The Custom House is in the heart of Copenhagen and it accommodates three restaurants. Ebisu, serving traditional Japanese kitchen, Bacino, offering Italian kitchen and Bar & Grill offering Danish/European cuisine.
The exterior of the building that has been formerly a customs or naval office, is restored to original appearance in full retro glow. The renowned English designer Sir Terence Conran designed the interior of all restaurants at Custom House, but frankly speaking, his design is boring for my eyes. It almost reassembles all his previous design I’ve visit, like for example L’Alcazar in Paris.
Anyway, I’ll focus on food and I’ll start right away: this is probably the best Japanese restaurant in Copenhagen I’ve tested, until today.
We went there at 17:45 because this was a dinner before Cinderella ballet (see other post), which means we got them at the opening hour. Of course, we were first guests so it has been bit empty, but fun.
We had Maguro, Umi no sarada, Soft shell crab with wasabi and spicy mayo , Hotataegai (Scallop), some uramaki…
Soft shell crab were great, but aren't they all in these types of places?
This was a turning point: ordinarily good to extraordinarily good, the Hotataegai. So fresh and delicious, with some hints of ocean and eastern flavors.
Uramaki - these dishes almost always bore me... but this was different. Wow.
At about 120€ per person, including beer and sake, I guess it is not very cheap, but it worth it.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 8.6 (out of 10.0)
Custom House
Havnegade 44
1058 København K
The exterior of the building that has been formerly a customs or naval office, is restored to original appearance in full retro glow. The renowned English designer Sir Terence Conran designed the interior of all restaurants at Custom House, but frankly speaking, his design is boring for my eyes. It almost reassembles all his previous design I’ve visit, like for example L’Alcazar in Paris.
Anyway, I’ll focus on food and I’ll start right away: this is probably the best Japanese restaurant in Copenhagen I’ve tested, until today.
We went there at 17:45 because this was a dinner before Cinderella ballet (see other post), which means we got them at the opening hour. Of course, we were first guests so it has been bit empty, but fun.
We had Maguro, Umi no sarada, Soft shell crab with wasabi and spicy mayo , Hotataegai (Scallop), some uramaki…
Soft shell crab were great, but aren't they all in these types of places?
This was a turning point: ordinarily good to extraordinarily good, the Hotataegai. So fresh and delicious, with some hints of ocean and eastern flavors.
Uramaki - these dishes almost always bore me... but this was different. Wow.
At about 120€ per person, including beer and sake, I guess it is not very cheap, but it worth it.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 8.6 (out of 10.0)
Custom House
Havnegade 44
1058 København K
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