India, May 13 -- There's no definite direction the global culinary moment is heading towards-and that's precisely what makes it thrilling. In one corner of the planet, you will find a dry-aged sushi program; in another, Latin-American inventions don a fresh veil. The geographies of flavours shifting altogether-you never quite know what a city might offer next. Unless, of course, you resort to checklists that only feature the same old names (nothing wrong with the favourites, though). Here's a fresh crop of new restaurants worth booking a table-or even a flight-for.

The Black Pearl, Singapore

A detour from the many formulaic iterations of Cantonese Cuisine, The Black Pearl is spinning the wheel to create something unmistakably new. The...