First day in Copenhagen

 Monday, May 23, 2022

Copenhagen

 After a long night’s sleep and breakfast with only one kind of herring offered, we walked to Nyhavn, the part of the port which is full of restaurants and shops:

 


Copenhagen is a city of canals, and tour boats leave from here—something we will do with our group after we meet up on Wednesday.  Bicycles are everywhere, and the streets have dedicated bike lanes with curbs as well as sidewalks and pedestrian lanes for joggers and people pushing baby carriages, etc.  The weather is spectacular, brilliant sunshine, temperatures in the 60s and low humidity.

 We walked along the Nyhavn waterfront:

 


 There was a very small climbing wall along the walkway, Leah, (which you could walk around, and we did).  We did see young people using the hand and footholds to vault over the wall:

 


 A large pedestrian and bike bridge (separate lanes for each) went over one of the canals:

 


 Our hotel is on a street full of art galleries, jewelry shops and Danish modern furniture stores (all blond wood) and some intriguing designs.  Here’s a grand piano:

 


 Back to the hotel for a nap, and then out to dinner at a place we had reserved two weeks in advance, the Restaurant Grønnegade.  It is impossible to get a reservation less than a few days in advance, and we felt lucky to be able to get there.  Well, it’s a small place, and our table for two was in a small niche:

 


 There is a prix fixe menu, four or five courses, with or without wine pairings.  We chose the four-course meal with two wine pairings.  The first course was a cod patty, the second was a salmon mousse:

 


 The main course was beef, with a potato creation and a small fried meatball:

 


We were served a “pre-dessert” crème brûlée:

 


 And dessert was a rhubarb creation with rhubarb ice cream:

 


 Each course was three or four delicious bites.  The wines were very good.  Let’s just say it was an experience; we tried to imagine the proprietors in a Kansas City steakhouse.

 Tomorrow, we plan to go to the Rosenborg Castle, and we have tickets to Don Giovanni at the Royal Danish Opera tomorrow night.  More then.

Comments

  1. Ralph P. LockeMay 23, 2022 at 1:58 PM

    Oh, those portions are so . . . elegant! We ate once at a super-chic restaurant here in Maryland where the portions were even smaller. Glad to hear that your meal tasted good, besides looking like a series of elegant miniature artworks. The fancy piano is astounding to look at. I wonder whether such instruments are much used or are mainly decorator items for the living room.

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  2. Mark JacksonMay 23, 2022 at 4:54 PM

    Is that grand piano intended to be played for one's solo enjoyment, or perhaps by a pianist who insists on having their back to the audience?

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  3. Rwa442May 23, 2022 at 5:46 PM

    Pre-dessert is an interest twist! I could never have enough creme brulee.

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  4. xctravelerMay 23, 2022 at 6:25 PM

    Just a bit pretentious, as so many of their kind are. It does sound like fun however.

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