{"id":8932,"date":"2015-07-30T03:53:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T07:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/food-drinks\/noma-to-open-pop-up-restaurant-in-sydney-next-year\/"},"modified":"2015-07-30T03:53:07","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T07:53:07","slug":"noma-to-open-pop-up-restaurant-in-sydney-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatdope.com\/food-drinks\/noma-to-open-pop-up-restaurant-in-sydney-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Noma to open pop-up restaurant in Sydney next year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chef Ren\u00e9 Redzepi will temporarily shutter his Copenhagen restaurant Noma to open a pop-up restaurant in Australia in 2016.<\/p>\n

If the scheme sounds familiar, that\u2019s because he did a similar stint in Japan earlier this winter, likewise bringing his culinary ethos to the foodie elite in Tokyo where he created a new menu using local ingredients.<\/p>\n

For 10 weeks, Redzepi will relocate his entire restaurant staff to Sydney, where they will host a pop-up restaurant serving a menu inspired by local Australian ingredients at the invitation of the country\u2019s tourism board.<\/p>\n

The project is meant to showcase the country as a premier food and wine destination with a bit of star-powered, name-dropping.<\/p>\n

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For Redzepi, the pop-up allows the chef to reach diners halfway around the world: Instead of diners flying to Denmark, Noma comes to them.<\/p>\n

The pop-up will also help open a new waterfront space in Sydney, the Barangaroo, touted as Australia\u2019s first carbon-neutral development and a future food and drink destination.<\/p>\n

For inspiration, Redzepi has already set out on foraging trips scouting for local ingredients in Tasmania, Adelaide and Melbourne, meeting with producers, local communities and farmers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been to Australia many times. And each time I\u2019m drawn to this unique landscape that\u2019s so different from what we have at home,\u201d he said in a video (below<\/em>).\u00a0\u201cThe ingredients are so different and the diversity\u2019s huge.\u201d<\/p>\n