][1]It’s Noma. Again.
Or at least it is if you believe that the San Pellegrino 50 Best Restaurants really are the world’s 50 best restaurants.
A three time previous winner, Rene Redzepi’s Coopenhagen restaurant has reclaimed the crown from last year’s winner, Spain’s Celler de Can Roca.
The Ledbury and both Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner and his Fat Duck are the only British restaurants voted into the top 50.
Previous winners include the now defunct El Bulli in Spain, The French Laundry in California and The Fat Duck.
Naturally, Britain’s food journalists are up in arms at the ideas that anyone can really make a definitive list of the best 50 restaurants in the world.
In The Guardian, Marina O’Loughlin is particularly acerbic, calling it a ‘magnificent circle jerk’.
Xanthe Clay took a more reasonable approach in yesterday’s Telegraph in a piece which looks at how the event grew from a handful of journalists larking about into a PR behemoth.
What does it all mean for 99.99999% of the word’s population? Nothing – it will still be just as impossible to book a table in Noma as it was before.
If, however, you would rather sit down to a thoroughly enjoyable and affordable Italian then we would point you towards this blog piece on Glasgow’s Little Italy.
The restaurants mentioned my not have the global pulling power of Noma but you won’t have to book three years in advance to bag a reservation.