Midsummer Dinner with Cooking School on May 23-24, 2026
There are smells of smoke, resin and elderflower. The ice chuckles in the shaker.
The evening is warm. The same is the mood when you help conjure up flavors over the embers.
Here — in the midst of the green tranquility of the Gisselfeld Forest — we invite you to a midsummer dinner with you at the food team.
Chef Thomas from Mad Atlas leads the way as we match the embers, cut, stir and taste.
Look forward to a forest experience where the food turns into step with the conversations, the handsome chef and the rice in the crowns of trees. Expect you to learn something new about food.
We mix Woodland cocktails of herbs and flowers, mix local gin with sorrel and pickled hillock, and enjoy a table covered under the tree crowns as darkness falls on and the stars take over.
When the bonfire burns out, spacious rooms and Wake Up Woodland breakfast await the next morning.
Program
Saturday
15.00 — Arrival and welcome cocktail in the garden (Woodland Gin Fizz with sorrel and shelf)
15.30 — Food school by the fire: we light the firewood, harvest herbs, and cook in small teams with Thomas from Mad Atlas as guide.
18.30 — Midsummer dinner under the tree crowns
21.30 — Coffee, avec and gathering by the fire
10:30 p.m. — (Or when you're tired) Overnight in a double room
Sunday
9:30 a.m. -- Wake Up Woodland. Our breakfast of home-baked goods and sinful subtleties
11.00 — Thank you for now and see you again
Menu: A Midsummer Night in the Woods
*The menu is an example. Thomas works with the current ingredients, and adapts the menu according to the best of land and sea here and now. *
Snack
Toasted sourdough bread with smoked butter and forest salt (made from roasted leek and seaweed)
Business
Asparagus grilled over an open fire with nut crumble, ram onion oil and sour cream with elderflower
Main course
Long-roast veal with truffle and wild herbs
Baked small onions, glazed in birch juice
Potatoes steamed in hay with lemon thyme and butter from the churns of the forest
Dessert
Glow-roasted pancake with wild berry compote, caramelized milk and crumble of burnt rye
Cocktails & Wines - 2 cocktails and 4 glasses of wine per person
— Woodland Negroni with spruce and sea buckthorn
-- Spritz of hyll, gin and sparkling wine
— Chardonnay from Burgundy
— Pinot Noir from Baden
— Coffee and avec by the fire
Included in stay
- Food school and dinner with Thomas from Mad Atlas
- 3-course forest-inspired menu with wine menu
- Woodland cocktails & campfire coffee
- Accommodation in a double room
- Wake Up Woodland Breakfast
Price per person: 3.900 DKK incl. everything
Surcharge for single room: 850 DKK
(Max 16 participants)
Registration
Your place is secured by payment.
We promise fire in the cheeks, laughter and a smell of smoke in the clothes you won't want to wash out. Anyone can join in, but you have to want to participate in the cooking.
We create unique frames about your important days.
We have a mission, and it's quite simple.
We want to create a unique setting about your important days.
We like to do that with nature as a partner. We know something about the forest and how it contributes to days in balance. We are happy to share our knowledge, so you always leave here with a little more good green sense in your bag. Whether you are on holiday, meeting or attending our events.
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We look forward to seeing you on the green carpets.