It's very beautiful, surrounded by gardens.

You walk down this walkway, you're greeted by wholesome servers from all over the world,

and they welcome you as if you are not just observers in a theatrical event, but really

participants.

This is Adam Platt.

For over 20 years, he was a restaurant critic at New York Magazine.

In the summer of 2019, he went to the Copenhagen Restaurant Nome, which often tops lists of the

best restaurants in the world.

Everybody's full of life, and everybody's beautiful, and the wine is delicious, and the

guests seem to be hand-picked, so you have this idea that you're one of the faithful,

and you get swept up in it, and it's a great experience.

Adam's not someone who normally gets swept up in restaurants.

He actually brought me out to eat with him once years ago, because restaurant critics

need to come with groups that can order lots of items without attracting suspicion.

And I watched as he sampled one dish after another, fared his brow, and shared his

displeasure.

It was always, mah, blah, ordinary.

He's clearly hard to impress.

And Adam was prepared to scoff at Nome when he arrived.

But being there, he couldn't help but enjoy himself.

Copenhagen, especially in the summertime, is a hugely seductive, a wonderful place.

It's really a stage set.

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