World’s top chefs meet in Barcelona to celebrate ‘The World's 50 Best Restaurants’ ranking’s 15th anniversary

The world’s best chefs met in Barcelona on Tuesday to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the ‘Best of’ ranking of top 50 restaurants that the magazine ‘Restaurant’ releases every year. It is no surprise that the gala took place in Catalonia, as the country has hosted the number one of this ranking for 7 of its 16 editions. Ferran Adrià’s restaurant El Bulli, which no longer exists, won it five times (2002, 2006-2009) while Roca’s brothers El Celler de Can Roca got the highest honour twice (2013, 2015) and it is the current third in the ranking.

The event on Tuesday held in the old factory of Estrella Damm beer in the Catalan capital gathered some of the best chefs in this 15-year span: Ferran Adrià, René Redzepi, Joan Roca, Massimo Bottura i Daniel Humm. All of them took part in a round table discussion and a gastronomic celebration supervised by Adrià followed. William Drew, editor of the magazine ‘Restaurant’, also joined the event, ahead of its 2018 edition to be held in the Basque city of Bilbao.