Our daily gastro trip around the world

🇩🇰 Noma, a Danish restaurant widely hailed as the best in the world, is closing its doors. The Michelin 3-star restaurant has been led for the past two decades by creator René Redzepi (☝️), who’s often referred to as the most brilliant and influential chef of his era. But yesterday, Redzepi announced plans to close Noma for regular service at the end of 2024, calling the entire fine-dining business model “unsustainable.” Instead, Noma will turn into a full-time food laboratory that’ll develop products for its e-commerce operation.

🇧🇷 Brazil’s Supreme Court temporarily removed the governor of its capital city late Sunday, hours after protesters stormed government buildings. The Court accused Brasília’s governor of allowing more than 100 buses full of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro to enter government property without a police escort. Brazilian authorities said they arrested 1,200 more protesters yesterday, in addition to ~300 people on Sunday. Separately, former President Bolsonaro was hospitalized in Florida on Monday due to stomach pains related to injuries he suffered during a near-fatal stabbing on the campaign trail in 2018.

🇲🇽 Mexico revealed yesterday that 3,500+ soldiers were involved in last week’s operation that led to the arrest of El Chapo’s son. The arrest, which Mexican officials said was months in the making, wreaked havoc in the state of Sinaloa and its capital city Culiacán, leaving at least 19 suspected cartel gunmen and 10 Mexican soldiers dead. Despite coming under fire at the airport, authorities managed to load El Chapo’s son on a plane and fly him to Mexico City, though the process of extraditing him to the US was later placed on hold by a federal judge.