Noma Coma

Today started our brilliantly!  I got to sleep in and then Anna prepared a traditional Danish breakfast with bread and cheese and thin wafers of chocolate.  There was also fabulous coffee.  A great way to start the day!

First order of business was to visit the Danish Resistance Museum, which was free (yeah!) and very interesting.  The exhibits included letters and items from the Nazi occupation and the sabotage tactics as well as some post war stuff.  One of the more interesting parts was how Denmark worked to move the Danish Jewish people out of Denmark and over to Sweden to keep them away from the Nazis and the concentration camps.  A very interesting and moving museum.

It was then time for shopping.  I got a few things to take back to Canada but one of the more interesting things was when we stopped for lunch.  I had this very tasty organic hot dog and this very yummy juice that was strawberries, apple, and ginger. 

We then went to Torvehallerne which was kind of a cross between a market with fish, meats, cheese, and bread for sale and small restaurants serving tapas size dishes, everything from sushi to chocolate imitating sushi.  We purchased some very interesting chocolates I think one of the most interesting is goat cheese and thyme.  More tomorrow once we try them!

I’m just back now from Noma and I would love to share my thoughts, experience and heartfelt love for this place but really I have no words right now.  I really just want to be.  Seriously speechless... we are calling it a Noma Coma. 

If I just leave the ridiculously awesome food and wine to the side for the moment, the wait staff was amazing and the fact that we got a tour of the entire kitchen and how the creative geniuses come up with up with the food... I am in awe, and know I will never have better meal... unless I am back to Noma again.

More to come include a plate by plate (and wine by wine) recap including photos is coming tomorrow.