How to get a table at the world’s 5 best restaurants
We break down the reservation terms for your convenience, because life is better spent poring over the menu months ahead of the meal
By the time you actually eat at one of the restaurants that were named in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards this year, it would be time for a new list. Some of these fine dining restaurants take bookings months in advance, but tables are snapped up faster than you can pronounce the restaurant’s name when they are released.
Top restaurant Osteria Francescana is booked out through September. Runner-up El Celler De Can Roca is fully booked for the next 11 months. We’re serious.
We break down the reservation terms for the top five restaurants for your convenience, because life is better spent poring over the menu months ahead of the actual meal.
#1 Osteria Francescana
Where: Via Stella, 22, 41121 Modena MO, Italy
Reservations: Open three months in advance
What you need to know: New tables become available at 10am (Italian time) on the first day of the month. In case of Saturdays or Sundays, it will be the first Monday of the month.