Asador Etxebarri ranked second in the World's 50 Best 2025 list
Victor Arguinzoniz's Basque grill restaurant finished runner-up at the 2025 World's 50 Best Restaurants, held in Turin, behind Lima's Maido.
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On 19 June 2025, the World's 50 Best Restaurants ceremony was held in Turin, Italy, the first time the event took place in the country. Asador Etxebarri, a grill restaurant in the village of Atxondo in Spain's Basque Country, was placed second.
The restaurant is led by chef Victor Arguinzoniz, who is known for cooking almost everything over wood embers, using grills he designed himself. Its menu relies on very fresh local ingredients, treated with minimal intervention, from seafood to dairy and beef.
Peru's Maido in Lima, a Nikkei (Japanese-Peruvian) restaurant, took first place, and Mexico City's Quintonil ranked third. Etxebarri had also finished second the year before, so the result confirmed its place at the very top of the ranking, which is voted on by more than 1,000 chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and other experts. It also set the stage for the restaurant's later push for the number one spot.
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