Food & Wine
The €775 menu at Rene Redzepi’s Noma Kyoto is worth the price, and the hassle
Getting a table at the Danish chef’s latest iteration of his Copenhagen restaurant requires reorganising your life, but you won’t regret it
Rene Redzepi’s charisma can charm dragons. Through two decades, the Danish chef’s lofty gastronomic ambitions and unfussy approach to hospitality turned his Copenhagen restaurant Noma into a culinary magnet - paradoxically inaccessible to most diners, yet enchantingly popular.
He has withstood controversies, relocations, critics, closures and Michelin’s long refusal to give him a third star (it finally relented in 2021). Those charms have made Noma the restaurant that gastronomes have to get to when they ...
