The leftist rich are different!-----The Real Cost of a Meal at Noma | The New Yorker

The “world’s best restaurant” has been rocked—again—by revelations of the chef René Redzepi’s abusive behavior.

• The biggest restaurant opening of 2026 was always going to be Noma L.A., even if it isn’t properly a restaurant at all. It’s a pop-up, albeit a substantial one—a four-month residency by the pioneering Copenhagen restaurant, taking over the Paramour Estate, a California-Gothic manor in Silver Lake, and transforming it into a home for inventive, cerebral, exploratory meals at fifteen hundred dollars a head. 
• When tickets went on sale, in January, the entire run sold out in minutes. 
• Nearly everything Noma does is news; the restaurant’s influence—and that of its head chef, co-owner, and public face, René Redzepi—sends ripples through the culinary world like a rogue moon. 
• This past weekend, on the eve of the L.A. residency, the news was ugly...