MELVÆRK — Restaurant in Aarhus Municipality

Another pizza place I visited in Denmark - still: It's hard to judge any pizza place since I make "my" perfect pizza at home. But I'd like to try.

A small hassle was it to find the place. It's located in Risskov, Aarhus. The easiest is to follow google and park the car at Meny and take the stairs. A small irritation is that the restaurant has no own parking lots - so 1 hour free parking on the Meny parking lot is all you got. Alternatively you drive past Menu, take the next to the right and follow the one way road, 1 level up and park your car beside the restaurant.

The place is very new! While we (2 grown ups, 4 kids [9, 13, 14 and 16 years]) went there, the restaurant had open in its 3rd week. Somehow you could sense that - the team seemed not yet fully organized and our waiter left the impression in us of being a bit nervous.

Regardless, we ordered some pizzas and beverages. After a short misunderstanding - we ordered San Pellegrino but got Pino Grigio ;) our food arrived and what to say? By far the best I have had in DK / Aarhus so far.

The crust was huge and fluffy, but somehow like bread inside. A small pinch of yeast in the nose, not much, but you could smell it. From the bread-alike dough I would guess tops 24h fermentation or even less. To be honest I expected huge air pockets at first while seeing those huge crusts. But important - the taste was nice!

We had two "queens", 1 with additional cotto, the other one with not spicy salami. 2 potato potato's, 1 "no name" and I took the "hot spot". Lovely sorts they created. The padron were a bit spicy and added good acidity to the pizza. A bit too much water/oil on top, but in general a great pizza! This read salsa was amazing, nduja maybe - oh, it's meat :D but awesome :)

So where does that leave us? By far the best pizza I had so far (Surdejs pizzaria and Pizza Propria are named as references) in Aarhus. I hope this place will manage to establish itself in Aarhus. The location is ok, but a bit far away from the "main area".

positive: delicious pizza

negative: no own parking lots a little nervous (caused by the young team) yeast is used (why not sourdough?) crust has no big airpockets and...

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Absolutely Terrible! Overpriced Scam!

The pizza was completely burnt from the bottom!

I called the waitress and she said that she has to call the "boss" to discuss what to do and get !!

40 minutes later she never came back until I went to pay and leave!

To make the situation worse they decided to charge me 100 DKK for a pitcher of Tap water and the racist excuse is " we are Denmark".

The owner, Nadia seems to be a rude aggressive woman that invests in insulting and picking arguments on the reviews rather than fixing the absolute disasters in the so called...