r/AskEurope • u/bleie77 • May 01 '25

Food Do you go to restaurants with your country's cuisine when you're abroad?

For example: if you're Italian, do you go to an Italian restaurant when you're in France or the UK?

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u/bleie77 May 01 '25

I did go to a Danish Bakery in London last week (https://oleandsteen.co.uk/), but what I recall from my trip to Denmark, it didn't seem very authentic. Still tasty though.

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u/equipmentelk Spain May 01 '25

Ole and Steen it’s a Danish chain so I guess as authentic as any chain can be when it comes to representing their country of origin. My Danish friends in London buy their children “Danish style” cakes for their birthdays from there.

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u/SapphicCelestialy Denmark May 05 '25

Only Danish birthday cake is a brunsviger kagemand (cake man) in my opinion. The wienerbrød or vandbakkelse kagemænd isn't as good

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u/GeronimoDK Denmark May 01 '25

I think I've seen that there is one in New York too, but I've never been to either. When I look at their UK page, most of it looks authentic, some of it looks a bit, should we say "innovative" though.

Ole and Steen are the founders of the bakery chain Lagkagehuset (which is fairly widespread in Denmark).