Great Dane - Mads Refslund’s Acme Restaurant
The Daily - Saturday, June 9, 2012
Many chefs flash a mention of a brief experience at Copenhagen’s Noma, aka the world’s top-rated restaurant, as an obligatory badge of honor. Mads Refslund can top that: He founded it.
Co-founded, actually, and while he and chef Rene Redzepi worked together, pioneering New Nordic cuisine and its mission of cooking the best of what’s just outside your door, the old saw about taking two to tango doesn’t apply to kitchens. The two parted company amicably after less than six months, and Refslund went off to start the well-respected MR, a Copenhagen hot spot that garnered a Michelin star in its first year.
Refslund has now found a home at Manhattan’s Acme, which doesn’t have MR’s high style but offers its own ambitious kind of art. He appeared on the American dining scene without fanfare, and despite the Noma connection he’s wisely downplayed the move to give himself time to break in his shoes before the impending sprint.
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