The World's 50 Best sustainability awards

About our partnership

In 2013, The World’s 50 Best introduced a new special award, the Sustainable Restaurant Award, to celebrate a restaurant on the 50 Best Restaurants list that was going above and beyond to reduce its impact and serve food fit for the future. In order to judge this award, 50 Best enlisted our help.

Because we have years of expertise in what a sustainable restaurant should look like, 50 Best asked our team at The SRA to come up with a judging process for the competition. Based on our Food Made Good Framework, we developed a globally applicable questionnaire for restaurants to complete, providing us with information across three pillars: Sourcing, Society and Environment. Over the years, we have updated and refined this questionnaire to ensure it captures the changing issues faced by restaurants who want to operate sustainably. 

Not only is it important to celebrate the accomplishments of these restaurants, but the international nature of the awards and the high profiles of many of the chefs involved give us the opportunity to influence the global hospitality sector for the better. This helps us in working towards our own mission: accelerating change towards a sector that is environmentally restorative and socially progressive.

Since 2013, our work has expanded to cover every list produced by 50 Best, assessing restaurants and bars around the world. In 2023, this expanded to include hotels, too. Each year, we find that leading restaurants, hotels and bars across the globe are continuing to raise the bar — at a time when it’s never been more important.