It has obtained the title of best restaurant in the world for several years, noma, three Michelin stars, announced on Monday, January 9, to close its doors at the end of 2024 to reinvent itself as a culinary laboratory.
A “giant laboratory” from 2025
“To remain noma, we must change… Winter 2024 will be the last season of noma as we know it,” the Copenhagen restaurant said in a video posted on Instagram.
Short for the Danish words “nordisk” (Nordic) and “mad” (food), the noma (with lowercase “n”) opened on a pier in central Copenhagen in 2003, before closing in 2016 to reopen two years after. later in a slightly more eccentric and wooded district of the Danish capital.
“In 2025, our restaurant is transformed into a giant laboratory: a pioneering test kitchen dedicated to food innovation work and the development of new flavors,” he explained on his site.
Champion of fermentation, which, for example, allows pineapples to become edible, René Redzepi, praised in the world of gastronomy for his inventiveness, always manages to shuffle the cards.
During the pandemic, he transformed his restaurant into a wine and burger bar for a month in the summer of 2020.
Temporary restaurants in other countries
If the emphasis now will be on creativity, it will still be possible, from time to time, to eat in noma, in Copenhagen or in pop-up restaurants in other parts of the world.
“Serving customers will always be part of who we are, but being a restaurant will no longer define us,” noma wrote to describe its “noma 3.0” project.
“A lot of our time will be spent exploring new projects and developing many other ideas and products,” he continues without elaborating.
In spring, noma will temporarily open in Kyoto for two months, between March 15 and May 20.
Source: BFM TV
