Denmark’s ‘Noma’ Named World’s Best Restaurant For Third Year Running


Danish restaurant Noma has been crowned the world’s best restaurant for the third year running, in an annual list voted for by more than 800 chefs, restaurateurs and journalists.

Noma beat out delicious competition from eateries in Spain, Brazil, Italy, the United States and elsewhere, finishing top of the S. Pellegrino and Acqua Panna World’s 50 Best Restaurants, as produced by Britain’s Restaurant Magazine. Foods experts described the Copenhagen eatery as the “standard-bearer for the new Nordic movement.”

Rene Redzepi owns the restaurant, and said he was thrilled to win the award for a third consecutive year. The ingredients of his success were deceptively simple: create delicious food with locally sourced produce. He told Restaurant Magazine:

“It’s something about the zeitgeist. It’s about nature, people growing food, being close to food. Connecting with organic farmers, working hard to maintain a healthy ecology, the utmost deliciousness ties in with this.”

Noma’s approach to cooking is focused on using the finest best raw materials from the Nordic region, including Icelandic skyr curd, halibut, Greenland musk ox and berries. The two Michelin star restaurant also does all of its own smoking, salting, pickling, drying, grilling and baking, prepares its own vinegars and concocts its own distilled spirits such as its own eaux de vies.

It looks thoroughly striking also, based as it is in a renovated listed 18th Century warehouse in the old Christianshavn district of Copenhagen.

As far as whole nations were concerned, Spain and the United States both had three restaurants in the top 10, but Spain secured second and third spot overall: El Celler de Can Roca in Girona grabbed the runner-up spot, while Mugaritz in San Sebastian placed third. The United States had eight eateries in the top 50 and Spain had five.

The loftiest U.S. restaurant in the top 50 was New York-based Per Se, owned by chef Thomas Keller. As well as receiving the Best Restaurant in North America gong, Keller also scooped the S.Pellegrino Lifetime Achievement accolade after winning prizes at the awards for the last 10 years in a row.

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