Category: Faroe Islands

Restaurant KOKS – Føroyar on a Plate

Above all, to me KOKS’ cuisine is pure and totally honest. It’s about presenting the amazing quality of what the Faroese nature produces, and at the same time it’s such a contrast to the rough conditions of the beautiful atlantic islands. Like glimpsing into the soft, delicate soul of a rough, almost brutal creature.

KOKS has managed to sieve and condense the nature and culture of the Faroe Islands into an evening of wonderful flavours, freshness and purity. It’s The Faroe Islands on a plate, but it isn’t dogmatic, it isn’t weird or conceptually local for the sake of local – it’s just honest and wonderful on its own terms.

In a globalised world, you sometimes need to change to preserve. That is to me the essence of what KOKS founder and former chef Leif Sørensen said in that speech at MAD2 back in 2012, and that heritage is more than proudly carried on by Paul Andrias Ziska and his amazing staff at KOKS.

Discovering The Faroe Islands – Skerpi

I first got acquainted with Leif Sørensen when I attended the MAD2 Symposium in 2012. He gave a humble but touching speech called From Nothing Till Something. The speech was about his restaurant and his ambition to change the Faroes’ gastronomic culture, despite of the scepticism among the locals. I just loved this tale of one man having grown up with a cuisine where everything just went into one pot and turning into a highly skilled chef on a mission to change food culture, almost all by himself. Changing the food culture to preserve it, that is – not wiping it out to introduce something from abroad. I was intrigued and knew that day, that I has to visit this restaurant of his.