It has obtained the title of best restaurant in the world several times and is in the top ten of "The World's 50 Best Restaurants", the name (it is written with a small n, ed.), and today the Copenhagen sign announces that it will close the activity since 2024 to reinvert itself as a gastronomic laboratory.
"To continue being the noma, we have to change (...) Winter 2024 will be the last season of the noma we know" explains the Danish restaurant on Instagram, whose name is the result of an abbreviation of the Danish words "nordisk" and "mad", food, nourishment.
It's not the first stop for Danish chef René Redzepi's chameleonic restaurant: noma opened in central Copenhagen in 2003, before closing in 2016 to reopen two years later in a greener area.
"In 2025, our restaurant will be transformed into a laboratory where you can test a pioneering cuisine aimed at food innovation and the development of new flavours", reads the website which heralds the launch of "noma 3.0".
Meanwhile, in spring the noma will temporarily open in Kyoto for two months, from March 15th to May 20th.