When Nadine and Tom Michelberger took over Ora at the beginning of 2020 with Alan Micks – the long-standing chef de cuisine at the Michelberger Restaurant – the old pharmacy came to life again. Head chef Sam Kindillon (previously of Restaurant Relæ) and the team have created a regularly changing menu with an emphasis on classics done not so classic. Chef Cúán Greene will join the Ora kitchen for one night this Saturday (01.07.2023), cooking a 7-course tasting menu of thoughtful recipes made with local seasonal produce. Cúán has worked at the likes of Noma, Geranium, and Quique Dacosta and publishes a monthly newsletter, Ómós Digest, which is a kind of traveling caravan of ideas, collaborations, innovations and investigations surrounding what we eat. The word Ómós comes from the Irish language, and means homage, duty, and respect. It is an idea that has developed since Cúán returned from a four-year stint of cooking in Copenhagen. Drawing on his experience at Noma, the chef’s ambition is to create new ways of dining that include place, space, and community in equal measure.
The menu will be cooked by Cúán and his old friend and classmate Sam, whom he met while studying culinary arts in Dublin. An experimental familiarity is expected with dishes ranging from grilled mussel skewer, pasilla, garlic scapes and black lime to “Chicken and stuffing” with nasturtium plants. If you cannot make it Saturday, on Sunday (02.07.) the same team will cook their own version of kebabs with a DJ in the courtyard of the Michelberger Hotel. A smoked lamb shoulder on fermented potato flatbread or aubergine yogurt and parsley sumac salad will be offered, along with a Sicilian peach sorbet if you can still manage dessert. If you are feeling particularly peckish this weekend, why not throw caution to the wind and go to both?
Text: Kate Foran / Photos: Ora
Ora Restaurant & Wine Bar, Oranienplatz 14, 10999 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Tickets for 01.07.2023 can be bought here.
Michelberger Hotel, Warschauer Str.39-40, 10243 Berlin–Friedrichshain; map
02.07.2023 Walk-ins from 14h
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