Cafe Tankefryd Ikast-Brande

02/08/2025: An authentic and child friendly Danish restaurant. Food (I had a staple of fish, salad and prawns) was delicious and fairly priced. Kids were allowed to draw with chalk on a blackboard. They also sell delicious local craft beer (Kloster). Service was attentive and friendly. Recommended!

30/06/2025: A different Stjerneskud in good quality. Smagshuset in Brande has made their own version of a Stjerneskud, with ingredients that you don't normally associate with this dish. We arrived at 13:40 and 13:46 ordered 2 Stjerneskud with a pilsner and an ale. 10 minutes later it was served. So impressively fast that you could fear that it was compromising the quality. First impression was that something must be missing, because it doesn't look like a shooting star usually does. The base consisted of some bread that didn't do much, and if it was fried in butter, there wasn't much butter on the pan and it hadn't had many seconds. It could do better. The bread was spread with a thin layer of salmon rillette. It tasted really good. On top of this was one of the surprises, a celery remulade with capers. One of the orders came with this remoulade on the side, which meant we could taste it without it being mixed with the other ingredients. A nice remoulade, but not comparable to a regular remoulade. I could have liked the capers. On top of the celery remoulade were 2 butter-fried fish fillets that were wonderfully fresh and fried just right so they were juicy. Fortunately, the panko breading was not too thick, as you sometimes experience. I could have thought of a steamed fish, which you usually get in a shooting star. On top of the fish there were some hand-peeled shrimp. They were good and flavorful but they had been saved a little too much. 5-6 more and it would have been appropriate. Nice with fresh salad and dill and fortunately in the right amount. What gooseberries do on that plate beyond decoration is unknown. In terms of taste, it added nothing to the dish. When you take a good bite of it all to taste how it all fits together, you get a lovely experience of fresh and flavorful ingredients. But also a surprise, as it doesn't taste like a shooting star usually does. It tasted good but different. The salmon rillette disappears in the other taste impressions, perhaps because there was too little butter on it. Too bad because it had a good taste that goes well with the fish. The shooting star could have been a little bigger, and it could have been done with the steaming fish. 175,- for this shooting star is a reasonable price. So the grade ends at a small 4/5. Polite staff but I missed them asking about the food.