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And desserts? Yes. We had three and they were as daring and unconventional as every other course. The first featured a creamy parfait of buttermilk, a common Danish ingredient, topped with an uncommon ‘mother’ of kombucha. The second multilayered dessert, a beeswax bowl served atop leaves and cacao pods, had layers of saffron ice cream and spicy Mexican chocolate as well as a poppy seed and licorice topping. Our final Noma dessert course, served in a reindeer bone, featured sweet reindeer marrow, blueberries and flower petals. After three visits to Noma i’ve noticed a few recurring themes to how the team likes the structure it’s menu. For one, the first dish and the last dish normally have something in common. At our first visit during the vegetable season it was a potato soup served in a flower pot for our first dish and a cake shaped like a flower pot. For the seafood season it was a raw scallop to begin and a chocolate seafood cod to end, and finally for the game and forest it was reindeer brain custard to begin and a reindeer caramel to end. They also like to have a milk dish to start the desserts instead of a cheese course, which we’ve had berries and cream, sheep’s milk with dried berries, and buttermilk and scoby. There are also some ingredients that Noma likes to showcase - there is normally some sort of insect dish (grasshoppers, ants, etc), there is also the most delicious small pine cone somewhere in the meal, and they like to use quince instead of lemon to help flavor a dish or two. The Noma fermentation lab is always very involved in the dishes, whether it’s overt or not. There are garums, sauces, juices and whole dishes that the fermentation team works on and show up through out the meal. Eat This:
Noma’s menu descriptions, which are given after the final plate has been served, paint a simple picture but Redzepi’s flavorful food can be deceivingly complex. Surprisingly deep flavors burst from every plate, belying the advanced, bistro-gastronomic elements and techniques used to create each unique dish. Did we mention that we started our evening by hopping on a bus to travel across town to Noma? Considering the restaurant’s ginormous price tag and multinational clientele, we were likely the only diners that night who were that ‘in touch with the city’ and our wallets. Whether you place this deer in your garden or on your patio you are sure to fast become the wonder of the neighbourhood! Forced to close repeatedly for more than six months during the pandemic, it transformed into a burger and wine bar for a month in the summer of 2020.But even though it will become a test kitchen, diners will still be able to snag the occasional meal, with Noma promising to organise pop-up restaurants from time to time, in Copenhagen and abroad. Caviar and cream in some variation is another Noma signature, which comes in a brilliant version for the game and forest season. The caviar is from the Danish producer Rossini, so high quality, and served with a dollop of the lightest whipped cream you can imagine (with tiny sprinkles of salt on top, I believe). The two ingredients are paired with a cold pheasant broth, which has formed a jelly in the bottom of the bowl. I loved this one! Our 2021 Game & Forest Dinner At Noma In Photos Bear caramel was one of many sweet surprises during our dinner at Noma. In 2025, our restaurant is transforming into a giant lab, a pioneering test kitchen dedicated to the work of food innovation and the development of new flavours, one that will share the fruits of our efforts more widely than ever before.”
The meal literally ended with a reindeer bone, just like it began, albeit two different bones and two different creams. The luscious creams inside those bones – one savory and one sweet – signified an experience that was richer than the ingredients. Serving guests will still be a part of who we are, but being a restaurant will no longer define us.Measuring an impressive 190cm in height, this stately reindeer stands as a magnificent centrepiece, commanding attention and spreading joy to all who behold it, making it perfect for any festive display. Additionally, the convenient assembly process allows the reindeer to be effortlessly pieced together in 4 parts, ensuring a hassle-free setup experience. I first ate at Noma a dozen years ago, when it was still in a damp semi-basement with paint peeling off the wall; they moved to the sleek, stripped-wood “Noma 2.0” in 2018. Finally, in an intentional nod toward our ossified first course, a piece of reindeer skeleton appeared. But this time it was a narrow, long bone filled with sweet, honey-like reindeer marrow, dotted with freeze dried blueberries and topped with a lovely yet subtle confetti of flowers.
The restaurant, by choice, seats fewer than 100 diners each day. Tens of thousands of people attempt to pry one of Noma’s precious few tables the moment that each dining ‘season’ opens for reservations. It’s that competitive. Small items may not require a date to be booked in, a courier may arrive whenever they have the availability to deliver, they may ask you for delivery instructions if you are not in on the date of attempted delivery. How many restaurants would have the temerity to serve bear dumplings? A pure sphere of juicy fried bear that Mindi proclaimed to be the best hushpuppy ever, each bear dumpling arrived with an ivory spoon drizzled with bear caramel. The LED components are now made from copper which eliminates the traditional problem of rust within the bulb holder. His dedication to truly local ingredients – no lemons, no olive oil, no nutmeg or cinnamon in the northern climes of Denmark, so no place for them on the menu – shaped a whole generation of chefs who care about where their food comes from. It’s also responsible for the menu trope “all food is sourced locally where possible” and usually means that Kenyan green beans and Peruvian asparagus will feature.Much of our time will be spent on exploring new projects and developing many more ideas and products.” We couldn’t help but notice a certain element of genius born of necessity in dishes like the deliciously odd (or was it oddly delicious?) bear dumpling. Noma isn’t located in an agricultural hotbed like Italy, France or even Thailand. Its Nordic locale forces chefs like Redzepi to use the limitations of the region to stretch culinary creativity in new and exciting ways. Noma’s “Mushroom Broth with Sumac” may be the most innovative course we’ve ever eaten.
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