This is the list of the best world restaurants compiled by Restaurant Magazine for the year 2008:
- El Bulli, Roses, Catalonia, Spain (Best in Europe)
- The Fat Duck, Bray-on-Thames, UK
- Pierre Gagnaire, Paris, France
- Mugaritz, San Sebastián, Spain (Chef’s Choice)
- The French Laundry, California, USA (Best in the Americas)
- per se, New York, USA
- Bras, Laguiole, France
- Arzak, San Sebastián, Spain
- Tetsuya’s, Sydney, Australia (Best in Australasia)
- Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
- L’Astrance, Paris, France
- Gambero Rosso, San Vincenzo, Italy
- Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, London, UK
- L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon, Paris, France
- Restaurant Le Louis XV, Monaco
- St John, London, UK (Highest Climber)
- Jean-Georges, New York, USA
- Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée, Paris, France
- Hakkasan, London, UK
- Le Bernardin, New York, USA
- Alinea, Chicago, USA
- Le Gavroche, London, UK
- Dal Pescatore, Canneto sull’Oglio (Mantova), Italy
- Le Cinq, Paris, France
- Troisgros, Roanne, France
- El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Spain
- +L’Hotel de Ville – Philippe Rochat, Crissier, Switzerland
- Hof van Cleve, Kruishoutem, Belgium
- Martin Berasategui, San Sebastián, Spain
- Nobu London, London, UK
- Can Fabes, Sant Celoni, Catalonia, Spain
- Enoteca Pinchiorri, Florence, Italy
- +Le Meurice, Paris, France
- *Vendome, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
- +Die Schwarzwaldstube, Baiersbronn im Schwarzwald, Germany
- Le Calandre, Padua, Italy
- Chez Panisse, Berkeley, California, USA
- Charlie Trotter’s, Chicago, USA
- Chez Dominique, Helsinki, Finland
- DOM, São Paulo, Brazil (Best in Latin America)
- Daniel, New York, USA
- Oud Sluis, Sluis, Netherlands
- Ristorante Cracco, Milan, Italy
- +Asador Etxebarri, Atxondo, Biscay, Spain
- Les Ambassadeurs, Paris, France
- L’Arpège, Paris, France
- +Tantris, Munich, Germany
- Oaxen Skärgårdskrog, Oaxen, Sweden
- Rockpool, Sydney, Australia
- Le Quartier Français, Franschhoek, South Africa (Best in Mid East & Africa)
