Noma wins best restaurant award
Noma, the celebrated Danish restaurant, has been named the World’s Best Restaurant for the second year running. Restaurant magazine’s annual listing is now considered by many as more influential than the increasingly creaky Michelin guide. The 837 judges gave Noma top honours last year, and they repeated their seal of approval at this year’s awards recently in London.
Second prize went to Celler de Can Roca, in Girona in northeastern Spain (and a neighbour of El Bulli a notable absentee as it is to close in July), one of the many Michelin-garlanded restaurants in this gastronomically highbrow corner of Europe. Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck, a previous winner, took fifth while only one French restaurant made it to the top 10.
Royal Wedding wine revealed
FOR THOSE of you with the interest or the penchant, Pol Roger NV is the toast of choice for the royal wedding couple this weekend. And while legendary chef Anton Mosimann cooks up an epicurean storm, reports are abound that the couple and gathered guests will sample some English made wine during their wedding breakfast.
Reduced fat soups and stews
IT was a tip that I only became aware of in recent times, but it seems that putting salt on a broken egg on the floor tip has gone down a treat with some offering clever tips of their own in the last week. First up is my own mother who offered me the one where by placing a lettuce leaf on the top of a soup or stew, it will soak up the excess fat. Remember to take out the lettuce before you serve though. Have you any to share?
