Theo — Restaurant in Copenhagen Municipality

We are there for lunch and arrived at 12. We had the 3-course menu but we’re very hungry so thought that we’d also order a snacks to eat while they prepare our starter. It took 40 minutes for them to serve the snacks. If we knew the snacks would delay our starter, we defo wouldn’t have ordered the snacks. The snacks were 75 kr. Per person for 3 snacks: quarter of a cut out lettuce (hjertesalat) with some sauce and crumble on top (not impressed at all), 1 tiny piece (around 5 cm in length) of fried mushroom (østershatte) each (ok but too little) and some good tasting fresh olives (this was nice). They were served on the table so I asked for a plate and were told they were supposed to be finger foods. I would have a hard time eating the quarter lettuce by hand and we got the plates we asked for. When taking them away the waiter commented that I should have left the olive pits in the empty cup and not the plate. Well, we had some olives left and I would have put it in the cup anyway after he took away my plate. Around 1 hour after arrival we got our starters. My fiancé ordered the normal menu and I ordered the vegetarian. He was satisfied with his Tatar but he’s had better. I had a piece of potato (I think they called it panisse) with some sauce and chopped pickles on. It tastes as it sounds. Just that not nothing impressive at all. The bread (ølandsbrød) was good. After another long wait, we got our main. My fiancé got the fish of proper size and very good taste but only two pieces of asparagus on the side - not potato or anything else that could fill him up a bit more. My risotto was over cooked. Not al dente at all. And I had to ask for salt (I know it’s rude but I had to be able to eat the dish). The dessert, we didn’t wait that long. My fiancé got a strawberry sorbet on white chocolate - very fresh and delicious. I had a “mazarin” cake with chocolate sorbet, caramel sauce and passion fruit sauce. It was nice but I’m not a big fan of mazarin but that’s not their problem obviously. In total, 1 hour and 40 mins after, we were out of the restaurant. Luckily I bought coupons so got the menus half price. Still, 500+ kr. for 2 people for lunch (I got an extra dessert somewhere else afterwards and my fiancé went to 7eleven and a bakery), plus the crazy waiting time, I’d rather have grabbed a nice solid lunch somewhere else for at least half the price. I forgot to take a picture...

Picked Theo for my mom and I to have lunch on a girls out day. We got the three course lunchh deal, and maximized the tast experience by ordering different main and dessert couses and then sharing. The appettizer was great - jerusalen artichokes with pickled onion and some sort of creamy sauce with wild garlic. The accompanying bread, baked fresh, and sprinkled with herby oil was incredible. The entre was fried cod with spinach and asparagus or a steak with pommes Anne - and both were both just awesome and positively delicious. The desserts were a mazarin cake with pistachio icecream and white chocolate mousse with rhubarb sorbet. Dessert is not really my favorite thing, and the second dessert contained tarragon, which I dislike intensely, but they were both very well executed, and I was able to enjoy it for what is was supposed to be. We also tried the juice menu, with interesting additions of herbs, e.g. basil, dill, lemon verbena, all of which shone through and was fun to try. The room is a bit sterile, not as fancy as I was expecting and rather dwn to earth. However, I did not find it cozy either. Maybe some would find it soothing it´n its simplicity, but the space didn't really do it for me. Staff was friendly and knowledgeble, and they provided a great service. I was impressed by the number of people manning the kitchen, definitely goes to show that good food does not make itself. Overall, Theo struck me as a place and space that anyone would feel comfortable visitiing, and the food is inviting, interesting, but not so odd (as can sometimes happen with an ambitious chef) that you are eating something that may be eaten, even though it is questionable if you should. I would absolutely...

Today we decided to get a 4-meal lunch menu at restaurant Theo. We had vouchers from special.dk which is a website with many good deals for restaurants in Copenhagen. I would love nothing more than to rate Theo higher, because the staff was lovely, the food was delicious and the simple Scandinavian decor of the place is pleasant (although it's a bit too warm inside while only 22 degrees outside), but unfortunately the vegetarian option of the menu was disappointing compared to the pescatarian counterpart.

The first two dishes and the dessert were the same for meat eaters and vegetarians alike, and they were really tasty! The young potatoes with grilled spring onions, pickled white asparagus and elderflower sauce were paired with spectacular wheat bread from Kornby Mølle with garlic and thyme and all that was super delicious! Same goes for a small but delicious dessert (blackcurrant sorbet with white chocolate).

But unfortunately, while the pan-seared white fish (hake) was paired with some greens (cabbage and spinach), roasted fish bones sauce and a side of potato puree with pickled mushrooms (which my parents complimented to be very tasty, especially the delicate fish), my vegetarian option contained just enoki mushrooms topped with some pickled beech mushrooms and a Vesterhavs cheese sauce. It was tasty, but it was small in comparison and just not at all varied in ingredients like the other dish. There was no protein source and there were only mushrooms in a sauce.

I would have hoped that a lovely and well-regarded restaurant like Theo would do a bit of a better job accommodating to people who...