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.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

So basically every now and then start eating the shit I find under my deck? Gotcha.

I hate this shit, it insists on itself. If they paid ME $280 I'd probably eat that stuff but not the other way round.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by GordonGekko

So basically every now and then start eating the shit I find under my deck? Gotcha.

I hate this shit, it insists on itself. If they paid ME $280 I'd probably eat that stuff but not the other way round.

Sure. If you want to dedicate your life to researching and figuring out what under your deck is worth cooking and edible, then go for it. The point of a professional chef who has dedicated their life to such a thing is that they can change the way you think about food through their art.

[In58men]

Has there been a ketchup reference yet? I'm about to make one.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I get that some things that might seem gross could be tasty. I saw a video that actually makes me want to try spicy Lao deep fried tarantula. But some things are just tossed together for shock factor, or visuals.

I agree, but I also think it's just in people's head and societal norms. That's fine, but folks need to realize they're just living within a culinary construction of their society, and they should be a little more open minded that weird shit could taste good. As I said, what's freaking weirder than milking some other animal and slurping it down, or, even stranger, letting that animal's milk spoil to the point of having mold growing on it then eating it?

But we don't blink an eye at the above because we grew up with it.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Of course you don't have to in order to make a decent meal. But you CAN. And that's freaking cool.

I wouldn't say it is necessarily cool. Earlier I posted a pic of their "flower tart." It looks like someone picked wildflowers and shoved them into a pita pocket. That's not food. That's not something that you charge people money for. That's something a four year old does in the back yard while waiting for lunch. Look, I have four siblings. Decades ago, while we were all very young, my brother tricked my sister into eating a mud pie. This became one of those familial stories that we refer to often because it highlights my brother's mean streak and my sister's tendency to be gullible. They both still possess these traits and we think that we should have recognized this even then. Now you'll have me believe that my brother isn't occasionally an asshole, rather that he's a master chef. I'm not buying it.

[Mennonite]

Originally Posted by NewChief

The point of a professional chef who has dedicated their life to such a thing is that they can change the way you think about food through their art bilk rich idiots out of their money

fyp

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Sure. If you want to dedicate your life to researching and figuring out what under your deck is worth cooking and edible, then go for it. The point of a professional chef who has dedicated their life to such a thing is that they can change the way you think about food through their art.

I would like an honest breakdown of legitimate 'that is the best thing I've ever tasted' versus 'wow, they actually made that edible, perhaps tasty even' with some of those choices.

I'm friends with a prominent chef with all the bona fides. And he'll bring things to SuperBowl and seasonal parties that are a little twee, but mega ****ing tasty. Things where you go 'I thought I'd had beef before' or 'I didn't know that was possible with a toast point.' Things that just explode with flavor. But he's never come by with painted plates or bugs or shit cooked in artisinal hay.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by listopencil

I wouldn't say it is necessarily cool. Earlier I posted a pic of their "flower tart." It looks like someone picked wildflowers and shoved them into a pita pocket. That's not food. That's not something that you charge people money for. That's something a four year old does in the back yard while waiting for lunch. Look, I have four siblings. Decades ago, while we were all very young, my brother tricked my sister into eating a mud pie. This became one of those familial stories that we refer to often because it highlights my brother's mean streak and my sister's tendency to be gullible. They both still possess these traits and we think that we should have recognized this even then. Now you'll have me believe that my brother isn't occasionally an asshole, rather that he's a master chef. I'm not buying it.

Do you think what the four year old does tastes good? I would bet that what the chef at Noma did does. I bet you would eat it and say, "Holy shit. I can't believe that a bunch of flowers in a pita tastes like this."

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Originally Posted by NewChief

Do you think what the four year old does tastes good? I would bet that what the chef at Noma did does. I bet you would eat it and say, "Holy shit. I can't believe that a bunch of flowers in a pita tastes like this."

I have tried eating flowers. I did not like them.

[NewChief]

Once again, watch the Bourdain episode. He tastes stuff at Noma, and you can absolutely see the shock and surprise on his face as he tastes it and is surprised in the way it tastes. You could dismiss it as acting, but I'm enough of a believer in the credibility of Bourdain that I take his reaction at face value.

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by listopencil

I have tried eating flowers. I did not like them.

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

[Pablo]

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

[Just Passin' By]

Originally Posted by NewChief

Holy jeezus. You heathens are dogging on Noma?

The whole point is that he's transforming food so that you're like, "WTF is this crap? That's not food!" then you eat it and are completely blown away by the flavors.

If you're actually interested in what Noma is all about, check out Bourdain's entire episode on Noma. It's on Netflix. This guy is doing insane shit with food. There's a boat in the harbor in Copenhagen that's known as the "food lab." They do insane shit like fermenting food for like 3 months just to see what it tastes like. This is their tumblr of what they eat, which is pretty cool: http://nflfamilymeal.tumblr.com/

Intro to the Bourdain episode is here:
http://edition.cnn.com/video/shows/a...gen/index.html

Watch it all on Netflix. Well worth the viewing.

I wish I'd gotten the chance to eat at El Bulli.

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by Pablo

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

[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Pablo

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

Awesome.