The Danish restaurant "Noma", which has won the title "Best Restaurant in the World" several times, has announced that it will close its doors at the end of 2024, to turn into a cooking laboratory dedicated to food innovation and the development of new flavors.

To continue being noma, we must change.

Therefore, dear guests, colleagues and friends, we have some exciting news to share.

Head over to https://t.co/8DqGez12f2, to read more about noma 3.0.

— restaurant noma (@nomacph) January 9, 2023

According to a statement published on the official website, the owner of the restaurant, Chef René Redzepi - who was awarded the Knights Medal by the Queen of Denmark - said: "To continue being Noma, we must change. Dear guests, colleagues and friends, the winter of 2024 will be the last season of Noma as we know it. We are beginning a new chapter." .Numa 3.0".

"In 2025, our restaurant will be transformed into a giant laboratory - a pioneering test kitchen dedicated to creating food innovations and developing new flavours, a kitchen that will share the fruits of our efforts on a larger scale than ever before."

Describing his project "Noma 3.0", the restaurant wrote, "Customer service will always be part of our identity, but it will no longer be possible to define us as a restaurant only. We will spend a lot of our time exploring new projects and developing many other ideas and products," without giving more. of the details.

The owner of Noma announced that the restaurant will open temporarily in the Japanese city of Kyoto for a period of two months, between March 15 and May 20.

20 years of fine dining

Since its opening in 2003 in the heart of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, Noma has served various types of fine dining, such as grilled reindeer heart served with fresh pine nuts, and saffron ice cream served in a beeswax bowl.

And in 2016, the restaurant - which employs about 100 workers - closed its doors, to reopen it two years later in an area planted with trees, far from the city center.

And the British magazine "Restaurant" ranked "Noma" as the best restaurant in the world during the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, and in the 2019 classification, the restaurant ranked second, to return to the fore again in 2021.

Restaurant magazine publishes an annual list of the world's 50 best restaurants, based on the votes of 837 chefs, restaurateurs, critics and gourmets.

The name Numa - which has a 3-star rating in the Michelin Guide - was strongly associated with the environment and the policy of providing seasonal foods.

Each season has its own distinctive dishes and new recipes of fish and meat.

Noma has 3 different menus a year, each of which contains approximately 20 dishes. For example, the seafood menu offers “Sea Food” from the beginning of the year until June, then the vegetable season during the summer, and the forest food season in the winter, and with each season it is The restaurant closed a little earlier in order to prepare the new season's dishes.