In my last post I covered a few places where I enjoyed eating vegan food during my trip to copenhagen. I will review a few more in this one.

Urten

Lately I’ve been reading Meik Wiking’s The Little Book of Hygge. Hygge is a word closely related to coziness or homely in English, but not exactly, just like many other culture-specific words, which are not easy to translate. Although we in Sweden are not short of having “hygge” in our life, it is the Danish who make the lifestyle and philosophy more well known internationally, and perhaps, like it’s said by Meik in the book, it is because they talk more often about it.

Urten, in my opinion, is one of those little restaurants that have a strong hyggeligt atmophere. Wooden table, cozy corners with cushions, nice warm light, cute plants hanging everywhere, in the charming old town setting.

We ordered an appetizer which was presented on a beautiful black slate, with fresh new potato, tomato and herbal mayonnaise, sunflower seed paste with cucumber, and green pea paste with crispy rye bread and pumpkin seeds on the top.

For main courses we tried green fettuccine, immersed in basil and seed paste, with leek, carrot and dill as topping. I really loved the pasta, although I think the topping needs a bit work. Perhaps this isn’t the original intention, as when we were eating there they got super busy, perhaps they just made a temporary simplified version?

We also tried the lasagna with the salads. It didn’t look amazing, but I assure you that it tasted so good! We absolutely enjoyed that. Salads are good enough, and I particularly liked the seaweed ones. I tried it for the first time when I was visiting Malmö 4 years ago one summer and fell in love with it. I haven’t gotten chance to try it that often.

For dessert we took the red berry “cheesefake”. It tasted good and I especially like the chocolate with dried raspberry decoration. However I did hope they had removed the shredded apple from the dish, as visually and flavor-wise it didn’t mix well with the whole dish.

Urten is definitely a nice place to have your dinner. The food is good and the place cozy. If the presentation could be refined that’ll be almost perfect. I suggest that you book a table ahead if you know your schedule. Sometimes they could get a bit busy and serving process might be delayed. We waited longer for our dessert for instance, but the place was so nice we didn’t mind at all.

• Address: Larsbjørnsstræde 18, 1454 København K, Denmark
• Website: https://www.urtenvegan.dk/

42 Degrees Raw

42 Degrees Raw is located right in the heart of the town, opposite of the HAY design store. They do have other two stores although we didn't get to try those this time.

The interior is simple, modern and clean. Long wooden table and benches, with warm lights hanging in the middle. It reminds me of some small cozy cafe on campus. Even it uses “raw” in its name, this is not a hardcore raw food place. As I said before, I actually appreciate food that embraces high-raw concept, with high proportion of raw food, but without excluding the other ingredients which have to undergone cooking process for better human digestion.

We ordered three different types of salads, almost all featuring red quinoa. It was tasty, however it wasn’t something special. I wish there would be more characteristics of each salads.

We also tried one of the burgers. It tasted good, but overall a little plain… as I couldn’t remember the impression by now.

Overall, we like the simplicity of the place, but didn’t get chance to try more of their other dishes. It is a nice place to hang out, rest a little, eat a bit, especially when you’re tired strolling around the stores nearby. We would love to go back again some time, and hopefully next time get to eat something amazing, especially those beautiful and tantalizing breakfast bowls on the wall!

• Address: Pilestræde 32, 1112 København K, Denmark
• Website: https://www.42raw.com/