Say whatever nasty things you'd like about chicken-fried bro-chef Guy Fieri and his loathed Times Square feed trough, at least it hasn't made dozens and dozens of people violently ill like the best restaurant in the world.

The Washington Post, having suffered years of cutbacks and foreign bureau closings, has now consolidated all of its remaining resources on its Peabody award-winning Hipness Desk. The paper's tireless hipness correspondents spend day and night fanned out across the metropolitan region in search of the elusive young, hip vibe that, according to legend, haunts the DC area.

The world-famous El Bulli dropped to second place on Restaurant Magazine's prestigious "World's 50 Best Restaurants List," displaced by Copenhagen's Noma. Despite the introduction of the Double Down, KFC did not place. Top 20 after the jump.