Voyager was thrilled to see Danish restaurant noma.dk/ get top marks at the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards 2010 recently. And not just because we had seen this coming last year when we ran a large profile on chef/owner Rene Redzepi.

He and his team bounded on stage and did their customary group hug before accepting the gong. But the gravitas of London’s Guildhall setting curbed Redzepi’s famous rebellious tongue. At last year’s ceremony he had been rather more outré – declaring: “They used to call us seal-f*****s. Look who’s laughing now!”

This time, his team paid tribute to the one member of their gang who hadn’t been able to get a visa in time by wearing T-shirts with his photo on.

We’ll be paying tribute by flying out to Copenhagen and checking out the grub.

This weekend I finally caught up with the latest offering from George Clooney, Voyager’s cover star for this month’s issue.

If you haven’t seen Up in the Air as yet, the mature pin-up plays an American executive whose career raison d’etre is to join an airmiles elite club. Critics have been largely united in praising Clooney’s performance in Jason Reitman’s well-crafted movie so catch it while you can.

In the meantime, if you’re inspired to the join the club, as it were, bmi’s generous frequent flyer airmiles for its Diamond Club members is worth checking out too at www.flybmi.com/diamondclub

The new route starts on 28 March so we’ll be bringing you plenty of ideas of what to do, where to stay and the latest hangouts you won’t want to miss. Keep an eye at www.flybmi.com for more information.

A Single Man is in British cinemas from 12 February

It may have been 30 years since the iconic Pineapple Dance Studios opened in London’s Covent Garden, but our feet feel like auditioning for Fame again. Just in time for the craze of all things 1980s is the forthcoming new film version of Fame. And it was the clothing as much as the dance that we want to recreate so I went to meet Pineapple’s founder, entrepreneur Debbie Moore, at the studios yesterday – and was put through my paces by the dance instructor Louie Spence.

“Just feel the music and move,” recommended Debbie. “And yes, it helps to look the part though you don’t need to have the perfect figure. A pair of leggings with an oversized Pineapple t shirt is fine.” Which is all very well for the willowy businesswoman with perfect pins (and Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the Year Award) who has just launched a new Fame clothing line that is exclusive to Debenhams.

No wonder Moore is unstoppable. Remember her name.

The Lebanese capital topped the NY Times travel poll back in January, and it seems there’s no stopping its tourism upswing. Beirut’s lively cultural mix + its great food and nightlife = the ideal destination. As AFP report, over one million travellers came Lebanon this July – a record, according to the country’s tourism ministry. Of course, we would like to think that our recent article on Lebanese cuisine and our guide to Beirut contributed to this spike, but, hey, we can’t take all the credit.

New Jersey’s Vandelay web design studio singled out www.bmivoyager.com as one of their favourite magazine-style sites. Take a look at the full post here. Well done to Ink’s Andy Shaw. He oversaw the site’s reboot.

I came across these on a recent trip to Ethiopia. It seems that, on the streets of Addis Ababa, the hip hop movement has branched out into confectionery. A six-pack of Hip Hop chocolate cream biscuits cost 2 birr (roughly 10p); a small price to pay for edible street cred, particularly when you consider that the manufacturers – Nas Biscuits – also share their name with a iconic NY rapper.