World-renowned restaurant Noma to close, citing 'unsustainable' model - The Washington Post

The edifice volition yet morph into a “giant lab” that volition big pop-ups and/or temporarily unfastened for a season, arsenic good arsenic make products for the company’s e-commerce arm. “Serving guests volition inactive beryllium a portion of who we are, but being a edifice volition nary longer specify us,” work a enactment to customers connected the restaurant’s website hailing the caller incarnation arsenic Noma 3.0. “Instead, overmuch of our clip volition beryllium spent connected exploring caller projects and processing galore much ideas and products.”

Established successful 2003, Noma was initially dismissed by immoderate critics arsenic a “blubber restaurant” for relying connected Nordic ingredients, but it rapidly drew acclaim, hailed arsenic the creator of a spare but breathtaking “New Nordic” cuisine. It was named the world’s champion edifice 5 times successful the past 11 years and was awarded a 3rd Michelin prima — the state of lone a fistful of restaurants crossed the globe — in 2021. The terms tag, for those quick-fingered capable to people a reservation, is astatine slightest $500 a head.

Dining determination was arsenic overmuch astir the acquisition arsenic the food, which included reindeer and foraged greens. The edifice is acceptable amid chaotic gardens and greenhouses with rooms devoted to barbecue and fermentation. The 40-seat eating country mightiness beryllium decorated with food skeletons oregon dried seaweed; multicourse meals extremity with the presumption of a menu.

Over the years, it morphed respective times. It went acheronian successful 2015 for a five-week pop-up successful Tokyo, and again a twelvemonth aboriginal for stints successful Sydney and Tulum, Mexico. It reopened successful 2018 successful Copenhagen, with The Washington Post’s edifice professional Tom Sietsema declaring the caller iteration “a uncommon accidental to bent with a existent visionary.”

“It soon becomes evident that we’re eating the future, truthful influential is Redzepi’s thought process that his dishes are copied astatine the velocity of the net by chefs astir the world,” Sietsema wrote.

During the pandemic, it shuttered and temporarily reopened arsenic a spot for burgers and vino served astatine picnic tables.

Redzepi and his cognition person travel nether scrutiny, including for their reliance connected unpaid “stagiaires” (Noma reportedly began paying them successful October). The cook himself admitted successful a 2015 effort that helium had been a bully of a boss who had yelled and “pushed people,” and since past has said that helium has done therapy to woody with his anger.