2007 - The Worlds Best Restaurants !

Many Top Chefs, foodies and restaurant critics regard Spain's Ferran Adria as the best cook on the planet, a man who deconstructs food while playing with your mind and palate. I happen to agree with this call. For the second consecutive year, Chef Adria's restaurant, El Bulli, on the Costa Brava coast in Spain, has been named the world's best by Britain's fanous Restaurant Magazine. Apart from deconstruction cooking, Adria has been credited with creating what is known as the molecular gastronomy culinary - things like foam or espuma and apple caviar etc.. His tortilla espangola is no ordinary Spanish omelet. Instead of blending the three main ingredients — eggs, potatoes and onions — each is cooked separately and turned into a potato foam, onion puree and a sabayon sauce of sorts made with egg-white. The dish is put back together in layers, sprinkled with crumbs of deep-fried potatoes and served as merely a mouthful in a sherry glass. While it's debatable that the Best 50 list is "the most credible indicator of the best places to eat on Earth" and "stimulates fervent debate and sometimes controversy", as the magazine's website says, there are no surprises in the top 10 list. Before you think of flying out to Spain to dine at Adria's 50-seat restaurant — open only for dinner, April to September at about $450 per head — they are booked out until June 2008. But then again; This year you find 3 options in Spain in the top 10 spots. I guess it is Spain all the way at this point!

WORLD'S BEST 10 RESTAURANTS

1 El Bulli Spain

2 The Fat Duck England

3 Pierre Gagnaire France

4 The French Laundry United States

5 Tetsuya's Australia

6 Bras France

7 Mugaritz Spain

8 Le Louis XV Monaco

9 Per Se United States

10 Arzak Spain