Copenhagen, Denmark - Noma, the restaurant repeatedly celebrated as one of the best in the world, is closing its doors, according to its head chef and co-owner.

Chef René Redzepi's restaurant, Noma, boasts an awe-inspiring three Michelin stars and made it on to the World's 50 Best Restaurants for the fifth time in 2021.

It's been a destination for foodies from around the world and became famous for challenging the ideas of fine dining with it's foraged ingredients like spruce tips.

Chef René's been dubbed one of this era's most influential chefs and the inventor of the New Nordic cooking style.

But in a shocking twist, the eatery announced it will be closing its doors to regular service at the end of winter 2024. Monday, the Noma team took to Twitter to write: "To continue being noma, we must change."

"Winter 2024 will be the last season of noma as we know it. We are beginning a new chapter; noma 3.0."

So what's to become of the celebrated fine dining establishment that boasts extravagant tasting menus costing at least $500 per person?

As of 2025, per it's website, noma will transform "into a giant lab [...] dedicated to the work of food innovation and the development of new flavors, one that will share the fruits of our efforts more widely than ever before."

Redzepi told the New York Times that Noma will still open the dining rooms for periodic pop-ups.

Recently, the location has come under fire for its labor practices, long hours, and unpaid internships. But per the famous chef, the problem is systemic for the industry.

He called the modern fine-dining model that he helped create "unsustainable," concluding that it just doesn't work, "financially and emotionally, as an employer and as a human being."

The decision to shutter and transform noma is bound to send shock waves through the culinary world.