Etxebarri and Josper<\/h3>\n\n
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Bittor Arginzoniz’s collaboration with\u00a0Josper<\/strong>\u00a0goes back a long way: his cuisine has revolutionised the ancestral technique of cooking with embers, fire and smoke and his experience has led him to work with Josper to design both the\u00a0Josper Basque Grill<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the various\u00a0kitchen accessories<\/a><\/strong>, such as small grills and special grill pans, which open up a whole world of culinary possibilities.\u00a0All these products are available on our website<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n The 50 Best ranking is based on the votes of\u00a0more than a thousand<\/strong>\u00a0independent<\/strong>\u00a0culinary experts<\/strong>\u00a0(34% hoteliers and chefs and 66% journalists and food writers), a process audited by the firm Deloitte. As a one off, due to Covid-19, on this occasion the votes cast in 2020, which were never published, have been considered as a reference for the list, added to the new votes from the March\u00a02021<\/strong> ballot. The annual gala took place at the Flanders Meeting & Convention Center in\u00a0Antwerp<\/strong>, Belgium, and, aside from Etxebarri, six other Spanish restaurants were included in the list of 100 best restaurants.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n In addition to\u00a0Etxebarri<\/strong>, there are five Spanish restaurants awarded in this edition of the 50 Best. In 5th place comes Barcelona’s\u00a0Disfrutar<\/strong>, run by the chefs Oriol Castro, Mateu Casa\u00f1as and Eduard Xatruch; in 14th and 16th positions, respectively, are the Guipuzcoan restaurants\u00a0Mugaritz<\/strong>, run by Luis Aduriz, and\u00a0Elkano<\/strong>, managed by Aitor Arregui; 20th place goes to Madrid’s Dabiz Mu\u00f1oz with\u00a0DiverXO<\/strong>; and finally, 49th place goes to\u00a0Azurmendi<\/strong>, Eneko Atxa’s restaurant in Bizkaia. From 51st to 100th position, the Spanish restaurants that made it onto the list are\u00a0Nerua<\/strong>\u00a0(53rd),\u00a0Quique Dacosta Restaurante<\/strong>\u00a0(74th),\u00a0Aponiente<\/strong>\u00a0(79th), and\u00a0Arzak<\/strong>\u00a0(94th). Josper would like to congratulate all of them for this prestigious recognition.<\/p>\n\n <\/p>\n\n Asador Etxebarri<\/strong>, in the Biscayan town of\u00a0Atxondo<\/strong>, regains the position it achieved in 2019. Bittor has also won the\u00a0Estrella Damm Chef’s Choice Award<\/strong>, rewarded by his fellow chefs. This is a very special prize as it is a real source of pride for him to be recognised by his peers. Bittor’s mastery and pioneering technique is inspiring a new generation of chefs, and he is also one of the most beloved chefs due to his friendliness and humility.<\/p>\n\n Born in\u00a0Atxondo<\/strong>, Arginzoniz grew up in a family that used fire for everything, as there was hardly any other source of energy in the town. In 1989 he decided to buy an\u00a0old 18th century manor house<\/strong>, located in a very quiet valley far from the madding crowd, as he says, which after a complete transformation was converted into the famous Asador Etxevarri the following year. With the simple idea of “eating well”, Bittor focuses on the grill, the traditional low fire, and not only meats are grilled: along with Galician beef there is also baby squid, Palam\u00f3s red prawns, barnacles, octopus, eels, mussels, cockles, tuna belly, asparagus, mushrooms, peas, caviar and turtledoves. Countless products are cooked on the Arginzoniz charcoal grill. Bittor has taken\u00a0grilling to innovative new levels<\/strong>, which led him to win the\u00a0National Gastronomy Award in 2017<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n Asador Etxebarri is a benchmark for charcoal-grilled cuisine, and not only in Spain, in fact, as the Basque restaurant\u00a0is considered without a doubt the best grill restaurant in the world<\/strong>. In the following video, Bittor welcomes the organisers of the 50 Best list at his farmhouse in Atxondo:<\/p>\n\n![\"Quique](\"https:\/\/jospergrill.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/quique-dacosta-and-bittor-arginzoniz-at-josper-grill.jpg\")
The other award-winning Spanish restaurants<\/h3>\n\n
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Etxebarri Grill, Bittor’s dream<\/h3>\n\n
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