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Both the playlist and much of the menu are spot-on at a new eatery in the city center. So why did I walk away with the feeling it had been a slightly out-of-tune evening?

We finished with a cup of coffee and the best financier I’ve ever tasted

Porre med timian og Thybo-ost var en af aftenens bedste retter. Foto: Loui Pedersen
Porre med timian og Thybo-ost var en af aftenens bedste retter. Foto: Loui Pedersen
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We arrived to R.E.M.’s colossal banger ’Shiny Happy People,’ and I’d completely forgotten what a good mood that song puts you in. From 1991, the dawn of the ’90s, and surely part of the soundtrack to head chef Jonas Mikkelsen’s — born in 1982 — musically formative years.Oversættelsesdisclaimer

Jonas Mikkelsen put Præstø on the gastronomic map when he helped earn Hotel Frederiksminde a Michelin star, and after 15 years in southern Zealand has now moved to Copenhagen with Anders Aagaard (Madklubben) at his back.

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