After taking a hiatus final yr because of the pandemic’s impact on eating places world wide, the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards has revealed its listing for 2021, with two Copenhagen eating places, Noma and Geranium, in first and second locations.
The “Oscars of gastronomy,” because the award is taken into account, revealed the winners at a ceremony in Antwerp, Belgium, this week.
Danish chef René Redzepi’s, well-known for his foraging and fermenting strategies, seems within the Quantity One spot with the brand new model of his Noma restaurant, which initially opened in 2003 and topped the World’s 50 Greatest Eating places listing in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, and got here second in 2019.
Purity, simplicity and freshness
To the shock of the gastronomic world, Noma was closed in 2016 solely to reopen two years later at a brand new Copenhagen location.
It was that closing and reopening that permitted the reborn Noma to enter the listing, since based on a brand new rule from 2019, earlier winners on the prime are ineligible to seem once more on the prime. For them, a brand new “Better of the Greatest” class has been created.
In line with The Guardian, “the present ‘recreation & forest season’ menu at Noma prices 2,800 Danish kroner ($450), plus 1,800 kroner for the accompanying wines and, based on social media posts, options uncooked sumac, bear and reindeer mind.”
Restaurant Geranium in Copenhagen was chosen the second-best on the earth.
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The second place within the listing went to Geranium, one other Copenhagen, three-Michelin-star restaurant.
Following Noma’s super-Nordic type of “purity, simplicity and freshness” utilizing seasonal and hyperlocal merchandise, and reviving previous strategies together with marinating, smoking and salting.
“Native components akin to foraged herbs, cloudberries and native shellfish had been mixed with unique additions akin to wild reindeer blood, ants and cricket paste, creating culinary headlines worldwide and sparking a wave of profitable restaurant openings that included Geranium, which opened in 2007,” stories The Guardian.
Geranium’s menu, created by chef Rasmus Kofoed, options 16-course “autumn universe” that features artichoke leaves and pickled walnut, squid, melted smoked lard, essence of yeast, potatoes and quail with thyme seeds, berries and pickled pine.
Inequality and different controversies
The brand new listing has not come with out controversy, not solely as a result of the “re-qualification” of Noma whereas different earlier number-one winners together with Eleven Madison Park in New York, Heston Blumenthal’s Fats Duck in Bray, Nice Britain, Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, and Mirazur in Menton, France, had been disqualified.
There’s additionally been criticism round the truth that, as Eater explains, “all through the 19 editions of the annual listing, solely European or North American eating places have occupied the ‘finest’ restaurant slot. The highest spot has by no means gone to a South American or Asian restaurant, and there are not any present eating places on the listing from wherever within the Center East.”
All previous 18 winners have come from Spain, the USA, the U.Ok., Denmark, Italy and France.
Different inequalities have been famous: “Regardless of a judging panel made up of fifty% males and 50% girls, the listing drew criticism, as in earlier years, for that includes “male-dominant, European-heavy, costly tasting-menu eating places,” with simply 4 eating places within the prime 50 headed by feminine cooks – one fewer than in 2019,” notes The Guardian.
Restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona, Spain is the #5 finest on the earth.
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The opposite High 20
Within the third place of the listing seem the Spanish Asador Etxebarri in Larrabetzu, Basque nation — the place all dishes, even dessert, are flame-grilled. Its chef, Victor Arguinzoniz, was voted by his friends to win the Cooks’ Alternative Award.
Additionally in Spain, the restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona got here in #5, whereas restaurant Mugaritz in San Sebastian slipped to No.14 and DiverXO in Madrid made it to No. 20.
Central in Lima, Peru, obtained the quantity place and was once more named the perfect restaurant in South America as its chef Pía León was named World’s Greatest Feminine Chef.
One other Peruvian restaurant, Maido, additionally in Lima and creating Japanese-Peruvian fusion dishes seems in seventh place.
Restaurant Central in Lima, Peru, chosen #4 finest on the earth.
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A 3rd New Nordic restaurant, Frantzèn in Stockholm, positioned sixth. The Singapore Odette is quantity 8 and was chosen Greatest Restaurant in Asia.
Pujol in Mexico Metropolis is quantity 10 and the Greatest Restaurant in North America, whereas The Chairman in Hong Kong obtained the tenth spot.
This yr solely two reputed French eating places made it to the primary 25 locations. Each in Paris, Arpège and Septime seem the 23th and twenty fourth locations. Alléno, additionally in Paris is #41.
The primary U.S. restaurant to seem on the listing is Cosme in New York Metropolis, at #22. Restaurant Benu in San Francisco, California, made it to #28, SingleThread in Healdsburg, California, is #37, Atomix and Le Bernardin in New York Metropolis are #43 and 44 and Atelier Crenn in San Francisco is 48.
Right here is the whole listing of the World 50 Greatest Eating places:
1. Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Geranium in Copenhagen, Denmark
3. Asador Etxebarri in Axpe, Spain
4. Central in Lima, Peru
5. Disfrutar in Barcelona, Spain
6. Frantzén in Stockholm, Sweden
7. Maido in Lima, Peru
8. Odette in Singapore
9. Pujol in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico
10. The Chairman in Hong Kong (Highest Climber Award)
11. Den in Tokyo, Japan
12. Steirereck in Vienna, Austria (Artwork of Hospitality Award)
13. Don Julio in Buenos Aires, Argentina
14. Mugaritz in San Sebastian, Spain
15. Lido 84 in Gardone Riviera, Italy (Highest New Entry Award)
16. Elkano in Getaria, Spain
17. A Casa do Porco in São Paulo, Brazil
18. Piazza Duomo in Alba, Italy
19. Narisawa in Tokyo, Japan
20. DiverXO in Madrid, Spain
21. Hiša Franko in Kobarid, Slovenia
22. Cosme in New York Metropolis
23. Arpège in Paris, France
24. Septime in Paris, France
25. White Rabbit in Moscow, Russia
26. Le Calandre in Rubano, Italy
27. Quintonil in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico
28. Benu in San Francisco, California
29. Reale in Castel di Sangro, Italy
30. Twins Garden in Moscow, Russia
31. Restaurant Tim Raue in Berlin, Germany
32. The Clove Club in London, UK
33. Lyle’s in London, UK
34. Burnt Ends in Singapore
35. Ultraviolet in Shanghai, China
36. Hof van Cleve in Kruishoutem, Belgium
37. SingleThread in Healdsburg, California
38. Boragó in Santiago, Chile (Sustainable Restaurant Award)
39. Florilege in Tokyo, Japan
40. Sühring in Bangkok, Thailand
41. Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen in Paris, France
42. Belcanto in Lisbon, Portugal
43. Atomix in New York Metropolis (New entry)
44. Le Bernardin in New York Metropolis
45. Nobelhart & Schmutzig in Berlin, Germany (New entry)
46. Leo in Bogotá, Colombia
47. Maaemo in Oslo, Norway
48. Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, California
49. Azurmendi in Larrabetzu, Spain
50. Wolfgat in Paternoster, South Africa (Greatest restaurant in Africa)
