The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2022 list marks Australia’s worst performance in a decade. What does it mean, and does it matter?
Call it out of touch, call it wrong, call it arbitrary and irrelevant. There’s no arguing that the World’s 50 Best is influential.
Ben Shewry’s Ripponlea restaurant Attica was the only Australian venue to consistently place in the awards, but it dropped off the list in 2019.Is it the tyranny of distance from Europe, where the majority of the voters are based? The numbers would certainly suggest it, with 40 voters of the 1,080 based in Australia and Oceania.
On the severe lack of Australian representation on the list, William Drew, director of content for 50 Best, agrees with Nourse. “Australia has undoubtedly suffered in terms of representation as a result of the pandemic,” he says.“The list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants is an annual snapshot of opinions and reflects the state of the world during the voting period.
“We have a population that loves the produce of the country and celebrates it, we have a magnificent array of young skilled talent and we have legacy restaurants and restaurateurs. There is an energy in Australia the likes of which I have never felt elsewhere. Time we shouted about it a bit louder.”
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