 1 spot since the awards began 18 years ago.

That’s in part because executives behind the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list made a profound change to the rules this year, decreeing that no previous winner can be No. 1 again—or even be ranked on the list.

Previous winners have now been relegated to a “Best of the Best” category. That includes Osteria Francescana, Massimo Bottura’s modernist restaurant in Modena, which has won the award twice; Eleven Madison Park, which took the top spot in 2017; El Cellar de Can Roca; and the original Noma.

But the 2.0 version of Noma, which is set in a different location in Copenhagen with a new menu format, is eligible for the top spot and in fact skyrocketed to the No. 2 place on the list. William Drew, group editor of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, says the criteria they used, which included location and menu concept, was not just to allow Noma, one of the world’s highest-profile dining spots, to be in contention. “The aim is to have an objective set of criteria that prevails over time,” he says. Leading up to the announcement, which took place in Singapore on the evening of June 25 before an audience, Noma was an insider favorite to clinch the top spot.

The Best of the Best is a convenient landing place for some formerly top-ranked restaurants that have been falling on the list, like the Fat Duck in Bray, England, which last year came in at No. 74. Nonetheless, chef/owner Heston Blumenthal is sanguine about the experience: “If you get on the list, lap it up, bathe in the warmth of it, but just do your work. Nothing is permanent.”

Mirazur sits at the foot of a mountain and is housed in a 1930s building looking out over the sea, just inside France’s border with Italy. The Argentine-born chef draws inspiration from the region, serving vegetables from his own gardens and other local produce to create colorful Mediterranean dishes. Colagreco’s signature creation is oyster with tapioca, shallot cream and pear. The lunch menu costs 160 euros ($180), while the full menu is 260 euros.

“What a great year. Three Michelin stars and No. 1 all in the same year,” said Colagreco while accepting the award. “It’s a year I shall remember forever. I don’t have words to explain. I own the sky!”

He says the next step after basking in the awards is to expand his “little” 5-acre gardens into something greater. “We are fantastic producers, winemakers—we are a little paradise. Our vision is to share and to try to give love and to live happily with our work. It is a simple vision, but it is a vision of life.”

The World’s 50 Best committee also announced that it is highlighting diversity in advance of the ceremony. According to the website, voters are asked to “take issues of representation and reputation into consideration with their choices.”

This year, the list was also expanded from 100 to 120 to coincide with the list’s leading sponsor, San Pellegrino, celebrating its 120th anniversary. It’s a “one-off” expansion, according to Drew.

The restaurants appearing on the list from 51-120 were released ahead of time. That half of the list included restaurants from 25 countries, which demonstrates one good reason to expand the list, advertiser anniversaries notwithstanding. The expansion also makes it easier to highlight restaurants in cities that haven’t caught the 50 Best’s attention before, like Alcade in Guadalajara, Mexico (109 on the list). “We embraced the opportunity to showcase an even more diverse range of restaurants,” says Drew.

A lot of the buzz around the awards are the drops—and this was a year that saw more dramatic movement than usual. Besides Noma, Atelier Crenn in San Francisco entered the list at No. 35, and The Chairman, a Cantonese spot with dishes like flowery crab with aged Chinese wine, was another new entry at No. 41. The host city, Singapore, cracked the top 20: The elegant Odette moved up to No. 18.

Among the notable demotions on the list was Attica in Melbourne, which fell an astonishing 64 spots, to No. 84 from 20. Also eyebrow-raising were perennial favorites Arzak in San Sebastian, Spain, to No. 53 from 31, and D.O.M. in Sao Paulo, which fell to No. 54 from 30.

The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list is organized and compiled by William Reed Business Media. It is created from the votes of 1,040 restaurateurs, chefs, food writers and foodies. The voters are split into 26 separate regions around the world. Each region has its own panel of 40 members. (Vines formerly chaired the U.K. and Ireland panel; he is no longer involved.) The awards started in 2002 as a feature in Restaurant, a U.K. publication, based on the picks of journalists and chefs. The founders compare it to a music magazine compiling a best-albums list.

Ahead of Tuesday evening’s ceremony, three awards were announced: Daniela Soto-Innes, of Cosme in New York, won Elit Vodka World’s Best Female Chef; the American Express Icon Award went to the humanitarian chef José Andrés; and Lido 84, a locally focused restaurant in Lombardy, Italy, won the Miele One to Watch.

Here are the winners (with last year’s place in parentheses).

“NEW ENTRY” indicates the first time the restaurant has appeared on the list. “RE-ENTRY” indicates its reappearance on the list after a year of absence (i.e., due to a closing/renovation).

1. Mirazur, Menton, France (3) 2. Noma, Copenhagen **NEW ENTRY 3. Asador Etxebarri, Axpe, Spain (10) 4. Gaggan, Bangkok (5) 5. Geranium, Copenhagen (19) 6. Central, Lima (6) 7. Mugaritz, San Sebastian, Spain (9) 8. Arpège, Paris (8) 9. Disfrutar, Barcelona (18)

10. Maido, Lima (7) 11. Den, Tokyo (17) 12. Pujol, Mexico City (13) 13. White Rabbit, Moscow (15) 14. Azurmendi, Larrabetzu, Spain (43) 15. Septime, Paris (40) 16. Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, Paris (21) 17. Steirereck, Vienna (14) 18. Odette, Singapore (28) 19. Twins Garden, Moscow (72) 20. Tickets, Barcelona (32) 21. Frantzén, Stockholm (65) 22. Narisawa, Tokyo (22) 23. Cosme, New York (25) 24. Quintonil, Mexico City (11) 25. Pavillon Ledoyen, Paris (29) 26. Boragó, Santiago (27) 27. The Clove Club, London (33)

28. Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, U.S. (12) 29. Piazza Duomo, Alba, Italy (16) 30. Elkano, Getaria, Spain (77) 31. Le Calandre, Rubano, Italy (23) 32. Nerua, Bilbao, Spain (57) 33. Lyle’s, London (38) 34. Don Julio, Buenos Aires (55)

35. Atelier Crenn, San Francisco **NEW ENTRY 36. Le Bernardin, New York (26) 37. Alinea, Chicago (34) 38. Hiša Franko, Kobarid, Slovenia (48) 39. A Casa do Porco, Sao Paulo (79) 40. Restaurant Tim Raue, Berlin (37)

41. The Chairman, Hong Kong **NEW ENTRY 42. Belcanto, Lisbon (75) 43. Hof Van Cleve, Kruishoutem, Belgium (63) 44. The Test Kitchen, Cape Town (50) 45. Sühring, Bangkok (54) 46. De Librije, Zwolle, Netherlands (51) 47. Benu, San Francisco (53) 48. Ultraviolet by Paul Pairet, Shanghai (24) 49. Leo, Bogota (99) 50. Schloss Schauenstein, Fürstenau, Switzerland (47)

And here are the previously announced winners from 51 to 120:

51. Reale, Castel di Sangro, Italy (36) 52. Mikla, Istanbul (44) 53. Arzak, San Sebastian, Spain (31) 54. D.O.M., Sao Paulo (30) 55. Maaemo, Oslo (35) 56. Relae, Copenhagen (71) 57. Nobelhart & Schmutzig, Berlin (88) 58. Sud 777, Mexico City (64)

59. Burnt Ends, Singapore (61) 60. Indian Accent, New Delhi (90) 61. Uliassi, Senigallia, Italy **NEW ENTRY 62. Nihonryori RyuGin, Tokyo (41) 63. Florilège, Tokyo (59) 64. The Ledbury, London (42) 65. Selfie, Moscow (70) 66. Core by Clare Smyth, London (66) **NEW ENTRY 67. Astrid y Gastón, Lima (39) 68. Fäviken, Järpen, Sweden (67) 69. Nahm, Bangkok (49) 70. Saison, San Francisco (46)

71. SingleThread, Healdsburg, California (91) 72. Aqua, Wolfsburg, Germany (73) 73. Maní, Sao Paulo (87) 74. Lasai, Rio de Janeiro (100) 75. DiverXo, Madrid (96) 76. Momofuku Ko, New York (62) 77. Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, New York (69) 78. Lido 84, Gardone Riviera, Italy **NEW ENTRY 79. Mingles, Seoul (78)

80. Estela, New York (83) 81. Quique Dacosta, Denia, Spain (68) 82. Enigma, Barcelona (95) 83. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London (45) 84. Attica, Melbourne (20) 85. Amass, Copenhagen **RE-ENTRY 86. Tegui, Buenos Aires (60) 87. Martin Berasategui, Lasarte-Oria, Spain (76) 88. Lung King Heen, Hong Kong (80) 89. 108, Copenhagen (98) 90. Alo, Toronto (94) 91. Sushi Saito, Tokyo **RE-ENTRY 92. Harvest, St. Petersburg, Russia **NEW ENTRY 93. La Cime, Osaka, Japan **NEW ENTRY 94. Aponiente, El Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain **NEW ENTRY

95. Gaa, Bangkok **NEW ENTRY 96. Belon, Hong Kong **NEW ENTRY 97. Vendôme, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany (66) 98. Anne-Sophie Pic, Valence, France **RE-ENTRY 99. The Jane, Antwerp, Belgium (89) 100. Oteque, Rio de Janeiro **NEW ENTRY 101. Brae, Birregurra, Australia (58) 102. Amber, Hong Kong (56) 103. Jade Dragon, Macao **NEW ENTRY 104. Cococo, St. Petersburg, Russia **NEW ENTRY 105. Kadeau, Copenhagen **RE-ENTRY 106. Restaurant David Toutain, Paris **NEW ENTRY 107. Il Ristorante Luca Fantin, Tokyo **NEW ENTRY 108. L’Astrance, Paris (52)

109. Alcade, Guadalajara, Mexico **NEW ENTRY 110. Neolokal, Istanbul **NEW ENTRY 111. Chambre Séparée, Ghent, Belgium **NEW ENTRY 112. St. John, London (84) 113. Vea, Hong Kong **NEW ENTRY 114. La Colombe, Cape Town **RE-ENTRY 115. Per Se, New York (81) 116. St. Hubertus, San Cassiano, Italy **NEW ENTRY 117. Epicure, Paris **RE-ENTRY 118. Ernst, Berlin **NEW ENTRY

119. Atomix, New York **NEW ENTRY 120. Sugalabo, Tokyo **NEW ENTRY

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