The Best Restaurant in the World Is Central in Lima
Other winners from World’s 50 Best included Spain, Dubai and a New York Korean tasting menu spot.
The “Black Rocks” course at Central in Lima uses ingredients found below sea level.
Photographer: Ken MotohashiThe best restaurant in the world is Central, in Lima. The dynamic tasting menu restaurant from chef Virgilio Martinez features ingredients from Peru’s diverse landscape and notes the latitude of each dish, from potatoes sourced at the heights of the Andes mountains to sea urchin from the ocean.
The pronouncement from World’s 50 Best, an independent organization, moved the restaurant world’s epicenter away from Copenhagen, which had claimed the top spot for the last two years: In 2022 with Geranium, an ambitious Scandi restaurant whose home is a football station. The year before, it was the reincarnated Noma, which had won the No. 1 ranking five times.