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Eater
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- Entertainment
- Eater
Noma Is Coming to Los Angeles
It looks like René Redzepi's celebrated three-Michelin-starred and former World's 50 Best restaurant, Noma, is headed to Los Angeles. A short teaser with shots of the Hollywood sign, funghi, and sliced citrus spliced together appeared on Noma's Instagram on the morning of July 1, with the caption 'Noma LA 2026.' A longer version of the video was posted on Noma's website, along with an email form to sign up for information about reservations when they become available. Redzepi first opened Noma in 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark, before moving the restaurant to its current home in 2018. The restaurant is known for its modern interpretation of Nordic cuisine, utilizing international influences and locally foraged and sourced ingredients. The restaurant is widely regarded as one of the best in the world, and securing a reservation is notoriously difficult, even with the high cost of the tasting menu, which starts at over $400 before any beverage pairings (a wine pairing brings the total close to $800). Noma has topped the World's 50 Best Restaurants list multiple times and was featured in the second season of Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown . In 2023, Redzepi announced that Noma would be closing in 2024, calling the model he built the restaurant on 'unsustainable.' Instead, Noma was slated to become a full-time food laboratory for Noma Projects. But it is now 2025, and Noma is still here, albeit with more limited reservations. Noma's forthcoming visit to Los Angeles marks the continuation of a long-standing tradition of international residency for the restaurant, dating back to its stint in London in 2012. Over the last decade, Noma has either temporarily relocated the restaurant entirely or popped up in cities including Tulum, Brooklyn, and Kyoto. Noma's teaser for its Los Angeles residency doesn't reveal much about what to expect outside of a promise of 'trying new things together.' But the vagueness isn't slowing down the excitement — there are already hundreds of comments under Noma's Instagram post requesting more information about the stop. Redzepi himself commented under the post, writing, 'Dreams do come true.' See More:
Los Angeles Times
06-03-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
One of the world's best restaurants is launching its own coffee delivered to your door
Chef René Redzepi of famed restaurant Noma in Copenhagen and his flavor laboratory Noma Projects are launching a new coffee membership, available to be delivered around the world, starting today. Redzepi's mission to distill elements of his surrounding landscape onto a plate has also been the backbone of the restaurant's beverage selections. The goal with Noma Kaffe is to nurture relationships with farmers, sourcing coffees that support local communities, food systems and regenerative agriculture. 'Coffee and chocolate are two things that I can't live without,' says Redzepi. 'Obviously, in reality, you can live without most things, but if I had to choose a last meal, it could be a fantastic cup of coffee with a piece of truly high-quality chocolate.' Noma Kaffe will send to subscribers each month two 250-gram packages of exclusive whole beans that offer a window into Redzepi's coffee obsession, featuring selections from small farms and a light Nordic roasting profile. For March, the first coffee was chosen in a blind tasting of beans from Mexico: a Garnica from Tenejapa in Chiapas grown by the Iztín family. This coffee variety was originally introduced at Noma during its 2017 pop-up in Tulum. The second coffee, a natural Ethiopian Landrace (a blend of indigenous varieties), was grown at about 7,000 feet above sea level, the high elevation yielding balanced acidity with notes of tropical fruit and spice. The subscription is sold through Noma Projects for $65 a month. Coffee service has been an integral pursuit at Noma — which now focuses on a new ingredient each season; it's currently 'ocean season.' The restaurant partnered with World Barista Champion Tim Wendelboe of Oslo in 2013 to source beans and create the coffee service for its tasting menus. Now it has established its own department under Noma Kaffe, to source and roast beans in-house. 'We wanted to have as good of coffee as in the best coffee bars,' says Redzepi. 'It was an obvious choice back then to work with Tim Wendelboe. He is an extraordinary individual. And he has taught us so much over the years.' 'Tim often asked us, 'Why don't you do it yourselves?' says Redzepi of roasting coffee at Noma. 'I was always intrigued by the idea.' Redzepi wanted to ensure that someone would develop a coffee sourcing and roasting program that defines the Noma Kaffe flavor profile, featuring his affinity for Nordic profiles with light roasts, bright acidity and floral notes. Carolyne Lane had started at Noma in 2018 as a host and server while curating the tea selection, making herb infusions, spending time in the test kitchen to craft juice pairings and learning all aspects of the restaurant's coffee service. Now Lane helms the coffee division of Noma Projects, which Redzepi founded in 2022 to showcase and sell ingredients from the restaurant's workshop, such as corn yuzu hot sauce, cep oil and aged pumpkin vinegar. Supported by Noma head sommelier Ava Mees List and general manager Simon Kofoed Bursche Hansen, Lane works with head roaster Alastair Hesp and head barista Tsubasa Maehiro to develop roast profiles and manage quality control. Redzepi 'is coffee obsessed and very engaged in the project,' says Lane. Lane recently spent time on the road in Colombia with Tyler Youngblood of Azahar, a green coffee sourcing company, researching regenerative coffee agriculture in the regions where they sourced beans for later this spring. The second and third subscription drops will focus on beans from three farmers in Huila, a top coffee-growing region in southwestern Colombia known for award-winningbeans that are sweet and fragrant. 'They all represent very different expressions of the region,' says Lane. 'From the ambitious and meticulous farmer with super crisp flavor profiles, to the one who extends the fermentation of his washed coffees to cope with a shockingly steep terrain. ... Those coffees are big, bold and juicy, and super floral.' Hints of aromatic flowers from jasmine and rose to hibiscus and honeysuckle are especially desirable for lightly roasted Nordic coffee profiles. Currently Lane is traveling in Chiapas, Mexico, with coffee expert Jesús Salazar of Cafeología, a coffee education and sourcing company. 'He is explorative and curious by nature, and has spent many years coordinating the native Mayan farmers around San Cristobal de las Casas,' says Lane. 'Frankly it's a miracle that some of these coffees have made it to a consumer, seeing as these farms are so incredibly tiny.' During Noma's residency at the Ace Hotel in Kyoto last October through December, Lane and Redzepi also found inspiration in Japanese cafe culture. Weekenders Coffee owner Masahiro Kaneko shared his roastery space with Lane during Noma's months in Japan, while the subscription plans were taking shape. 'Coffee feels like something that everyone can connect to,' Lane says. 'It makes me feel part of the wider world. It's about a respect for nature. It's about a respect for culture and communities, and collaboration.' Wendelboe and the Noma beverage team created an optimal process to brew coffee during the Kyoto residency: an Americano hybrid prepared by pulling a shot of espresso through an Aeropress filter, pouring the espresso through a V60 filter, then adding a precise amount of hot water to emulate a filter coffee. This method enabled them to brew three cups of coffee from one shot of espresso, with efficiency and consistency as the finale for the dining experience. Redzepi hints at more plans to expand Noma Kaffe. 'I want to have a unique high-quality, best-in-class coffee bar that can be equally as good as all the best coffee bars in the Nordics,' he says. 'Perhaps where Noma is today. And we will focus on that.'
