He has been accused of hitting employees in the face and stabbing them with kitchen equipment. René Redzepi stepped down as head chef in March after a story in the American newspaper The New York Times, in which former employees at what was then the Danish Michelin-starred restaurant described a workplace marked by violence.Oversættelsesdisclaimer

Now René Redzepi is responding to the allegations for the first time and, in the wake of them, announcing that Noma will return as a permanent restaurant in Copenhagen on Aug. 5. That was not the original plan.