I have visited 2-Star Michelin Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen (rated world best restaurant in 2010/2012/2013/2014) a while back.
The restaurant is located in an old warehouse in Christianshavn (Central Copenhagen) and is run by chef René Redzepi.
Noma is receiving 100.000 booking request per month, so you have to be flexible with your dates. We received a call in the morning that a spot had opened and we jumped into the plane and went to Copenhagen.
It has received an insane amount of awards (despite having 435 diners went ill, after eating at NOMA in 2013 due to Norovirus)
2007: #15 Best Restaurant in the World, 2007 Restaurant magazine Top 50
Since 2008: Michelin Guide, two stars
2008: The users of the TripAdvisor rated Noma as the best restaurant in the world[23]
2009: #3 and "Chefs' Choice", 2009 Restaurant magazine Top 50
2010, 2011, 2012, 2014: Best Restaurant in the World, Restaurant magazine Top 50
2013: #2 Best Restaurant in the World, 2013 Restaurant magazine Top 50
2015: #3 Best Restaurant in the World, 2015 Restaurant magazine Top 50
2016: #5 Best Restaurant in the World, 2016 Restaurant magazine Top 50
The Restaurant
The Kitchen 
The Food
Noma offers an Interpretation of Nordic/Scandianvian cuisine. I am using the word Interpretation, because the food they offer, you have not eaten anything like this before.
"Vegetables and foraged ingredients take centre stage, but don’t be fooled, this isn’t your ordinary restaurant fare. Simple-sounding dishes such as apples and lemon thyme, cabbage leaves and white currants, new Danish potato and nettle and sliced raw squid and kelp provide explosions of taste and texture, with ingredients shown in a different light to how many will have previously experienced them. " Quote from the worlds best 50
We had the full 12 course menu (appr. 280$)
Beautiful Food (yes we had to eat that sponge, which was not a sponge at all)
The food is stunning
You expect a dessert, it turns out to be fish
They fool you into thinking they are serving you a bone, while this was part of our main course and was a mousse !
Dessert ? NOPE -> Mass cooked in chocolate
Current Menu
So this restaurant is absolutely incredible.
You are served food, which is best described as art... !
The taste is so incredible, it blows you away for hours.
They create the perfect illusion, you expect that chocolate cookie to be a dessert, while it is fish covered with chocolate. They serve you a bone, but its filled with fish mousse. They serve you something looking like flowers, and you can eat the whole flower, it turns out to be seaweed..
The best thing was the special Danish Butter they had with bread. That was the best butter i have ever eaten in my life!! (I would pay 100$ for 100g of that Butter)
Please have a look at the pictures, and if you want to go to the restaurant, hurry as the restaurant is closing end of 2016 ! (please ask where i can buy that butter!)
NOMA
Where: Strandgade 93, 1401 København K, Denmark
Tel: +45 32 96 32 97
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You killed spongebob O.O
But looks tasty :)
it was so amazing. sorry that we ate spongebob
No problem at all. I had done the same. Looks really delicious.
haha yeah . but you never know what they are serving you. because everyting looks totally different...
Fish with chocolate? ... Really? ... I mean: fish with chocolate??? This could only taste really good or really bad. There is nothing in between. :-)
its quite perfect ! but yeah they really mess with your mind !
I've heard a lot about Noma. How expensive is it compared to other similar restaurants. $280 sounds like a lot but I know that these kind arty restaurants are generally very expensive.
well, it was rated no1 restaurant in the world several time. 280$ is not that expensive at all.
but if you drink wine etc. you will end up more like 350$ per person.
its worth it , its incredible !
So definitely worth it though? I've only been to a handful of Michelin starred restaurants and they were all really expensive. Most of the times I had to go to McDonalds afterwards because despite the multiple courses the actual amount of food was tiny lol!
yeah. tempura is only good if you eat it in a real tempura restaurant. the rest is not real tempura...
No it doesn't compare. That's why I must go back to Japan!
haha. yeah this one is worth it. but i have to say, that i hate eating in star restaurants, as it usually takes a couple of hours to complete the menus.
so i would prefer a good ramen 80% of the time...
Give me some fresh sashimi, sushi or tempura and I will never complain lol! I don't think you can beat Japanese food for taste, healthiness, speed or value for money.
Maybe the tempura isn't so healthy I suppose though.
I would love to try this food! It looks delicious!
it is delicious. if you want to go, you have to try to get a reservation as its closing soon for renovation and moving to a new location
280$ is not that bad actually! I thought it would be much more expensive. I think I will put myself up on the queue. I only live right across the bridge in Sweden after all. I'm glad you enjoyed the experience!
hello, yes you should try , as its a really super experience. and 280$ is ok.
Beautiful pictures and interesting. Wow, I would like to try some of the dishes!
it really messes with you mind. you eat something expecting a dessert and its a fish. etc.
Wow Top Thank you for sharing this Moment with US upvoted
hello achim. thank you so much . it is definitely one of my favorite restaurants
oh wow. I will have to put it on my "must try" list. I've seen so many shows where they show dishes like that. It looks like one thing but taste like something absolutely different! Sounds so confusing but super cool. I really want to experience something like that =)
yes, it is really funny. they bring you something looking like stones, and than you can eat it, or you get something looking like a tree limb and its some sort of food ;)
What? Why they is closing?
i heard they will close and open at a new location . after a decade many top restaurants close. el bulli did the same
I love hearing about Rene. I was introduced to him through the show 'mind of a chef,' which I strongly recommend. They take you into the test kitchen located in a boat across the street. He had recently done work in Australia...? interested to see what's next. I work at a Scandinavian restaurant right now in Minnesota. Wish we had as many foraging connections/opportunities as they do in Denmark!! thanks for the post and keep exploring! Go to Alinea in Chicago
ah ok! i have been to chicago before. but if i ever go again, i will visit alinea !