Noma and the decline of fine dining

World’s best restaurant no longer ‘sustainable’ as gastronomy industry faces reckoning

One of Noma’s 100 staff in 2021
Noma has been named among the best restaurants in the world several times, taking the number-one spot in the list of The World’s 50 Best Restaurants in 2021
(Image credit: Thibault Savary/AFP via Getty Images)

The world’s best restaurant is to close its doors at the end of next year after its star chef and co-owner said it was too hard to make ends meet.

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