With its panoramic park views, this luxurious restaurant feels as if it is inviting the outside in, yet it’s unusually located on the 8th floor of the National Football Stadium. Modern techniques and the finest organic and biodynamic ingredients are used to create beautiful, pure and balanced dishes.
holding court, great seat in between the lounge area and restaurant, I called only 45 minutes earlier to ask if they had any available space this week…..Lobster Milk, juice from fermented carrots and sea buckthorn – the Lobster milk was a chawanmushi with plenty of fresh lobsterJeursalem artichoke leaves, hazelnut oil and rye vinegarOne of the signature dishes, “razor clams” minerals & sour creamtomato water with ham fat &aromatic herbsPart one of “dill Stones” mackerel & dillPart two “dill stones, horseradish, frozen juice from pickled dill – dip the stones into the horseradish cream, coat in frozen juice – Devine!nettle, smoked cheese, dried oyster – the amount of flavour in this simple dish was outstanding, smoky, creamy deliciousnessgrilled white asparagus & dried troutSalted Hake, parsley stem, Finnish caviar in butter milk – so much more than the sum of its parts, another outstanding coursebread serve, “crispy grains, bread with old grains & gluten free with seeds”Scallops in juniper aroma, Ingrid Marie Reduction, brown butter – the scallop is lightly cooked at the table in juniper then served
ligthly salted Turbot, green herbs, Celeriac and pickled pinetartlet of fiord shrimp, Sol, pickled elderflowers
Chicken, green cabbage sprouts, smoked chicken fat & hops – interesting that the chicken was in the form of a boudin.“the test kitchen and staff meal area”staff meal area…….dry ageing room, the smell was fantastic“the prep kitchen”can watch the soccer from the prep kitchen “***” miss en placethe “fresh herb” set up, picked to ordermain service kitchena bite of beetroot, black currant, yoghurt, tageres (part of the sunflower family)Ice cream of bees wax & pollen, intense rhubarbcaramel roasted grains, chamomile and pear
Liquorice mousse
coffee and petit forsgreen egg and pinepumpkin tree and cake with pumpkin seed oilchocolate, oats and seabuckthornmarshmallow and rosehipCaramel, dried plum juice, aromatic seeds
coffee service
sixth story of a stadium, not where I expected to find one the greatest meals of my life
MICHELIN Guide
Cameron Matthews 