René Redzepi
René Redzepi ( born December 16, 1977 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish chef. He is chef and co-owner of the restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, which was 2010, 2011 and 2012, awarded by the British magazine Restaurant as "the best restaurant in the world ".
Career
Redzepi has an Albanian father from Macedonia and a Danish mother. He moved with his family to Macedonia in the former Yugoslavia and lived there until the beginning of the Yugoslav wars.
From 1993 to 1997 he worked at the Michelin -starred restaurant by Pierre -André in Copenhagen. Then he trained at various famous chefs continue at Thomas Keller at the French Laundry in California, at the Pourcel brothers at Le Jardin des Sens in France and Ferran Adria's world famous restaurant El Bulli in Spain. The end of 2001 he returned to Copenhagen to work as Sous Chef at Restaurant Kong Hans Kælder with Thomas Rode Andersen.
In November 2003, he opened his restaurant Noma in memory northern Atlantens Brygge in Copenhagen Christianshavn. In 2005 it was awarded the first and 2007 with the second Michelin star.
In September 2004, organized Redzepi and Claus Meyer, co-owner of Noma, the New - Nordic Kitchen Symposium, where cooks a manifesto designed, which was adopted in its entirety by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Redzepi toured seven weeks by the Nordic countries to study the Nordic cuisine, and found the other products such as horse mussels and deep sea crabs of the Faroe Islands, algae, skyr from Iceland and musk oxen from Greenland, birch juice, blackberries or arctic cloudberries.
Awards
- 2005: a Michelin star
- 2007: two Michelin stars
- 2010: " World's Best Restaurant " magazine Restaurant
- 2011: " World's Best Restaurant " magazine Restaurant
- 2012: " World's Best Restaurant " magazine Restaurant
Publications
- NOMA - Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine. Edel Germany Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8419-0120-0.