26-06-2019
Group photo with the chefs in the The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2019, sponsored by S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna
It has happened and it will never happen again. The podium of The World’s 50 Best Restaurant 2019 cannot be repeated, contrary to the past: 1. Mirazur with Mauro Colagreco in Mentone (France), 2. Noma with Renè Redzepi (who did not participate in the ceremony) in Copenhagen (Denmark) and 3. Asador Etxebarri with Victor Arguinzoniz in Atxondo in Spain. Based on the new anti-stress rules for top chefs, Colagreco enters legally into the Best of the Best, where he finds the seven previous winners, and he’ll stay there unless he changes restaurant. Which is in fact the case of Redzepi, who’s in the hall of fame with the old Noma and in the top 3 with the new one. The Dane goes up and up: from last year’s absence while the works were taking place, to second place this year.
The minute, no longer, while we waited to know who was second, and hence who was first, was endless. Mauro said: «I blacked out. I couldn’t see anything around me. Everything went black. In a second, all my life passed in front of my eyes. Then I heard them say "Noma" and I knew I had won. My life? I’m 43, I was born in Argentina and then emigrated to France».
All the winners before Colagreco. They’re now part of the Best of the Best. They will no longer take part in the competition, except for Redzepi ‘s new Noma which, having changed style and location, is once again in the game
The winning team at Mirazur in Mentone
Here’s how the different countries did in the 50Best: Spain is at the top with 7 restaurants, then the US with 6 and then France with 5. Italy is off the podium, and has a wood medal with 2 restaurants among the 50Best, together with many other countries: Peru (though they shine more, and have a 6th and 10th position), Denmark (even better: second and fifth), Mexico, UK, Russia (growing fast: 13th and 19th), China, Japan and Thailand
Giancarlo and Riccardo Camanini
In any case, I hope to be proven wrong already in 2020. In the meantime, lets hold on tight to the two places in the 50Best, perhaps they could become three because one, among Romito and Camanini, could well grow. The other countries, however, are running faster.
Translated into English by Slawka G. Scarso
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