Menu From "World's Best Restaurant": Looks Like Mostly Crap That I Wouldn't Eat

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This is what a full meal looks like in the world's best restaurant

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Rapper and food TV show host Action Bronson just posted an Instagram reportage of a meal in the best restaurant in the world*—Noma, in Copenhagen, Denmark. 24 courses with ingredients that go from flowers and sea urchin to ants and grasshopper.


Noma has been named best restaurant in the world several times already. Its food is based on the search of the best local ingredients to cook them and present them with extreme care and respect. A full meal at Noma is around $280.



* Of course, "best restaurant in the world" is an arbitrary title by one publication—the British magazine Restaurant. But it's definitely one of the very best in the planet.

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Originally Posted by NewChief

So you believe all flowers taste the same? Never eaten stuffed squash blossoms?

I don't care for squash and I don't know if I have ever eaten a squash blossom. I probably have not, and I am not interested in giving them a try.

[Mennonite]

To me, this type of food is the equivalent of haute couture fashion shows. Ridiculous, bizarre, pretentious and utterly useless to anyone who is honest with themselves.

[ptlyon]

Originally Posted by Pablo

Squirt some ranch on that flower gyro. Then I'd try it.

Man ranch?

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by cdcox

No one on here has had osso buco or edible flowers?

I eat flowers all the time and they generally taste like shit.

Honestly, this "menu" is more art conceptualization using food as the medium and all that entails versus food art as it applies to food.

Half the world eats bugs. It's not that big of a deal in all honesty.

The thing is, it appears that he's doing it to get a rise out of the food aristocracy that exists in the north western hemisphere versus anything truly. (And it's not like ants and crickets and larvae haven't made the rounds previously in western cooking. Chocolate covered ants anyone?)

In all honesty, these are, for the most part, quite simple dishes that I would expect from a Danish chef operating in a nouvelle cuisine environment that was attempting to incorporate a certain avante garde approach to their food.

To tell you the truth, it's a little predictable all things considered. The flower tort and the hay smoked quail eggs were actually some weak ass shit. I mean, if you are laying down 18 courses, there is going to be some filler, but I'd have been a little pissed about some of the courses if I was laying down three Benji's a piece for the dining experience.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by NewChief

So you believe all flowers taste the same? Never eaten stuffed squash blossoms?

My mom's zucchini and yellow squash this year produced no zucchini or squash, just blossoms. I forwarded to her a bunch of blossom recipes. Haven't heard back from her if she'd tried any. Well I did earlier in the year, but she hadn't tried any yet.

[Saccopoo]

Originally Posted by Mennonite

To me, this type of food is the equivalent of haute couture fashion shows. Ridiculous, bizarre, pretentious and utterly useless to anyone who is honest with themselves.

A worthy analogy.

[Pablo]

Use honestly and truth more in your next post.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

I eat flowers all the time and they generally taste like shit.

Honestly, this "menu" is more art conceptualization using food as the medium and all that entails versus food art as it applies to food.

Half the world eats bugs. It's not that big of a deal in all honesty.

The thing is, it appears that he's doing it to get a rise out of the food aristocracy that exists in the north western hemisphere versus anything truly. (And it's not like ants and crickets and larvae haven't made the rounds previously in western cooking. Chocolate covered ants anyone?)

In all honesty, these are, for the most part, quite simple dishes that I would expect from a Danish chef operating in a nouvelle cuisine environment that was attempting to incorporate a certain avante garde approach to their food.

To tell you the truth, it's a little predictable all things considered. The flower tort and the hay smoked quail eggs were actually some weak ass shit. I mean, if you are laying down 18 courses, there is going to be some filler, but I'd have been a little pissed about some of the courses if I was laying down three Benji's a piece for the dining experience.

You can decry the simplified nature of the dishes, but that's part of his aesthetic. Supposedly (and I admit to never having eaten there, but I have researched it extensively), his preparations vary from extremely simple to wildly complex with the one common thread being that they're all really good in surprising ways.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

My mom's zucchini and yellow squash this year produced no zucchini or squash, just blossoms. I forwarded to her a bunch of blossom recipes. Haven't heard back from her if she'd tried any. Well I did earlier in the year, but she hadn't tried any yet.

One of our most fun culinary years was when we had a bunch of volunteer squash come up on the edge of our property from composting back there. We had squash blossoms out the ass and a ton of heritage pumpkins/squash in the fall. I eventually tired of goat cheese stuffed squash blossoms.

[Reaper16]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

I eat flowers all the time and they generally taste like shit.

Honestly, this "menu" is more art conceptualization using food as the medium and all that entails versus food art as it applies to food.

Half the world eats bugs. It's not that big of a deal in all honesty.

The thing is, it appears that he's doing it to get a rise out of the food aristocracy that exists in the north western hemisphere versus anything truly. (And it's not like ants and crickets and larvae haven't made the rounds previously in western cooking. Chocolate covered ants anyone?)

In all honesty, these are, for the most part, quite simple dishes that I would expect from a Danish chef operating in a nouvelle cuisine environment that was attempting to incorporate a certain avante garde approach to their food.

To tell you the truth, it's a little predictable all things considered. The flower tort and the hay smoked quail eggs were actually some weak ass shit. I mean, if you are laying down 18 courses, there is going to be some filler, but I'd have been a little pissed about some of the courses if I was laying down three Benji's a piece for the dining experience.

Redzepi literally invented New Nordic cuisine. If those dishes are what you expect then his influence speaks for itself.

It's also not about "art conceptualization." Redzepi's food is about true sustainability. Nobody before him was cooking with sea grass, chickweed, wild sorrel, ransom flowers, etc. He's piloted true innovations in preserving, fermenting, and drying. It's all about taking foraged ingredients and seeing how many different ways you can eat them.

[Mennonite]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

Half the world eats bugs. It's not that big of a deal in all honesty.

Half the world eats bugs because they haven't got anything else to eat. When your only options are a grub worm or your own foot, the grub worm starts looking pretty tasty.


Give these people a couple of In and Out Burgers and a TGI Fridays and I'm pretty sure Kentucky Fried Caterpillar won't stay in business too long.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

would plow.

[thebrad84]

Originally Posted by Mennonite

Give these people a couple of In and Out Burgers and a TGI Fridays and I'm pretty sure Kentucky Fried Caterpillar won't stay in business too long.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by cdcox

No one on here has had osso buco or edible flowers?

I've had both of those. I ate stuffed zucchini flowers in Greece. They were actually pretty good. Nothing I'd make here but not as odd as I thought it would be.


I used to eat carnations as a kid. My mom would put her corsages in the fridge and I thought they were food. So I ate them. Even around ages ten and twelve. They weren't bad either.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Mennonite

Half the world eats bugs because they haven't got anything else to eat. When your only options are a grub worm or your own foot, the grub worm starts looking pretty tasty.


Give these people a couple of In and Out Burgers and a TGI Fridays and I'm pretty sure Kentucky Fried Caterpillar won't stay in business too long.

Actually some bugs are actually a delicacy in some parts of the world.