World's 50 Best Restaurants 2016: 100-51 list announced

Just three UK venues – all in London - have made the cut.

Chef James Lowe’s debut restaurant Lyles​ in Shoreditch features on the list for the first time in the 65th spot. The venue secured its first Michelin star in 2015,​ 18 months after opening.

Mikael Jonsson’s Hedone​ in Chiswick has held its 60^th ​place for another year, after rising from 63^rd​ in 2015.

Clerkenwell’s St John​, owned by Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver, has moved up one spot to 92^nd​ place. The restaurant fell sharply from 55^th​ in 2015.

This year’s list features 16 new entrants, including the three Michelin-starred Epicure​ in Paris (69) and The Jane​ in Antwerp, Belgium (54).

Den​ in Tokyo – known for serving smiley-faced carrots and chicken wings in takeaway boxes– has made its debut in 77^th​ place, and is also the recipient of this year’s One To Watch award.

A total of seven restaurants have fallen out of the top 50 for 2016, including Thomas Keller’s The French Laundry​ in California, which dropped from 50^th ​to 85^th​, while the chef’s Per Se​ in New York fell from 40^th​ to 52^nd​.

William Drew, group editor of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, said: “Every restaurant listed should be incredibly proud and we hope that this provides a culinary compass for diners around the world.”

The announcement comes ahead of the Top 50 awards ceremony next week, which has moved from London to New York for the first time this year.

The world’s best chefs will descend on the city to see whether the Roca brothers, of El Caller de Can Roca in Girona, Spain can take the title of the World’s Best Restaurant for the third time.​

In 2015 the UK’s presence on the Top 50 list was reduced to two, London’s The Ledbury (20) and Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (7).

The full 100-51 list is as follows:​

To view last year’s 100-51 list ​click here.​​

For 2015’s top 50 restaurants ​click here.​​