The most closely watched ranking in global dining revealed, on October 21, the bottom half of its next list. The World’s 50 Best Restaurants published the 51 to 100 ranking for 2026, ahead of the Top 50 reveal and the crowning of the world’s number one, set for November 4 in Lima, Peru.
Topping this second half: Italy’s Uliassi, in Senigallia on the Adriatic coast, taking the 51st spot. Right behind it, La Cime in Osaka, then Ling Long in Shanghai. Ling Long is the highest new entry on the entire list, landing at 53rd, and it says something about how much weight Asia’s dining scene now carries.
Nine restaurants join the list for the first time, spread across nine different cities, from Dubai to Giza, by way of São Paulo and Seoul. Among them: Seroja in Singapore, Eatanic Garden in Seoul, Baan Tepa in Bangkok, Nelita in São Paulo, Eliane in Brussels, FZN in Dubai, and Khufu’s, right at the gates of the Giza pyramids.
The ranking is based on votes from more than 1,100 international experts, who must have eaten at the restaurants they name within the past 18 months. This edition covers 36 cities across six continents. Europe leads with twenty addresses, followed by Asia with seventeen. Japan and Mexico each place five restaurants; China, including Hong Kong and Macao, also counts five. Only one American restaurant makes this stretch of the list: SingleThread, in Healdsburg, California, at 93rd.
A few familiar names return too: Arpège, Alain Passard’s Paris restaurant (67th), Septime, also in Paris (81st), Tim Raue in Berlin (85th), and Aponiente, in southern Spain, which closes out the list at 100th. Fauna, in Mexico’s Baja California wine country, makes a comeback that’s hard to miss, at 99th.
What’s still unknown is who takes the top spot on November 4. And whether any of these 51-to-100 outsiders can claw their way into the world’s actual top tier, which, let’s be honest, would be the real twist of the night.