Its red guides are now global as is San Pellegrino’s two-decade old, self-determined “World’s 50 Best” list. Michelin sets it up that way with its trilogy of star rankings that has driven chefs from elation to literal suicide.
Some people approach fine dining experiences like citations on a soldier’s uniform.
Instead, it’s more of a guttural feeling – a ‘we know it when we taste it’ kind of thing. We’ve pondered this question in the past decade after taking the jump from casual food lovers to obsessed epicureans. What makes a meal special? Is it the food alone? The room? The service? All three? Noma, originally opened in 2004 and later reopened in 2018, continues to dominate the World’s 50 Best Restaurants rankings. Noma has announced that it will be closing its restaurant operations at the end of 2024. Now imagine that feeling lingering in your mind but multiplied by 10,000. Imagine the feeling of tasting the kind of cheese or chocolate that has your tastebuds singing an hour later. We’d then announce “we ate as Noma!” as a reminder and private badge of glory. Weeks after eating at the legendary restaurant, after our lives had returned to their normal rhythm, we couldn’t stop glancing into each other’s eyes, wistfully realizing that we had eaten at the best restaurant in the world. For us, eating at Noma was an outsized event in which the experience was almost bigger than the meal itself. The Copenhagen restaurant literally received the auspicious culinary designation the day before our 2021 Game and Forest dinner. Calling Noma ‘the best restaurant in the world’ isn’t hyperbole.
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