ICELANDIC TIMES - Land og saga
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New Nordic Kitchen at it´s Best!<br />
Exciting and Delicious<br />
DILL restaurant offers meat, fish,<br />
vegetables and wild herbs from the<br />
Icelandic nature in a completely<br />
new way. While finding the Nordic<br />
culinary roots the result is exciting<br />
and delicious.<br />
Recently the New Nordic Kitchen<br />
has proven to be the biggest thing of<br />
the culinary world, recent award for<br />
NOMA restaurant of Copenhagen<br />
proves that. Two of the pioneers of the<br />
New Nordic Kitchen in Iceland , Chef<br />
Gunnar Karl Gíslason and Sommelier<br />
Ólafur Örn Ólafsson opened DILL<br />
restaurant in 2009 and have since<br />
then had rave reviews. They were<br />
chosen Iceland´s restaurant of the<br />
year and nominated as one of the best<br />
restaurants in the Nordic Countries.<br />
The restaurant offers dishes of meat,<br />
fish, vegetables and wild herbs from<br />
the Icelandic nature. The owners are<br />
nature lovers who want to know the<br />
origins of their ingredients. Being able<br />
to collect herbs and seeweed from<br />
the Icelandic wilderness, mountains<br />
and seaside and select raw material<br />
from the farmed or planted they<br />
will always go for organic if possible.<br />
The Kitchen at DILL restaurant uses<br />
modern technol<strong>og</strong>y and creativity to<br />
make the diners’ experience unique<br />
using familiar flavours in new and<br />
surprising ways.<br />
Seasonal menu<br />
“The difference between our<br />
restaurant and other New Nordic<br />
Restaurants is that we get our<br />
ingredients from surrounding<br />
communities here in Iceland. We<br />
believe that food shouldn´t travel so<br />
we don’t want ingredients that have<br />
been transported from a far. We like<br />
to use the nature around us and the<br />
farmers we know are offering the most<br />
beautiful and most fresh ingredients<br />
in the world,” owner Ólafur Örn<br />
Ólafsson says passionately.<br />
“Sometimes we use traditional cooking<br />
methods, e.g. the smoking and try to<br />
make something new and exciting out<br />
of it. We have for example developed<br />
courses using spruce and Icelandic<br />
birch. We love to experiment with the<br />
ingredients you can find in the nature<br />
whether we burn them or use them<br />
fresh,” he says.<br />
The Dill menu is seasonal. Every<br />
week the owners arrange a new<br />
seven-course tasting menu with a<br />
wine menu to match each course.<br />
“We like vegetables, so from spring<br />
to autumn you will find a lot of<br />
lovely fresh vegetables on our menu<br />
accompanied with the fish or meat of<br />
the season,” Ólafur says. “When the<br />
hunting season starts our menu fills<br />
up with lovely Icelandic game such as<br />
Reindeer, geese and ducks .“<br />
Informal and laid back<br />
While DILL restaurant is rated among<br />
the finest in Iceland, even in the<br />
Nordic Countries, the atmosphere is<br />
intimate and laid back. The restaurant<br />
is appropriately located in the Nordic<br />
House, a cultural house that was<br />
designed by the famous Finnish<br />
architect Alvar Aalto. All the design<br />
of the restaurant is Nordic, the lamps<br />
and furniture are original design by<br />
Aalto. The rest, “everything from the<br />
beautiful Royal Copenhagen China,<br />
to the chefs’ jackets is Nordic Design.<br />
We want to go all the way in being<br />
Nordic,” Ólafur explains.<br />
For lunch guests have a chance to<br />
sample the DILL style of cooking in a<br />
more rustic style, traditional Icelandic<br />
dishes, such as “plokkfiskur” get a New<br />
Nordic face lift, served in clay pots on<br />
the tables.<br />
“We believe that food shouldn´t travel so<br />
we don’t want ingredients that have been<br />
transported from afar.“ Photos: Ingo<br />
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