Tasting menu restaurant in Christianshavn, Copenhagen

Kadeau Copenhagen

An Island in a Jar

4 of 5

Kadeau is a Bornholm restaurant that happens to have a Copenhagen address. Three childhood friends from the island opened the original on a beach at Øster Sømarken in 2007, then brought it to a quiet street in Christianshavn in 2011. Everything here still points back to that rock in the Baltic. The tableware comes from Bornholm potters. Much of the produce comes from a kitchen garden less than a kilometre from the first restaurant, started by the founder's father in 2012 and now four plots and two greenhouses.

Bornholm has longer summers than the rest of Denmark, which means figs and mulberries where they have no business growing. The kitchen grows what it can, forages the rest, and spends the warm months putting the harvest into jars. The year splits in two. Growing season runs May to October and cooks from the garden. Preservation season runs October to May and cooks from the pantry, which is where the restaurant shows its hand. Fermenting and pickling are old Nordic survival skills. Here they read like ambition.

The menu is about fifteen servings for 4,150 kroner, with a non-alcoholic pairing at 1,500 and wine pairings that run well past that. Head chef Kyumin Hahn has been a partner since 2022, and the service is warm in a way that fancy rooms rarely manage. Go for Saturday lunch in the dark months, when the jars come out. You will taste an island summer in November.

Order this

The seasonal tasting menu of around fifteen servings, The non-alcoholic pairing, Anything built on the garden's preserves

The damage

$$$$

Go

Saturday lunch in preservation season, October to May

Find it

Wildersgade 10B, 1408 København K

Website

kadeau.dk