Restaurant and Travel Blog: Our experience at Geranium the world's 42nd Best Restaurant

Geranium is "a lucid, light and dynamic kitchen. Their mission is to create meals that involve all the senses - restores, challenges and enriches." Geranium was voted 42nd of the World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2014. Also in 2014, they were voted the Best Restaurant of the Nordic Countries. They also work with the best. Their coffee is from Kenya and is an Arabica. It comes from Coffee Collective and Klaus Thompson who was voted the Best Coffee Barista in early 2000. He uses Fair Trade coffee and visits Kenya to ensure the coffee is grown and tended as promised. He trained Geranium on how to make the coffee. It is only brewed by pour over method.

We started with towels for our hands. No, these are not the first course. Although, I saw some try to eat them.

APPETIZERS

Crispy Grains from Kornly

Milk, Fermented Juice from Carrot, Crab & Sea Buckthorn Oil

Raw Asaparagus, Asparagus Vinegar & Lemon Verbena

Jerusalem Artichoke Leaf, Rye Vinegar & Walnut

Some views of the Restaurant

The Lounge

Dining Room

Our table with a view

Dried Apple, Apple Juice & Dried Flowers

"Charred Potato" & Lightly Smoked Sheep Milk Butter

Next Dish was served in the kitchen! It was an awesome experience!

Cep Mushroom Soup

Maria photo bombed! They had such fun in the kitchen and serving in the dining room. It was not formal or stuffy but serious and at the same time light hearted.

"Seaweed & Razor Clam" Impressions of the Beach

The whole razor clam (shell and all) was edible!

DISHES

Jelled Ham, Tomato Water & Wild Flowers

Dried salmon and flowers with ham & Salmon oil and clarified tomato water

Dillstones

Dill and salted mackerel

With horseradish cream and frozen cucumber crumbles

Salted Hake, Buttermilk, Lojrom (Cod Roe) & Herb Stems

Bread with Amaranth and Spelt

Biodynamic Onions with Chamomile & Melted Hay Cheese

Flavors of the Ocean, Beach Plants, Brown Butter & Dried Scallop Roe

Egg Yolk in Melted & Smoked Lard, Beetroot & Essence of Black Currant Leaves

View from Geranium. From their website:

"The restaurant is situated on the 8th floor in Fælledparken (Common Gardens) in the center of Copenhagen, from where one can follow the seasons' journey through the tree crowns, catch glimpses of the citys green copper roofs and just see the windmills of Oeresund. The location emphasizes Geraniums vision of gastronomic clarity and diversity. We explore the area of tension between the urbane and the natural."

Chicken, Pointed Cabbage, Pine Sprouts and Meadow Hay Beer. The chicken first arrived as so...

Then was cut and placed in this bowl. A note on the chicken and pine shoots, the breast, leg and thigh meat were removed then pureed into a mousse. The mousse was then stuffed into the wing. The pine shoots are found at the end of the pine branch. They are harvested once a year and pickled. Last year's batch were in this year's dish.

DESSERTS

Rhubarb, Crystallized Rose Hip & Sheep Yogurt. Forget-Me-Nots, Spanish Chervil and a few other aromatic herbs placed on each state of rhubarb - juice, gelatin, pickled and boiled. It was to be eaten with the frozen sheep's milk yogurt.