Has anyone been to these places? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/22/ncuisine422.xml http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant_(magazine)_Top_50
Did you try the bacon and egg ice cream and snail porridge? Been there myself... Blumenthal's story is made so much better given that he's self taught and used to be a debt collector! Tried to get into El Bulli, but they only take bookings on one day of the year! Bastardos!