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One of the most creative restaurants in the world -which has three Michelin stars and has put ingredients such as Finnish reindeer moss, calf fibers and live ants on its menu- will close its doors at the end of 2023, its owner has announced.
Rene Redzepi, 45, is widely considered one of the world’s best chefs, and thanks to his alchemy in the kitchen, Noma has been named the world’s best restaurant five times, and lunch with wine pairing currently costs 5,500 kroner. Danish, around £653.
He said his flagship Copenhagen restaurant, which first opened in 2003, will become a giant test kitchen, dubbed Noma 3.0, in 2024, only opening in 2025 for short periods at a time.
In an interview with The New York TimesHe said the “unsustainable” nature of the global dining scene, which demands long hours in the kitchen and painstakingly high standards, coupled with the pandemic helped him make the decision to close the shop.
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An Instagram post posted this week read: “To remain Noma, we must change… Winter 2024 will be the last season of Noma as we know it.”
In a fan Q&A on his own page, he admitted that turning his successful business, which has employed full-time pickers, gardeners and researchers to inspire new dishes, into a progressive food lab was daunting.
He said that he had spent the last two years planning the ad, saying, “It’s scary and it’s weird, but I know it’s the right thing to do.” As soon as the pandemic hit, I had a feeling it was time for something different.’
Currently in Tokyo, where a Noma pop-up restaurant will open for five months, the celebrity chef said he was looking to the future.
Noma’s celebrity chef and owner Rene Redzepi revealed this week that the three-Michelin-starred restaurant will close at the end of 2023.
Creative: Dishes over the years have included ingredients like Finnish reindeer moss and live ants (pictured: roasted langoustines and langoustine heads)
His Copenhagen restaurant will become a giant test kitchen, dubbed Noma 3.0, and will open in 2025, serving only for short periods of the year.
In an interview with the New York Times, Redzepi called the global food scene “unsustainable.”
Noma 3.0 will focus “on innovation, understanding of nature and human growth,” he told fans on Instagram.
“We have an opportunity with this to do some incredible work over the next two to three decades.”
Noma 3.0 will focus “on innovation, understanding of nature and human growth,” he told fans.
He said the kitchen was set to open in 2025 and that his staff were, like him, “nervous” but “hadn’t heard from anyone yet who didn’t feel it’s the right step.”
In 2021, the Copenhagen restaurant took home first place in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, and Danish restaurant Geranium was named number one in 2022. Noma previously topped the list in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014.
The latest news is the third incarnation of Noma. In 2017, the restaurant closed its original location near the Danish capital’s Opera House and reopened in the hippie Christiania neighborhood of Copenhagen.
In 2021, the Copenhagen restaurant took home first place in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards, and Danish restaurant Geranium was named number one in 2022.
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