We've all heard of farm-to-table. The concept of bringing fresh farm produce to your dinner table has dominated the culinary world, and our own Los Angeles restaurant scene, for the past decade. But René Redzepi, the chef at Noma — the lauded Nordic restaurant in Copenhagen known for foraging and fermenting — is about to turn the familiar concept on its head.
Redzepi is closing Noma, his 12-year-old restaurant that was named Restaurant Magazine's best restaurant in the world four times, and plans to reopen it as an urban garden, just outside of Christiania, a neighborhood in Copenhagen.