Go Forth & Reserve, Young Foodies; Noma 2.0 Has a Special Deal for Students
The former best restaurant in the world returns in February 2018.
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Forager phenom Rene Redzepi shocked the dining world in 2016 when he announced that he would be closing Noma—his Danish temple of high Nordic gastronomy and four-time best restaurant in the world—and reopening at a new location. Now, with a pricey Mexican pop-up under its belt and construction underway in Copenhagen, Noma 2.0 is ready to take your dinner reservations.
Beginning November 16th at 4 p.m. local time in Copenhagen (CET), gourmands and bucket-listers can try their hand at getting a reservation for the meal of a lifetime. Of course, you’ll have to pay (in advance) for the pleasure.
Dining in a restaurant like Noma is obviously a tough sell for anyone who doesn’t have a wallet full of disposable Danish krone (read: cash). Before the restaurant closed in February, the tasting menu cost diners around $282, before wine pairings. Yeah, no biggie, can we write you a check? And Noma 2.0 is not much better (quite the opposite, actually): dinner will cost 2,250 Danish krone ($353), along with 1,100 krone ($172) for wine pairings or 800 krone ($125) for juice pairings.
But wait! Don’t be discouraged, young grasshoppers! Noma will be offering a discounted rate to students, a move that will make the restaurant’s famously foraged food more accessible (at least relatively?). It’s still not cheap, but a food-obsessed student with a valid ID who is willing to save up 1,000 krone ($157) for an epic dinner—wine or juice included—would be getting what they might consider to be a pretty great deal.
We here at Genius Kitchen consider ourselves to be students of food and life, but will it be enough? Probably not. But hey, we can dream, right?
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