Oh to be able to whisk myself away to Denmark. Noma received the honour of top restaurant in the world as voted by the chefs and foodites that have input into the list. El Bulli and The Fat Duck rounding out the top three. Unfortunately no sign of any New Zealand restaurants showing up in the extended top 100 list, but four Australian chefs making it in. Quay taking the top Australasian spot, with Tetsuya dropping down a considerable amount, Attica from Melbourne and Marque in Sydney sneaking into the 50-100 spots. Hopefully come July I will be able to get to at least two of the top Australian restaurants mentioned here, finances permitting of course.

I’m sure all of the teams involved will be rapt with any inclusion in such a prestigious list, but I imagine that some Danes are particularly overwhelmed by the vote of respect from their peers.

One question though… the people that do the voting, do any of them ever come down this far under? I wonder if they did how the best of our restaurants would fare?