[ODUNEWS] January 10 – The owner of one of the most inventive restaurants in the world, which has three Michelin stars and a menu that includes live ants, veal fibers, and Finnish reindeer moss, has announced that it would close its doors at the end of 2023.
Noma has been crowned the greatest restaurant in the world five times owing to Rene Redzepi, a 45-year-old chef who is regarded as one of the best in the world. Lunch with wine pairings presently costs 5,500 Danish Kroner, or around £653.
He said that Noma 3.0, his 2003-opened flagship restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark, will transform into a massive test kitchen in 2024 and only reopen in 2025 for brief periods at a time.
Reason For Closure
In an interview with The New York Times, he said that the epidemic and the “unsustainable” nature of the world’s fine dining scene, which demands long hours in the kitchen and excruciatingly high standards, had influenced him to close his doors.
This week, a post on Instagram stated:
“To continue being noma, we must change…”
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In a fan Q&A on his Facebook page, he acknowledged it was challenging to transform his wildly successful company—which has hired full-time foragers, gardeners, and researchers to create new dishes—into a progressive food lab.
It’s terrifying and strange, but I know it’s the right thing to do, he added, adding that he had spent the previous two years arranging the revelation. I had the sensation that it was time for a change as soon as the epidemic started.
The renowned chef declared that he was looking to the future while currently in Tokyo, where a Noma pop-up restaurant would open for five months.
“With this, we truly have a chance to perform fantastic work over the next two to three decades.”
According to him, Noma 3.0 would be centered on “innovation, natural comprehension, and human evolution.”
The Copenhagen restaurant won the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Award in 2021, while Geranium, another Danish restaurant, was voted the top restaurant in 2022.
Previously, Noma was at the top of the list in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014.
The most recent news concerns Noma’s third iteration. In 2017, the eatery closed its old site close to the Opera House in the Danish capital and relocated to the hippie-like Christiania neighbourhood of Copenhagen.
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