Ferran Adria

Danish restaurant Noma named best in the world

Dining

A Danish restaurant has been named the best in the world, knocking Spain’s exclusive El Bulli off the top of the list for the first time in five years.

Noma, which serves up Nordic specialities – such as radishes in edible soil - in a converted 18th century shipping warehouse on Copenhagen’s dockside, was crowned number one at the annual S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards in London.

World’s best restaurant to close at end of year

Dining

Ferran Adrià, owner of the restaurant famed as being the best in the world, El Bulli, has decided to close the restaurant at the end of the year.

Adrià said he would be taking a hiatus from El Bulli as of 2012 to explore new gastronomy trends and to do some teaching in the United States, before re-opening for the 2014 season.