It doesn’t happen everyday that a chef tells you that the essence of his restaurant is to give its guests a sense of time and place while at the same time serving you a glass jar with live shrimps on ice. In any other case than René Redzepi of restaurant Noma one would find it hard to see the logic. It becomes a different case when one deals with what is considered one of the most visionary chefs in the world of gastronomy today. A chef who, with his restaurant, almost single-handed turned Copenhagen overnight from the last stop on the gastronomic subway to the culinary equivalent of Grand Central station. Where food critics, food enthusiasts and star chefs are flying in from around the globe on a daily basis to fill up the twelve tables for either lunch or diner service. Normally one would expect from a gastronomic temple, awarded with two Michelin stars, to boast about its gastronomic level of excellence, its magnificent array of flavours, or praise its signature dishes, but not an almost spiritual sounding formula that says that eating revolves around a sense of time and place. Much could be said about what it is that makes a restaurant like Noma so interesting. One could talk about its gastronomic importance, its sheer inexhaustible inventiveness with the dishes its serves, the conspicuous consumption that always looms over haute cuisine, the contemporary dandyism of foodies, the economic importance of ratings and rankings, the culture and habits behind the kitchen doors. The list is endless. One could adopt a gastronomic, an economic, a sociological, anthropological or even an ethnographic perspective to inquire into that curious eatery on the quays of Copenhagen harbour. But how can one probe the underlying premise of giving a sense of time and place? That is without falling into the trap of psychologism. How does food transcends into an experience of what in Kantian transcendental philosophy, which after all defines modern philosophy, forms the corner stones of our experience? How, in other words, does food become thought?