Despite selling lunch for $1000 a pop, the chef-owner of Copenhagen’s famous Noma says the maths of fine dining work don’t work.
The Copenhagen restaurant, one of the world’s most famous andThe good news for fine-dining groupies: the closing won’t come until the end of 2024.Rumours that Noma would close have been swirling for months. Rene Redzepi, chef-owner of Noma, said on Monday that it wasn’t possible to make the maths of fine dining work for his almost 100 employees and himself. “We have to rethink the industry,” he told. In 2021, the restaurant lost money, even with government support, while selling $US700 lunches.
Noma turned Copenhagen into a culinary destination, put New Nordic cooking in the world’s lexicon and made foraging the coolest pastime a chef could engage in. After opening its doors in 2003, it operated mostly under the radar untilNow Redzepi will focus on Noma Projects, the lab and fermentation studio that has begun selling products like their sold out smoked mushroom garum, a condiment made from mushrooms that have been cured with salt and the rice fungus koji and then cold-smoked.
If you just can’t get a table at Noma, there are other opportunities to dine on Redzepi’s cooking. Noma Kyoto will operate at the Ace Hotel Kyoto this spring. And Redzepi also operates Popl,
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