SAFARI — Restaurant in Copenhagen Municipality

Not a good experience! Felt like a scam.

I went to Safari with my colleagues one evening to enjoy good food and wine in great company. Unfortunately, the food was really disappointing.

We ordered the 5-course menu, but it honestly felt like a scam. The first three courses were just small snacks—one of them was literally bread with oil—and then we had two other small dishes that weren’t very flavorful. The dessert wasn’t even included in the 5-course menu; you had to pay extra for the chocolate ice cream.

For the two main dishes, the choices were tartare or octopus and pasta with cheese or sausage with polenta. I got the tartare, which was okay but nothing special, and the pasta with cheese, which was honestly terrible. I couldn’t finish it because I just didn’t like it. The texture of the cheese was unappetizing, and despite being labeled as quattro formaggi, it just tasted mostly like gorgonzola. My colleagues who got the octopus said it was really bad, and the sausage was just mediocre.

We also asked for a wine pairing, but no one knew anything about wine. Instead, they just placed six random bottles on the table and told us we could drink from those—not exactly what you expect from a pairing.

For dessert, I ended up ordering the chocolate ice cream with salt and olive oil, which was delicious, but it’s still ridiculous that it wasn’t included in the 5-course menu.

When I finished my pasta, I actually expected a proper main course, because I couldn’t believe that the meal was already over. What they advertise as five courses is really just two small dishes with some starter snacks.

Don’t fall for this scam.

The restaurant is cozy and our waitress was super nice and did what she could to make it a nice experience. But I'm not...

When we first got there it seemed like a cool place with a chill atmosphere. We started noticing pretty quickly that the staff weren’t that attentive, but we just put our empty glasses and plates on the empty table beside us. The food was really good, besides the fettuccine that tasted like the the whole salt box had been dropped into it. Since the pasta was so bad and we couldn’t even have a whole bite of it, we asked the waitress if they may perhaps remove it from our bill. She immidiately said it was impossible. When we asked again she went to go get her boss. And WOW, I have never had such an aggressive and unpleasant experience with someone working at a restaurant in my entire life. He was clearly mad at us for disliking the food, and said that it’s not his problem that we don’t like the food, refusing to take the dish off our bill. He was swearing and making me and my boyfriend really uncomfortable (a bit ironic given that they state at the top of their menu that ”this is a safe space”). When we stood our ground and said that we still would like the dish removed from our bill, he finally agreed, still aggressive. We left the restaurant quite shocked. I hope that the people at Safari take their time to read this and go educate themselves in some basic 101 service skills that most people learned at their first summer café job back when they were 14. This was exeptionally...

I had the pleasure of dining at Safari this past Saturday and it was overall a good experience. The food was great, with the romesco standing out as a particular highlight. We also enjoy the natural Bulgarian wine.

However, there was a slight misstep with the tiramisu. It seemed they had forgotten to moisten the cookie with coffee liquor, resulting in a drier texture than one would expect from this classic dessert. A minor tweak in this area could elevate the dessert to the next level.

Another aspect that could use some attention is the music volume. At certain points during the evening, the music was extremely loud, which was a bit disruptive to the otherwise pleasant ambiance.

Despite these minor issues, the overall experience was positive and...