The Danish restaurant Noma is closing its doors after more than a year.
Restaurant Noma’s kitchen in 2018. Tommi Anttonen
The three-Michelin-starred Noma, chosen as the world’s best restaurant for many years, will stop its restaurant operations after the winter of 2024.
Noma’s chef and one of its owners René Redzepi announced the matter in an Instagram update published yesterday, Monday.
Redzepi writes that in 2025, Noma will turn into a large laboratory where food innovations and new flavors are developed. According to Redzepi, it is Noma’s third chapter. There will possibly be a pop-up restaurant.
René Redzepi photographed in 2011. Tommi Anttonen
Redzepi opened Noma, which uses only Nordic ingredients Claus Meyer’s with in 2003.
The last time Noma closed was in 2016 on New Year’s Eve. Noma 2.0 opened in 2017 with a new menu and a new mission. Redzepi turned the plot of land in Copenhagen’s Christiania district into a modern farm and Noma became its center.
The New York Times In an interview with the magazine, Redzepi states that the industry is difficult. According to him, the restaurant’s kitchen and hall work long and hard days, and it is not possible to pay its 100 employees a good enough salary. Maintaining quality and an appropriate price level is difficult.
There has also been a discussion in Finland about the working conditions of fine dining restaurants. The labor shortage plaguing the industry does not make matters easier.
Noma’s dining room in 2018. Tommi Anttonen