World’s 50 Best Restaurants: Clove Club crowned best restaurant in London

The Clove Club: The Shoreditch restaurant was the highest London entry
Lizzie Thomson20 June 2018

Shoreditch’s Clove Club was crowned the best restaurant in London last night, when it placed 33 at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards.

The awards, which are now in their sixteenth year, took place at Palacio Euskalduna in Bilbao and saw 23 countries across six continents place on the list.

Other London restaurants that secured spots in the top 50 included Lyle’s at 38, followed by The Ledbury at 42 and finally Dinner by Heston which at 45. These four were the only London restaurants on the list.

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Notably, Soho’s Kiln was not on the list despite taking home the title of Best UK Restaurant at the 2018 National Restaurant Awards just a couple of weeks ago.

Similarly London haunts Sabor and A.Wong, which secured second and third place at the 2018 National Restaurant Awards, were not recognised.

The Clove Club may have won the title of top London restaurant on the World’s 50 Best, but it was ranked lower at the National Restaurant Awards at position 31, with both Lyle’s and The Ledbury overtaking it at positions 7 and 17. Dinner by Heston did not place on the National Restaurant Awards list at all.

The World's 50 Best Restaurant awards also named Cédric Grolet from Alain Ducasse's Le Meurice as the World’s Best Pastry Chef and Dan Barber of Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Pocantico Hills, USA, won the Chefs’ Choice Award. Controversially, Clare Smyth of Core was crowned Best Female Chef, a category which drew ire for splitting the sexes.

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