Lotus — Restaurant in Aarhus Municipality

First restaurant experience in Aarhus and i‘m really disappointed. If i could, i would give 0 stars. Starting with the smell in the restaurant, which was the first negative thing i noticed. Next thing, the service. Only positive aspect, we immediately got a seating table, which was expectable because there were only two other customers. We had to wait 1 1/2 hours for the food, which usually doesn’t take that much time when doing it by yourself (once again the restaurant wasn’t full of guests). In addition to that i had the feeling that the food made for takeaway was preferred by the cooks. the delivery people were running through the door every 2-3 minutes while we were still waiting for our food, which also worsen the atmosphere in the restaurant. Furthermore we went to the staff several times to ask if the food was ready but didn’t quite get an answer. Last but not least we cancelled our last dish which was supposed to be an appetizer after our main dish arrived. The food itself tasted ok, not excellent, but edible. All in all i wouldn’t recommend you to go there, maybe takeaway is better or try other vietnamese...

Visited today... Apr 2023. The same old dependable Vietnames restaurant in Aarhus.

Found a really tasty (total understatement) dish at Lotus - H28, Pork and Duck over rice. Pork as perfectly flavored with mild infusion of fragrant leafy vegetables (I am guessing basil, mint, etc.). The duck was crispy outside and tender inside. Amazing! The two sauces (guessing, diluted fish sauce with vinegar and some sweetener and diluted hot oil and soy sauce, likely other flavors) were also amazing, goes perfectly with the meat! Try it as a wrap with the leafy vegetable with one or both sauce! This dish deserves more than 5 stars! Will definitely back for more!

Authentic Vietname taste! Fresh summer rolls with slightly tangy and lingering spicy flavor (mix the sauce to cause lingering spiciness of the red spicy sriracha). Pho has clean beef flavor (without MSG, I think), which can use a bit more fish sauce. The sautéed dish from self selected ingredients is also good - pictured is oyster sauce. Anyway, recommended for good Vietnames...

Just one BIG mistake.

I thought that it would be possible to eat decent Chinese food in Aarhus, well I was wrong, very wrong. We tried the restaurant at Klosterport called: LOTUS. Dim sum, steamed dumplings, have tried them in various places in Europe with great results, the most amazing were in London. They were a disaster, the dough was like a chewing gum, the inside (pork and other) was tasteless. We ordered 3 types. All 3 were tasteless and chewy. After that we decided to not order anything else. Wait, the beer was actually excellent! (no way they could mess that up). I really wonder how people can order the buffet, who knows what culinary abominations lie beneath. Don't want to know.

My greatest relief was that we did not get sick from it, so if you think positive it was an excellent experience. The service was also very good.

Highly...