Shanghai's M on the Bund ranks 12th on the Daily Meal's 101 best restaurants in Asia 2013 list

Congratulations! The M on the Bund - one of our favorite eateries in China - makes it to the 12th place on the Daily Meal's best restaurant in Asia list.

Well deserved! They scored higher than any other restaurant in Shanghai. The even bigger surprise is that their sister restaurant, the Capital M in Beijing made it to the 5th place!

The entire list with Asia's best 101 restaurants can be found here. The Daily Meal consulted 50 food experts who either live in Asia or regularly eat their way through Asia's amazing and incredibly diverse food scene.  On a more disappointing note, they did not consult All About Eatery - well, we're open for requests to become a judge in next year's competition. The 50 experts, per the Daily Meal's website "restaurant critics, food and lifestyle writers, and bloggers with wide restaurant-going experience — supplemented by The Daily Meal’s well-traveled editorial staff" were asked to nominate a shortlist of 202 restaurants and then they had to evaluate them country by country. The result can be fond on the Daily Meal's website.

http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best-restaurants-asia

M on the Bund
7/F, No.5 The Bund ( corner of Guangdong Lu )
Shanghai 200002 China
中国上海市外滩广东路20号7楼
邮编 200002
Tel (86 -21) 6350-9988
Fax (86-21) 6322-0099

 

El Celler de Can Roca is the new Number 1

The title went back to Spain! This year obviously not in soccer - but that's a different story. El Celler de Can Roca, run by the Roca brothers is the world's new Number 1 eatery - and we do hope that at one point in time we will be able dine there.

René Redzepi and his legendary Noma held the title on the very top of list of the world's 50 best restaurants for three years - a very respectable achievement. Before Redzepi's Noma, the title was in Spanish hands - the now unfortunately closed El Bulli of head chef Ferran Adrià held it for 4 years  (2006 - 2009) and El Bulli was also the number 1 when the british "Restaurant" magazine first published the world's top 50 restaurants list in 2002:

2013 El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
2012 Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia, Spain
2008 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia, Spain
2007 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia, Spain
2006 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia, Spain
2005 The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire, England
2004 The French Laundry, Yountville (Napa Valley), California, US
2003 The French Laundry, Yountville (Napa Valley), California, US
2002 El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia, Spain

Joan and Jordi Roca are running the best restaurant on the planet. The El Celler de Can Roca has been chosen as the best restaurant of the world. Joan Roca, as head chef  and his brother Jordy as pastry chef. Well, there's a third brother involved, although he's not in the kitchen. Josep is the head sommelier and runs the front-of house operation. Congratulations to the the trio.

When the list of the world's top 50 was first published it was probably more a marketing stunt than anything else. Not to imagine that it would be recognised or gain any influence inthe culinary world. Now, a little more than a decade later it can be said that the list is highly influential although it remains controversial.

And for all those who wonder how the Noma scored this year, well, no big drama there, it's just down one place. The Noma is the official number 2.


El Celler de Can Roca
C/ de Can Sunyer, 48,
17007 Girona,
Spain

Phone:+34 972 22 21 57