Orangeriet - Silkeborg

Excellent food, imaginatively presented and designed to provoke your taste buds! Not for every evening though.

When travelling quite a bit you often find yourself ending up at the hotel restaurant simply because you just want something to eat and get back to your room and relax and/or work. And often this is just a pretty decent meal that will keep you fed until the next morning. But this is not the case here! Staying at Gl. Skovridergaard hotel in Silkeborg I found the restaurant to be Orangeriet a very cozy place in nice surroundings. Although pretty full the atmosphere was relaxed and the waiter although having enough to attend to was quietly observant and informative in a nice relaxed manner without the posh drama you sometimes find yourself exposed to. The food was really good as well and presented in a very delicate way. All in all a very positive experience that I would highly recommend if you have an evening to spend in Silkeborg whether it being at work or taking that special someone for a treat :

Orangeriet is located in Gl. Skovriddergaard a property mainly used for conferences and meetings in a gorgeous location on the outskirts of Silkeborg. The food at Orangeriet is very good whether for lunch or dinner. The place is however starting to look a bit tired and the staff is very friendly but not very professional.

We had dinner at the restaurant and first of all, the service was fantastic. What a nice, professional and attentive waiter his knowledge about food and drinks was outstanding Denmark could do with more waiters like that! The food was good but some of it suffered a little by coming straight from the fridge and being very cold. We had a small appetizer of cod which was actually the best dish of the evening. For starters we had razor clams and ox tail soup. The razor clams was a (too) cold dish with bits of clams and some strange tasting marinated cucumber. The bread served with food was absolutely delicious. The mains was pork cheek and red cabbage. The cabbage was not cooked at all and tasted like raw cabbage. The cheeks were in small dough bags they were a bit chewy and sticky and the cheeks could have done without the dough. The sauce was great but we could have had a little more of it. We chose cheese for dessert and although we are both cheese lovers, the cheeses turned out to be a challenge as they were strong and quite bitter. We had the house beer with the food and it was really good from a local brewery nice and cold. We had a good evening and we would recommend the restaurant as a nice and cozy place with really good food.

Five-star food, very creative, superb technique, with focus on danish quality products. Excellent wine suggestions. The view is fabulous, on a beautiful parc, but there were hardly any guests. My guess is that it has to do with the prices: fortunately I did not have to pick up the bill but prices are on the high end.