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The new all-day restaurant on Århusgade has only been open about a month, but it already feels like an Østerbro institution.

I kept asking the waiter: how can something this simple taste so good?

A tower of ham and crisps was the kind of snack you just couldn’t stop eating. Foto: Miriam Dalsgaard
A tower of ham and crisps was the kind of snack you just couldn’t stop eating. Foto: Miriam Dalsgaard

We flipped out over the butter. And had to repeatedly ask the waiter if it could really be true that something so relatively simple could taste so good:

Yeast – the kind that costs a few kroner at the supermarket – is crumbled onto a baking sheet, baked until it almost burns, mixed with melted butter, and then chilled. The taste is like the smell of freshly baked bread: inviting, encouraging, friendly.

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