The world’s greatest restaurant Geranium is in a Copenhagen soccer stadium

It’s not the primary time a Copenhagen restaurant has taken probably the most coveted gong at The World’s 50 Finest Eating places Awards – however this time, it’s Rasmus Kofoed’s Geranium that took the crown from Rene Redzepi’s Noma.

Geranium took dwelling the primary award on the 2022 listing, introduced at a starry ceremony in London that was attended by lots of the restaurant groups nominated in addition to a lot of earlier winners for the primary time since earlier than the pandemic.

Kofoed’s restaurant sits within the relatively curious setting of Copenhagen’s Parken, the soccer stadium that’s dwelling to the Danish nationwide soccer workforce. It’s extra picturesque than it sounds – set on the eighth flooring, the eating room is all mild woods and creamy partitions, and is flooded with mild from the large home windows. These home windows lengthen out over the parkland beneath, throughout to the copper rooftops of town’s skyline.

In 2022, Kofoed and the workforce determined to revamp the restaurant and the menu they served right here. The cooks not use meat of their dishes, though seafood remains to be a star participant. “The menu is a mirrored image of me, of who I’m and the way I’m evolving as a chef and as a human being,” Kofoed stated on Instagram on the time. “I have not been consuming meat for the final 5 years at dwelling, so to not use meat on the brand new menu was a logical choice and a pure development for Geranium.”

Geranium, CopenhagenClaes Bech Poulsen

Meals are made up of twenty-two tasting-style dishes and alter with the seasons. The menu may embody artfully contorted salted herring with algae and dill stems or preposterously fairly winter greens with flowering Brussels sprout and leeks. The 2022 menu prices 4,200DKK (about £365), and there are alternatives so as to add a variety of wine pairings or non-alcoholic drinks pairings too.

Geranium’s first entry on the World’s 50 Finest listing got here in 2013, the identical 12 months it was awarded two Michelin stars. The workforce earned a 3rd Michelin star in 2016, making it the primary Danish restaurant to realize the utmost variety of stars.

Copenhagen neighbour Noma, the winner of the earlier 12 months’s listing, was moved to the ‘Better of the Finest’ part – a subset of eating places who’ve beforehand positioned first and subsequently develop into ineligible to win once more. Different eating places on the ‘Better of the Finest’ listing embody Osteria Francescana, led by Massimo Bottura who was interviewing his business buddies on the crimson carpet throughout the London awards.

Central in Lima, Peru, positioned simply behind Geranium at quantity two, making it the continental winner of Finest Restaurant in South America, whereas Disfrutar in Barcelona rounded out the highest three.

As for the place Rasmus Kofoed likes to eat when he is not on the cross at Geranium – he tipped Koan in Copenhagen as the most effective meal he’d had just lately when chatting to Condé Nast Traveller on the crimson carpet. “It was Korean impressed,” he stated. “It was full of latest flavours I hadn’t found earlier than.”