Enjoy, in Barcelona, becomes the best restaurant in the world in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants

In the early hours of this Thursday, Las Vegas has become the epicenter of gastronomy, hosting the 22nd edition of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants where the spanish restaurant Enjoy It has fulfilled its expectations of being ranked number one on the list and therefore becoming the best restaurant in the world.

This temple of haute cuisine in Barcelona, which last year was crowned the second best restaurant in the world – only behind Central, in Lima – was one of the great favorites of this edition where DiverXO, by Dabiz Muñozalso resonated as another possible great winner.

Enjoying your successes

In recent years this restaurant in Barcelona has not stopped achieving success; In 2022 and 2023 it became the best restaurant in Spain in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, occupying third and second place on the list respectively, last October the Royal Academy of Gastronomy named Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas the best chefs in Spainand just a month later the Michlin Guide awarded them their long-awaited third star, becoming together with Noor the new Spanish Three Star.

The cuisine of Enjoy has become an emblem of Spanish gastronomy inside and outside our country to the point of becoming the best restaurant in the world. “The Enjoy restaurant, open since December 2014, was born after years of intense work at elBulli, where Mateu Casañas, Oriol Castro and Eduard Xatruch They met and trained professionally, and after consolidating the work done in Share opened in April 2012 in Cadaqués,” they explain from the restaurant itself.

The kitchen of Enjoy

“In Barcelona The gastronomic proposal revolves around the tasting menu, with cuisine with a clearly avant-garde style and where the dishes stand out for their great personality, markedly Mediterranean. In short, a restaurant with daring, fun and modern cuisine in search of “taste” as the main premise”, defines its cuisine.

The proposal of this restaurant is based on two menus with the option of wine pairing. The first is about Enjoy Classicdesigned and composed of creations that have become “classics” of the Enjoy restaurant, and the second is Menu Enjoy Festival, designed and composed mostly of creations created during the current Enjoy season. Both are priced at 290 euros with the option of pairing for 160 euros more.

For even more special occasions, if possible, we can also opt for the Special Menu Table M#01 The “Live” Table. As they explain, it is a proposal that was born as a result of the initiative of the interior designer Merche Alcalà and with which Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas have worked to offer a totally different and novel experience.

“The “live” table is located in the restaurant’s R&D kitchen, on the -1 floor of the premises and can only be made in this space.” This menu is designed for a minimum of one person and a maximum of six. In the event that only one person enjoys it, the price would be 1050 eurosand depending on the number of diners, the price decreases to 390 euros per person assuming there are six diners.

The other Spaniards on the list

Spanish gastronomy conquers the podium of the best restaurants in the world where, following Enjoyin Barcelona, Etxebarri Grillin Axper (Vizcaya), has reached second position.

For their part, Dabiz Muñoz and his DiverXO They fall one position compared to last year, occupying fourth position on the list.

At number 14 on the list we find the restaurant Quique Dacosta in Dénia and in 28th place, Elkanoin Getaria.