The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2018 the list in pictures These are the 50 best restaurants in the world and 6 are in the U.S. The best restaurant in the world has only 12 tables. Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Modena, Italy — with tasting menu dishes that range from “The crunchy part of the lasagna” to suckling pig — tops The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for 2018. (It also won in 2016.) The new ranking, released Tuesday, includes restaurants from 23 countries around the world. Read more