As for Belgian restaurants, a total of 28 cuisines from the Kingdom populate The List, “Boury” in Roeselare and the “Hof van Cleve” in Kruisem being, unsurprisingly, the first to appear, with a score of 96, 50/100.
Next in order are “The Jane” (96.50) in Antwerp and Le “Chalet de la Forêt” (96) in Uccle as well as, all four displaying the same rating of 93.50, “Hertog Jan at Botanic Antwerp” in Antwerp, “L’Eau vive” in Profondeville, “Slagmolen” in Oudsbergen and “Zilte” in Antwerp.
We then find “La Villa Lorraine by Yves Mattagne” in Brussels, “Castor” in Waregem, “De Jonkman” in Bruges, “La Durée” in Izegem, “Nuance” in Duffel, “Vrijmoed” in Ghent, “D’Eugénie à Emilie” in Saint-Ghislain, “Ralf Berendsen” in Lanaken, “La Table de Maxime” in Paliseul, “Bartholomeus” in Knokke, “Cuchara” in Lommel, “Arabelle Meirlaen” in Marchin, “Comme chez Soi” in Brussels, “Sir Kwinten” in Lennik, “L’Air du Temps” in Eghezée, “La Paix” and ” Bozar” in Brussels, “Colette-De Vijvers” in Scherpenheuvel-Zichem, “Het Gebaar” in Antwerp and, finally, “Menssa” in Woluwé Saint-Pierre which brings up the rear of this top of the top with a rating of 75/100.
Japan at the top of gastronomy
Japan, long renowned for its cuisine, is the country most represented in the top 1,000 of La Liste, with 126 restaurants, followed by the United States with 114 addresses. France has 112 classified restaurants.
Created in 2015, La Liste aims to be the “ranking of rankings” and tracks 35,000 restaurants in 200 countries, using an algorithm that compiles and weights more than 1,100 sources (guides, blogs and press articles), then attributes a score out of 100 points.