Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021 award ceremony celebrates region’s culinary creativity (and resilience)

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Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021 award ceremony celebrates region’s culinary creativity (and resilience)

Winning chefs at the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2021 award ceremony. From left to right: Hiroyasu Kawate (Florilege, No. 7), Shinobu Namae (L’Effervescence, No. 19), Zaiyu Hasegawa (Den, No. 3), Yusuke Takada (La Cime, No. 8), Takeshi Fukuyama (La Maison de la Nature Goh, No. 30) and Yusuke Namai (Ode, No. 27). | OSCAR BOYD

By Oscar Boyd
Staff Writer

Mar 26, 2021

After being forced online by the pandemic last year, Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants returned to the physical world this week with a glitzy awards ceremony in the Grand Ball Room of the The Kahala Hotel & Resort Yokohama on Thursday.

Hong Kong’s The Chairman took the top spot, beating out 2020 winner Odette (Singapore, No. 2) to be crowned The Best Restaurant in Asia.

The ceremony, which was attended by a scattering of Japanese chefs and guests, was a scaled-down version of festivities from years past, and centered on a video presentation ceremony that was streamed live on YouTube.