COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Famous Danish restaurant Noma, which has repeatedly claimed the title of the world's best restaurant, said Monday it was closing to transform itself into a "groundbreaking test kitchen" dedicated to "food innovation and... dedicated to the development of new tastes". Chef Rene Redzepi's house of Nordic gastronomy will close in winter 2024 and re-emerge as Noma 3.0, the Copenhagen restaurant announced on its website. Food innovation work and the development of new tastes showing the fruits of our efforts spread more widely than ever before," he said.
Redzepi, chef and co-owner of Noma, said they will be traveling to "look for new ways to share our work," and said there could be "a Noma pop-up," but there was not at where. After the stay "we will do a season in Copenhagen." But I don't want to commit to anything now," Redzepi told Berlingske, one of Denmark's largest daily newspapers. Another major publication, Politiken, said the Copenhagen restaurant's premises are being remodeled to develop products for the Noma Projects line:
sauce brewing, cooking classes and an online platform.
"Serving guests will continue to be a part of us, but being a restaurant will no longer define us. Instead, we will spend much of our time exploring new projects and developing many more ideas and products Noma has evolved through a previous transformation. In 2015, the restaurant announced it would be closing at the end of 2016, reopening near its waterfront with its own vegetable farm in nearby Copenhagen's hippie enclave Christiania. Noma: a contraction of the
Danish words for Nordisk and Mad, which means Nordic and food, opened in 2003.
The restaurant has two Michelin stars and has been voted the world's leading restaurant three times by British Restaurant Magazine in 2010, 2011 and 2012.