New York eatery ‘Eleven Madison Park’ was crowned the world’s best restaurant of 2017 at a ceremony in Melbourne edging out last year’s winner, Italy’s Osteria Francescana.
Run by chef Daniel Humm, the Manhattan institution came out on top at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, widely seen as the Oscars of the food world.
Spain’s El Celler De Can Roca was third.
Top pastry chef was French-born Dominique Ansel — known as king of the cronuts — and his bakery in New York, while a nod for sustainability went to France’s Septime.
Acclaimed British chef Heston Blumenthal, whose restaurant ‘The Fat Duck’ is a former winner of the top award, was handed a lifetime achievement gong.
