Now in their sixth year, Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna was revealed the 2018 awards at an awards ceremony at Wynn Palace in Macau last night.
After first appearing on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2014 at number 14, Gaggan has stayed at number seven for the past two years and is number one in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurant.
Chef Gaggan Anand who opened Gaggan in 2010 announced at the awards that he would be shutting down his award winning restaurant in 2020 with plans to open several new restaurants in Japan. The 2018 list featured eight new entries, including seven from Singapore.
The Highest Climber was a joint award with Taiwan’s Mume and Hong Kong’s The Chairman both climbing 25 places up the list. Mume’s went from number 43 to number 18 while The Chairman went from number 47 to number 22. The Highest Entry Award went to La Cime in Japan which debuted on the chart at number 15. Other notable awards on the list include Yoshihiro Narisawa who won the Chef Choice Award which is voted by fellow chefs on Asia’s Best 50 Restaurant list and Nicolas Lambert of Caprice went away with the award for Asia’s Best Pastry Chef sponsored by Valrhona.
Earlier in the year Bongkoch ‘Bee’ Satongun of Thailand won Best Female Chef while her restaurant Paste came in at number 31 on the list.
The recipient of The Diners Club Lifetime Achievement Award was André Chiang whose Restaurant André came in at number three despite closing at the end of last year.
Here’s the full list of Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2018:
No.1 GAGGAN Bangkok, Thailand
No.2 DEN Tokyo, Japan
No.3 FLORILEGE Tokyo, Japan
No.4 SÜHRING Bangkok, Thailand
No.5 ODETTE, Singapore
No.6 NARISAWA Tokyo, Japan
No.7 AMBER Hong Kong, China
No.8 ULTRAVIOLET BY PAUL PAIRET Shanghai, China
No.9 NIHONRYORI RYUGIN Tokyo, Japan
No. 10 NAHM Bangkok, Thailand
No.11 MINGLES Seoul, Korea
No.12 BURNT ENDS Singapore
No.13 8 ½ OTTO E MEZZO BOMBANA Hong Kong, China
No.14 LE DU Bangkok, Thailand
No.15 RAW Taipei, Taiwan
No.16 TA VIE – Hong Kong, China
No.17 LA CIME Osaka, Japan
No.18 MUME Taipei, Taiwan
No.19 INDIAN ACCENT New Delhi, India
No.20 L’EFFERVESCENCE Tokyo, Japan
No.21 LOCAVORE Bali, Indonesia
No.22 THE CHAIRMAN Hong Kong, China
No.23 WAKU GHIN Singapore
No.24 LUNG KING HEEN Hong Kong, China
No.25 MINISTRY OF CRAB Colombo, Sri Lanka
No.26 JUNGSIK Seoul, Korea
No.27 SUSHI SAITO Tokyo, Japan
No.28 II RISTORANTE LUCA FANTIN Tokyo, Japan
No.29 LES AMIS Singapore
No.30 FU HE HUI Shanghai, China
No.31 PASTE Bangkok, Thailand
No.32 NEIGHBORHOOD Hong Kong, China No.33 EAT ME – Bangkok, Thailand
No.34 HAJIME Osaka, Japan
No.35 JADE DRAGON Macau, China
No.36 CORNER HOUSE Singapore
No.37 BO.LAN Bangkok, Thailand
No.38 QUINTESSENCE Tokyo, Japan
No.39 ISSAYA SIAMESE CLUB Bangkok, Thailand
No.40 BELON Hong Kong, China
No.41 RONIN Hong Kong, China
No.42 TOC TOC Seoul, Korea
No.43 THE DINING ROOM AT THE HOUSE OF SATHORN Bangkok, Thailand
No.44 JAAN Singapore
No.45 NIHONASHI Colombo, Sri Lanka
No.46 CAPRICE Hong Kong, China
No.47 SHOUN RYUGIN Taipei, Taiwan
No.48 LA MAISON DE LA NATURE GOH Fukuoka, Japan
No.49 WASABI BY MORIMOTO Mumbai, India
No.50 WHITEGRASS Singapore
By Naomi Doddridge
