Once again Copenhagen restaurant noma manifested Copenhagen’s position as culinary frontrunner and ‘hot-spot’ food destination when named number one on the San Pellegrino’s World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. And for the second consecutive year, that is.
The award is widely considered the highest accolade in the culinary world, and noma’s second win draws focus on the current success surrounding New Nordic Cuisine and Copenhagen’s emersion as a world-class food destination.
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Nordisk Mad on the Culinary World Map Noma is abbreviation of the two Danish words nordisk (Nordic) and mad (food). The two-star Michelin restaurant, run by chef René Redzepi, opened in 2004 and is located in an old warehouse on the waterfront of the Christianshavn area of central Copenhagen.
The concept behind noma and the New Nordic Cuisine movement has been to create an indigenous food culture specific to the North Atlantic region by using new, undiscovered regional produce in an innovative and sustainable way. Noma’s success and today’s
achievement bear witness to the fact that Denmark offers world-class cuisine.
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Copenhagen’s Other Culinary Stars
Across the city, restaurant chefs are adapting time-honored Danish dishes to innovative preparations, using local, seasonal ingredients and incorporating the influence of international cuisines. Now, more than ever, the city’s culinary scene is shining.
Ten Copenhagen restaurants made Michelin’s list of the world’s outstanding restaurants in 2011, earning a total of eleven Michelin stars, the highest number for any Scandinavia. Noma leads the pack as Copenhagen’s only two-star Michelin restaurant.
The newly reopened Geranium restaurant received a Michelin rising-star. Behind the organic restaurant stands head-chef Rasmus Kofoed, who recently won a Gold Medal at the Bocuse d’Or, the World Championship for chefs.
A wide spectrum of food offerings
From fine dining at Michelin starred restaurants to traditional Danish open faced sandwiches and value-for-money tastings at small restaurants in new neighborhoods like the Copenhagen Meatpacking District, the city offers a grand variety of excellent food experiences.
This year, an impressive 12 restaurants are classified as Bib Gourmand, “offering good quality cuisine at reasonable prices.” Among them are newly opened restaurant Relæ with chef Christian Puglisi in Jægersborggade, a new and cutting-edge food hub in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen.
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Gourmet food to the People
A great way to experience Copenhagen’s food scene is to visit the city during the Copenhagen Cooking Festival, August 19-28. Now in its sixth year, this Nordic Food Festival is fast becoming a fixture on every food lover’s calendar with lots of special events and tastings.
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This year, a new food initiative begins, the so-called ‘Mad Foodcamp’ (‘mad’ meaning food in Danish, but with reference to the English ‘mad’ as in ‘crazy’). The festival will take place August 27-28 at the Refshaleø, a 5-acre peninsula in the Copenhagen harbor. Behind the initiative are the founding fathers of the New Nordic Cuisine movement, Rene Redzepi (noma
head-chef) and Claus Meyer (high-profile gastro entrepreneur and co-owner of noma), who are inspired by the famed rock festival, Roskilde Festival. The idea is to create a ‘grass root movement’ where people spend a couple of days cultivating their love for food.
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