Chef-owner René Redzepi shuttered his award-winning restaurant to rethink everything. Hours before the first meal at the new Noma, the chef isn’t cooking. He’s on his hands and knees in the main dining room frantically working a vacuum cleaner. Mr. Redzepi, 40, who became a world-famous chef with the success of his first iteration of Noma, is scrambling to reopen the restaurant. Construction has been way behind schedule.
He closed the restaurant last year to move to a new space in Copenhagen. He enlisted Danish architect Bjarke Ingels for the design, which consists of 11 buildings and 2,100 square feet of garden.
The video goes behind the scenes of the frantic final days before the opening of the new Noma.
