Kong Hans Kælder

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Kong Hans Kælder is a one Michelin star restaurant in Copenhagen, Denmark. The cuisine is mainly classical French with contemporary Nordic influences. The head chef is Thomas Rode Andersen.[1]

The restaurant is located in a white-washed, groin vaulted basement under one of the oldest houses in Copenhagen, a former merchant's residence from the Middle Ages, in a small street just off Kongens Nytorv. Kong Hans Kælder translates into King John's cellar.

History

Kong Hans Kælder was established in Copenhagen in 1976 by filmmakers and culinary entrepreneurs Sven and Lene Grønlykke, with Danish author Klaus Rifbjerg as an investor. It was the first French-style gourmet restaurant in Copenhagen and drew considerable media attention at its opening.[2] The first head chef was French Michel Michaud, until then head chef of one of the Grønlycke family's other establishments, Falsled Kro in the southern part of the island of Funen. In 1980, the kitchen was taken over by another Frenchman, Daniel Letz, under whom the restaurant received its first Michelin star in 1983 which it has kept since then. In 1998, Thomas Rode Andersen replaced Letz as head chef of Kong Hans Kælder.

References

  1. ↑ "Kong Hans Kælder". AOK. Retrieved 2010-04-29. 
  2. ↑ "Historien bag Kong Hans' Kælder". AOK. Retrieved 2010-04-29. 

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Coordinates: 55°40′44″N 12°35′03″E / 55.6788°N 12.5841°E / 55.6788; 12.5841

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