That's How It Happened

I got taken out for another excellent meal on Wednesday night. You can't fault the pharmaceutical industry for their willingness to bribe doctors. We went to Noma in Copenhagen. Like at Maze, the chef has previously worked at El Bulli. Noma is better though. It has won a Michelin star for really inventive food, using entirely seasonal ingredients from Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, and Denmark. The restaurant is in a refurbished warehouse, on the old "North Atlantic Wharf". It shares the building with the Icelandic Embassy. Yet again, I'm hazy about the menu. Seven courses, each with their own fancy organic wine will tend to do that to you. There was lots of incredibly delicate cod, and the best duck I've ever tasted that had apparently been "feasting on herbs from the beach". The real show off highlight was a tiny cauliflower jelly, served with a cauliflower syllabub, and a sprig of juniper that was set alight in the plate so we could inhale the vapours. Noma gets my highest recommendation.