Many people plan their trip around a restaurant and book their dinner reservations before making other travel arrangements. If you’re one of those gourmet travelers, pay attention! A Noma pop-up restaurant in Kyoto, Japan, will run for 10 weeks in fall 2024.
Where and when?
Globally-renowned chef and co-owner René Redzepi of Noma, will return with his team to Ace Hotel Kyoto for a second residency after a sold-out first residency at the same venue in the spring of 2023. Noma in Copenhagen will be closed during their Kyoto stay.
The Noma Kyoto residency will serve four dinners and three lunches per week, Monday through Thursday, from October 8 to December 18, 2024. Since Noma announced that they will be closing the Copenhagen restaurant at the end of 2024 or spring 2025, booking a reservation for the Kyoto pop-up will be much sought after. The menu and drink pairings will cost ¥136,000 plus a 10% service charge.
How to make reservations
Reservations for Noma Kyoto will start on May 14 through the Noma newsletter. You should sign up to the newsletter by May 7 to access reservations on the release date. Go to their website below to snag a reservation.
Another way to make table reservations is by booking directly with Ace Hotel Kyoto. They are offering a noma package with a minimum 2 -night stay with access to book 2 seats at the noma residency.
Menu
The menu has not been revealed yet but the chef confirms that among the locally sourced ingredients, there will be game meats and crab from local suppliers, and items from the “wilderness”. As Japan’s culinary history is steeped in fermentation and Noma explores fermentation in their fermentation lab, I’m guessing they will be serving some kind of ferments too.
Ace Hotel Kyoto
Ace Hotel Kyoto is inside Shinpuhkan complex which includes the Ace Hotel Kyoto, a movie theatre and shops that sell an eclectic mix of traditional and modern sensibilities. The original building was designed by Tetsuro Yoshida, a pioneer of modernism, and was built in 1926 for the former Kyoto Central Telephone Company. The building was designated by Kyoto city as a cultural property in 1983 and subsequently the historic brick building became the base for the Shinpuhkan shopping complex. The complex was renovated in 2020 and the first Ace Hotel in the Asia-Pacific region was built in a modern annex designed by the world-renowned architect Kengo Kuma and Commune Design.
Address: 245-2 Kurumayacho, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto 604-8185 in the Shinpuhkan complex A
10 minutes by car from Kyoto station
Directly connected to Karasuma Oike station south entrance
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