From the beginning of the week, restaurants, cafes and pubs are allowed to operate only to offer take-away as part of restrictions to cope with the pandemic. Many nice restaurants are offering take-away dishes now. Taking this opportunity, we decided to try different styles of take-away this week.
KUURNA GOES TAKE AWAY
Last spring, when there was the similar restriction to the current one, a friend of mine who knows about food told me that they had amazing take-away dishes from Kuurna. As soon as the new restriction was announced, I looked at the restaurant’s website to see if they would offer take-away menu again as I hadn’t had a chance to try it last time. And I found they would do it! So, I e-mailed them to make an order last week and received a cheerful reply. They told me that menu changes every week and I need to check the menu on Monday to tell them our choices of dishes. At the same time, they reserved the pick-up (take-away) time for us. (Often, they are sold out!)
Take-away menu, KUURNA GOES TAKE AWAY, is 3-course menu, starter, main and dessert. There are three choices for starter and main and two choices for dessert. Basic price of the course is 37e but if you chose certain dishes, a couple of more euros would be added to the price.
On the pick-up day, Thursday, we walked to the restaurant as we thought it was a good opportunity to exercise. It took about 25min. And we took a taxi to come home to keep the warm food warm.
We were already excited when we saw packages in the paper bag. (fyi, all the packages were eco-friendly and they looked cool!)
Even though the course menu should starter from the starter, we started with the main dish as it was a warm dish. Both pike wellenberg and roasted potato were very good. Texture of the roasted potato was perfect, not being too soft! My wellenberg was gluten-free version.
The starter was tartar steak. It’s Kuurna’s classic and a dish I can’t help ordering when it’s in the menu. It was delicious. I think the spring onion was working very well to create the great flavor of the dish. I had never seen tartar in such a package, and it looked cute and exciting with egg yolk. The package reminded us of burgers, but much better thing was inside.
Dessert was fantastic! The photo is my gluten-free version of dessert. I don’t have the exact name or ingredients but guess the cream was mascarpone. The main ingredient was pear which was the same as original non-gluten-free dessert, pear and mascarpone tart, pecans. Cream was so delicious, and meringue was soft and nice.
Even though this was fine dining experience, we ate very quickly! It was so nice, and we didn’t (want to!) have a pause to have a conversation. We are grateful for the amazing take-away menu and a message from the restaurant made us smile.
