{"id":35776,"date":"2026-03-12T23:46:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35776"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:46:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:46:38","slug":"celebrity-chef-rene-redzepi-resigns-from-noma-after-abuse-allegations-and-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=35776","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity chef Ren\u00e9 Redzepi resigns from Noma after abuse allegations and protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/03\/12\/b6dddd1c-b545-4e9e-a754-e55554ef7e56_5522b1b0.jpg?itok=c3xbDRcG&amp;v=1773308442\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chef Ren\u00e9 Redzepi announced he will \u201cstep away\u201d from Noma, his lauded Copenhagen restaurant, and has resigned from Mad, the community-building non-profit he founded.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His announcement follows dozens of recently resurfaced abuse allegations as well as a protest on March 11 outside the gate of Noma\u2019s pop-up in Silver Lake in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The news came after five days of developments related to the US$1,500-a-seat pop-up in LA that Redzepi announced last summer, and was sparked after a report in The New York Times detailing past allegations of abuse in the restaurant\u2019s kitchen in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The pop-up opened on March 11 afternoon for its first guests, with a small gathering of protesters outside calling for more accountability and higher wages for restaurant workers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Anonymously submitted allegations of physical and verbal abuse began appearing on Instagram last month when a former Noma staff member, Jason Ignacio White, used his own account to platform and post them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/article\/3346335\/celebrity-chef-rene-redzepi-resigns-noma-after-abuse-allegations-and-protest?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chef Ren\u00e9 Redzepi announced he will \u201cstep away\u201d from Noma, his lauded Copenhagen restaurant, and has resigned from Mad, the community-building non-profit he founded. His&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2072,8901,5128,809,17935,6707,17934,15759,16239],"class_list":["post-35776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-abuse","tag-allegations","tag-celebrity","tag-chef","tag-noma","tag-protest","tag-redzepi","tag-rene","tag-resigns","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}