Currently holding the rank of second-best on the world’s 50 Best Restaurants list, Copenhagen-based restaurant Geranium recently announced that it will be ditching all meat from its menu starting January 2022.
Geranium is led by Rasmus Kofoed, who is the very first chef in Denmark to earn three MICHELIN stars.
Although meat will no longer be on the menu, seafood still remains. Denmark is a peninsula with over 7,400 km of coastline. The Nordic country is also the fifth largest exporter of fish in the world.
“My kitchen at Geranium has long been focused on vegetables, fish & shellfish as the star on the plate, with small quantities of meat. The menu is a reflection of me, of who I am & how I am evolving as a chef & as a human being,” says Kofoed. “I haven’t been eating meat for the last 5 years at home, so to no longer use meat on the new menu was a logical decision & a natural progression for Geranium.”
“I see it as a challenge to create new dishes which celebrate seafood from the pristine waters & vegetables from local, organic/bio-dynamic farms which thrive here in Denmark & in Scandinavia,” adds the Danish chef. “From my perspective, change is good, we grow from it, we learn from it, we step out of our comfort zone & often we benefit from it.”
All images in this article are courtesy of Geranium.
