While we've been getting all up in an anticipatory lather about the upcoming release of the Michelin guide in Singapore, that other big-deal annual awards, the World's 100 Best, just announced the bottom half of its list, covering restaurants ranked #51 to #100. And there was a brand-new entry from Singapore, Dave Pynt's Keong Saik-area Australian grill Burnt Ends.

If that name sounds famous, it's because it is. Eternally busy, Burnt Ends became talk of the town last year, when it appeared on the regional Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2015 list, debuting at a respectable #30, and then blazing up the list in March 2016, to a dazzling #14. The restaurant's appearance on the worldwide version of the list is both expected and still a very pleasant surprise.

The top 50 restaurants will be announced in New York City on Monday, June 13, but ahead of that, foodies and industry insiders are no doubt in full-on speculation mode. We're wondering, for example, why Waku Ghin (which placed #70 in 2015) and Jaan (which placed #74 in 2015 but has since had a notable change in chef) are nowhere to be found on today's 51-100 list.

Could it be that Tetsuya Wakuda's MBS gem Waku Ghin has shot up 20-something places to the top-half of the list, finally giving some much-needed company to Restaurant Andre, the only Singapore restaurant on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list (#46 in 2015)? Its jump in the Asia list (from #9 to #6) seems to suggest so. But who knows!

We're white-knuckling our armchairs for Jaan, though, which dropped 18 places from #11 to 29 in the Asia list.

Trends in the Asia list may not necessarily reflect trends on the World list, but until the announcements next Monday, it's all we're going to be talking about.