This address has housed a series of cafés/bars, and currently the sign above the door reads Smeralda. I believe it read Zorro about half a year ago when I last dropped in.
Anyway, today I went for brunch and found that it wasn't anything to write home about - so I'll write here instead :-P
Our orders were taken and our coffee and cold drinks arrived swiftly, and we only had to wait a short while longer for our brunch. We were halfway through the platter, though, before the bread arrived, along with an apology about having forgotten to bring it - what distracted them I don't know, since there were only three or four other guests around, including those outside.
On the plate was a crepe, two types of cheese, scrambled eggs, bacon, fried mini sausages, one slice each of cured ham and two kinds of salami, an olive, capers, semi-dried tomatoes, a piece of pickled artichoke, a baby pepper stuffed with a mini ball of mozzarella, two slices of orange, a slice of melon and one of pineapple. In addition, there would have been a glass of yoghurt if we hadn't seen it on some other guests plate and asked them to leave it out - no point in wasting food when my partner in crime had already had her yoghurt this morning and I tend to not eat it anyway.
On the side were two small bowls, one containing more butter than you can shake a fist at, the other maple syrup for the pancakes. And as mentioned above we also had bread at some point.
Anyway, the coffee was average. Not bad, no off flavours, but also nothing that set it apart from any other mediocre cup of espresso. Kind of like the Nespresso machine we have at the office, except I like some of the varieties of Nespresso better.
The brunch platter didn't fare much better. Some of the things on the plate looked a little dry along one or more edges, like they'd been cut too long ago and left waiting. The mini sausages were bland - I'm guessing cheapest brand they could find. Cold cuts clearly pre-sliced from a flat pack, giving most of the whichever flavour it may have had plenty of time to vanish into thin air, and again I'm guessing cheapest brand available. That actually goes for pretty much everything that was on the plate.
Of course there's nothing wrong with cheap, and at DKK 79,- for a brunch platter you shouldn't expect outstanding quality, but for me going out for brunch is as much about having a nice treat as it is about having someone else take care of the logistics - and while we could leave the plates on the table and walk out the door and not worry about those the food itself didn't really feel like a treat. read more
