Being a seafarer, having lots of money, I bet you guys have plans on what to spend it on..well I too have my own plans..some of them are spending it on buying a car and maybe some luxurious watch..whatever your choice would be, I'd like to suggest you a good way of spending it and I believe it would be worth your lifetime..this idea was what i dreamed of for quite sometimes that is spending the money to have professional cooks to make you a meal of your lifetime..you could also take my suggestion to bring your parents or even your girlfriend or boyfriend on a date, or if you're married, a place to spare money for your wife and kids to have such delicious meals..
Well, here are 10 choices which you would like to have a try to checkout:
1.
Noma, (Copenhagen, Denmark). Cost of a meal for two : $600
After losing the top
ranking in 2013 (it had held the No.1 spot for the three previous years), Noma
is firing on all cylinders these days. Located in an old whaling warehouse, the
restaurant is the birthplace of “new Nordic” cuisine, which relies solely on
ingredients available in region. But today, the restaurant is pushing far
beyond its early days of foraged sea buckthorn and reindeer lichen. Dinner
these days might start with a whole kohlrabi, filled with its fermented juice
and bored with a straw, so that it looks and tastes like a coconut drink. The
meal might then proceed through aebleskivers –a traditional Danish kind of
fritter—brushed with a sauce made from fermented grasshopper, and end with a
dessert of potato, almond, and plum purée. It sounds wacky, but somehow Redzepi
and his crew manage to make it all delicious. As well as deeply pleasurable:
Noma continues to offer what may well be the most engaged—and engaging—service
in the world.
2. Celler de Can
Roca, Girona, Spain. Cost of a meal for two : $390-480.
Celler de Can Roca is run
by three brothers — head chef Joan, sommelier Josep, and pastry chef Jordi —
who came by their trade honestly: they learned it from their parents. But it’s
hard to imagine anything further from your average mom and pop cooking. In what
may very well be the most beautiful dining room in Europe, a Roca meal dazzles
with its wizardry (a starter called Eat The World that encapsulates, in five
distinct bites, the tastes of the five different cuisines; a dessert called
Messi’s Goal, that recreates, with a candied pitch, flying white chocolate
balls, and a plateside iPod playing the roars of the crowd, what it feels like
when Barcelona’s soccer hero Lionel Messi scores), while remaining firmly
rooted in the flavors of the Mediterranean. Josep brings lucky guests on a tour
of his cellar, where favorite wines have been singled out for multi-sensory
treatments.
3. Osteria
Francescana, Modena, Italy. Cost of a meal for two : $360-525.
Behind a stately
exterior, the world’s most emotive chef, Massimo Bottura, cooks flights of
fantasy and memory. The first sign that this is not your ordinary upscale
Italian restaurant comes from the abstract contemporary paintings on the wall,
but the art continues on the plate. The mortadella sandwich of every Italian
child’s memory is turned into an impossibly light mousse, a Magnum ice cream
bar becomes a sophisticated, foie-gras stuffed bite. And like his spectacular
lacquered eel, which Bottura serves with saba and polenta to represent the
apples and corn the eel would encounter on its way up the nearby Po river, his
dishes are made more evocative by the stories that accompany them.
4. Eleven
Madison Park, New York, USA. Cost of a meal for two : $450.
In this hushed yet
theatrical dining room, Swiss-born chef Daniel Humm takes the whole
farm-to-table movement, imbues it with a bit of French savoir-faire, and, like
an alchemist, comes out with the quintessential New York restaurant. Indeed,
the sense of place here comes not just from the locally grown and produced
ingredients, but from Humm’s knowing nod to New York’s culinary culture.
Pristine carrots, for example, get turned into a lightly whimsical take on
steak tartare; sturgeon (brought to the table under a smoke-filled cloche) is
served with the restaurant’s take on an everything bagel. Excellent service —
graceful, attentive, modern — adds to the sense of supreme well-being.
5. Dinner.
London, England. Cost of a meal for two : $230.
Heston Blumenthal took
his fascination with English culinary history and turned it into something
unexpectedly interesting for the rest of us. At the fashionable Dinner, located
at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in London and overseen by chef Ashley
Palmer-Watts, traditional (if quirkily named) dishes like Salamugundy and meat
fruit are transformed into modern-day marvels (the latter into a light but rich
chicken liver parfait, made up to look exactly like a mandarin orange) Is it
indeed the U.K.’s best restaurant? Probably not. But as history lessons go,
this one goes down extremely easily.
6. Mugaritz,
Errenteria, Spain. Cost of meal for two : $470.
Andoni Luis Aduriz is the
Aristotle of contemporary cuisine, a philosopher-king tucked away in the
rolling hills of the Basque Country, about 20 minutes drive from San Sebastian.
Cerebral, technically accomplished dishes like the Bloody Mary tomato (which
looks and feels like a fresh tomato, but tastes of the cocktail), or his famous
potato stones (whose river rock appearance gives the diner the uncomfortable
sensation of being about to break her teeth), he manages to consistently
surprise and delight his customers, all while maintaining a deep, almost
pantheistic reverence for the nature around him.
7. D.O.M. Saõ
Paulo, Brazil. Cost of meal for two : $400.
Given the media’s
predilection for depicting chef Alex Atala standing thigh-deep in his
much-loved Amazon, bare-chested and draped with a giant fish like some kind of
latter-day Tarzan, it comes as something of a surprise that his restaurant is
so refined. But the delicacy of signature dishes, like a pappardelle made from
hearts of palm or a ceviche crafted of indigenous flavors, belies the wallop of
their unusual flavors — and has helped Brazilians discover the bounty of their
native terroir. Even the Amazonian ants he serves, redolent of lemongrass and
placed gently atop a cube of pineapple, seem elegant.
8. Arzak. San
Sebastian, Spain. Cost of meal for two : $530.
Juan Mari Arzak is one of
the great geniuses of Spanish gastronomy, among the first to bring modern
techniques and flavors to bear on regional cuisine — in his case, that of his
native Basque Country. The kitchen of his restaurant, which is housed in a
quaint-looking building but is surprisingly sleek inside, is now run largely by
his daughter Elena. She continues the Basque-inflected innovation, with dishes
like “waves” (they’re created with molds) of local spider crab and anise or
monkfish cooked in a balloon of edible green papier-máche that manage to feel
both regionally grounded and whimsical.
9. Alinea,
Chicago, Illinois. Cost of a meal for two : $420.
Grant Achatz did a brief
stint at Ferran Adrià ’s elBulli, and ever since has been out avant-garding what
was once the most avant-garde restaurant in the world. The 18-or-so-course
tasting menu carries titles like “Scallop Acting Like Agedashi Tofu” and the
tableware — some of it lovely, some of it looking like it was lifted from the
spike-and-pincer collection of the Spanish Inquisition— is tailor-made for each
course. Dinner in this Chicago restaurant consists of carefully-scripted
experiences more than dishes: one course requires the diner to fold her own
ravioli from a sheet of tomato pasta that, moments before, looked to be a
decorative flag, while the final dessert, a mix of dark chocolate and about a
hundred other things, is painted, drizzled and scattered by a chef directly on
the table itself.
10. The Ledbury,
London, England. Cost of a meal for two : $270.
Among
the top ten restaurants, the Ledbury is probably the most classical, which is
to say that its chef, Australian-born Brett Graham, is more interested in
pleasure than wizardry. The dishes served in this London restaurant may not be
as visually striking as in other places, but their flavors are deep and
layered. Case in point: a buffalo milk curd, spread creamily onto crisp toasts
that are topped with Iberico ham and served with a rich onion broth. Or grilled
mackerel, its oily brine mellowed with cured avocado and brightened with shiso.
And with a chef who hunts his own wild birds, this is the place in London to
try game.
Well that sum's up top 10 choices of having pleasant and superb dishes..to those planning on bringing their loved ones to this places, especially those who plan on taking their girlfriend or boyfriend, goodluck with surprising them..
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