torsdag den 15. november 2012

Review NAM NAM..

On a random thursday night a Thora (an old friend of me) and I where in the mood for some Asian food.

Walking around Vesterbro looking for the right place, we ended up in "NAM NAM", a farely newly opened place that has busyness mann Claus Mayer in the background,

Being a huge fan of Singapore food (and missing it allot), I had been wanting to go here since I heard about it.

There`s a variation of snacks, roti`s, salads, smaller and larger dishes.
All with a "chili system" picturing 1-3 chili`s depending on the fire it`l make in your mouth.

Here is what we ate..



Snack selection:
Prawn crackers that was all right.
 Spiced cashews that where a bit bland but had a nice citrusy taste
 Chickpea fritters with with a lovely herby yoghurt
Chips made from a special leaf/seed from indonesia, wich we weren't to thrilled about, they had a kinda bitter aftertaste.

The waiter forgot our chili crabs, so in comes our hangroast neck of pork, with 5 spice marinade.
To nice chunks of meat, tender and greasy, served with "snot fingers"  aka okra and rice on the side.
Only thing here is were the lack of heat in the marinade.

Finally the Singapore chili craps, in a (from what the menu said) spicy tomato sauce, but it was allot more sweet the spicy.
But other then that a lovely dish, and the extra free bee roti because of the waiters screw up, was lovely to get all that good, crab meaty gravy up.



NAM NAM is different then other places here.
With a real tandori oven, and hanging meat, they try to make it authentic.
Basicly everything was good, the only thing was the lack of spiciness in the dishes,  and because they are pretty rich, it would defiantly do the dishes justice.
To be honest, it`s not like the Singapore taste i remember, and it probably never will be other than the place itself, but its the closest you get here in the North.
Other then the Chili crab mistake, the service a nice and friendly, and with a bill of only 460 with the dishes and an bottle of water, we left full and pretty happy.



torsdag den 1. november 2012

Restaurant cofoco/nose to tail

Having heard allot of good stuff about this restaurant, from former colleagues a friend of mine and me went for dinner at Cofoco.
From what i know, this is the first restaurant this company did, and now they have around 10 restaurants, serving up payable "gourmet light" i think you could call it.

You can go A la carte, ore go on menu`s 4 ore 6 courses.
We went for 4 courses, but instead of taking the "chef`s recommend" we went a la carte on 4 courses.
The price difference is only like 35 kr, and then you get to pick the dishes you like.
We basicly went for the heart attack sounding kinda stuff, nuggets, mushroom toast with bearnaise, sweet breads and brown butter icecream...... so yes this was a heavy night.
Oh yeah and starting out with snacks (mostly deep fried didn`t make it lighter:)
anyway here´s what we went fore.





Snack:
Potato, pork cracklings, and deepfried beef jerkie, almonds, and unripe peach with mayonnaise.
For 45 kr. pr person this was an okay little serving, but nothing out of the ordinary.

Nice bread, with smoked cheese/dill dipping.
The bread was pretty good, nice and tuff wich i like, but both of us really missed some proper butter instead of the cheese dip.
After asking the waiter, we never got an answer back if we could just have some butter.
(maby its a chef`s thing)

Chicken nuggets, and cafè de paris dip, and grilled corn.
Big ass starter, and very hearty. but nice taste, the dipping had to much curry taste, but the nuggets was really good.

Mushroom toast.
Mix of mushrooms, we where told there where chantarelles, but we couldnt find them.
Cep bearnaise hearbs, and croutons.
a nice dish, but as with all dishes this night, lacking just the last element to go from good, to awesome.

Sweetbreads, carrots, pickled beats, cress and egg based sauce.
Good dish, though it would have been really nice if the sweetbreads had maby been salted over night, to get the taste more intense.

Browned butter icecream, crumble and buttermilk sauce.
Unfortunally a pretty boring dessert.
Both taste of buttermilk and browned butter in the ice-cream where none existent.

Well we where pretty full we agreed, and having a couple of beers before this visit, and a bit of bobbles and red wine we didnt need anymore......
Buuuuuuuut being chef`s and not really having that natural stop button you should own in your head and body, we went for a after dinner snack at Nose To Tail.
A chacuteri board of patès of horse, pork aaaaand so on, chicken liver mousse and home made mustard.
Did we need it....no......did our body`s disagree the next day....well yeah.....but was it good......YES indeed!!!!!

The board at nose to tail


So all in all, Cofoco`s a nice place  its pretty cheap and the food is what to expect at the price.
The service friendly (exept for the butter situation).
We ended with a bill round 1200 kr. doing 4 courses, snacks, a glass of bobbles and an okay bottle of red vine.
You cant do that much cheaper in Copenhagen theese days...