DINING IMPOSSIBLE 7 – COPENHAGEN
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Back from a whirlwind three day extravaganza in New York City, the movable feast continues with the hottest destination on any foodies’ list right now – Copenhagen. Offering “the world’s most coveted dinner tickets” to pleasure aficionados, flying in from around the globe.
Home to 2010’s, 2011’s, 2012’s, and this year’s no.1 restaurant in the world, Noma, the city finds itself buzzing with eager diners, hungry for a taste of the best. Copenhagen hosts the pioneer of New Nordic Cuisine René Redzepi, Bocuse d’Or Legend Rasmus Kofoed of Geranium, and critics’ darling Søren Selin from AOC.
To us, these three restaurants represent the most innovative, delicious and diverse culinary creations of the oldest Kingdom in the world, they are therefore also the three pivotal points of Dining Impossible 7 – Copenhagen.
3 days – 3 top restaurants – 1 great dinner party.
Thursday, July 3rd – Friday, July 4th – Saturday, July 5th.
16 notabilities only.
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THE MENU
Thursday, July 3rd.
Chapter 1 – The Critics’ Darling
Featuring Nordic Star Chéf Søren Selin, we present the four times nominee and recent winner of “The Danish Dish of Year” who seeks to emphasise what is wonderful from both the flora and the fauna. He stimulates as many senses as possible; taste, vision, colour, and smell are all at the centre of the dining experience.
His gastronomic philosophy is based on a modern style, using fresh Nordic produce sourced from both the earth and sea. A local cuisine that’s rooted in Danish ingredients and seasons; a natural cuisine where the raw materials are the stars.
With Sommelier Restaurateur Christian Aarø Mortensen (both Danish and Nordic Sommelier Champion) we’ll experience delicious Champagne, a feast of 20+ gourmet servings with a 10 glass connoisseur wine menu, mineral water, gourmet coffee/tea, delicious petit fours and avecs in the vaulted 17th century cellar in the heart of Copenhagen.
Included is a private guided tour of the open kitchen of AOC by Søren Selin.
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“The ultimate dinner party” – Forbes Magazine (2012)
Friday, July 4th.
Chapter 2 – The Champion
First he won bronze. Then silver. And finally, in 2011, he received the golden statue. The winner of Bocuse d’Or he thereby has earned the title of “the world’s best chef”. In March 2013 Rasmus Kofoed received his second Michelin star within only two years at Restaurant Geranium, which can be found in the corner of Copenhagen’s national stadium.
The restaurant has quickly grown a reputation for its inventive and highly intuitive culinary approach through its aim to explore the area of tension between all that is urbane and the natural, done so with dishes of amazing delicacy.
This year Geranium has been awarded ‘Best Food Experience’ by White Guide and was, in 2013, awarded “Best Restaurant in Denmark” by The Danish Dining Guide as well as The Nordic Prize for “Nordic Restaurant of The Year.“
This evening we’ll experience the cuisine of a Champion – offering Champagne, 20+ servings de luxe, an exclusive wine menu, mineral water, gourmet coffee/tea, delicious petit fours and avecs in a luxurious Chambre Séparée on the top floor of Denmark’s National Stadium with a view over parts of Copenhagen and Sweden.
Included is a private guided tour through the open kitchen of Geranium.
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“The most coveted dinner ticket in the world.” – Huffington Post (2013)
Saturday, July 5th.
Chapter 3 – The World’s Best Restaurant (Finalé)
Noma has been voted no. 1 an impressive four times on the World’s 50 Best List. It is the world’s best restaurant.
Following what chef-owner René Redzepi calls a ‘restaurant mid-life crisis’, Noma has dramatically re-taken the top spot in The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. The period of angst and creative hiatus he refers to was not prompted by last year’s ‘demotion’ to second spot, but conversely by Noma capturing and retaining the title of The S.Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurant over several years previously.
Award organisers said it was Noma’s “meticulous attention to detail, innovative approach to foraging and experimentation with fermentation” which earned them the number one spot.
Noma at the Guildhall this April celebrating their fourth year as No.1.
Noma’s innovative, inventive, and of course, ground-breaking approach to cooking has created a maelstrom in the culinary world. The restaurant, for example, has taken the tired, old concept of the amuse bouche and turned it into a dazzling array of one-bite starters, that are alone, worth the air fare to Denmark.
Through the use of innovative cooking methods, René Redzepi’s former warehouse on the dockside has changed diners’ perceptions of Nordic cuisine. It is a restaurant of extraordinary pedigree, where passion and honesty is reflected in every mouthful, making you feel glad to be alive.
This evening features the world renown staff of Noma at the most internationally acclaimed restaurant – offering Champagne, 20+ new nordic servings de luxe, a connoisseur wine menu, mineral water, gourmet coffee/tea, delicious petit fours and avecs in a decorated Nordic private dining room with a full view of the Copenhagen Harbour.
Furthermore, the cherry on top is a private guided tour of the 1st floor kitchen and “battle station” of Noma, situated just next to the private dining room.
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“Plenty of people throw good dinner parties; few hosts are so successful they take their soirees around the world.”
– The Wall Street Journal (2014)
– FAMOUS BY DAY, NOTORIOUS BY NIGHT –
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After the finalé dinner we’ll end up in Copenhagen’s most notoriously audacious nightclub, Sunday. With a strict no-photo policy, the scrambling of phone signals and daring gogo dancers you may just find yourself lost to a never ending flow of champagne, table dancing and debauchery, without any proof of it ever happening. Go in with an open mind, leave out of your mind.
Opened just last August and situated behind Copenhagen’s most prestigious department store Magasin du Nord, Sunday was created by the team behind the renowned club SIMONS and acclaimed restaurant Congo – Simon Frank & Simon Lennet and famous Danish entertainer Casper Christensen.
Created for experimental emotional and bodily excess, Sunday pushes the boarders of wicked indecency and the traditional perception of a nightclub experience.
Dining Impossible has secured prime tables where bottles of Champagne and equally as tantalising liquor will be awaiting, rounding up 72 remarkable hours in style.
DI 7.
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DETAILS
Dining Impossible 7 – Copenhagen is the full experience. Besides the extraordinaire dinners, it also includes receptions, selected transport and after parties at exclusive night spots with a range of drinks, beverages and canapés.
All dinners include full wine/beer/cocktail menus predetermined with the respectful sommeliers, as well as mineral water, various taxes and gratuity.
As always the guest list remains a secret to the public and will only be shared in detail among the participants. Menus and wines will be served découverte, meaning presented and discovered on the night of the dinner parties as a part of the full-blown Nordic storytelling.
Should favourable hotel deals be needed in Copenhagen, we’re more than happy to help.
Price per cover is confidential. Please contact Kristian Brask Thomsen at ambassador@bon-vivant.dk for further information.
Thank you.
“Billed by Forbes Magazine as “the ultimate dinner party” and by Huffington Post as “the world’s most coveted dinner tickets”; Dining Impossible is a three-day gastronomic bender organized by culinary ambassador Kristian Brask Thomsen.
– Sydney Morning Herald.
