Jan 29, '25

My 20 Best Dishes in 2024

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Since 2013, I’ve been selecting my 20 favorite dishes each year. Here’s my roundup of the top 20 dishes from 2024 (Not in particular order). Wishing you all a happy, healthy, and successful 2025!

Check out my previous lists here.

Roasted lobster with caviar and tarragon cream. Le Pré Catelan, Paris.
Neither cooked nor raw scallop with rosemary butter. Le Pré Catelan, Paris.
– Neither raw nor cooked – Lobster from Yeu, artichoke, nettle and caper remoulade, halophyte.
Table by Bruno Verjus, Paris.
Stuffed Pontoise cabbage, champion of France in 2022. Café des Ministères, Paris.
Pan fried foie gras. My kitchen, Beaune.
Candied tomatoes with 12 flavours, coriander ice cream. L’Arpège, Paris.
Smoked marinated Mediterranean bluefin tuna, wild herb juice, sukiyaki pork rib juice, black garlic, Mexican basil, green yuzu condiment. Couleurs de Shimatani, La Ciotat, France.
Tea and Japanese sweets with the 24th generation priest Takafumi Zenryu Kawakami at Shunkoin temple in Kyoto.
Kamonasu eggplant with miso and sea urchin. Tokuha Motonari, Kyoto.
Edamame tofu. Tokuha Motonari, Kyoto.
Chateaubriand steak with demi-glace sauce. Yōshoku Tsubaki, Uchikoshi, Gifu, Japan.
Tortellini en brodo. Amerigo 1934, Savigno.
Paccheri with tomato sauce and fig leaves infused butter. Ristorante Uliassi, Senigallia.
White tuna with tomato. Asador Etxebarri, Axpe.
Summer pickled tomato, cod fish and tomato consommé. Cocina Hermanos Torres, Barcelona.
Marinated pepper and salted anchovy pintxo. Bar Antonio, San Sebastian
Galician clawed lobster salad with a perfect “cocktail” sauce. Desde 1911, Madrid
Tortilla Vaga. Sacha, Madrid
12 year old, binchotan grilled dairy cow, mashed potatoes from „Weisse Lötschentaler” mountain potatoes, jus. Sven Wassmer Memories, Bad Ragaz, Switzerland
Jura pig’s trotters and veal sweetbreads mix glazed with Porto and Madeira. Le Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville de Crissier, Switzerland
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