Top 10 restaurants in the World

10. Gaggan- Bankok, Thailand

Gaggan reinvents regional Indian cuisine using modernist cooking methods. Housed in a colonial-style building with cane furniture, ceiling fans and white-washed walls, the dining room has an elegant charm.

9. D.O.M.- São Paulo, Brazil

Main objective: to reshape Brazilian food using the country’s rich natural resources, while respecting the environment and working with local producers and indigenous communities. D.O.M.’s dining room is formal yet relaxed, intimate yet open. One of the most expensive restaurants in São Paulo.

8. Narisawa- Tokyo, Japan Narisawa – the restaurant, the man and his food – are all deeply in tune with the landscape and the moment. The drinks programme is just as compelling. This might well be the best place in the world to develop a nuanced appreciation of the winemaking of Japan.

7. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal- London, UK

Firm signature dishes such as meat fruit (a ball of chicken liver parfait encased in mandarin jelly) and tipsy cake (brioche soaked in Sauternes, brandy and vanilla cream served with spit-roast pineapple) have long gained cult status, but Dinner continues to reinvent the past with ever-evolving creations. It offers flavour-led cooking that showcases 600 years of British cuisine and provides diners with a world-class contemporary dining experience.

6. Mugaritz- San Sebastián

Edible cutlery and centrepieces are other routes to delivering the stories, flavours, smells and textures that make up chef-owner Andoni Luis Aduriz’s idea of the perfect journey through food.The small wooden building – entirely rebuilt after a devastating fire in 2010 – is surrounded by breath-taking scenery, further enhancing the sensory experience delivered by dishes such as edible stones or candy caviar.

5. Eleven Madison Park- New York

Despite dazzlingly white tablecloths and a grand, high-ceiling dining room, there is not a hint of stuffiness here. Dishes are playful and often interactive Diners must taste each bar to determine which belongs to which animal: cow’s milk, sheep’s, goat’s or buffalo’s.

4. Central- Lima, Peru

The restaurant celebrates Peru’s biodiversity and ancient Andean heritage, pushing culinary limits to delight guests with inventive creations. Produce from the restaurant’s urban garden and the in-house filtration system.

3. Noma- Copenhagen, Denmark

Dishes are in step with the seasons, such as milk curd and the first garlic of 2015; and the first green shoots of spring with a scallop marinade. Playing with techniques such as fermenting and pickling for creations beyond most people’s eating perceptions.

2. Osteria Francescana- Modena, Italy

In fact, his dishes are a joyful celebration of Emilia-Romagna – the chef’s food-producing home province of northern Italy in which his elegant restaurant resides. rom snacks such as exquisite rabbit macaroons through eel ravioli to suckling pig with balsamic vinegar, dining at Osteria Francescana is an exploration of the region’s produce and traditions delivered in a supremely contemporary fashion.

1. El Celler de Can Roca- Girona, Spain

The reason this 55-seat contemporary Catalan restaurant is back on top of the world is the trio’s equal brilliance in ensuring that they never stop feeding their own (and their team’s) knowledge and imaginations through unusual initiatives. A meal in the tranquil glass-walled dining space is at once comforting and yet gastronomically challenging, the food simultaneously artisanal and technical, with references to both the traditional and the avant-garde. Crucially, this is a restaurant that has never forgotten its humble roots, its sense of familial warmth, or the need to serve remarkably delicious dishes and outstanding wines.