Edible soil makes Copenhagen restaurant the best in the world
Posted by Alan | Under Restaurants Thursday Apr 29, 2010
Heston Blumenthal’s iconic British restaurant The Fat Duck has been swept aside in the highly prestigious S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, it is now moved down to the number three spot, and if that were not insult enough the new number one is a Danish eatery which specialises in such exotic delicacies as edible soil and radishes.
The Noma restaurant not surprisingly has a heavy emphasis on Nordic classical food and operates from the docks in Copenhagen inside a warehouse dating back to the 18 century, this means that after five years at the top of eating’s Premier league the Spanish restaurant El Bulli has been demoted to the number two position.
Although it does not exactly entice, the Noma proudly boasts that its food is a “homage to soil and sea”. This word is quite surprising as the two star Michelin establishment serves up dishes that are highly local and for the most part have never been heard of outside the Scandinavian countries.
The restaurant’s chef is a comparatively young 32-year-old by the name of Rene Redzepi who has become the Apple of many restaurant critics eyes over the last couple of years, a decent meal at this new hotspot will on average set you back around £150 per person.
According to the judges are restaurant has firmly placed Copenhagen on the gastronomic map and has brought the country in from restaurant critic Siberia.
This is however major shock to 47-year-old chef Ferran Adria, who managed to keep the El Bulli at the top of the gastronomic tree for half a decade, many feel that the only reason he may have slipped a notch is the fact that he announced earlier this year that he will close down his restaurant for two years in order to create a new venue.
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