[Copenhagen] 3-days foodie trip : noma, Alchemist, Sushi Anaba, Sanchez and POPL

Hi,

As part of the Taste Buds membership of Noma Projects, an event was scheduled during the week-end of July 11th to July 14th.

I’ve been to the restaurants listed above (including noma and Alchemist back to back on the same day) as well as doing some workshops/visits/tastings at noma and Noma Projects HQ.

Overall it was an amazing week-end (with maybe a bit too much food 😅) filled with amazing talks with complete strangers sharing the same love of food.

Pics 1-3 are noma with the following dishes :

• green peas grilled with reduction of peaso and chili : this was incredibly tasty despite being “simple”. The flavors were sharp, with a bit of heat and the peas being extremely fresh made this dish a top one during this visit at noma.
• scoby (the result/ferment of kombucha) served with tomato water and blueberry reduction, green sansho : his was really interesting (and let’s face it, when going to noma I’m looking exactly for interesting flavor/techniques/ingredients I’m not even aware of) and quite delicious. The texture may be off-putting to some but overall a very solid dish (which I had again during one of the workshop at noma 2 days later).
• celebration cake made with chestnut mousse, mexican chocolate and pumpkin seed praline : well, 10/10 dessert, even 20/10. I was surprised with the level (and creativity) of dessert at noma since my first visit there but this really was powerful in tastes but nothing overwhelmed the rest of ingredients, the texture of the mousse was light and praline (available at some point on the noma projects store) is incredible.

Overall another great meal at noma after being slightly let down during Ocean Season.
Due to their new “model” of being more fluid, it means that the season will blend together — I’ll only try to go back if I’m 100% certain of not having the same dishes as previously. When the first pictures of their ”Copenhagen Season” will be available I’ll most likely try to get back there.

Next pictures (4-6) are from Alchemist; For obvious reason I’m not showing much to avoid spoilers and keep the experience “secret”. I can just say that it DEFINITELY is worth the money and the struggle to get a booking there.

As I’ve been eating already since 11:45 to 16:30 at noma and started my meal there at 17:00, I wasn’t really thorough with writing descriptions of dishes. The pictures are of a smoked ball (with actual smoke inside), langoustine tartare and caviar. Then a cocktail called an “antini”. And finally the perfect omelette which really is incredible.
We stayed a total of almost 8h.

As for doing both the restaurants back to back, I knew that noma isn’t too stuffy and the pace of Alchemist (as well as the size of the bites being small) being spread out over a long time I was surprised to be able to enjoy both meals and not feel sick afterwards.
At this point (5th time in copenhagen) I saw an opportunity to get into Alchemist and I did despite being the same day as my noma booking and I don’t regret it one bit.

The other pictures are from my lunch at Sushi Anaba (3rd visit, first in new location), a tasting menu at Sanchez and one at POPL.

Feel free to ask any question !

Tak for reading and bon appétit !