Kiin Kiin Copenhagen

Awards

MICHELIN Guide

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OAD

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Restaurant Ranking

Restaurant Ranking 2024, #1502, PRO #17.00, USER #0.00

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Chef

Henrik Yde Andersen

Cuisine

Thai, Contemporary

• 2020
• 2018

7 / 10

Dinner at Kiin Kiin

on 29 Jun 2020

by Kristian Mortensen

Kiin Kiin second (or third) time.
Once again we found ourselves at the theater menu at kiin kiin, this time around it was more a spontaneous act rather then planned. We had work the following day, so we took the champagne starter (Like in supersize me, where he never said no to the supersize menu, we never say no to the champagne starter) but I only had a beer, and my wife a glass of wine, since it was a work day the next day.
The food was again, good, but surprisingly the same menu as two years... More

Kiin Kiin second (or third) time.
Once again we found ourselves at the theater menu at kiin kiin, this time around it was more a spontaneous act rather then planned. We had work the following day, so we took the champagne starter (Like in supersize me, where he never said no to the supersize menu, we never say no to the champagne starter) but I only had a beer, and my wife a glass of wine, since it was a work day the next day.
The food was again, good, but surprisingly the same menu as two years prior. And we became aware that there was not a lot of fresh produce in the products. It was still very good, just an observation.
Will come back, we still owe ourselves the full menu.

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7 / 10

Lunch at Kiin Kiin

on 25 Jun 2018

by Kristian Mortensen

Kiin Kiin
Henrik Yde and Lertchai Treetawatchaiwong opened Kiin Kiin in 2005, they received their first Michelin star in 2008, and they have held that until this day. As far as I remember they are the only Thai restaurant outside of Thailand that have held a star and actually at one time where the only Thai restaurant in the world with a star. Today Kiin Kiin is a chain of restaurant, with Kiin Kiin as the flagship, they have one in Bangkok and have delivered gourmet meals for Thai airways.
I am... More

Kiin Kiin
Henrik Yde and Lertchai Treetawatchaiwong opened Kiin Kiin in 2005, they received their first Michelin star in 2008, and they have held that until this day. As far as I remember they are the only Thai restaurant outside of Thailand that have held a star and actually at one time where the only Thai restaurant in the world with a star. Today Kiin Kiin is a chain of restaurant, with Kiin Kiin as the flagship, they have one in Bangkok and have delivered gourmet meals for Thai airways.
I am unsure if this is the first time we ate at Kiin Kiin, I actually think we have had one time before, I just can’t find any info on it anywhere.
Back in 2005 when they where situated in Nørrebro, the area was not gentrified, so it was a troubled area with drug dealers in the street, and the restaurant was placed in an old hash-club, Henrik told us on the way out of the restaurant (incidentally, first time I was at Relæ, with collegues from London, one of our colleagues said what fresh young men that stood outside the restaurant, little did he know they were gang-deals, that area is now gentrified as well)
We had the theater dinner this friday afternoon, and was surprised on the level of quality delivered to us, a cheap meal, but quite fulfilling. The next time we came we realized that the meal was almost identical, and that much of the dishes was not a la minute, but could be prepared in advance and easily be made in large quantities.
The eating experience was split into two, first in the lounge area downstairs and then led up into the dinning room.
Copenhagen in 2018 was a very New Nordic wave, and to be honest I was getting sick of tartar on dairy cow and asparagus with foam – every midrange and quite a lot of the one stars had that menu. So getting an experience with both a bit of food magic and different flavors was a welcome experience indeed. I have never been in Thailand, but ordered a million take away meals, and the flavors was recognizable, but the plating and preparations had a very different approach, and even provocative. The starter, a chicken stick, smoked in scooter engine smoke (or so they said) – the curry ice was quite good, and interesting.
We opted for the none alcoholic and beer to the food, which fitted quite nice (all though the non-alcohol drinks were quite sweet, almost sodas)
A very good experience, which we did again, and will do again, and we have eaten at their sister restaurant, quite a lot of times.
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