Description
Bright and airy by day and filled with ascetic-but-stylish Danish Moderne furniture, Aamans-Copenhagen seems less comfortable as a dinner destination than as a place to grab a snack and glass of aquavit. This house-infused spirit based on vodka comes in such unexpected flavors as parsley, beets, and toasted rye bread. You’re supposed to knock the shots back with a single gulp, but they’re really better sipped.
The place is the first branch of an innovative Danish restaurant specializing in smorrebrod – tiny open-faced sandwiches on the aforementioned rye bread, which is made twice daily at the restaurant and is spectacular. Best toppings – arranged on the bread like small colorful sculptures – include a brilliant pink beef tartare poked with pickles, capers, and micro-potato-chips; and a pork pate studded with hazelnuts and laced with aquavit. The menu offers a wonderful trio of pickled herring, too, but the soups and other miscellaneous dishes can’t quite live up to the incredible smorrebrod.
