Denmark’s Noma heads to ... Australia

If you’re a follower of René Redzepi, the foraging chef of Noma, you’ll know that he’s lately been experimenting with the idea of a traveling restaurant. Most recently, he decamped from Copenhagen to open Noma in Tokyo earlier this year. Now the chef is moving farther afield — to Australia, where he and his kitchen crew will go on location in the harborside Barangaroo area of Sydney. Noma Australia will launch a 10-week residency in late January 2016.

If you’re not a Redzepi devotee: His Copenhagen restaurant Noma was ranked by Restaurant magazine as best restaurant in the world three times from 2010 to 2014. Open since 2003 in an old warehouse on the Copenhagen waterfront, it has two Michelin stars.

During that time on the road, Noma in Copenhagen will be closed, so you’ll have to find your way to the Anadara building at Sydney’s new harbourfront development if you want Redzepi’s famous rendition of foraged cuisine. The chef, who has visited the country quite a few times already, and his team will be traveling around Australia doing research, meeting people and eating food, in preparation.

Noma Australia will be open for lunch and dinner, five days a week. Reservations will be open later this year. For more information, visit noma.dk/australia.

As Redzepi writes on that site, “From the tropical fruit in the north, to the native pepper leaf of Tasmania; the pristine fish and shellfish of the very south, and all the new exotic wonders in between. Our research forays will take us into the bush, around every shoreline, weeding our way through Flinders and Kangaroo Island. Somewhere along that course I may even get my first surfing lesson.”

The Noma team will relocate in its entirety, from dishwashers to children, but not including ingredients — all of which Redzepi and company will find in Australia.

“Now,” the chef concludes, “how will we replace the winter beet with a coconut?” He’ll find a way.

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