The World's 50 Best Restaurants awards are back - and Noma is at the top again.

Antwerp was the scene for this year's announcement - the first for two years. The festivities kicked off with Massimo Bottura doing the red carpet arrivals. And we have to hope that everyone attending was required to take tests or be fully vaccinated based on his effusive welcoming of them all. It also looked like the dress code had been

Hot Dinners takes a closer look at the top ten restaurants from the 2021 World's 50 Best Restaurants List to find out what's so great about them.

Update 5/10/21 - And here is the full rundown of the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2021.

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You could be excused for wondering how the World’s 50 Best Restaurants could pull together a (fair)

Awards (and awards parties) are well and truly back, with the latest being the return of the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drinks Awards. The event took place last night at their Royal Exchange outpost where TV personalities like James Martin rubbed shoulders with Hollywood legend Stanley Tucci and chefs including Jose Pizarro and Calum Franklin. In charge of proceedings

For the second year in the row Mark Birchall's Moor Hall has come in at number one on the National Restaurant Awards top 100 UK restaurants list. The list, which took  a break last year due to the pandemic, rounds up the top 100 restaurants in the UK, as chosen by voters made up of chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and critics.

Taking the coveted top

As we emerge from several lockdowns blinking into the light, we're starting to see more (albeit scaled back) actual awards shows take place and the latest of these is the yearly GQ Food and Drink Awards. Presented at Nobu Portman Square by the person who's frankly the best at this, Claudia Winkleman, it saw Daniel Humm's Davies & Brook at Claridge's take the top

It skipped a year for 2020, for obvious reasons, but the World's 50 Best ceremony is making a comeback later this year. 

Plans have been confirmed for the awards ceremony to take place on 5 October 2021 in Antwerp. The organisers have also said they're aiming for an in-person event, so fingers crossed for a lessening of Covid restrictions (and Covid, of course) by that

Our annual round up of virtual gongs for the best food and drink we've enjoyed over the past twelve months.

There may be a pandemic on, but there's still plenty of room for awards season. While Michelin is delayed until next year, The AA has announced this year's new rosettes (with a virtual ceremony, of course). 

The rosettes run from one to five - with the latter being particularly rare. With that in mind, here's who got an award this year (just focusing on London and on the top

Normally this is the time of year that restaurant awards season kick off. But with the Michelin stars delayed until next year and physical ceremonies decidedly off the cards - not to mention a four-month gap when nothing was open - it's a little quieter than usual this year. 

But that hasn't stopped GQ, who have just revealed their restaurant awards for 2020. Their choice as best restaurant of the year, The

The news is bleak. We know that. So, frankly, we're going to take the wins where we can find them and over the past week or so London has done rather well on that front. We may be an international laughing stock over our response to Covid, but at least when it comes to pizzas and cocktails we're world-beating.

Pizzas first. The 50 Top Pizza Europe 2020 list came out just before the weekend and London

Over in America, the 2020 James Beard Award have been announced and there were several British names up for contention.

If you haven't heard of the awards, think of these as a stateside Oscars, if you like, of the food world. They started 30 years ago and since then have become a barometer of what's hot (and cool) in the culinary world, recognising chefs, restaurants and food writers alike.

This year's winners and shortlisted

You aren't going to see many awards ceremonies this year, what with everything being closed and the whole social distancing thing. But that didn't deter Fortnum & Mason last night. Their awards are primarily about food writing, so this year they moved the ceremony online, presented by Claudia Winkleman as usual, and with a special guest appearance from Stephen Fry. 

So here's who won an award last

As there are no actual restaurants open in many places across the world right now, the people behind the World's 50 Best Restaurants have made the fairly sensible decision to delay their next awards until 2021. After all, even if there are a few restaurants open somewhere, nobody can actually travel to get to them. 

So, the main list is going to be furloughed for a year, assuming that's what the announcement that the "annual list will not be released

The votes are in! We asked you to vote for your favourite new restaurant of 2019 - and here's what you said.