Our Partners
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants is recognised as being a credible indicator of the best places to eat all around the world. Over the last 10 years awareness of The World’s 50 Best restaurants has grown. Restaurant magazine had been able to do this, in no small part, due to the valued support of our international partners and sponsors.
Our partners and sponsors do not have any influence on the voting or the listing of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. The ranking is selected by our Academy panel of over 800 members around the world, and no sponsors or partners can influence their vote.
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Birra Moretti
Official beer to the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards in 2012
Birra Moretti is a premium Italian beer, part of Heineken UK’s world lager portfolio. First brewed in 1859, only the finest ingredients are used to make Birra Moretti, including a blend of high quality hops which give it a unique aroma and enhance its well balanced bitterness.
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Cacao Barry
Sponsor of the Highest Climber Award
Cacao Barry has been producing premium chocolate since 1842, sourcing the highest quality cocoa in the origin countries and using the most advanced processing techniques. The Cacao Barry range of products includes limited edition Plantation Chocolates and a specialist ‘Or Noir’ lab where you can create your own bespoke chocolate.
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Highland Park
Slow Food Award sponsored by Highland Park
Established in 1798 on Orkney, Highland Park is one of the most remote Scotch whisky distilleries in the world. For over 200 years, the distillery has combined time old tradition and the very best craftsmanship to achieve perfection. Its award winning range of 12, 15, 18, 25, 30 and 40 year old single malts is consistently acclaimed by connoisseurs and experts.
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Lavazza
Sponsor of the Slow Food Market and coffee to the Awards
With over 110 years of history behind it, Lavazza, as we see it today, is the result of its tenacious and intuitive founder Luigi, who in 1895 acquired a small grocery store in the heart of old Turin. Luigi Lavazza, with his pioneering spirit, first invented the concept of the blend, the art of mixing coffee of different origins to obtain a harmonious, flavourful product. Today, Lavazza is the leader when it comes to quality and is the symbol of Italian espresso representing so the Italian identity worldwide.
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LesConcierges
The Premier Provider of Global Concierge Services
LesConcierges, Inc. is the premier provider of global concierge services. As a strategic partner we enhance lifestyles and businesses. We tailor programs that deliver unique value to our private members, our corporate clients and their customers and their employees.
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S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna
Main Sponsors
S.Pellegrino sponsors The Lifetime Achievment Award. Acqua Panna sponsors The One to Watch Award. S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna will again take a central role at the prestigious World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, an event that will provide another opportunity to confirm how well they complement each other on the tables of the most renowned restaurants.
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Silestone
The official sponsor of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants of the Chef’s Choice Award.
Silestone® by Cosentino, worldwide leader brand in quartz surfaces, consists of more than 90% natural quartz. This high-tech material is highly resistant to stains, knocks and scratches, and has a low level of fluid absorption. It also has an exclusive bacteriostatic property, several product guarantees and certificates and the upper level of service, quality and responsibility of the Cosentino Group. Silestone® comes in over up to 60 colors, three textures and several different formats. Thanks to these special properties, Silestone® surfaces are highly suitable for the kitchen, bath and other demanding areas such as laboratories, hospitals, hotels, restaurants and so on.
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Veuve Clicquot
Veuve Clicquot
Firmly implanted in the Champagne countryside since 1772, the Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin House is the perfect symbol of the “Art of Living”. With more than 515 hectares of vineyards at the heart of one of the greatest Champagne crus, Veuve Clicquot has remained loyal to her watchword: “only one quality, the finest”.
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Action Against Hunger
Charity Partner
Founded 30 years ago, ACF International (known as Action Against Hunger in the UK) is an international humanitarian organisation committed to saving the lives of malnourished children and their families in over 40 countries worldwide. One of the leading organisations in the fight against hunger and malnutrition, our teams provide for people’s immediate needs when food is scarce and provide families with the tools, seeds and support they need to build a sustainable future.
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BigHospitality
Official Online Sponsor
A sister publication to Restaurant magazine, BigHospitality is an on-line resource for those interested in the UK’s hospitality industry. Our clear, accessible site keeps users up-to-date on all the latest news related to the restaurant, hotel and pub sectors in the UK.
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Slow Food UK
Slow Food Market
Slow Food UK works to ensure good, clean and fair food is a right for everyone. By good, clean and fair we mean that our food should taste good, that it should be produced in a clean way which fully respects the environment, human health and animal welfare, and that food producers are paid a fair wage.
