Alessandro Virtuoso Haraldsen
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My wife took me here for my birthday, and it was a very nice experience as we both wanted to visit this restaurant for some time. Lyran is a Michelin guide restaurant focusing on creative takes on mostly local and seasonal ingredients. The formula is that of a 7 course menu for 650 kr, which is fair for what you get. The menu can be made pescatarian or vegetarian. The highlights: a ridiculously well cooked pumpkin that offered the texture of a sorbet, while being warm and fleshy, and some perfectly (like absolutely perfect) cooked cod, which is notoriously difficult to make interesting, and beef cheek. Plus a very attentive and nice service. Things to improve: a few of the dishes (kholrabi, saffron mayo on the cod, topping of the beef) veered a bit too heavily into a marked sourness for my taste, to the point where I felt it really ruined the cod, which was otherwise perfectly cooked (the radicchio leaves are also hard to eat without a knife). They have a wine pairing menu (5 glasses for 650) and an extensive wine list (at a glance, very few bottles under 1000 kr). We opted for individual glasses that were well paired. The main part of the restaurant is in the cellar, which features cork-like panels on the walls that give a bit of an industrial feeling, not necessarily in a good way.