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World’s Top Restaurant Noma Can’t Turn Profit on $700 Lunch Menu

  • Eatery lost money in 2021 even after receiving government aid
  • Noma has three Michelin stars and is No.1 on World’s Best list
The dining area at Noma in Copenhagen.

The dining area at Noma in Copenhagen.

Photographer: Thibault Savary/AFP/Getty Images

Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant which has repeatedly been voted the world’s best, lost money for the first time in four years in 2021 even after receiving Covid-19 support from the Danish government.

The restaurant booked a net loss of 1.69 million kroner ($240,000) after recording a tiny profit in 2020, according to a filing with the Danish Business Authority. Noma received 10.9 million kroner in government compensation as Denmark imposed virus lockdowns for parts of the year.