World's best restaurant is in Peru’s capital

World's best restaurant is in Peru’s capital
Chef Virgilio Martinez. (Image: Getty)
Bloomberg
By Kate Krader and Will FarleyThe best restaurant in the world is Central, in Lima. The dynamic tasting menu restaurant from chef Virgilio Martinez features ingredients from Peru’s very diverse landscape, from potatoes sourced from of the heights of the Andes mountains to sea urchin from the ocean and notes the latitude of each dish. The pronouncement from World’s 50 Best, an independent organisation, moved the restaurant world’s epicentre away from Copenhagen, which had claimed the top spot for the past two years: in 202...

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