Jordnaer * Copenhagen (Oct 2025)

What/Impressions: Nordic with sophisticated and surprising flavor combinations, elegant ingredients.  I really enjoyed the meal and the team.  The opening bites were very different and intense flavors. The progression of the meal was cohesive and it’s clear the chef has a very refined and creative palate.  Textures, temperature, and flavor combinations were firing on all cylinders.  It would be really difficult to call out all of the standouts 

Standouts: 

• Most of the small bites wowed, particularly the king crab, tuna + caviar
• Shrimp, horseradish, dill (holy wow that was amazing.  The team subbed shrimp for raw oyster I didn’t like and I had to give one to my friend and he agreed it was amazing and better than the original) 
• Lobster was well cooked, sauce was amazing 
• King crab will probably be the best I’ll ever eat 
• Honey, Vanilla dessert was out of this world (all the desserts were incredible though) 

Misses (not really a "miss"): 

• Scallops, gooseberry, rose (was good, but very subtle and just didn’t hit like other dishes) 
• Essence of langoustine (similar to comment above) 

Atmosphere/Staff/Experience: staff was great, the chefs and servers were all personable.  Tina was amazing and very warm.  The pacing was good by and large, but slowed a tiny bit towards the end of the meal (didn’t give feedback, but our fault for not asking).  

Revisit: absolutely yes.  This is definitely one of those 19 or 19.5 / 20 experiences for me and near the top of my best meals. 

PS: trying to a new review format that gives good info without being overly time consuming to write up, so feel free to comment. Will try to add a few more from my “backlog” of posting soon.