This is a March 14, 2012, file photo of Danish restaurant Noma in Copenhagen. Noma in Copenhagen, Denmark, won the title of world’s top restaurant. Noma held the No. 1 spot on Restaurant magazine’s annual ranking of the world’s 50 best restaurants for three years before being bested in 2013 by avant-garde eatery El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain. During a ceremony Monday in London, Noma reclaimed the top spot while El Celler fell to No. 2.By J.M. HIRSCH
AP Food Editor
Rene Redzepi’s daringly innovative Danish restaurant Noma has reclaimed the title of world’s top restaurant.
Noma – which has a meticulous focus on simple, indigenous ingredients such as snails, moss and cod liver – held the No. 1 spot on Restaurant magazine’s annual ranking of the world’s 50 best restaurants for three years before being bested in 2013 by avant-garde eatery El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain. During a ceremony Monday in London, Noma reclaimed the top spot while El Celler fell to No. 2.
Located on Copenhagen’s waterfront, Noma’s menu is almost obsessively defined by the Nordic landscape. Ingredients often are foraged nearby and the meals at the 45-seat restaurant – which holds two Michelin stars – are meant to viscerally connect diners to the land and sea. The restaurant opened in 2004 and gets thousands of reservation requests a day.