
07.05.2012 / Food & Leisure
Gourmet Copenhagen
Apparently, for some inscrutable reason, the former meatpacking districts of the world’s big cities are destined to become the coolest neighborhoods around.
The rule certainly applies to Vesterbrø, in Copenhagen, the Danish answer to New York City’s Meatpacking District.
Once a smelly and insalubrious area, this neighborhood west of the central railway station has become one of the coolest food destinations in town, thanks to a new wave of innovative restaurants with a pleasant post-industrial flavour.
In a city where the quality of life has reached one of the highest levels in Europe, the up-and-coming gastronomy focuses mainly on healthy, organic, fresh and local ingredients, revisited according to the experimental attitude of “New Nordic” cuisine.
Kødbyens Fiskebar
Founded by Anders Selm, former sommelier at NOMA (the city’s most famous restaurant) this fish restaurant hosted inside an old meatpacking store offers a luxurious seafood menu. The place is quite well-known for its wine list as well.Bio Mio
A former Bosch warehouse from the Twenties is the location for this unusual sel-service restaurant offering healthy dishes made with organic and biodynamic ingredients. Everything is conceived with a carbon-neutral attitude, from reduced energy consumption to organic furniture.
Madsvinet
In the candle light, and yet surrounded by the origianl tiles and meat hooks of a former butcher’s shop, at Madsvinet you’ll get the chance to try a “rustic” gourmet cuisine based on grilled and roast meats, vegetables and delicious cheese platters.
Paté Paté
Focusing on Mediterranean cuisine with French, Spanish and Moroccan dishes, this ever-busy bistrot with a post-industrial flare is owned by a couple of wine-seller brothers. The wine and beer lists are obviously great.
Kadeau Copenhagen
Regional cuisine, fresh ingredients of the season, innovative cooking methods and very impressive presentations are the main features of this great restaurant, the Copenhagen “branch” of Kadeau Bornholm (located on a Baltic Sea island). Fish definitely plays the leading role.
Links
http://www.vincafeen.dk/patepate




