The Playlist charts · November 2026
The 25 best restaurant playlists in the world
What the best dining rooms play, so you can bring the room home: the official playlists of Crown Shy, Dishoom and MoSuke, the hip-hop mixtape behind Charlie Bird, the Paris chefs who made playlists for Le Fooding, and the Atlanta bars that critics single out for their music. Every one is live on Spotify, every restaurant is open, and you can book the real thing.
The top ten
Starts slow and picks up the pace, the way a night at Crown Shy does. Play it in order.
Found in: DiningOut: NYC restaurants with great music · The restaurant's own Spotify
The hip-hop that made a wine bar famous for its soundtrack. The curators say: hit play, never shuffle.
Old Bombay café crackle next to new songs: what plays behind the queue for the bacon naan roll.
Found in: The restaurant's own Spotify
Mory Sacko's Michelin-starred dining room, over 450 tracks long. Le Fooding also has a shorter one by the chef.
Found in: The restaurant's own Spotify · Le Fooding's chef playlists on Spotify
Not the dining room's music: the chef's own. What Bottura unwinds to, from the boy who blared the Doobie Brothers around Modena.
Found in: The restaurant's own Spotify
The dinner set from the Brooklyn bistro, put together with its sommelier, Nick Ferrante.
Found in: DiningOut: NYC restaurants with great music · Spotify save counts
Long lunch on the harbor that turns into a party. Put it on when the second bottle opens.
Found in: The restaurant's own Spotify · Spotify save counts
Tommaso Zoboli's trattoria rewrites Modena's classics, and the playlist does the same to Italian music.
Found in: Food and Travel México: restaurant playlists · Fine Dining Lovers: the best restaurant playlists on Spotify
The 7pm set from Milan's cocktail bar with a kitchen. There's a dinner one too, for after.
Found in: Food and Travel México: restaurant playlists · Fine Dining Lovers: the best restaurant playlists on Spotify · Spotify save counts
The men behind Septime and Clamato pick old-school American hip-hop. Not what you'd guess.
Found in: Le Fooding's chef playlists on Spotify
11 to 25
The izakaya on rue Mouffetard, open noon to 2am every day; this is its room, start to finish.
Found in: Food and Travel México: restaurant playlists · Fine Dining Lovers: the best restaurant playlists on Spotify
178 songs for the hour after the last run, from the Aspen outpost of New York's Rubirosa by the gondola. Then go for the tie-dye pizza.
Found in: The restaurant's own Spotify · Appetito: après-ski Italian at Mt. Rubirosa
Italian singer-songwriters for the table, from Milan's butcher with a kitchen.
Found in: Food and Travel México: restaurant playlists · Fine Dining Lovers: the best restaurant playlists on Spotify
From Davide Marzullo's Michelin-starred trattoria outside Como: music from everywhere, as the name says.
Found in: Food and Travel México: restaurant playlists · Fine Dining Lovers: the best restaurant playlists on Spotify
The Sardinian chef of Racines goes Italian and kitsch, on purpose.
Found in: Le Fooding's chef playlists on Spotify
Fifteen songs from the wine bar that started the natural-wine bistro. Short, like the menu.
Found in: Le Fooding's chef playlists on Spotify · Spotify save counts
Funk, soul and disco from the Marais cocktail bar's owners, for the end of the night.
Found in: Le Fooding's chef playlists on Spotify
The chef of the Oberkampf wine bar also co-founded a record label, Cracki Records. It shows.
Found in: Le Fooding's chef playlists on Spotify
From one of the owners of the small-plates place on rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud.
Found in: Le Fooding's chef playlists on Spotify
Seventeen songs from the chef of the café between the two stations.
Found in: Le Fooding's chef playlists on Spotify
Nearly 600 tracks from the Westside restaurant on North America's 50 Best: you won't hear a repeat.
Found in: Time Out Atlanta: restaurants with the best playlists
Latin American music from the co-owner of Atlanta's Latin American tasting room.
Found in: Time Out Atlanta: restaurants with the best playlists
The chef's own mix at Atlanta's Peruvian favorite: every genre, nothing safe.
Found in: Time Out Atlanta: restaurants with the best playlists
456 songs for a Sunday at the Charlotte small-plates bar, back open in NoDa since 2025.
Found in: Toast: restaurant music playlists · Spotify save counts
Over 3,000 tracks, 190 hours. Built for a drink in hand, and it never runs out.
Found in: The restaurant's own Spotify
Then go eat
How Chef picks
Every playlist here was named by someone we can point to: the restaurant itself, a critic or magazine, Spotify's own editors, or tens of thousands of people saving it. Each card says where we found it. We left out playlists made by AI, Spotify's automatic mixes, fan-made playlists that only borrow a restaurant's name, and any restaurant that has closed. The order is ours: how well it does its job on the night, then how much people use it.
On the 1st of every month Chef re-reads every playlist. One that has gone private or been deleted comes off, and the next one moves up; save counts and covers update.
The other charts
Checked November 8, 2026. Covers are each playlist's own, from Spotify. Chef Amazing isn't connected to Spotify or paid by anyone on this chart.
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