Denmark's Noma loses world restaurant crown after outbreak
"Spain's El Celler de Can Roca seized the title of the world's best restaurant from Denmark's Noma on Monday, one month after dozens of people came down with about of food poisoning from the Copenhagen eatery.
The restaurant in Girona, run by three brothers and known for its dishes based on perfumes, had spent two years as runner-up on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list compiled for a 12th year by more than 900 international experts for Britain's Restaurant magazine.
It swapped places with Noma, the two Michelin-starred Danish restaurant which spent three years at the top but which apologised in March after it left 63 customers suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea over a five-day period.
The magazine said that El Celler de Can Roca "gained global acclaim for its combination of Catalan dishes and cutting edge techniques and the passion that they share for hospitality".
I'm very happy because the world's best restaurant is in our province, and that type of titles attracts tourits from other countries to visit our gastronomy and our culture. El Celler de Can Roca has won the title of best restaurant of the world after being working harly for years. The pation for inovation of the three brothers has brought them to the top. Catalonia is reconaised for its gastronomy and good restaurants. Ferran Adrià whith the restaurant el Bulli has also promotionated catalan way of cooking achiving also this distinction for its modern way on innovation in cooking. People appreciates a lot the work on preparing dishes, the vanguardia's cooking is nowdays very attracting for gourmets. My father uses to celebrate its meals of enterprise at christmas and summer vacancies there. He always says that El Celler the Can Roca is fantastic.
Swapped: an exchange. (Intercanvi)
Acclaim: to acknowledge publicly the excellence of (a person, act, etc). (Aclamar)
Acknowledge: to recognize or admit the existence, truth, or reality of something. (Reconèixer)