C.i are people predisposed to the most remote places on earth. One of them is Poul Andrias Ziska, chef of the two Michelin Star Koks, recognized as the “most remote starred restaurant in the world”. In fact, Ziska has opened her restaurant in Leymar, a village of 250 inhabitants on the Faroe Islands in the heart of the North Atlantic. But her adventure doesn’t stop there. For summer 2022 Edge will open a new restaurant in Ilimanaq, Greenland, which has just 53 inhabitants and overlooks the famous Ilulissat Icefjord, World Heritage Site. For an even more unique and fresh cuisine.
Koks, the most remote starred restaurant in the world
The two Michelin Stars, Koks was born as a highly sustainable project. Opened in April 2011 in one of the endless valleys of the Faroe Islands, in 2017 he got the first star drawing many culinary enthusiasts to the islands in the deep North Atlantic.
Strength? The cuisine, of course, is a perfect mix of innovation, local tradition and different cooking methods wisely dosed, but also the atmosphere: the Koks is in fact located inside a typical Faroese cottage with grass roofs and surrounded by greenery.
More than a lunch or dinner, at Koks you live an experience: inside the restaurant, in fact, several hours are spent, immersed in the aromas, perfumes and local flavors while local legends are told. Chef Ziska’s favorite ingredients? Sea urchins, lamb and local turnips that are processed following the most ancient practices of drying, fermentation, smoking and salting. His dish to try? The fermented lamb with onions.
From the Faroe Islands to Greenland
And for the summer of 2022 and 2023 the address changes but not the spirit. After earning his second Michelin star in 2019, and Michelin’s Green Clover in February 2021, Koks will temporarily move to Ilimanaq, Greenland.
An aerial photo taken on August 15, 2019 shows a glacier on the eastern cost of Greenland near Kulusuk (aslo spelled Qulusuk). (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP) (Photo credit should read JONATHAN NACKSTRAND / AFP via Getty Images)
Right in front of one of the World Heritage Sites, the Ilulissat Icefjord, the new restaurant will be called Edge and will be open from 12 June to 8 Septemberinside one of the oldest houses in the country, dating back to 1741. The project, always highly sustainable, is carried out in collaboration with World of Greenland’s Ilimanaq Lodge and the Hotel Arctic in Ilulissat and the idea does not change: to introduce the gastronomy of the highest level of the North Atlantic regionjust 300 km from the Northern Arctic Circle, with the aim also of developing tourism in one of the most remote areas in the world.
Because of this, the menu will be fixed and will include from 17 to 20 courses and covers will only be 30 and, given the difficulty of reaching the place, you can stay in the nearby lodge.
One curiosity, or rather two
The lodge and hotel are powered by solar panels which produce energy and hot water and the tasting menu is 285 euros per person to which to add another 215 euros for the wine pairing.
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