News Desk
COPENHAGEN: Danish restaurant Noma, one of the finest eateries in the world with three Michelin stars, is set to close its doors to diners next year.
The Copenhagen restaurant credited with the invention of New Nordic Cuisine has topped the list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants five times, most recently in 2021.
But chef René Redzepi’s legendary eatery has notified that it will bring its eatery chapter to a close at the end of 2024 and will re-emerge as a “giant lab,” dubbed Noma 3.0 the following year.
“In 2025, our eatery is transforming into a giant lab, a pioneering test kitchen dedicated to the work of food innovation and the development of new flavours, one that will share the fruits of our efforts more widely than ever before,” the restaurant’s representatives wrote in a post on Instagram.
The former eatery will still host guests at the occasional pop-up or season, it said.
The restaurant which transformed Nordic cuisine
Noma, an abbreviation of the Danish words “nordisk” (Nordic) and “mad” (food), opened in central Copenhagen in 2003 before shutting down in 2016, and then reopening two years later in a different neighbourhood of the Danish capital.
The eatery has regularly been listed among the top 10 best restaurants of the world.
Noma’s chef René Redzepi has been hailed for transforming Nordic cuisine, serving dishes such as edible pinecones, ragout of reindeer, and crispy marigold with whiskey egg yolk sauce.
