Noma’s Best Restaurant Win Tastes Pretty Sweet To Chef Rene Redzepi

Congratulations to Rene Redzepi and his team at Noma. They are back on top of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants after a year at number 2. Thanks to Megan Gibson for the great coverage.

Noma’s Best Restaurant Win Tastes Pretty Sweet To Chef Rene Redzepi
Lisa Abend @LisaAbend April 29, 2014
Rene Redzepi Noma Restaurant

After losing the title last year, Copenhagen’s Noma has once again been named the best restaurant in the world. “This is better than the three previous wins combined,” Redzepi tells TIME

As late as the afternoon of April 28, Rene Redzepi was warning his staff they would probably drop in the rankings of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, which were to be announced that evening, by making cryptic comments about Isaac Newton. “The rules for this competition were established over three hundred years ago,” he said at lunch with his staff. “What goes up must come down.”

But gravity, it seems, doesn’t apply to restaurants. After losing the top ranking in 2013, his Copenhagen restaurant Noma last night regained the status it had held during the three years prior. When Redzepi and his team mounted the stage of London’s Guildhall last night to claim the prize of best restaurant in the world, the joy was palpable. “It doesn’t even compare,” the 36-year-old chef said of his comeback, in an interview with TIME. “This is better than the three previous wins combined.” view original post