CODA brings dessert-led Michelin menu to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens for summer residency

The two Michelin-starred Berlin restaurant CODA will pop up in Copenhagen for a month-long residency at Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens this summer. Based at The Pagoda, the team will serve both lunch and dinner during July and August, bringing their dessert-focused approach to cuisine to the Danish capital.

Co-founded by chef René Frank and business partner Oliver Bischoff, CODA is built on the premise that dessert need not be a final course or something sweet, but can instead function as a category of cuisine made up of complex flavours, a range of culinary techniques and considered presentation. Frank, who was named World’s Best Pastry Chef in 2022 by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants, has spent a decade working to remove the distinction between sweet and savoury elements in his cooking.

The resulting cuisine treats vegetables, dairy, fermentation, umami, bitterness and acidity as equally important components, with sweetness used only where it is judged to add depth. The kitchen does not divide its offering into conventional courses and does not use refined sugar or wheat flour. Dishes are instead presented as a sequence based on flavours, textures and temperatures.

At the Pagoda, the residency will take the form of a Michelin tasting menu. Each dish is intended to stand alone while forming part of a wider sequence. There will be caviar popsicles, wagyu-fat caramels and more, as well as vegetable dishes positioned as the focus of individual courses rather than as accompaniments.

The Tivoli Gardens residency marks a temporary move north for the team, who will present their full tasting menu at a new location for the limited period. The Pagoda, a landmark structure within the gardens, will serve as the venue for both lunch and dinner services across the four-week stay, giving diners in Copenhagen access to the menu without travelling to the restaurant’s permanent home in the German capital.

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CODA’s residency takes place from 16^th July until 16^th August 2026 at The Japanese Pagoda, Tivoli Vesterbrogade 3, 1620 København V, Denmark. For further information or to book a table, visit here.

For further information about CODA, visit the restaurant’s website here.