NOMA

Opened in 2003 by René Redzepi, Noma is known for its reinvention and interpretation of Nordic Cuisine. It was ranked Best Restaurant in the World four times. At the start of 2017, Noma was in the process of a radical transformation: closing their previous location and re-inventing themselves as a state-of-the-art urban farm.

What starts as a clear reason to exist becomes a messy journey on which the chef slowly unravels the truths in his quest to redefine Nordic cooking. It’s captivating to see one of the greatest chefs of the decade share (in a very personal way) the doubts, confusions, ideas and discoveries that have shaped Noma’s journey.

It just felt right, and I thought to myself, we can really build something here – I can’t turn this down. We shook hands and decided on a grand idea, one which seemed so unlikely at the time: the restaurant would attempt to define the cooking of our region through Nordic produce. And that’s how we began, with a very strict dogma to only use the ingredients from our vast territory, thinking that a new type of cuisine, or a new flavour would evolve from that.