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KOKS restaurant


62°08′12″N 7°01′22″W / 62.1367513°N 7.0227216°W / 62.1367513; -7.0227216 KOKS is a restaurant located in Leynavatn, in the Faroe Islands.[1] It offers a 17-course tasting menu and won its first Michelin star in 2017.[2][3] KOKS’ head chef is Poul Andrias Ziska, a 28-year-old chef and native of Tórshavn.[4] The restaurant has nine chefs, each of whom is from a different country, and five waiters. The restaurant serves only 24 customers a night and costs 1700 Danish Krone a person.[5] The Michelin star that KOKS won was the first to be awarded in the Faroes.[4] In addition, they were named the second best restaurant in the Danish kingdom in the White Guide in 2017.[6] The head chef, Ziska, was also awarded as the chef talent of the year, given to one up-and-coming chef under 30.[6]

Koks started in April 2011[7] and was launched by Johannes Jensen who owns 12 restaurants. It started out in the dining room of the Føroyar hotel. The restaurant is only open from April to September.[1] It was located in Kirkjubøur, 11 km south of Tórshavn until 2017, but then moved to Leynavatn located 24 km north of Tórshavn. It was awarded a second Michelin star in February 2019.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 2018-12-18. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  2. ^ Ecott, Tim (2017-03-05). "The Faroe Islands' first Michelin-starred restaurant". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  3. ^ "KOKS". Visit Faroe Islands. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  4. ^ a b Mead, Rebecca (2018-06-11). "Koks, the World's Most Remote Foodie Destination". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  5. ^ "KOKS Restaurant: An Epic Michelin-Star Dining Experience in the Faroe Islands". Compass and Twine. December 18, 2018.
  6. ^ a b "KOKS named second best restaurant in Danish kingdom". faroeislands.fo. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  7. ^ "Take a tour of Koks — the Faroe Islands' first Michelin-starred restaurant". Retrieved 2018-12-18.
  8. ^ KOKS and 5 other great restaurants in the Faroe Islands
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