Osteria Francescana: does the world’s best restaurant live up to the hype?

Osteria Francescana, which this year was named number one in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. In 2015, it was second; it has been in the top five since 2011. It won its third Michelin star in 2012. It is also, according to Michelin, the best restaurant in Europe. Osteria Francescana is owned and run by a native of Modena, Massimo Bottura, and this is where he placed his restaurant.
The Five Ages Of Parmesan is, perhaps, Bottura’s most famous dish, and it has taken him two decades to perfect it. It is, as it says, five cheeses of different ages: a sauce, an “air”, a demi-soufflé, a foam and a galette, which stands above the rest like a tiny spaceship. The description, again, is ludicrous – “the white on white monochrome is a portrait of the Modenese landscape covered in fog and silence” – but it looks and tastes marvellous. Bottura has nailed parmesan. It is definitive, and has nowhere else to go.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/03/