OREANDA-NEWS. Starting on 20 August, Nordic summer cuisine will be available in a pop-up restaurant at Copenhagen Airport. In the open kitchen, star chefs Thomas Rode, Mikkel Marschall and David Johansen will take turns offering travellers delicious Nordic tasting menus. The occasion is the ninth Copenhagen Cooking food festival.

From 20 August to 29 September, travellers will have the opportunity to enjoy exceptional gastronomy at Copenhagen Airport. As part of the Copenhagen Cooking food festival, the airport will host a specially designed pop-up restaurant called CPH Nordic Dining. At the restaurant, star chefs Thomas Rode from one of Copenhagen’s premier restaurants, Kong Hans Kulder, David Johansen from another premier Copenhagen restaurant, Kokkeriet, and Mikkel Marschall from the Danish island of Bornholm will take turns cooking tailored tasting menus inspired by the Nordic summer.

“Gastronomy is one of the strongest trademarks of Denmark, and we want to use CPH Nordic Dining to give travellers a taste of the latest and very best of what Copenhagen and Denmark as a whole have to offer. This year, also the island of Bornholm has earned a strong position in the world of Nordic cuisine,” said Copenhagen Airport’s VP for Sales and Marketing, Carsten Norland, referring to Mikkel Marschall, who has been highly acclaimed as chef for the restaurant Kadeau Bornholm.

“I look forward to presenting my tasting menu, which consists of foods from small local producers on Bornholm. I can reveal here that the menu will include Bornholm products like liquorice from Johan Bulow, local potatoes, ham from Hallegard and dairy products from the St. Clemens coop dairy,” said Marschall.

A taste of Danish summer

The three chefs have each composed a tasting menu which they will prepare and serve to their guests from the restaurant’s open kitchen. The three star chefs will be present in person much of the time and do their magic in the kitchen with a team from SSP who is in charge of the service at the restaurant.

“F&B is one of the key differentiators in an airport’s efforts to create an authentic sense of place. Our team works closely with the chefs to give guests an authentic bite of Denmark, prepared with local high-quality food products right before their eyes,” says SSP Denmark’s CEO Tina Gronbech.

The chefs are not yet prepared to tell us precisely what the menus will consist of, but they do give a couple of hints:

“The focus of Kokkeriet is on good Danish seasonal products, and our tasting menu will include new interpretations of classic Danish dishes like the popular Danish dessert rodgrod med flode,” said David Johansen of Michelin-restaurant Kokkeriet.

Thomas Rode will also be serving food based on local products and cooked in genuine Paleo style.

“Without revealing too much, I can tell you that I focus on ensuring that there is a lot of protein in the food I’ll be serving. When you are going on a long trip, you need good, wholesome food, so that you can relax, whether you are travelling for business or on holiday with the family,” said Rode.

Putting CPH on the F&B map

The CPH Nordic Dining initiative is a natural continuation of the F&B strategy executed at CPH in recent years.

“Over the past two years, we have managed to substantially improve our F&B offer. We have brought in a number of strong brands and focused on creating value for money across categories - and with great success. A Michelin-level pop-up restaurant definitely reflects our ambition for the F&B category: we aim to have one of world’s best F&B offers in an airport, and we aim to continue to surprise and thrill travelers at CPH. Not only does it take time and effort: it also takes strong airport partnerships. In many ways, CPH Nordic Dining is a great example of the trinity at work,” said Carsten Norland.

To complete the Nordic experience, glassware and crockery from Danish brands Royal Copenhagen, Holmegaard and Rosendahl is sponsored for the pop-up restaurant by living, design and furnishing shop Illums Bolighus, and CPH shops such as Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen Airport Tax Free, Peter Beier Chocolate, Bulow Lakrids, Foodmarket, WHSmith and Fine Food are supporting this extraordinary event with special offers for travelers.