NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glam Media, Inc. (www.GlamMedia.com), the leading vertical social media company and #1 in online global reach in lifestyle and the creator of Foodie.com, revealed the inaugural Foodie Top 100 Restaurants of the World list showcasing the most exceptional restaurants from around the globe, and announced its first print guidebook will be available this fall, distributed by Chronicle Books, with in-depth restaurant profiles, stunning photography, must-order dishes and critics’ insider tips.
Foodie Top 100 Restaurants guide winners are the most exceptional restaurants from around the world, including: L’Ambroisie, Epicure, Pierre Gagnaire, Kitcho Arashiyama, Kyo Aji, Le Bernardin, The French Laundry and Iggy's. The full list of global winners is included below and also available to explore at www.foodie.com/foodie100. There will be invite-only awards presentations and events in: NYC on April 3, London on April 4, Paris on April 5, Tokyo on April 11, San Francisco on April 24 and Los Angeles on April 25.
The Foodie Top 100 Restaurants were carefully selected by food critics: Patricia Wells (France), Gael Greene (USA), Masuhiro Yamamoto (Japan), Ruth Reichl (USA), Jonathan Gold (USA), Bruno Verjus (France), Alexander Lobrano (France), Charles Campion (United Kingdom), Vir Sanghvi (India), Aun Koh (Singapore/China) Susumu Ohta (Japan), Kundo Koyama (Japan), Glam Media’s Samir Arora (Publisher & Editor), Yuki Yamamura (Japan), with Erika Lenkert (Managing Executive Editor). Foodie’s goal was to select only the most knowledgeable and respected food critics, and create a small, transparent panel of judges. Each critic nominated restaurants from their region, as well as their favorites from other corners of the world. Critics and editors were required to have visited their nominations recently, pay for their meals, and no one could nominate a restaurant they are professionally tied to in any way.
“I am delighted to be a food critic for the Foodie Top 100 Restaurants lists,” said Patricia Wells. “I was impressed to learn my peers voted modern French cuisine to be the dominant style the world over, reflecting a global palate that appreciates a classic, visually rich experience combined with a clean, modern sensibility.”
“I’ve made no secret of my long time disappointment with the whimsies of restaurant guides,” said Gael Greene. “How do you lose a star one year and gain another the next? So what if there’s a limited wine list if the food is exceptional and demands sake or beer? I’m reviewing restaurants not wine bars, after all. Foodie Top 100 Restaurants is a well-reasoned, no-holds-barred critique for impassioned food lovers and adventurers the world over.”
The Foodie Top 100 Restaurants spotlights restaurants that provide an exemplary dining experience as determined by Foodie’s editors and food critics. Restaurants are nominated based on whether their food is exceptional first, and whether the décor, service, and drinks program complement the dining experience within the context of the food. This format paves the way for recognition of superb restaurants that may not fit into the narrower, more traditional definition of “world class” or star ratings.
“We are thrilled to release The Foodie Top 100 Restaurants list and our first print guidebook as the ultimate references for all foodies, carefully selected by the world’s most knowledgeable food critics along with our Foodie editors,” said Samir Arora, Glam Media Chairman and CEO. “Our nomination criteria is ‘food first,’ with the goal to make the Foodie Top 100 Restaurants the definitive standard for recognizing the best dining experiences in the world.”
Today, Glam Media is also launching Top Restaurants France, Top Restaurants Japan, Top Restaurants US, and Top Restaurants Europe, UK and Asia lists (see links below). Unique to these lists is recognition of the world’s top ten general managers and maître d’s, as well as the list of the world’s top ten sommeliers. Foodie Top 100 Restaurants provides the ultimate answers to questions such as “where is a great sushi restaurant in Tokyo or New York?” by offering recommendations from the experts who actually know about sushi.
The print edition of the Foodie Top 100 Restaurants Worldwide will be available this summer. Food lovers can visit www.foodie.com/foodie100 to explore all of the award-winning restaurants and join the conversation with foodies worldwide on all things food.
Glam Media launched its Foodie vertical in February 2012, and in the short time since then has become #2 among food publishers online, reaching 19.7 million unique users a month (as measured by comScore, Feb. 2013). With the Top 100 Guides, Glam Media is bringing social discovery of the best- curated content on recipes and restaurants online with Foodie.com, and on the Foodie iPad app.
Foodie Top Restaurants Links:
Worldwide: http://www.foodie.com/foodie100
France:
http://www.foodie.com/collections/foodie-editor/foodie-top-100-france
Japan:
http://www.foodie.com/collections/foodie-editor/foodie-top-100-japan
USA:
http://www.foodie.com/collections/foodie-editor/foodie-top-100-usa
Europe,
UK and Asia: http://www.foodie.com/collections/foodie-editor/foodie-top-100-europe-uk-asia
Foodie Top 100 Restaurants Worldwide List:
FRANCE
PARIS
Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée
L’Ambroisie
L’Arpège
L’Astrance
L’Atelier
de Joël Robuchon Saint Germain
Carré des Feuillants
Le Coq Rico
La
Dame de Pic
Epicure
Laurent
Pierre Gagnaire
Le Pré
Catelan
Restaurant Guy Savoy
Restaurant Jean-François Piège
Rino
Saturne
Shang
Palace at the Shangri-La Hotel
Le Table d’Aki
Taillevent
yam’Tcha
Ze
Kitchen Galerie
NORTH
La Grenouillère, La Madelaine-Sous-Montreuil
Flocons
de Sel, Megève
SOUTH
Maison Troisgros, Roanne
Régis et Jacques Marcon,
Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid
Auberge du Vieux Puits, Fontjoncouse
Bras,
Laguiole
PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE-D’AZUR
Mirazur, Menton
MONACO
Le Louis XV, Monaco
JAPAN
TOKYO
Akasaka Kikunoi
Apicius
Banraien
Baron
Okura
Chugoku Hanten Fureika
Ebisu Kuroiwa
Edo-Soba
Hosokawa
L’Effervescence
Esquisse
Fukurinmon
Gentoushi
Nakada
Halekai’s
Horikane
Ishikawa
Iyuki
Kadowaki
Kanda
Kanesada
Kawamura
Kitcho
Tokyo
Kohaku
Kozasa
Kun
Kurogi
Kyo Aji
Lauburu
Makino
Mikawa
Zezankyo
Musashi
Nodaiwa
Ogino
Okina
Ozaki
Raisan
Rakutei
Restaurant
Quintessence
Ristorante ASO
RyuGin
Ryutenmon
Sawada
Shigeyoshi
Sukiyabashi
Jiro
Sushi Nakamura
Sushi Saito
Sushi Shin
Sushi Sho
Sushi
Tsubaki
Sushiso Masa
Takazawa
Tarantella da Luigi
Il
Teatrino Da Salone
Tomura
Wakiya Ichiemicharou
Yamashita
Yukimura
KYOTO
Chihana
Gion Maruyama
Gion Sasaki
Hamasaku
Hayashi
Ichihan
Kappo
Masuda
Kichisen
Kikunoi Honten
Kinmata
Kitcho
Arashiyama
Kodaiji Wakuden
Mishimatei
Misoguigawa
Miyamasou
Mizai
Nishimura
Kyoto (Kyo-Ryori Nishimura)
Sakurada
Shingo
Shuhaku
Sojiki
Nakahigashi
Tawaraya Ryokan
Uozuya
HOKKAIDO/SAPPORO
Sushi Tanabe
NAGANO
Fogliolina della Porta Fortuna
Yukawatan
KANAGAWA/HAKONE
Gôra Kadan
SHIZUOKA
Asaba
ISHIKAWA/KANAZAWA
Ryokan Asadaya
FUKUI
Etizen Mikuni Kawaki
GIFU
Kaikatei
OSAKA
Hajime
Kahala
Kakoiyama
Kigawa Asai
HYOGO/KOBE
Kobe Aragawa
NARA
Akordu
SHIGA
Shofukurou
MIE
Wadakin
TOTTORI
Kaniyoshi
TOKUSHIMA
Kokin Aoyagi
FUKUOKA
Ebisudo
Sushi Asou Hirao Sansou
OITA
Yufuin Tamanoyu
MIYAZAKI
Issin Sushi Koyo
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA
Le Bernardin
Blanca, Brooklyn
Blue
Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills
Brushstroke
Chef’s Table
at Brooklyn Fare, Brooklyn
Daniel
Degustation
Jean-Georges
Kurumazushi
Marea
Masa
Momofuko
Ko
Per Se
Soto
CENTRAL
Alinea, Chicago
L20, Chicago
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
Benu, San Francisco
Chez
Panisse, Berkeley
The French Laundry, Yountville
The
Restaurant at Meadowood, St. Helena
EUROPE/UK
UNITED KINGDOM
Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester, London
The
Fat Duck, Bray
Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, Oxford
The
Waterside Inn, Bray
DENMARK
Noma, Copenhagen
GERMANY
Aqua, Wolfsburg
AUSTRIA
Steirereck, Vienna
ITALY
Il Luogo di Aimo e Nadia, Milan
Le Calandre,
Rubano
Osteria Alle Testiere, Venice
Osteria Francescana,
Modena
SPAIN
Mugaritz, Errenteria
Asador Etxebarri, Atxondo
El
Celler de Can Roca, Girona
ASIA PACIFIC
CHINA
Family Li Imperial Cuisine, Beijing
Fook Lam
Moon, Hong Kong
Sun Tung Lok, Hong Kong
INDIA
Bukhara, New Delhi
Indian Accent, New Delhi
Karavalli,
Bangalore
SINGAPORE
Iggy’s, Singapore
AUSTRALIA
Tetsuya’s, Sydney
About Glam Media
Glam Media was founded in Silicon Valley in 2004 with a simple, yet powerful idea—that people are the most influential filters for discovering and sharing each other’s most passionate interests. We had a pioneering vision that professional digital content could be both as engaging for consumers and as important to brand advertisers as traditional media—and with the right platform, we could create a next generation media company that could bring the emotion of print magazines and the vivid engagement of television to digital consumers. Our mission is to help people create, discover and share content that they love. At our core, we are an innovative technology company that develops products to enrich the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Today, Glam Media is #1 in Lifestyle globally and a Top 10 Media Property—reaching more than 297 million global monthly unique users, as measured by comScore (Dec’12). Glam Media is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Detroit, Tokyo, Munich, London, Paris, Toronto, Mumbai, Pune and Seoul.
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