{"id":434780,"date":"2025-12-09T04:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434780\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T04:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:17:17","slug":"somni-providence-and-more-l-a-restaurants-ranked-as-best-in-the-world-in-new-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434780\/","title":{"rendered":"Somni, Providence and More L.A. Restaurants Ranked as Best in the World in New Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you needed another excuse to splurge on a marathon tasting menu, here it is: four of Los Angeles\u2019s most coveted restaurants have landed on La Liste\u2019s new top 1,000 ranking of the world\u2019s best restaurants for 2026<\/a>, the algorithm-driven guide that crunches reviews, guidebooks and guest feedback from more than 1,100 sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the latest list, the avant-garde West Hollywood stunner from chef Aitor Zabala Somni<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0leads the local pack with a score of 96.5 out of 100. It\u2019s safe to say that the 20-plus-course experience is now firmly in global power-dining territory.\u00a0Not far behind\u00a0is the Hollywood seafood temple Providence<\/a><\/strong>, which scored 90. Even after 20 years, Michael Cimarusti\u2019s meticulous approach to sustainable fine dining still resonates with critics and high-rollers alike.\u00a0<\/p>\n

n\/naka<\/a><\/strong>, Niki Nakayama\u2019s modern kaiseki landmark in Palms, clocks in at 83.5, while Hayato<\/a><\/strong>, Brandon Go\u2019s jewel-box counter in ROW DTLA<\/a>, earns a 75.5 score for its hushed, hyper-seasonal kaiseki.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Globally, La Liste\u2019s 2026 edition crowned nine restaurants in seven countries as joint number ones, from Arnaud Donckele\u2019s La Vague d\u2019Or in Saint-Tropez to Le Bernardin in New York<\/a> and SingleThread in Northern California<\/a>, part of a field that now sees the U.S. matching France for the number of establishments in the top 1,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ranking isn\u2019t just a beauty contest, either. La Liste\u2019s algorithm folds in everything from legacy guidebooks to newspaper write-ups and online guest reviews, then layers on environmental and social commitments before spitting out a score on a 100-point scale. The guide has also expanded beyond restaurants to include thousands of top-rated hotels and pastry shops worldwide, plus a mobile app for map-based restaurant hunting on the go<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For Los Angeles, the recognition cements locals\u2019 knowledge that the city\u2019s special-occasion scene can go fork-to-fork with Europe and Asia\u2019s finest. La Liste is essentially saying the same thing your most food-obsessed friend has been insisting on for years: whether you\u2019re looking for molecular theatrics, world-class seafood or precise, seasonal rhythms, you can find it all. <\/p>\n

And yes, all these places are worth the schlep, the set alarm for reservations and the sticker shock\u2014at least once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you needed another excuse to splurge on a marathon tasting menu, here it is: four of Los…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,10633,2961,224,5337,10634,988],"class_list":{"0":"post-434780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-categories-restaurants","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-losangeles","14":"tag-news-eating","15":"tag-restaurants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115687682830518783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}