ARK in the press
Since we’ve opened we have been featured in many well known and well respected newspapers, magazines and websites. Thank you to each of these publications for visiting us and writing such kind words. Below you can find links to read some of the articles online or see some quotes and reviews from some of the physical publications.
FOOD & WINE
9 Essential Food and Drink Experiences in Copenhagen
‘Set in a stylish space, nothing seems amiss, not even the lack of meat, at the city's first Green Michelin Star restaurant’
We’re Smart
‘Ark is the new Danish vegetable star in the sky.’
Discovery Award 2023
Top 10 Vegetable driven restaurants in Denmark
Go’kvall
Appearance on national Swedish television, SVT.
Restaurant Ark is the first-ever vegan restaurant in the Nordics to be awarded a Michelin Green Star. For owner Jason Renwick and his team, strong storytelling, and challenging stereotypes about what vegan food can be form the bedrock of much of their success.
CRAVING COPENHAGEN
Article: 11 of Europe’s Best Restaurants For Vegan Fine Dining.
‘Holder of a Michelin Green Star, this casual-feeling Copenhagen fine-dining experience comes with sustainably produced Scandi furnishings, seasonal and local dishes and an Australian-Danish team in the kitchen who claim to deliver ‘a 100% full time, full hearted plant based concept’.’
Article: 5 of the best zero-waste restaurants in Copenhagen
‘Proving that plant-based food can encompass the same flavour, depth and dimensions as any other cuisine, Ark aims to inspire others to eat less meat and reduce the harm caused to our planet.’
TRIPADVISOR
8th best restaurant in the world 2023,
vegetarian category.
AFAR
Words Hans Van Leeuwen
‘Meet the Australian restaurateurs taking on Copenhagen.’
VEG NEWS 2023
Words Joe Baur. Photography Zane Kraujina
‘Local, sustainable, foraged ingredients take center stage at Chef Brett Lavender's Copenhagen fine-dining institution Ark’
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
Vogue Scandinavia
To Sultne Piger
‘We actually could not understand why Michelin did not go all the way and give them a real star…we believe that someone must have blessed the restaurant with supernatural kitchen powers because they have dedicated themselves to working on the planet's terms. We're coming back and we're pulling everyone we know with.’
BØRSEN
‘Restaurant Ark in Copenhagen makes oyster mushrooms taste like fish … a purely plant-based gourmet restaurant with delicious classic wines and exciting non-alcoholic alternatives’
FOOD & WINE
Words Daniel Modlin
‘You’re Missing Out If You Don’t Get the Non-Alcoholic Pairing’
VISIT DENMARK
‘8 of Denmark's best vegetarian & vegan restaurants’
CONDE NAST TRAVELLER
‘The best restaurants in Copenhagen 2025 - I will never look at cabbage the same way’
VISIT DENMARK
Sustainable food spots in Copenhagen.
’Say goodbye to clichés about vegan food and hello to a reality where the plant-based kitchen can awaken just as many taste buds’
FALSTAFF
‘Ark delivers a thought-provoking and deeply satisfying gastronomic experience.’
VISIT DENMARK
9 of Denmark's most exciting sustainable food initiatives.
’Delicious and thoughtful food – not to be missed.’
BERLINGSKE
4 Star Review 2020
‘Ark made this food critic forget their craving for meat’.
Art De Vivre
‘The new Danish phenomenon’.
Words Erik Sedin Photography Elizabeth Heltoft
“Danish fine-dining establishment ARK practises its sustainability preach down to the last inch. The menu is unconditionally plant-based, and every single building block that has raised up the restaurant is climate neutral.”
The Scandinavian Mind
Dagens NÆrings-liv
Vegan Fine Dining - What Noma did for the food scene almost 20 years ago, we do for the vegan food scene now.
Photo Jenia Nelisova
