{"id":2287,"date":"2021-03-25T16:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelcommunication.net\/?p=27272"},"modified":"2021-03-25T16:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:41:10","slug":"deepak-ohri-declines-invitation-for-lebuas-dining-venues-to-be-included-in-asias-50-best-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/global-travel-news\/deepak-ohri-declines-invitation-for-lebuas-dining-venues-to-be-included-in-asias-50-best-restaurants\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepak Ohri Declines Invitation for lebua\u2019s Dining Venues to be Included in Asia\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bangkok, Thailand, March 26, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The list of Asia\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants 2020 was revealed at the first ever virtual announcement. The list includes seven new entries and one re-entry, from 10 countries. Two of the top fine dining venues in Asia are missing from the list, namely Mezzaluna and Chef\u2019s Table at lebua luxury vertical destination in Bangkok, both restaurants have two Michelin stars.<\/p>\n

When Deepak Ohri, the visionary Chief Executive Officer of lebua in Bangkok, received an invitation to be included in the lists at World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants he declined.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lots of dining awards, and many of them aren\u2019t credible when it comes to fine dining,\u201d he says. Ohri showed us an invitation from The World\u2019s 50 Best and his reply to the group declining to be included.<\/p>\n

After some Michelin starred chefs returned their stars and refused to be included in the red guide, Deepak, for his fine dining restaurants at lebua, is the first to have decline inclusion or any other association with World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants.<\/p>\n

Ohri does not want to be embroiled in any controversy and joins the voice of Time magazine who published in 2019 an article with the title \u201cWhy The World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants 2019 List Is More Controversial Than Ever\u201d containing the following statement \u201c\u2026Yet for all its success (World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants), the ranking has always been plagued by controversy\u2026\u201d.<\/p>\n

Some culinary experts questioned as well the latest Asia wide ranking given the current state of closed borders. How did World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants academy members rank and compare restaurants across all Asian countries? And in this time of uncertainty and anguish, were they able to visit restaurants, inspecting and ranking them? The Michelin guide recruited and trained local inspectors in each country as traveling was not possible.<\/p>\n

Deepak Ohri is not like most other hotel executives; he is a visionary taking experiential luxury to a higher level by offering exclusive experiences at lebua. If Ohri is not speaking at Harvard Kennedy School or at IIM Bangalore to deliver keynote addresses he is rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, from Barrack Obama and George Clooney to Tony Blair and David Cameron.<\/p>\n

After having faced some criticism in the past, World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants, in 2019, overhauled its rules to encourage more diversity among the restaurant picks and gender balance among its voting body but is Ohri\u2019s refusal a sign that more changes are needed at World\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants?<\/p>\n

First published at TravelCommunication.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bangkok, Thailand, March 26, 2021 \/ TRAVELINDEX \/ The list of Asia\u2019s 50 Best Restaurants 2020 was revealed at the first ever virtual announcement. The list includes seven new entries and one re-entry, from 10 countries. Two of the top fine dining venues in Asia are missing from the list, namely Mezzaluna and Chef\u2019s Table …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[193,194,195,159,52,196,43,197,198,199,200,37,60,201,45,46,44,48,59,202,47],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-travel-news","tag-asias-50-best","tag-chefs-table-bangkok","tag-deepak-ohri","tag-dining-restaurants","tag-featured","tag-fine-dining-bangkok","tag-global-travel-news","tag-invitation-declined","tag-lebua","tag-mezzaluna","tag-michelin-stars","tag-news","tag-thailand","tag-top25restaurants-bangkok","tag-travel-communication","tag-travel-index","tag-travel-news-hub","tag-unwtp-news","tag-updates","tag-visionary","tag-wttc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelindex.org\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}