World's best 100 restaurants for the 'private jet lifestyle'

Michelin stars and celebrity chefs: Elite Traveler voters take an average of 41 private jet trips a year

Mirror of the sky: The Falaknuma Palace hotel

From the rolling hills of five-star Scottish golfing resort Gleneagles to the hyper-modern playground for the super-rich in China - readers of a magazine for travellers living the 'private jet' lifestyle have voted for their top 100 restaurants.

Complete with landmarks locations, Michelin stars and celebrity chefs including Heston Blumenthal and Raymond Blanc, the list spans six continents and 23 countries including Monaco, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates.

Such extravagance doesn't come cheap, but cost of the meals was not a factor in the methodology, with voters taking an average of 41 private jet trips a year.

Top of the bill, for the fourth year in a row, is Alinea in Chicago, with three Michelin stars and a kitchen run by Grant Achatz - the superstar head chef well-renowned as the best chef in the USA for his progressive style and molecular gastronomy.

Known for its edible tablecloths and cinnamon bark chopsticks, Elite Traveler, which compiled The List, says that ‘culinary prodigy Achatz’s establishment ranges from ‘the zany to the sublime’.

The tasting menu ranges from £185 to $265 per person, with past dishes including lobster with carrot and chamomile, Otoro, which is Thai banana with sea salt and kaffir lime, and anjou pear with onion, brie and smoking cinnamon.

Also in the top ten is the Robuchon Au Dome, situated in the Grand Lisboa Hotel, part of a sprawling ultra-modern complex that has become a playground for the super-rich in Asia who go to shop, gamble and party.

Grand Lisboa casino (AFP/Getty Images)

The List includes eight restaurants in the UK, with Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck topping the bill in England, ranked number five in the world. The chef, known for his experimental style, has boasted dishes including salmon poached in liquorice gel with artichoke, vanilla mayonaise and 'Manni' olive oil, and nitro-scrambled egg and bacon ice cream.

The tasting menu costs £220 per person and diners are advised to allow four-and-a-half hours for the experience.

Heston Blumenthal outside The Fat Duck, Britain's highest rated restaurant at number 5 in the top 100, according to Elite Traveler.

Another of the gastronomic artiste’s eateries, London’s Dinner by Heston Blumethal, also makes the top 100 at number 25.

Other celebrity chefs on the list include Raymond Blanc, with his Oxford restaurant Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons at number 61. A Garden Suite at the hotel and dinner for two costs £1,945.

Michel Roux Jr, chef at Le Gavroche in London featuring at number 93 and London’s Restaurant Gordon Ramsey is at 32, but Clare Smyth now runs the kitchen there.

Among the new entries is number 75, Restaurant André, in an elite area of Singapore, run by head chef André Chiang. Elite Traveler says its standout dish is Black Foie Gras Jelly with Black Truffle Coulis.

Also new on the list is Falaknuma Palace, pictured, still owned by the Royal Family of Hyberabad, India, now a hotel situated 2,000 feet above the city, where, it boasts 'grandeur and excess is celebrated in equal measure'. It only just makes the list, at number 100.