The world's best fine dining restaurants have been named by TripAdvisor. They have been handed the accolades as part of TripAdvisor's 2019 Travellers' Choice Restaurants Awards, which are decided by an algorithm that analyses the millions of reviews and opinions collected in a single year from travellers around the world. The second-best restaurant in the ranking is Epicure in Paris followed by Ristorante Villa Crespi in Italy. The top-ranked restaurant in America is Daniel in New York, which comes 21st overall.
As Daily Mail writes in the article The world's best restaurants for 2019 are named by TripAdvisor, Chinese eatery TRB Hutong in Beijing rated number one. Top-rated restaurant TRB Huntong is housed within a 600-year-old temple and focuses on contemporary European cuisine, with a focus on French cooking. Diners can expect to see dishes such as lobster and poached scallops on the menu
Second place Epicure is inside Le Bristol Paris hotel – in the French capital - and it holds three Michelin stars. The restaurant is currently celebrating its head chef Eric Frechon's 20th anniversary of working at Epicure with a special £328 ($423) tasting menu that includes caviar, langoustines and hen poached in a bladder.
Third place Ristorante Villa Crespi is in the town of Orta San Giulio in northern Italy on the shores of Lake Orta. The two-Michelin-star restaurant has a 150-euro (£130) tasting menu that includes sea bass, borlotti beans, tagliatelle and roasted baby pork.
Fourth on the list is Restaurante Benazuza in Cancun, Mexico, which has 745 excellent reviews from a total of 1,702 left on TripAdvisor.
Coming in fifth is The Jane, which is set inside a former military hospital in the Belgian city of Antwerp and offers a 150-euro tasting menu.
Other restaurants featuring in the worldwide top 10 are Le Brouillarta in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France (sixth), David's Kitchen in Chiang Mai, Thailand (seventh), El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain (eighth) and Aramburu in Buenos Aires (ninth). Tenth-place Adam's in Birmingham also took the title of being TripAdvisor’s best fine dining restaurant in the UK.
This year marks the second time that Adam’s, which is run by husband and wife team Adam and Natasha Stokes, celebrates taking the UK top spot – the first time back in 2015.
'This is our sixth proud year of being included in these customer-focused awards and it is a huge achievement. I am immensely proud of our whole team AKA the “Adam’s family” with special credit to our Service Manager, Shaun, who has been with Adam’s since day one and really embodies all that the Adam’s family is about. 'Thank you also to all our guests, old and new and those regulars we see time and time again.'
