Claus Meyer

Claus Meyer has been engaged in a plethora of projects and has been a popular mediator of food culture in both Denmark and internationally for many years.

In June 2016, Meyer opened Great Northern Food Hall and Agern restaurant, both in the Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Terminal, New York, bringing culinary concepts, flavors and ideas from the Nordic countries to New York, but with many local ingredients in line with the New Nordic philosophy.

Meyer has founded several organisations, including the Melting Pot Foundation, focused on driving social change through food.

In 2013, Melting Pot established a cooking school in La Paz, Bolivia, providing culinary education to impoverished Bolivians, also serving as a gourmet restaurant, Gustu, voted 17th best in Latin America on the Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants list.

Meyer co-owns several restaurants and enterprises, such as The Standard in Copenhagen, which include the New Nordic restaurant Almanak, as well as a chain of bakeries, delis, a catering business, an orchard, fruit and chocolate supply companies, a vinegar factory, a coffee roastery, and a cooking school for kids and adults.

In 2014, Meyer and his family relocated to New York City with the purpose of establishing a food hall and restaurant rooted in the New Nordic Cooking philosophy to be located at Grand Central Terminal.