René Redzepi will close Noma, the three-Michelin-star Copenhagen restaurant repeatedly voted the best in the world by The World's 50 Best Restaurants, at the end of 2024 in order for it to reinvent itself.
"To continue to be Noma, we must change", begins an announcement from the chef and his team. "Winter 2024 will be the last season of Noma as we know it."
The restaurant will become a culinary laboratory in 2025, a "pioneering test kitchen dedicated to food innovation work and the development of new flavours."
Redzepi, the king of reinvention
Therefore, you have a little less than two years to discover the delights of Noma as we know it today. As a reminder, Redzepi opened the restaurant in 2003, before closing it in 2016 to reopen two years later, in an outlying district of the Danish capital. During the pandemic, the chef transformed the premises into a wine bar and hamburger slinger to adapt to the situation.
From 2025, the focus will be on creativity. It will still be possible to eat occasionally at Noma in Copenhagen, or at Noma pop-ups around the world, like the one in Kyoto, Japan this Spring. "Serving customers will always be part of who we are, but being a restaurant will no longer define us," the 'Noma 3.0' announcement continues. “Much of our time will be spent exploring new projects and developing many other ideas and products."
