kōnā & Slurp Ramen — Restaurant in Copenhagen Municipality

The reservation is easy to make online. The restaurant is very digital, with QR code and there you basically order online your dishes and pay online too. There is however still possibility of paying by cash, only if you have the exact amount.

Our waiter from Croatian was lovely and definitely made our night. He was friendly in a sincere way and showed up at the right time, not intruding in our evening.

The atmosphere of the restaurant is great, however the high chairs aren't the most comfortable to sit. With the concept of an izakaya, I hoped for more comfortable seating as you are supposed to drink and eat and so on until the next day comes.

The dishes are average price for Copenhagen, but portions are small, izakaya style yet, but I still think it should be parallel to the price. Best dish was the cod dish. Delicate, lovely harmony with the microgreens. There is smoked oil in there, but honestly I couldn't detect much smoke aroma there. However, still delicious and recommended.

Other more traditional Japanese dishes are a bit disappointing. The karaage was not crunchy. It was freshly fried, yes, but felt soft and hard at the same time. Oil was too cold? Batter mixture has too much starch in it? The flavor of the chicken is ginger-y and tasty, but I hoped for more crispy chicken.

The sando has amazingly fried pork! But sauce was too little, caggabe is not cripsy (too old or wrong type?), and the sandwich bread should be cut thicker.

The peppers was fresh and nicely grilled. Oddly they pair pretty well with fresh dill. But for its price, I'm not sure if it was worth it.

The Japanese Mayonnaise was homemade, but overpowering creamy and lacks salt and umami. Same for the Wasabi mayo, too creamy and too subtle in flavor. They both don't compliment the dishes they come with.

I really wanted to visit kōnā because of the profile of the chef (female, 5 years in Noma, 2 years in Japan) and was honestly expecting a bit too much about this restaurant. So most probably I was disappointed due to my own...

The food is ok, but very overpriced for what it is. However, anything positive about the food is massively outweighed by the awful service. Disengaged staff with little interest in the food they served, e.g. questions about menu items responded to with "its a Japanese sandwich with Japanese sauce". Staff where doggedly unhelpful, e.g. when asking for a drink to have while reading the menu I was directed to QR code for the menu and staff then insisted I order and pay via their website despite the bar being 5 meters away, followed by a refusal to bring the drink until the food was ready, mostly driven it seemed by a need to mess around with their phone as opposed to serving customers. All food must be ordered via their website and payed for using Google pay, no chance to simply speak to staff and order food, a peculiar choice for a restaurant and its defense as a cool and hipster way to dine is simply laughable. All in all an impressively awful experience, we ended up leaving and going to another restaurant around the corner where we were the third couple to flee Kona...

Kona is - without a doubt - one of the best japanese restaurants in cph. Their karaage is absolutely divine - the crispiness was simply out of this world. It's hard to say if we just had a lucky batch, but it's definitely worth trying.

Another dish I would recommend is the squid noodles with chicken heart pate - a quite unique and interesting combination. The sashimi was also exceptional, fresh and high-quality fish. The katsu sando was another standout dish, it had juicy and delicious flavors! Just yummy!!!

However, there were a couple of areas where Kona fell short. Their "kimchi" was a bit of a letdown, as it tasted more like fermented cabbage rather than authentic Korean kimchi. Additionally, the grilled aubergine with scallion and sesame ginger dressing was just okay, not quite living up to the high standards set by the other dishes.

The overall experience was fantastic and the restaurant's interior design truly added to the ambiance. Kona is a great place to dine in and is highly recommended for anyone seeking an authentic and delicious japanese dining...