Category: food & drinks

  • Carlsberg beer museum, Copenhagen – part 2

    Well, the arrival of 2016 interrupted the 2-part posts on the Carlsberg beer museum. This story took 2 years to complete ! Part 1 is here.  Continuing with the tour of the Carlsberg beer museum … The brand name Carlsberg combines the founder – J.C. Jacobsen’s son’s name – Carl with a variant of the Danish…

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  • Carlsberg beer museum, Copenhagen – part 1

    We have written up quite a few museums on this blog, for example, big glass boxes like the Der Moderne in Munich, the Islamic Art Museum in Kuala Lumpur, the Mushroom museum in Saumur inside a cave, or the rather odd Schaulager in Basel. There are all kinds of museums around the world, for example, the unexpected Museum of Broken Relations in Berlin which we…

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  • Relæ, København, Danemark

    Relæ, København, Danemark

    In 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, Noma in Copenhagen, founded by René Redzepi, was named as the best restaurant in the world by a British magazine. Opened in 2003, Noma is known for its reinvention and interpretation of the Nordic cuisine. By the way, this post mentions rankings of restaurants which can sound a bit much … so if…

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  • Basel food diary: Zum Schmale Wurf

    Basel food diary: Zum Schmale Wurf

    We went up to Basel for the weekend to see the Basel Tattoo (see earlier post here). We came upon Zum Schmale Wurf (“ZSW”) by chance and were pleased with our meal. ZSW is an Italian restaurant in a row of restaurants located on the Klein Basel side of the Rhine. It is at a rather touristy…

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  • Kiin Kiin, Copenhagen, part 2

    Kiin Kiin, Copenhagen, part 2

    Continuing with our multi-multi-course dinner at this one-star Michelin restaurant – Kiin Kiin in Copenhagen (København, Danemark). In our previous post (here), we showed pictures of 8 amuse bouches which were served to us. Then we went to the dining room upstairs .. the service here was more reliable. There was no menu for the…

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  • Kiin Kiin, Copenhagen, part 1

    Kiin Kiin, Copenhagen, part 1

    Kiin Kiin is a modern thai restaurant in København, Danemark, and apparently the only Thai restaurant outside of Thailand that has been awarded one Michelin star. Upon arrival, we were not taken to our table but were shown to a seating area, very dim with a low table. Downtempo music was piped in from somewhere. We…

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