From new offerings by marquee chefs to more modest openings in out-of-the-way spots, here are 10 restaurants around the globe to keep an eye on in 2011, in alphabetical order.
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WILLOWS INN
LUMMI ISLAND, WASH.
Willows Inn, on the tiny San Juan island of Lummi, is about two hours from Seattle by car and ferry. Yet it is about to become a destination restaurant, thanks to its new chef, Blaine Wetzel. The 24-year-old, formerly the protégé of Rene Redzepi at Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant that was ranked the “best restaurant in the world” for 2010 by S. Pellegrino, took over the kitchen at Willows last year. The restaurant itself reopens in February; expect a menu with an obsessive focus on local ingredients, in the style of Noma. Since he was hired, Mr. Wetzel has been working with a farmer and an urchin diver who work solely for him.
Original URL: http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/travel/09restaurants.html?ref=travel
[...] visitors and writers ask us if there is anything else to do there besides visit the acclaimed and now famous Willows Inn (which unfortunately wasn’t in the cards for us since we were traveling with my [...]
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