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Redzepi and his extensive team purposely transported us to the forest. At that moment, we knew that Noma’s Game and Forest menu was no joke. It was all magnificent and overwhelming but what’s glued to our minds is the first of 18 plates – a reindeer skull served atop a napkin in a simple, rustic, dark brown wicker basket. This daring course featuring duck brain served in a duck bill was the opposite of boring. Noma didn’t garner its fame from serving boring food. We even share how much we spent on the meal. Read all about our epic dinner at Noma from beginning to end. Our visit coincided with that season’s Game and Forest menu so that’s what we ate during our dinner. It’s no exaggeration to say that we were over the moon with excitement when we scored a dinner reservation at Noma during our autumnal visit to Copenhagen. But there’s also a ridiculous amount of ‘food wealth’ in this city with a total metro population of two million people. A seemingly endless number of restaurants appears in every nook and cranny throughout Denmark’s compact capital and every block seems to have a world-class bakery. There’s no debate that the Copenhagen restaurant scene has grown rapidly and exponentially over the past couple decades. It’s also the most famous restaurant in the world. Noma isn’t just the most famous restaurant in Copenhagen. Since then, foraging and fermenting have become global trends while ingredients like tree lichen and sea buckthorn appear on more and more restaurant plates. We even scored a reservation at Noma, the most lauded Copenhagen restaurant.Īfter opening the legendary restaurant in 2003, Claus Meyer and René Redzepi showed the world how sustainable, locally sourced food can be eaten anywhere on earth including Copenhagen. We did a copious amount of research about the city’s best restaurants and schooled ourselves about New Nordic Cuisine. Clearly, it was a sign.īut we didn’t travel to Copenhagen just to eat pastries and drink coffee. Then, after we moved to Lisbon, we started eating Copenhagen-style pastries and drinking coffee roasted in Denmark. We were so happy to be in Copenhagen, one of the world’s happiest cities.įor years, we’d been hearing how the former meat and potato town had morphed into one of the world’s greatest food cities. The city’s place in the food pantheon has also attracted young, ambitious chefs who’ve clawed their way to the city for the chance to work in one of Copenhagen’s cutting edge kitchens.

The most obsessed book impromptu flights just to sample New Nordic cuisine. Over the past couple decades, the city has become a cult favorite for food travelers. Copenhagen beckoned us like a culinary beacon and it’s not just us.