Category: danish gastronomy

  • TEN GOOD REASONS TO LOVE AOC

    It’s not often you walk into a restaurant with two Michelin stars in a mansion and find that it smells just like home. But walk through the doors of AOC in Copenhagen and the smell of wood smoke and reduced bouillon of Jerusalem artichokes hits you like a double shot of aquavit. Result; an instant…

  • AOC – THE NEW TWO STAR MICHELIN RESTAURANT OF COPENHAGEN

    Yesterday in Stockholm the first Nordic Michelin Guide was released with the announcement that Restaurant AOC has received their second of the three possible stars. Chef Owner Søren Selin (left) states: “We hoped for two stars but didn’t expect it in anyway. How can anyone? This is fantastic news and huge for me. This recognition makes me very proud…

  • THORSTEN SCHMIDT

    THE NORDIC ALCHEMIST ———————————————— Thorsten Schmidt’s style is experimental, rebellious and intriguing. He’s eager to explore and develop Nordic Cuisine, or more specifically, Jutlandic cuisine – a philosophy rooted in local, sustainable cooking that inspires the desire to create memorable moments and evoke the strongest of feelings. It’s all about new discovery. His restaurant Malling & Schmidt is…

  • AOC NOMINATION DINNER

    ________________________ AOC presents The Nomination Dinner as part of the competition to decide who is “Denmark’s Best Restaurant 2014” – finally to be announced by The Danish Dining Guide (Den Danske Spiseguide), October 26th. The nominees are: AOC, Copenhagen Frederikshøj, Aarhus Frederiksminde Hotel, Præstø Marchal, Copenhagen Noma, Copenhagen Studio, Copenhagen ________________________ The nomination dinner – featuring critics’ darling Søren Selin and…

  • GERANIUM AWARDED AS BEST FOOD EXPERIENCE IN DENMARK BY WHITE GUIDE

    THE BEST FOOD EXPERIENCE ———————————————– Thursday night in Copenhagen saw the White Guide Awards revelation of Restaurant Geranium as the winner of “The Best Food Experience of the Year”. In light of their otherworldly experience, White Guide proclaimed: “With the outmost technical precision they deliver a visual spectacular and astonishing dining experience for the taste buds. There is a light, lucid…

  • DINING IMPOSSIBLE 7 – COPENHAGEN

    -————————————— 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…

  • THE DINNER PARTY 27 – THE NEW NORDIC EXPERIENCE

    THE GURU ______________________ Bon Vivant Communications presents The Dinner Party 27 “The New Nordic Experience” at three times voted “The World’s Best Restaurant” NOMA in Copenhagen. Offering only a limited seating of 16 notabilities at this international very highly acclaimed restaurant – offering Champagne, 20+ new nordic servings de luxe, a connoisseur wine menu, mineral…

  • DINING IMPOSSIBLE 4 – COPENHAGEN

    -————————————— Back from an epic three day gourmet raid in Barcelona – Spain’s second city, self-confident capital of Catalunya, the movable feast continues with a dear Nordic classic, offering “the world’s most coveted dinner tickets” to pleasure aficionados, flying in from around the globe. Copenhagen is worldwide-known for its top gastronomy with places such as Noma, home…

  • MADS REFSLUND AND ADAM AAMANN ENTER WACHAU GOURMET FESTIVAL

    MADS REFSLUND VS. ADAM AAMANN ———————————————— On April 5th Bon Vivant Communications presents a culinary night so sacred that it has to be held in a Roman Catholic church, deep in the historic parts of Mid-Europe. With three times attendee at Wachau Gourmet Festival, Mads Refslund: The laid back original co-founder of Noma and frontier…

  • THE DINNER PARTY 25 – A SENSORY NIGHT 5

    ________________________ Bon Vivant Communications presents The Dinner Party 25 “A Sensory Night 5” introducing newly appointed Head Chéf and critics’ darling Søren Selin in company of Sommelier Restaurateur Christian Aarø (3 times Danish Sommelier Champion and 1 time Nordic) at Restaurant AOC – Aarø & Co. in Copenhagen, Friday, March 15th 2013 from 19.00 –…