Here you will find the best restaurants in Germany, Europe, America and Asia, but perhaps not your favourite Italian restaurant around the corner.

The gourmet portal www.restaurant-ranglisten.de was created by combining Gustav Volkenborn's restaurant hit lists and the chef directory from www.die-besten-koeche.com. The result is a comprehensive and unique online offer in the gastronomy sector that is unrivalled in terms of depth of information and user-friendliness.

The roots

In 1988, Gustav Volkenborn (1941-2006) had the idea of calculating an overall rating from the relevant providers due to the heterogeneity of the restaurant guides. To do this, all scores were converted into a standardised system (French school grades from 0-20), weighted according to distribution and importance and totalled for each restaurant. This resulted in comparability across all guides, which has become increasingly important in recent years and has become a recognised benchmark.

Hannes Buchner (born 1964) took a different approach. From his numerous visits to restaurants in Germany and abroad, he created his own chef database (www.die-besten-koeche.com) in 2004 with detailed information on the makers and creatives behind the scenes. After the database had grown thanks to the enthusiastic co-operation of the gourmet chefs, it was quickly published on the web. Over the past few years, the foundations have been laid to turn the small database into a comprehensive gourmet portal that delights gourmets and industry experts alike.

Relaunch

Hannes Buchner took over the restaurant hit lists of the late Gustav Volkenborn at the end of 2006 and reorganised the two websites into an information portal.

Gourmet-Portal GmbH was founded in 2009.
With its rankings, Gourmet-Portal GmbH offers a user-friendly and up-to-date overview of top gastronomy worldwide.

Every day we work passionately and personally on our content without artificial aids (AI) and see data collection as manual work to gain knowledge and expertise and pass it on to people. Just like the protagonists in the industry do every day in their restaurants.

I have been passionate about haute cuisine for 45 years. A trip to France influenced me in culinary terms and prompted me to found this portal many years later. I have now been the owner and publisher of the gourmet portal Restaurant-Ranglisten.de (formerly die-besten-koeche.com) for over 20 years.