Noma, ranked world's best restaurant 5 times, to shut down in 2024

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Noma, one of the world’s most top-rated restaurants in the Danish capital of Copenhagen, is set to shut its doors for regular services by next year, Bloomberg reported.

The restaurant, regarded as a top destination for food tourism, will shut its doors by the end of 2024.

After almost two decades of serving tasteful seasonal dishes based on local ingredients, like sika deer, game birds and reindeer with forest-scavenged mushrooms and berries, chef-owner of Noma, Rene Redzepi is all set to revamp his venture as a "giant lab," dubbed as Noma 3.0.

“Winter 2024 will be the last season of Noma as we know it.

Noma 3.0 will be a pioneering test kitchen dedicated to the work of food innovation and the development of new flavours,” Rene Redzepi said in a statement.

Noma 3.0 will flourish around the globe including Copenhagen, the statement added.

Noma Projects, the lab and fermentation studio has already begun selling products like their infamous and already sold out smoked mushroom garum.

As per the report by Bloomberg, in 2021, the restaurant was not able to earn profits, even with government support.

The restaurant expected better business results in 2022 while selling $700 lunches.

With the onset of Noma in 2003, the Danish capital developed into a food and cuisine destination, engaging New Nordic cooking in the world’s lexicon and made foraging the coolest pastime a chef could put in.

Noma grabbed the top spot on the World’s 50 Best restaurants list in 2010. It has won the top title five times, most recently in 2021.

At present, Noma Kyoto will be operated at the Ace Hotel Kyoto.

Chef Redzepi also runs a burger bar, Popl, started in the pandemic which is now a permanent place in Christianshavn.