Well that’s a big understatement. In terms of sweets and good company it was right up there with the Sunday roast. Here’s what transformed a dull weekday into a drunken pleasure.

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Tags: Danish restaurant, desserts, Era Ora, food, marshmallows

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Everything ages, even seemingly ageless beauties such as myself turn 29, 30 and last Tuesday – 31. Hurray for me. On that occasion we finally had the perfect excuse to go spend 1500 Danish kroner à pop (~200 Euro) on a gourmet meal and some fancy wine at the latest Danish star on the Guide Michelin map: AOC. Short for Aarø og Co., the name doesn’t exactly do much for the branding process. It’s too non-descript and really doesn’t stick or create images in one’s head. Luckily the real experience was a different story…

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Tags: AOC, birthday, Guide Michelin, restaurants

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as a special tribute to the danish gourmet palace noma, that was just named “the world’s best restaurant” by restaurant magazine, i’m writing the whole post without capital letters. i mean, if they can reach the peak of gastronomy with a tiny-lettered name and some locally grown carrots, so can i. even without the carrots. anyway, on this very festive occasion, i will finally show you some of the pics from our lunch at noma back in october. and note, that the  “flødebolle” above (chocolate thing with pink meringue filling) was the inspiration for my own flødeboller.

Tags: danske restauranter, noma, nordisk mad

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