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Chow Shut Down! The Place in Copenhagen That Everyone Agrees Is the Best Goddamn Restaurant in the World
Posted by Bethany Jean Clement on Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:58 PM
thestar.com has the gory details: "World’s best restaurant Noma hit by vomiting, diarrhea outbreak; hygiene check ordered" (nice use of the verb "hit by" GAAAAAAH).
And: Sixty-three people got sick, from dinners over four days, because:
Noma failed to react in time to e-mails from dinner guests and one of its kitchen workers who reported they had fallen ill.
“We acknowledge that the internal procedures haven’t been good enough and because of busyness, employees didn’t check e-mails,” the report quoted Noma as saying.
BUT: it appears that actually Noma was not shut down?!
The report didn’t mention any sanctions on the restaurant, whose 20-serving menu, including wine, costs 2,500 kroner ($440). Noma will have to pay for a follow-up check, the report said.
You'd think commie-socialist Denmark would, um, regulate the crap out of their restaurants...
Tip from rob!, who says, "Maybe they should rename the place Noro."
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Restaurants in Denmark are FUCKING EXPENSIVE.
Went with a friend to a nondescript formica-table pizza restaurant in a small town, ordered ordinary stuff, where *maybe* the total tab would be $20-$25 in the US. It was over $100.
Two crappy soft-serve ice creams came out to $14.
The joy of spending banana-republic money in a first-world country.
Went with a friend to a nondescript formica-table pizza restaurant in a small town, ordered ordinary stuff, where *maybe* the total tab would be $20-$25 in the US. It was over $100.
Two crappy soft-serve ice creams came out to $14.
The joy of spending banana-republic money in a first-world country.
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Looks like Chef Meyer may have focused his ground-breaking vision on a little locally-sourced norovirus.
@1 - Yep, but it does help pay for a high standard of living, for what it's worth. I thought I'd seen the worst of it, but my better half just returned from Oslo with tales of $60 glass of wine and pizza slice dinners.
@1 - Yep, but it does help pay for a high standard of living, for what it's worth. I thought I'd seen the worst of it, but my better half just returned from Oslo with tales of $60 glass of wine and pizza slice dinners.
3
Now hanging in the window of El Celler De Can Roca: Voted #1 restaurant in the world that won't give you diarrhea.
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Fun fact: The worst food poisoning I've ever had in my life was from a restaurant in Denmark (granted, a hotel restaurant that comped us a free meal because our flight was cancelled but still). I still can't eat bell peppers anymore without getting a little queasy.
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Everything is expensive in Denmark... and they have the lowest income inequality in the world.
The best food I had in Denmark was Sushi :) Oh, and those Smørrebrød!
The best food I had in Denmark was Sushi :) Oh, and those Smørrebrød!
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Also today:
Fire damages Berkeley's Chez Panisse
Henry K. Lee
Friday, March 8, 2013
BERKELEY -- A predawn fire damaged the storied Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley on Friday, authorities said.
The blaze was reported shortly after 3 a.m. at the restaurant at 1517 Shattuck Ave. The restaurant's sprinkler system activated, keeping much of the damage to the building's exterior, fire officials said...
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@2 The reason food is expensive in Norway is because EVERYTHING is expensive. Their economy is allot better than yours so everything costs more.
Its the same if someone from say Brazil came to the US. Everything costs more in the US than Brazil.
Its the same if someone from say Brazil came to the US. Everything costs more in the US than Brazil.
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Then there's this charming bon mot from the chef on his twitter feed on Feb.26 - after the outbreak and health inspection:
Rene Redzepi @ReneRedzepiNoma
Anybody up for a round of prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage? http://qz.com/55699
While that tweet referred to a report on fish mislabeling, it's incredibly tone deaf for him to make fun of anyone else while he knew that 67 of his own customers were violently ill from eating his food.
Then there's this charming bon mot from the chef on his twitter feed on Feb.26 - after the outbreak and health inspection:
Rene Redzepi @ReneRedzepiNoma
Anybody up for a round of prolonged, uncontrollable, oily anal leakage? http://qz.com/55699
While that tweet referred to a report on fish mislabeling, it's incredibly tone deaf for him to make fun of anyone else while he knew that 67 of his own customers were violently ill from eating his food.
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@1 EVERYTHING in Scandanavia is expensive. I stayed at a hotel in Oslo that was 550 kroner/ night and my itty bitty room had a Murphy bed that you had to pull out of the wall. Stockholm was about the same.
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Same thing just happened at what many consider to be Portland's best restaurant (Andina), too :/ --> http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Possible-N…
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