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7 extremely weird dishes from the top restaurants in the world

It’s *gourmet* deep-fried moss, darling.

EL CELLER DE Can Rosa in Girona, Spain has topped the annual list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, announced today.

The fancy, fancy restaurants on the list are celebrated for their lavish, cutting-edge and often downright weird dishes –  we had a look through the menus and picked out some of the strangest concoctions.

1. Fermented plums and wild beach roses

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Where: Noma, Copenhagen (#3 on the list)

It’s served on a sheet of muslin cloth, looks slightly placenta-like, and contains ‘wild beach roses’. Hmm.

2. Edible stones

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Where: Mugaritz, San Sebastián, Spain (#6)

Surprise! The ‘stones’ are just potatoes rolled in grey stuff.

3. Deep-fried moss and pine foam

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Where: Noma, Copenhagen (again)

It’s not a floral arrangement for the centre of the table, it’s your dinner! Yay?

4. Meat Fruit

Where: Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London (#7)

Quite literally, ‘fruit’ made out of meat. What else would you expect from Heston?

5. Aged pigeon, beetroot, olives and pickled wild rose

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Where: The Ledbury, London (#20)

Pickled roses? Pigeon? You mean we can go down Stephen’s Green at lunch and make ourselves a meal from what we find?

6. Edible apple-flavoured balloon

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Where: Alinea, Chicago (#26)

Hipster nonsense. *whispers* But we’d still give it a try.

7. Soup shots

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Where: Aqua, Wolfsburg, Germany (#33)

Probably the most palatable of the bunch. Not exactly what springs to mind when you think of ‘shots’, but… OK?

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