Originally Posted by
BiziBB
LapLap, just to clarify, your thread is about the list overlooking Japan's restaurants - therefore none of the restaurants on the list.
Next you'll tell me
Eurovision is rigged!
If the Eurovision Song Contest decided to call itself the World Song Contest and change almost nothing about its structure, then yes, yes I would.
I've had lunch at Nobu London, wasn't that great. As far as I understood Nobu sells Japanese food but it isn't a Japanese chain.
My response is that with no Japanese restaurants on the list (the city with the most Michelin stars in the world - with more to come in future editions) no Chinese restaurants and so few from any other parts of Asia the list is obviously a sham. As such, no, it's not going to affect my future choices in the slightest.
Perhaps someone will be more likely to visit El Poblet in Denia (near Alicante) as a result of this list, but I'm not a molecular gastronomy devotee so I'll continue to ignore the place (I'd rather have a perfectly cooked 'Arroz a Banda' and have my fill of gastronomic porn with a divine dessert from Torreblanca's Pasteleria Totel)
Interestingly, there are no mentions of El Poblet in Flyertalk, and the only person who's recommended Pasteleria Totel (in Elda, half an hour's bus ride from Alicante, where one of the world's greatest confectioners plies his trade and whose desserts wind up in some of the restaurants which
did make it into the list) is me.