Luca Pronzato, one of the former chefs of Noma, is now in Turkey with his pop-up-restaurant after many cities around the world.
The most exciting gastronomic news of this summer came from Kaplankaya, Aegean beaches: Luca Pronzato launches a pop-up restaurant in Turkey!
Although Pronzato is a young chief, 29-year-old, his past in the kitchen goes long way back, because his parents have been running a restaurant and Italian grocery store in Paris. Pronzato started working in the luxury restaurants in Paris when he was 14-15 years-old and he crossed with Noma’s path after many restaurants.
When it comes to the philosophy of gastronomy, we should mention Noma, which is a restaurant with two Michelin stars, founded in 2003 by René Redzepi in Copenhagen. The restaurant is leading “new Nordic cuisine” trend that has influenced the entire Nordic region and its emerging chefs, and as a superstar its name is always in the world’s best restaurants lists. However, Redzepi closed his restaurant, which was doing well, and took the roads to explore new possibilities because thought that he had accomplished everything he had envisioned and needed a refurbishment.
On the other hand, Luca, who worked at Noma for three years, decided to take the roads like Redzepi, then he launched Ona at the beginning of 2019. The word “ona” means “wave” in Catalan, the chef implies the butterfly effect with his words “We are ona here.”
Ona was a pop-up restaurant launched Lisbon’s Costa Caparica beach in the beginning of 2019. These pop-up-restaurants were launched to get to know the various cuisines of the world and create synergies with the well-known or young chefs of those countries. These restaurants have launched respectively Portuguese, Basel, Paris, Zermatt, Peru, Mexico, Japan, Korea, China and finally at Kaplankaya with name as “Ona at the Beach Anhinga”. The pop-up-restaurant opened on June 5th and can be visited until the end of October. Their next addresses will be Mexico-Murizante and Marseille after Turkey.
