Rene Redzepi, Competitor of Ferran Adria in Copenhagen

The Competitor of The Bulli is in Copenhagen and his name is RENE REDZEPI

His name means northerly meal, something so simple like the spirit of simplicity that there transmits this local onlooker located in an old store in the Christianhavn area, along with the port of Copenhagen (Denmark).

Noma (not, of nordic, and ma, of meal in Danish) is considered to be the best third restaurant of the world from the last April, in addition to being provided with two stars Michelin (the only one of Copenhagen with this double distinction). Not any more not less. His inventor is René Redzepi (Copenhagen, 1977), protagonist of a meteoric career "literally" in the culinary universe.

Redzepi started Noma in 2003 collaborated with the chef-businessman Claus Meyer. In 2005 Noma was chosen the Best Restaurant of Copenhagen by the Danish guide AOK, distinction that it supports still today. The same year the first star Michelin received, and in 2007 the second one. In the year 2006, the classification of the British magazine Restaurant, prepared based on the critics' votes and gastroexpertos, was placing the Danish establishment between the best 50 of the world, in the position number 33. To the following year, it jumped to the position number fifteen; and in 2008, it advanced up to the tenth place and, last April, The Restaurant proclaimed Noma as the best third restaurant of the world, only behind the Bulli (of Ferran Adrià) and The Fat Duck of English, Heston Blumenthal.

His 'gastroconcepto' or gastronomic concept, it is based in being completely faithful to the Scandinavian larder. The chef tells that he decided to be a cook almost by chance, that in his infancy, it grew eating better than many people because it was something important in his family. On having finished the school, it signed up with a few friends in a kitchen school, although he was not feeling a special vocation it tells us. If the effects of his supersonic history seem exaggerated, this idea begins being diluted in the visit to the Noma, a place that distills authenticity and that there represents the probable model of restaurant of the future. His place is rather simple with walls of seen brick, and rustic - modern aspect and Scandinavian interior design, they are glimpsed gastrotendencias to bear in mind. The philosophy that takes the stamp Redzepi and that, in fact, constitutes a thought nucleus for the kitchen of the north of Europe.

"Con Noma, my target was to reinvent the northerly kitchen", sums up Redzepi, promoter of the Manifesto of the New Northerly Kitchen, signed by a group of chefs in 2004 and that determined the line of thought of the Scandinavian gastronomy of the XXI.th century "There was the first attempt of developing a kitchen concept noratlántica, but this was an error because he was remaining anchored in what it had been done in the last fifty years in Scandinavia. What it was necessary to try was to recover that and reinterpretarlo", points the Danish, who insists that "the Manifesto is not a role piece; it is an important part of the life of the Scandinavian cooks". With a team of 40 persons (20 in kitchen), in addition to the personnel in practices, Noma registered in 2008 an annual invoicing of 28 million Danish crowns (approximately 3,76 million euros).

The place organizes, also, private meals and banquets (for groups of up to 120 persons). It is married and it has a-year-old daughter, she is an affable, calm, discreet person, and of humble appearance, with aspect of good person, plain in his explanations and I am necessary in his way of conceiving the kitchen, like investigator and tracker of prime matters. With Spain, elchef it supports his particular idyll.

Redzepi was proclaimed in 2008 a cook of the year in the congress Madrid Merger." Noma does not try to be a secret restaurant that does not spread what it does, but we want to be in contact with the world", he makes sure. Of France and the USA to the Bulli Antes de to think about this project of restaurant Noma, René Redzepi acquired professional Experience in several restaurants of Europe and the United States. From 1993 to 1997, Redzepi was employed at the restaurant Pierre André, at Copenhagen, at present closed and that had a star Michelin. In 1998, He realized a stay in the triestrellado Garden give Sens, in Montpellier (France). One year later, a summer happened in the Bulli, in Roses (Gerona), where "it was lucky to take contact with the best restaurant of the world and with Ferran Adrià, something that marked it. It saw that the Bulli was a place that he realized well and definite good his own way. It was a very important experience for him", tells the Danish chef. After developing several works of gastronomic consultancy, Redzepi did a stage (practices) in The French Laundry, the place of Thomas Keller in Yountville (USA), in the summer 2001. Later, it returned to Copenhagen, where one incorporated Kong Hans Kælder (with a star Michelin), until in 2003, he decided to inaugurate Noma. There it started his meteoric history.