La Liste guide and results are available on laliste.com and through La Liste app (iOS and Android) Founder of La Liste, Ambassador Philippe Faure, was previously CEO of Gault & Millau, and former Head of the French Tourist Board,[1] and served as ambassador of France to Japan from 2007 to 2011, to Mexico and to Morocco.
Corporate sponsors of La Liste include Moët Hennessy, American Express, ABInbev, Marché International de Rungis and Accor Hotels.
The list factors in more than 700 international dining guides, crowd-sourced sites (such as Yelp and TripAdvisor) or press reviews (New York Times, Washington Post...).
Among those sources, La Liste also takes into consideration Zagat, Michelin, the James Beard Award, Gault & Millau, OpenTable.
[6] Japan tops the list with 127[8] restaurants followed by France with 118 and the United States with 101.