Alchemist, , Copenhagen: Food for Thought, and Some of These Thoughts are Quite Mixed.
Alchemist, **, Copenhagen: Food for Thought, and Some of These Thoughts are Quite Mixed.
by Prestigious_Ad3909
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First of all, this was an experience that had a lot more information to deal with compare to other fine dining restaurants.
The most unique quality, or the selling point of Alchemist is combining food with art, social topics and science. This is also my biggest criticism of the experience, the food itself was rather uninteresting compare to the presentation and the concepts behind it. Most of the impressions that I had in the main dining room left me wanting more. The innovation of the food was not matched with the innovation of the concepts. For example, there was an impression that resembles plastic waste in the ocean; what did it actually taste like? Fried fish, a quite plain one, too.
My favorite impression was the dessert that resembles The Scream painting. I thought that it actually incorporated the concepts into the flavors of the dish. The impression demonstrates “synesthesia”, a symptom that allows you to taste colours. The orange part of the dessert tasted like orange (the fruit), while the blue part tasted like ocean. As I worked my way to the top as instructed, I was hit by intense acidity that you could say was almost “screamingly” sour. I just wish most of the impressions had an interesting flavor profile like this one.
Overall, I would still say that Alchemist is very much worth going for the sheer creativity and the grand scope. It was the most ambitious restaurant I’ve ever been to. The ambition also opened up rooms of criticism that are reserved for more than just food. Some of the concepts felt hollow; the restaurant’s critique on the morality and the sustainability of the sourcing of the ingredients goes against the very existence of the fine dining industry.
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First of all, this was an experience that had a lot more information to deal with compare to other fine dining restaurants.
The most unique quality, or the selling point of Alchemist is combining food with art, social topics and science. This is also my biggest criticism of the experience, the food itself was rather uninteresting compare to the presentation and the concepts behind it. Most of the impressions that I had in the main dining room left me wanting more. The innovation of the food was not matched with the innovation of the concepts. For example, there was an impression that resembles plastic waste in the ocean; what did it actually taste like? Fried fish, a quite plain one, too.
My favorite impression was the dessert that resembles The Scream painting. I thought that it actually incorporated the concepts into the flavors of the dish. The impression demonstrates “synesthesia”, a symptom that allows you to taste colours. The orange part of the dessert tasted like orange (the fruit), while the blue part tasted like ocean. As I worked my way to the top as instructed, I was hit by intense acidity that you could say was almost “screamingly” sour. I just wish most of the impressions had an interesting flavor profile like this one.
Overall, I would still say that Alchemist is very much worth going for the sheer creativity and the grand scope. It was the most ambitious restaurant I’ve ever been to. The ambition also opened up rooms of criticism that are reserved for more than just food. Some of the concepts felt hollow; the restaurant’s critique on the morality and the sustainability of the sourcing of the ingredients goes against the very existence of the fine dining industry.