The French chef Guy Savoy remains the best in the world, announced Thursday the aggregator La List, ranking of the 1000 best restaurants on the planet, which also notes the breakthrough of the Nordics in its 2022 list.
Based on a compilation of guides and food critics, La List puts Guy Savoy's three-star restaurant at the Monnaie de Paris at the top of the list, where you can taste his signature artichoke soup with black truffle and brioche. mushroom puff pastry.
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Guy Savoy, who has been the first in the ranking since 2017, alone or tied,
“continues to win the unanimity of all guides, publications and food critics.
We never criticize him, ”
Hélène Pietrini, director general of La List, told AFP.
Full results will be presented Monday at a ceremony in Paris.
The Scandinavian boom
The Nordics also dominate the ranking: the Swede Björn Frantzén who is anchored in the top with his restaurant Frantzén in Stockholm (at the 2nd level with seven other establishments, 5th in the ranking) and his Zen restaurant in Singapore (level 6 , place 47).
The Danish restaurant Geranium led by chef Rasmus Kofoed also climbs up the rankings, positioning itself at level 7, place 74.
For this trend, La List created in 2015 at the instigation of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a response to the 50 Best, is on the same wavelength as its influential British competitor, who is accused of snubbing the French chefs regularly absent from the top 10.
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The List, which aims to be the “classification of rankings” follows 25,000 restaurants in 200 countries on the basis of guides, blogs and press articles and has a certain notoriety in France, China, Korea and Japan.
