Michelin-star restaurant in the Arctic is the perfect gastronomic destination for luxury travel
- The world’s most isolated Michelin-star restaurant, Koks – previously based in the Faroe Islands – just got more remote, but it’s worth the journey
- Faroese chef Poul Andrias Ziska serves a 20-course meal of Greenlandic delicacies, from whale meat to musk ox – all to be enjoyed with a view of icebergs
You can only get there by boat or helicopter, but chef Poul Andrias Ziska hopes his restaurant in remote Greenland, far above the Arctic Circle, is worth the journey.
The 30-year-old chef relocated his restaurant Koks from the Faroe Islands in mid-June, leaving behind a relatively accessible address for Ilimanaq, a hamlet of 50 inhabitants hidden behind icebergs on the 69th parallel north.
Housed in a narrow, black wooden house, one of the oldest in Greenland, the restaurant can only accommodate about 20 people per service, and experiments with local produce, including whale and seaweed; many more conventional vegetables are unable to grow in the harsh climate.
“We try to focus on as much Greenlandic products as possible, so everything from Greenland halibut to snow crabs to musk ox to ptarmigan (a medium-sized game bird in the grouse family), different herbs and different berries,” the tousle-haired, bearded chef says.
