Every Scandi restaurant on the World’s Best Restaurants 2025 list

Last month in Turin, Italy, the World’s Best Restaurants for 2025 were announced. Topping the list was Maido in Lima, Peru, where chef Mitsuharu ‘Micha’ Tsumura presents a 10-course Nikkei feast spotlighting Peruvian ingredients with a focus on Amazonian indigenous produce. Lima’s dominance didn’t stop there – three other restaurants from the city landed in the top 50, confirming its status as one of this year’s most exciting culinary capitals.

Still, even with South America’s impressive sweep (10 restaurants from Central and South America made the cut) Scandinavia maintained its strong foothold. The region has long been a fixture on the list, with Copenhagen’s Noma taking the top spot five times and Geranium winning in 2022. This year, six Nordic restaurants were featured across the top 100, proving that new Nordic dining is as influential as ever.

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Below, discover the six Scandinavian restaurants that earned a spot on the 2025 list.

If you thought experiential dining had run its course, a visit to Alchemist proves otherwise. In some corners of the culinary world, food as theatre still reigns supreme. At Alchemist, there are no traditional courses – instead, guests are taken through 50 ‘impressions’ that employ location, artwork, sound and mind-bending plating to g in order enhance the sensorial element of dining.

What secures Alchemist’s place as a regular on the World’s 50 Best list is head chef Rasmus Munk’s rare talent: the ability to make even the most unconventional ingredients taste extraordinary. Even the most ardent fine dining sceptics are likely to find something here to appreciate, if not be entirely won over by.

Few chefs boast as many gastronomic accolades as Björn Frantzén. But it’s the chef's namesake Stockholm restaurant that remains his crown jewel, and for good reason. Drawing from Scandinavia’s natural bounty – exquisite seafood, flavourful produce – and combining it with refined Nordic techniques and an infusion of Asian flavours, Frantzén delivers an exceptional dining experience. Spanning three floors, it stands as one of Stockholm’s most compelling culinary destinations.

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Where Alchemist leans into mind-bending, futuristic food, Kadeau finds beauty in bringing nature to the plate in its purest form. The focus here is firmly on ingredients – whether it’s squid braised in seaweed or six-day smoked salmon, the menu is deeply influenced by the restaurant’s sister outpost on the island of Bornholm, where such ingredients thrive in abundance.

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Kadeau’s menu is divided into two distinct seasons: growing season, spanning spring and summer when produce is at its peak, and preservation season in the cooler months, when ingredients from the warmer seasons are carefully preserved to keep the plates vibrant and full of life through the dark Nordic winter.

There are few culinary names in Scandinavia that command more instant recognition than Daniel Berlin. His original, eponymous restaurant in Skåne-Tranås was an industry favourite, earning acclaim far beyond Sweden’s borders. So when it closed its doors in 2023, fine dining devotees were heartbroken – that is, until Berlin quietly unveiled Vyn, nestled in the rural southern village of Skillinge.

Sitting on the coast of the Baltic in an abundant area rich with exceptional produce and even better seafood, Vyn is something of a love letter to Berlin’s home county of Skåne, with the menu centred around key ingredients from the local area.

After dining at Jordnær, it will come as little surprise that this seafood-centric spot became just the third restaurant in Denmark to earn three Michelin stars – an impressive feat in a country known for its exceptionally high culinary standards.

Surrounded as it is by some of the most abundant waters in the world, Denmark benefits from an exceptional haul of seafood, something Jordnaer takes full advantage of with a menu full of lobster, langoustine, scallop and turbot, cooked to their full potential with bright, enlivening Asian flavours and techniques. New Nordic cuisine

Offering a powerful story of identity and the meaning we can find through food, Koan is chef Kristian Baumann’s tribute to his Korean heritage. Adopted as a child and raised in Denmark, Baumann built a thriving career in some of the country’s top kitchens before traveling to Korea in search of a deeper connection to the place of his birth.

That journey became the foundation for Koan – first a pop-up, now a permanent restaurant on the Langeliniekaj waterfront. Here, Baumann serves a 17-course tasting menu that thoughtfully weaves together the flavours of Korea with the refined New Nordic techniques of his culinary training.