Excellent tasting menu. Dishes are bite-sized but the whole menu is generous and satisfying. The highlights were a perfectly cooked lobster, some venison with blood sausage, and a fried brioche with guanciale. Service was knowledgeable and friendly. The setting has clearly a neat, elegant, and minimalist touch, as expected from a Danish place.
The tasting menu is a eight course experiences starting with a series of snacks, transitioning from savory to sweets with a pre-desert and ending up with petite four. Overall chef’s tasting menu is very generous and has a focus on seafood, such as lobster, sea scallops and fish. Even tough both my friend and I enjoyed most of the dishes, but I wasn’t really impressed or anything really spot my taste bud. The break between each course sometimes stretched a bit longer. I did enjoy the bread and some seafood dishes, however, I don’t really feel the Nordic theme.
Honestly the highlight here was the service! Absolutely wonderful waitress, host, and servers. The other highlight might have been the barley bread with skyr butter they provide at the beginning. We also ordered the tuna tartare appetizer (pretty standard tuna tartare), and lobster porridge entree and skate wing entree. The skate wing had sea urchin with it so it was a little too salty/fishy tasting, but a good portion size and delicious otherwise. It wasn’t crowded at all on a Monday evening but we had made a reservation just in case. Not sure I will go back, the food was interesting and delicious and Icelandic, but pretty pricey for a la carte and didn’t blow me away. Good spot if you need a quieter restaurant where you can actually hear each other talk though.
89 E 42nd St - New York City
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