1. World’s best restaurant? Who’d have guessed?
Globetrotting restaurant patrons, the ultimate arbiters of fine-dining fashions, stunned the operator community this week with their pick of the best place on the planet to dine. If there was any lingering doubt about high-end dining giving way to more casual experiences, it was erased by TripAdvisor’s anointment of an English pub as the world’s most desirable place to eat.
Users of the digital restaurant guide and review site voted The Black Swan as their dream lunch and dinner site. The family-run pub serves up its ales and grub in a small town in the British countryside, a step back in time called Oldstead, North Yorkshire.
But don’t expect a menu of shepherd’s pie and bangers and mash. The Black Swan has a chef rather than a publican overseeing the food, which includes such choices as squid in horseradish group and a cake made from chicory root and blackcurrants. Some of the ingredients come from the pub’s garden.
Its menu signature is a $125 tasting menu.
The only U.S. restaurant to crack the Top 25 was Daniel Boulud’s Daniel in New York City.