{"id":28728,"date":"2026-11-06T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T06:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/non-categorise\/50-best-asador-etxebarri-at-the-top\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T06:14:15","slug":"50-best-asador-etxebarri-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/food-news\/50-best-asador-etxebarri-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Best: Asador Etxebarri at the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have an unforgettable memory of my lunch at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asadoretxebarri.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>Asador Etxebarri<\/strong><\/a>, in the small village of Axpe, in the heart of the Spanish Basque Country. It was a moment of pure magic, where Victor Arginzoniz\u2014a man as unassuming as he is talented\u2014left me in awe with his mastery of the fire and his absolute respect for the ingredients. I still remember his Palam\u00f3s prawns, his grilled lobster, and that rib of beef, which I still consider one of the best I\u2019ve ever tasted.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caminada, 39th<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, learning that his restaurant has just taken first place on *The 50 Best Restaurants 2026* list brings me a special kind of joy. Not that this ranking is the absolute truth\u2014far from it\u2014but because it honors an exceptional artisan who, far removed from passing fads and flashy displays, has turned simplicity and precision into an art form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unveiled on November 4 in Lima, Peru, the rankings place Gaggan in Bangkok in second place, followed by Alchemist in Copenhagen. On the French side, Arnaud Donckele\u2019s Pl\u00e9nitude climbs to tenth place, while Hugo Roellinger\u2019s Le Coquillage makes its debut at number 34. In Switzerland, Andreas Caminada\u2019s Schloss Schauenstein returns to the rankings at number 39.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022, I titled my column \u201cAsador Etxebarri: What a Paradise!\u201d Four years later, I wouldn\u2019t change a single word. Well done, Mr. Arginzoniz!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heart of the Spanish Basque Country, Victor Arginzoniz has turned wood-fired cooking into an art form in its own right. His restaurant, Asador Etxebarri, has just taken first place in the 2026 edition of *The World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants*, recognizing a cuisine of rare precision, where the ingredients remain king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"50 Best: Asador Etxebarri at the Top | Restaurant Lima | Edouard Amoiel","description":"In the heart of the Spanish Basque Country, Victor Arginzoniz has turned wood-fired cooking into an art form in its own right. His restaurant, Asador Etxebarri,"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_restaurants-par-lieux":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_style-de-restaurant":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351],"tags":[],"restaurants-par-lieux":[408],"style-de-restaurant":[],"class_list":["post-28728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-news","restaurants-par-lieux-lima"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"restaurants-par-lieux","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restaurants-par-lieux?post=28728"},{"taxonomy":"style-de-restaurant","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amoiel.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/style-de-restaurant?post=28728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}