The World's 50 Best Restaurants - 50 ร้านอาหารที่ดีที่สุดในโลก

The World's 50 Best Restaurants lists and awards are organized and complied by William Reed Business Media, UK media company. The first announcement was held in 2002 and the first place has been dominated by elBulli. The World's 50 Best Restaurants list provides an annual snapshop of the opinion and experience of over 1,080 international restaurant industry experts. Here is how the voting system works.

The list is created from the voted of The World's 50 Best Restaurants Academy, comprising restaurant industry experts, with 50/50 gender balance. Within the 100% of experts, 34% are chef and restaurateurs. 33% are food writers and the last 33% are well-travelled gourmets. It is split into 27 separate regions around the world; each region has its own voting panel of 40 members including a chairperson to head it up. At least 25% of the panellists from each region change each year.

The panel in each region is made up of food writers and critics, chefs, restaurateurs and well-travelled gourmets, each of whom has 10 votes. Some regions span more than one country. The decision as to how the world is divided up is left to the organiser and regional chairs and is debated and reassessed annually. The divisions are designed to represent the global restaurant scene at the current time as fairly as possible.