Tropicana Magazine Sep-Oct 2018 #120: Art As Life
Tropicana Magazine's ART AS LIFE issue features Ai Wei Wei as the Game Changer activist of the Arts, MD of Simmons SouthEastAsia Mr Casey Teh talks about Somnology - the science of sleep; Check out our curated lists for you end of year travel plans
Tropicana Magazine's ART AS LIFE issue features Ai Wei Wei as the Game Changer activist of the Arts, MD of Simmons SouthEastAsia Mr Casey Teh talks about Somnology - the science of sleep; Check out our curated lists for you end of year travel plans
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THE COOKBOOK<br />
IMAGE BY DAVID SILVERMAN/THE INTERVIEW PEOPLE<br />
World's Best Restaurants <strong>2018</strong><br />
. Osteria Francescana,<br />
Modena, Italy<br />
. El Celler de Can Roca,<br />
Girona, Spain<br />
. Mirazur, Menton, France<br />
. Eleven Madison Park,<br />
New York, USA<br />
. Gaggan, Bangkok, Thailand<br />
. Central, Lima, Peru<br />
. Maido, Lima, Peru<br />
. Arpège, Paris, France<br />
. Mugaritz, San Sebastian, Spain<br />
. <strong>As</strong>ador Etxebarri, Axpe, Spain<br />
“Midway through<br />
the meal, the man<br />
himself, Massimo<br />
Bottura, appeared<br />
at our table and<br />
spent several<br />
minutes speaking<br />
to me.”<br />
The World’s Best Restaurant list is drawn from the votes of more than 1,000 restaurateurs, chefs,<br />
food writers and gastronomes, who are split into 26 separate regions around the world, each with its<br />
own panel of 40 members.<br />
Winning is, obviously, great for business – the day after El Celler de Can Roca topped the first list<br />
in 2013, its website got 12 million visitors and the restaurant had to hire three extra staff just to turn<br />
down requests. No wonder the whole process is independently adjudicated by Deloitte.<br />
Modena, situated as it is between Bologna and Parma, has some of the finest ingredients in the<br />
world within its reach and is just as renowned for its creativity, counting Luciano Pavarotti and Enzo<br />
Ferrari among its sons. Osteria Francescana, with Bottura at its helm, perfectly blends both of the<br />
city’s strengths.<br />
Yet is it even possible to deem a restaurant the best on earth? TripAdvisor improbably ranks<br />
Osteria Francescana as only the fifth best restaurant in Modena (suggesting some people are<br />
impossible to please). But after our long-awaited lunch more than lived up to the hype, we left in no<br />
doubt that Bottura thoroughly deserved to regain his place at the top.<br />
TM | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER <strong>2018</strong><br />
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