Frantzén 50 Best rank falls outside the top 50
Stockholm's three-Michelin-star restaurant lands at No. 58 on the extended 2026 list, its first finish outside the top 50 since rejoining the ranking in 2019.
Restaurant Frantzén in Stockholm falls to No. 58 on the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2026 extended list, its first finish outside the top 50 since the kitchen rejoined the ranking in 2019.
The 51-100 list, published on 21 October by The 50 (the organisation formerly known as 50 Best), places Frantzén 20 places below its 2025 result of No. 38. The restaurant's best showing came in 2021, when it reached No. 6, the highest position a Swedish restaurant has held on the list.
A 20-place fall from last year
A ranking built on votes, one industry figure says, rewards visibility as much as the plate.
The ranking draws on votes from more than 1,100 chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and well-travelled diners split across regional panels. Voters may only name restaurants they visited within the qualifying period, restaurants cannot apply for a spot, and the accounting firm Deloitte audits the count.
Chef Björn Frantzén's three-Michelin-star restaurant keeps its stars regardless of the 50 Best result; Michelin and The 50 run separate, unconnected assessments, one built on anonymous inspection and the other on peer vote.
Joel Söderbäck, a partner in the Stockholm hospitality group 20-Gruppen, which runs the bar Tjoget, said the lists reward promotion as much as cooking. He argued that consistency on the plate matters less than being seen at industry events, and that marketing now shapes a restaurant's position as much as its menu does.
Why the World's 50 Best differs from Michelin stars
Frantzén is not alone in the drop. Tim Raue in Berlin fell from No. 58 to No. 85 and Aponiente in El Puerto de Santa María from No. 84 to No. 100 on the same extended list. Uliassi in Senigallia, Italy, leads the group at No. 51.
Sweden may still land a spot in the top 50: Vyn, chef Daniel Berlin's restaurant in Skillinge, ranked No. 47 last year and does not appear on the 51-100 list, which points to it holding a top-50 place rather than dropping out entirely.
Frantzén Group's Dubai restaurant, FZN, which earned a third Michelin star in 2025, ranks No. 88 on the same extended list. Björn Frantzén now runs the only kitchen trio worldwide to hold three Michelin stars apiece, at Frantzén in Stockholm, Zén in Singapore and FZN in Dubai.
The full top 50 ranking streams live from the Teatro Municipal de Lima on 4 November at 20:00 local time, narrowing the gap between a restaurant's Michelin standing and where diners and critics currently rank it.
