Noma Tokyo registration shows early birds get more than worms

What were you doing up before dawn Monday?
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • June 24, 2014
What were you doing up before dawn Monday? If you are a hard-core restaurant fanatic, the kind who follows Massimo Bottura on Twitter and plans her vacations around the rankings of the San Pellegrino World’s Best 50 Restaurants awards, you were...
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