These Are The 10 Best Restaurants in The World Spanish Chefs of "El Celler de Can Roca" Joan Roca, center, Jordi Roca, left, and Josep Roca, right, pose with their employees at the restaurant in Girona on April 30, 2013. Quique Garcia—AFP/Getty Images BY LISA ABEND MAY 10, 2014 9:28 AM EDT E ach year, fine diners, restaurateurs and food writers—I’m in the last group—try to read the annual World’s 50 Best Restaurant list like tea leaves, searching for trends, or at the very least, a coherent theme. But as in previous years, the 2014 edition, which was announced in London late last month, defies unifying logic. The restaurants that made the full list of 100 range from David Chang’s decidedly informal and unsedate Momofuku Ssam Bar, to Alain Ducasse’s paragon of plushness, Louis XIV, in Monaco. That said, in the past several years, the highest-ranking positions have tended to go to restaurants that balance at least a degree of luxury (although not alw...