Restaurant Noma: A Unique & Adventurous Gastronomic Experience
Mon 07 May 2012
, Nicole Bader, Charming Travel Choices
Name the top three things that come to mind from Copenhagen and without a doubt restaurant Noma will be among them!! A panel of more than 800 food critics, chefs, restaurateurs, journalists and food experts awarded restaurant Noma as Best Restaurant in the World for some years now. Noma is a two Michelin star restaurant run by chef René Redzepi. The name of the restaurant is an acronym of the two Danish words "nordisk" (Nordic) and "mad" (food) and the restaurant is famous for its reinvention and interpretation of the Nordic Cuisine.
Noma is located in one of the most picturesque parts of the city, called Christianhavn. A man-made island with canals and colorful painted old houses. The restaurant is housed in an old renovated warenhouse at the waterfront. The Noma experience starts the moment you enter the restaurant. The interior is spacious and quite austere with big wooden tables and warming elements in the form of animal hides and soft candlelight. Rough stonewalls and solid beams create an impression of rugged nature right inside the city.
Noma’s young head chef Redzepi is known as an ambassador of the Scandinavian kitchen. He pursues a regional, seasonal agenda that is right on the cutting edge: if it isn't available in the Nordic region, he won't cook with it. Redzepi is a gifted cook with an extraordinary palate who does amazing things with wild herbs and flowers, bitter green leaves and the freshest local seafood. The restaurant is an homage to soil and sea, a reminder of the source of our food. Extraordinary dishes with musk ox and smoked marrow, crunchy baby carrots, sea urchin and dill or beef cheek and pear. The wines accompanying the dishes are among the best. Especially the crisp, aromatic wines from cooler climates like Austria and Germany are a perfect match for the Nordic gourmet cuisine at Noma.
Noma does its own salting, smoking, pickling, drying and grilling and they use state of the art kitchen appliances and techniques. It is refreshing to dine in a restaurant that has a sense of purpose, which takes pride in this purpose, and finds innovation where others have previously seen only limitation.
Great restaurants are a blend of sophisticated cooking, imaginative ideas and respect for ingredients. Restaurant Noma is more than this. It's am exceptional, unique and adventurous gastronomic experience. It's the entire package, from its ingredient ingenuity to flawless execution, that makes it a beacon of excellence, which leads to an emotive, intense, liberating way of eating, unlike any other. Many have copied chef Rene Redzepi's approach, most have failed. For the best in class, restaurant Noma really is the number one place to go.
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Nicole Bader, Charming Travel choices
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