COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Copenhagen restaurant noma, one of the world's top eateries with three Michelin stars, said Monday it would close at the end of 2024 to reinvent itself as a food laboratory.
"To continue being noma, we must change... Winter 2024 will be the last season of noma as we know it", the restaurant, wrote in a post on Instagram.
"We are beginning a new chapter," it said. "In 2025, our restaurant is transforming into a giant lab — a pioneering test kitchen dedicated to the work of food innovation and the development of new flavors, one that will share the fruits of our efforts more widely than ever before."
An abbreviation of the Danish words "nordisk" (Nordic) and "mad" (food), noma — which does not capitalize its name — opened in central Copenhagen in 2003 before shutting down in 2016.
It reopened two years later in a different, leafier neighborhood of the Danish capital.
The restaurant has regularly ranked among the top 10 on "The World's 50 Best Restaurants" list, including number two in 2019 and number one for three years running from 2010 to 2012 as well as 2021.