El Bulli Repeats as World's Top Restaurant

Catalonian chemistry lab keeps Britain's Fat Duck in No. 2 slot

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 22, 2008 1:15 PM CDT

(Newser) – For the third year in a row El Bulli, the restaurant-cum-chemistry lab outside of Barcelona, has been named the world's best restaurant. Feran Adrià's "gastronomic temple" got the top gong from a group of 700 chefs and critics. For Bloomberg's food writer El Bulli is "highly technically accomplished," but fundamentally "theater."

Here are the top 10 tables in the S. Pellegrino 50 Best Restaurants Awards:

El Bulli, Spain
The Fat Duck, Great Britain
Pierre Gagnaire, France
Mugaritz, Spain
The French Laundry, United States
Per Se, United States
Bras, France
Arzak, Spain
Tetsuya's, Australia
Noma, Denmark

Seafood foam, one of the many courses at El Bulli in Spain. ((c) FotoosVanRobin)

Oyster yogurt, a typical "emulsion" course at El Bulli restaurant in Spain. ((c) FotoosVanRobin)

A reconstituted olive, one of the many courses at El Bulli restaurant in Spain. ((c) FotoosVanRobin)

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