Noma: Best Restaurant in the world. Again.

Congratulations to Rene and the boys and girls at Noma in Copenhagen to retaining the crown for the second year running.

Yesterday in London, the 2011 Best Restaurants in the World were unveiled and Noma came out tops again.

We were pleased to see some surprising new entries, both from the UK and further a field too - China has a place on these now as does Russia.  Sadly, the Fat Duck dropped quite a few places.

You can see the whole list here

Not that we have any authority to be critical on this super high level stuff, we do want to comment that the competition decided to exclude El Bulli from the whole competition because they have decided to close as from July and turn the restaurant into a foundation.  Not good sport on behalf of the organisers, we say.  But then again, that's just our opinion.... We're still super proud of the Danes and their achivement in 2011, it has been a great year for Scandinavian food and cooking so far.