The restaurant ranked forty eighth on the listing, down eight locations from final 12 months, the organizing committee introduced at a ceremony in South Korea on March 26.
Positioned inside an previous market on Ton That Dam Avenue close to Bitexco Monetary Tower, Anan makes a speciality of road food-inspired dishes created by its proprietor and chef, Peter Cuong Franklin.
Franklin can also be famed for its $100 banh mi that’s topped with French foie gras, truffle, a standard garnish of sliced cucumbers, cilantro and mint and served with a facet of fried candy potatoes and caviar.
Different dishes which have helped the restaurant acquire a fame amongst worldwide foodies are Hanoi-style cha ca La Vong (fried catfish); banh xeo taco, a dish consisting of a central Vietnamese region-style banh xeo (Vietnamese pancake) folded into the form of a Mexican taco and crammed with shrimp and pork, Hanoi-style grilled catfish, and beef stew.
Born within the Central Highlands metropolis of Da Lat, Franklin migrated to the U.S. in 1975 and had a profession in banking earlier than deciding to observe his ardour for meals.
“I simply created a brand new model of Vietnamese delicacies that may combine with the world as I need to flip in style dishes into high-class meals to convey an fascinating expertise to diners,” he stated.
This 12 months’s champion is Sézanne in Japan’s Tokyo which makes a speciality of serving French dishes combining Asian culinary kinds.
The highest 50 additionally contains eight different eating places in Japan, 14 in China, 9 in Singapore, eight in Thailand, 4 in South Korea, three in India and one every within the Philippines and Indonesia.
The World’s 50 Greatest Eating places is an annual award initiated by U.Okay.-based media firm William Reed in 2002, with the participation of greater than 300 critics, cooks, restaurant house owners, and culinary consultants world wide.
Voters should have eaten within the eating places they nominate inside the earlier 18 months, and they don’t seem to be permitted to vote for eating places they personal or have a monetary curiosity in.