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From theatrical treetop dining in Cape Town to a French-inflected Japanese tasting menu in a Tokyo skyscraper, you can expect world-class quality for excellent value at these 50 Best ranked spots.
Getting in on the action at a world-leading restaurant doesn't need to break the bank: one way of doing it is by choosing the lunch menu, which is often a shorter, less costly version of the evening tasting menu. Another option is to pick a venue with a lunchtime la carte offering so you're in the driving seat when it comes to spending. Explore these great-value dining destinations that have featured on 50 Best Restaurants lists.
Florilège, Tokyo
@restaurant_florilege
What's on offer? A seven-course tasting menu from $82.
Located in Tokyo's tallest building, chef Hiroyasu Kawate's French-influenced lunchtime tasting menu is possibly one of the best-value options on The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list. In a low-lit dining room, guests share a single 16-seater table, adhering to Kawate's 'table d'hôte' concept, which is designed to encourage conversation around food. The menu is plant-focused, using local ingredients to create a distinctly Japanese character alongside classic French finesse from Kawate's time cooking in Montpellier's Le Jardin des Sens.
Septime, Paris
@septimeparis
What's on offer? A five-course tasting menu from $99.
You'll need to get organised if you want to snag a table at Septime: bookings are released three weeks in advance and are often locked in quickly. And with a multi-course tasting menu at such a reasonable price, it's easy to understand why. Ranked at No.40 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list, graphic designer-turned-chef Bertrand Grébaut's neo-industrial bistro has been charming diners for more than a decade, showcasing creative modern French cooking. Expect seasonal ingredient-led plates with global touches – white asparagus with sauce poulette, XO sauce and preserved Meyer lemon or banca trout tostada with rose and beetroot to name just two.
La Colombe, Cape Town
@lacolombect
What's on offer? An eight-course tasting menu from $68 (weekdays only).
La Colombe's well-priced tasting menus have the world's attention, earning this treehouse restaurant No.55 on The World's Best Restaurants 2025 extended ranking. Set atop Constantia Nek mountain pass in the Silvermist organic wine estate, you'll be treated to stunning views across the valley alongside eight courses from chef James Gaag and team. Dishes are grounded in French technique and accented with Asian flourishes, with ingredients leaning heavily on local and seasonal produce with elaborate presentation and plenty of tableside theatre.
Celele, Cartagena
@celele_restaurante
What's on offer? An a la carte menu with starters from roughly $17, mains from $21 and desserts from $10.
Chef Jaime Rodríguez is committed to democratising research-led cooking. In 2021, he decided to stop serving tasting menus at Celele, No.48 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list, offering instead an a la carte menu celebrating the biodiversity and culinary culture of the Colombian Caribbean. Based on extensive experiences meeting indigenous people and documenting recipes, Celele's menu features rare ingredients like orejero (tree seeds often made into a sweet paste) and jumbalee (a wild fruit), as well as dishes featuring Caribbean flowers, yuca leaf and La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta chocolate.
Masque, Mumbai
@masquerestaurant
What's on offer? A 10-course tasting menu from $74.
The first restaurant in Mumbai to offer a multi-course tasting menu experience, Masque's ever-evolving mission to reinvent classic Indian cookery has garnered it the No.68 spot on The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 list. Chef Varun Totlani helms the restaurant, which calls Mumbai's former industrial textile mill area home. The 10-course tasting menu changes with the seasons, featuring produce sourced from local farmers and foraging trips. Totlani aims to change diners' perceptions of Indian cuisine, spotlighting ingredients little known outside of the hyper-locale, such as buckwheat and cloudberries.
Kol, London
@kol.restaurant
What's on offer? A five-course tasting menu from $130.
When Santiago Lastra opened Kol, he wanted to embrace the challenge of creating Mexican cuisine in a climate where traditional ingredients are not native. Diners won't find avocado, lime or cactus on the menu – instead, Lastra's extensive research has yielded UK alternatives such as kohlrabi, sea buckthorn, fermented gooseberries and seaweed. Ranked at No.47 on The World's Best Restaurants 2025 list, Kol only imports corn, chocolate and chillies from Mexico, with the menu taking a hyper-seasonal British approach to Lastra's memories of Mexico. While most of the fare is ever-changing, you'll always find the restaurant's famous langoustine taco with smoked chilli, sauerkraut and a zesty hit of sea buckthorn on the menu.
A Casa do Porco, São Paulo
@acasadoporcobar
What's on offer? An eight-course tasting menu from $59.
Ranked No.15 on Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants 2024 list and No.83 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2025 extended list, A Casa do Porco is a haven for pork in all its forms. As its translated name, 'house of the pig', suggests, chef Jefferson Rueda rears his own pigs and grows most of the vegetables used on his own farm and oversees the a la carte and Nosso Sangue é Latino (Our Blood is Latino) tasting menus. The overarching theme showcases flavours from Rueda's childhood elegantly reimagined – in particular, the six-hour slow roasted pork, pork jowl sushi and pancetta crackling are classics.
Saint Peter, Sydney
@saintpeterpaddo
What's on offer? A three-course tasting menu from $108.
This concrete-clad spot in the Sydney suburb of Paddington is home to a chef widely credited with rewriting the fish cookery rule book. You won't find Dover Sole a la meunière at Saint Peter – instead, chef Josh Niland likes to use the parts of fish other chefs leave behind. His restaurant, which sits at No.66 on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list 2025, champions nose-to-tail techniques more commonly used for meat such as dry ageing, butchery and use of offal. While the Chef's Table menu has adventurous dishes like soup with coral trout bone noodles and John Dory liver pâte tart, the more affordably priced lunch menu offers the same spirit with a lower price tag.
Rosetta, Mexico City
@restauranterosetta
What's on offer? An a la carte menu with starters from roughly $13, mains from $28 and desserts from $14.
Chef Elena Reygadas' Rosetta is a firm favourite with locals and gastronomic travellers alike. The World's Best Female Chef 2023 trained at the French Culinary Institute in New York and spent four years in London at Locanda Locatelli before returning to her native Mexico to open her own restaurant. The global influence on Rosetta's menu is clear – while ingredients are sourced from small local producers, dishes take on a worldly feel: brioche with escamoles and tarragon bearnaise, smoked quesillo cappellacci and corn broth and her famous Savoy cabbage tacos with pistachio pipián and romeritos, to name a few. If you can't get a table here, ranked No.45 on The World's Best Restaurants 2025 list, the on-site bakery specialising in sourdough is a more economical way to experience Reygadas' talents.
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