Each time Danish forager-chef René Redzepi opens a new incarnation of his Michelin-starred, Copenhagen-based restaurant noma, in it sells out. When he packs up his entire staff to open a satellite restaurant abroad (including Australia), seats sell out in a matter of minutes.
When Redzepi announced noma 2.0 will open in Copenhagen February 2018, the “” was felt around the world in full force. The first three months after its opening are completely sold out, and tickets for opening night sold out in about half an hour.
Luckily, noma and the team at (a non-profit food charity organisation started by Redzepi in 2011) are giving people the chance to bypass buying a ticket altogether. Redzepi is raffling off two tickets to noma 2.0 opening night, with all proceeds going to MAD.
Would-be noma goers can enter the raffle at (entries are open until January 31), where they can select an amount to donate. The bigger the donation, the higher the chance of winning that table for two. Donating just $US10 (just shy of A$13) will get you 100 entries; on the other end of the scale, $US30,000 (about A$39,000) gets you 300,000 entries and a David Chang experience around New York City’s Koreatown. The prize includes return flights, accommodation at a 4-star hotel, dinner at noma and a behind the scenes tour the next day.
The best part? If you win, you get to try Redzepi’s experimental foraged cuisine first hand, and your donation will go directly towards developing MAD’s programs that simultaneously strengthen the world’s cooking community and help to alleviate global food issues. Everyone wins!
Good luck!
Look out for two noma documentaries coming to Food Network in February 2018.
