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Remote repast: Dining at the world's northernmost Michelin restaurant
Housed in a narrow black wooden house, one of the oldest in Greenland, the restaurant can only accommodate about 20 people per service, and experiments with local produce, including whale and seaweed, with fresh produce almost impossible to find in the harsh climate.
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Double-Michelin-starred Faroese chef of KOKS restaurant Poul Andrias Ziska (R) serves Greenlandic halibut with horseradish and dill sauce in the restaurant housed in the Poul Egedes House in Ilimanaq, Greenland, on June 28, 2022. Restaurant Koks, usually housed in the Faroe Islands, where they have been awarded two Michelin stars, moved to Ilimanaq Lodge and is open between June 12 and September 8, 2022 and 2023, serving a tasting menu in the small settlement 300km north of the polar circle, home to 53 permanent residents.
(AFP/Odd Andersen)
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ou can only get there by boat or helicopter, but Michelin-starred chef Poul Andrias Ziska hopes his restaurant in remote Greenland, far above the Arctic Circle, is worth the journey.
The 30-year-old chef relocated his restaurant KOKS from the Faroe Islands in mid-June, leaving behind his relatively accessible address for Ilimanaq, a hamlet of 50 inhabitants hidden behind icebergs on the 69th parallel north.
Housed in a narrow black wooden house, one of the oldest in Greenland, the restaurant can only accommodate about 20 people per service, and experiments with local produce, including whale and seaweed, with fresh produce almost impossible to find in the harsh climate.
"We try to focus on as much Greenlandic products as possible, so everything from Greenland halibut to snow crabs to musk ox to Ptarmigan, different herbs and different berries," the tousled-haired, bearded chef tells AFP.
The young chef previously ran KOKS at home in the remote Faroe Islands, where he won his first star in 2017, his second in 2019, and the title of the world's most isolated Michelin restaurant.
He plans to return there for a permanent installation, but explains he had always wanted to stretch his gastronomical legs in another territory in the far north, like Iceland, Greenland or even Svalbard.
He finally chose Ilimanaq, located an hour's boat trip from Ilulissat, the third-largest town in Greenland and famous for its huge glacier.
