03-09-2013
Anita Klemensen, a chef originally from Jutland is now at the helm of Den Røde Cottage in Klampenborg, close to Copenhagen, in Denmark, tel. +45.39904614, 1 Michelin star (photo politiken.dk)
Leather jacket, blonde hair tied in a pony tail and a determined attitude. Upon first meeting Anita Klemensen we have some doubt she is indeed a chef, in fact one with a brand new Michelin star conquered last year. She looks more like a young amazon, ready to jump on a Harley-Davidson and zip through the roads of the Danish capital.
You can easily reach her restaurant in the centre of Copenhagen with a trip on the urban underground that starts from the city centre. You get off at Klampenborg, walk half a kilometre and then come cross a yellow cottage called Den Gule Cottage. This is not in fact the restaurant itself, but a nice bistro-cafeteria, also owned by Anita and her business partner, chef Lars Thomsen, and it is on the edge of a park in which you have to go to get to the red cottage (Den Røde Cottage, that is to say) which is the gourmet restaurant. The location is unforgettable, perfect for a bucolic and relaxing break (even a romantic one, if you’re in good company) surrounded by nature and her clearly feminine touch, with a Nordic approach and an inclination for smoking processes that emerges in the menu together with that for desserts, the latter being the true passion of this chef originally from Jutland.
Anita and chef Lars Thomsen
Dessert Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate
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