Rene Redzepi is having his moment — and it's a long one. It began in 2010 when his Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, was deemed by Restaurant Magazine to be the best on the planet. Noma has now been voted to the No. 1 slot on the magazine's World's 50 Best Restaurants list four times and Redzepi remains one of the world's best and most influential chefs.
Since that moment began, he has been the subject of more than a dozen films and TV shows, but the latest —"Ants on a Shrimp" ("Noma Tokyo: Sekai Ichi no Resutoran ga Nihon ni Yatte Kita") by Dutch documentarian Maurice Dekkers — is sure to strike a chord with audiences in Japan when it opens on Dec. 10.
"Ants on a Shrimp" focuses primarily on the few weeks in January 2015, when Redzepi came to Tokyo to open a pop-up Noma inside the Mandarin Oriental hotel. Dekkers takes viewers behind the scenes as the chef and his staff create a new menu for the occasion.
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