The World’s Best Restaurant is Closing and Fans Think ‘The Menu’ is to Blame

A day after The Menu was released on HBO Max, Noma, the fine-dining establishment widely considered to be the world’s best restaurant, announced it would be closing its doors.

Coincidence? Some fans don’t think so.

Noma, a Copenhagen-based restaurant, announced on Monday that it would officially close it’s doors at the end of 2024. Chef and founder René Redzepi shared the reason for the closure was due to the high demand for fine dining was no longer sustainable.

“We have to completely rethink the industry,” Redzepi said.  “This is simply too hard.”

The New York Times reported that Redzepi’s announcement comes on the heels of a revelation within the elite restaurant industry.

“The decision comes as Noma and many other elite restaurants are facing scrutiny of their treatment of the workers, many of them paid poorly or not at all, who produce and serve these exquisite dishes,” the report reads. “The style of fine dining that Noma helped create and promote around the globe — wildly innovative, labor-intensive and vastly expensive — may be undergoing a sustainability crisis.”

The renowned chef shared the elite restaurant industry needs a major overhaul in how it treats workers, who are often not compensated enough for their art — something that was highlighted in the recently released film, The Menu.

And of course, Twitter did what Twitter does best: make a ton of jokes. After the news broke, many pointed out that The Menu was likely the real reason for Noma’s closure. We have to say, they bring up a good point.