Meanwhile, within the all-white rustic-chic dining room, Mr. Ledet was delivering the first haze-emitting laboratory experiment of the four-course lunch (548 kroner): smoked salmon topped with quail egg and salmon roe.
The four-course lunch menu (495 kroner, about $100 at4.788 kroner to the dollar) began with not one but three successive amuse-bouches, including a peeled, pickled and poached quail egg.
Cost: 1,550 kroner for dinner, 67 kroner for lunch, for a total of 1,617 kroner.
Cost for lunch and dinner: 360 kroner.
Prices do come down in places where you order at the counter, like the very pleasant bar/cafe Dyrehaven in Copenhagen (open-face sandwiches and other lunch entrees from 55 kroner — $9 — and up).
Whereas the average cost of childcare in the UK starts at £400 a month for a part-time place (25 hours), Danes pay around 2,680 Danish kroner (£300) a month for 30 hours, including lunch.
After Dyrehaven, Nina and I went down to Kodbyen, Copenhagen's meatpacking district, and ordered two lunches: fiskeboller, or fish balls (45 kroner), and Danish-style fish and chips (70 kroner) from Kodbyens Deli, taking them across the street to some benches filled with Danes eating lunch.
A lunch plate with local specialties like pickled herring, sautéed flounder and Danish cheese is 158 kroner.
For lunch, dash into the adjoining Grill Bar featuring the hot dogs so beloved by Danes (49 kroner), perhaps accompanied by a glass of organic chocolate milk (18 kroner).
