Review: The world's most influential restaurant reinvents itself. Jonathan Gold tastes the changes

Chef Rene Redzepi's celebrated restaurant Noma restarts in a new space in Copenhagen. The New Nordic cuisine is a dream you can eat.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • March 2, 2018
The first act of a meal at Noma passes as a dream; rich sea snail bouillon sipped from its herb-smeared shell fading into a field of empty cockleshells in which two or three contain the sweet meat; a mussel constructed from the chewy lips of half...
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