Renowned chef and restaurateur, Claus Meyer is one of our judges at the Culinary Festival Bernard Loiseau.
Claus Meyer
- Founder of the new Nordic cuisine and architect of the manifesto.
- Co-founder of the restaurant Noma in Denmark, Michelin which was voted World’s best restaurant in 2010.
- Hosted his own TV-series on cooking ‘Meyers Koekken’ on national Danish TV (DR1) from 1991 to 1998.
What is your principal trait of character?
Enterprising and honest.
What is your greatest quality?
Empathy – I treat everyone as an equal and I talk with everyone.
What are the qualities you look for most in other people?
Generosity and integrity.
What is your favourite tipple?
German Riesling.
What has been your best experience professionally?
Creating the Noma restaurant and conceptualising Scandinavian nouvelle cuisine, as well as realising the joint project.
Who are the most important people to you in your professional life?
My wife and four children.
What, for you, is happiness?
To be in a position where you can follow your heart. To have the capacity to surprise your most demanding followers. To be passionate about what you are doing. To have a family that you love more than anything in this world.
How do you get away from it all?
I take off to the countryside with my family, or on my own in our house in the woods deep in the heart of Sweden, or in our summer home by the sea in Denmark.
Which type of cuisine is currently the best in the world in your opinion?
I could obviously say new Scandinavian cuisine but I don’t really accept the validity of the question. Cuisine is not a matter of ethnic origin!