One of my very favorite restaurants has long been Noma. The New York Times today reported: Though Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant often called the best in the world, will close for regular service, its influence will live on through its imitators , the Times restaurant critic Pete Wells writes. Noma's innovations included its methods of foraging and fermentation, its rustic hand-thrown pottery and its list of odd-smelling natural wines. "I don't think any restaurant came up with so many ideas that were shoplifted by so many other places in so many other cities so quickly," he writes. Still, a long-awaited lunch at Noma convinced Peter that the copycats could never capture the original: "The restaurant that had inspired so many imitators was fluid, it was graceful, it was coherent." It thus seemed only too appropriate to focus my Tuesday nostalgia on that restaurant. There is something about the intense pressure of being the best restaurant in th...
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