42Raw

Healthy, organic and nice food. But SO expensive. It was our first lunch in Copenhagen and we were not ready for that ! We had a small sandwich and a small pizza slice with salads. A smoothie and a Chai latte for 301 DKK (±44 €). We were petrified. Such a small lunch for so much money. Won’t go back before I’m a millionaire.

Who’d have thought? Not me, that’s for sure! I’m usually very anti all those media driven fashion diets, like paleo and, yes raw food. Because of that, I had been actively avoiding 42Raw which was one of the frontrunners when the raw food diet swept over Copenhagen a few years ago. Until this past Saturday, that is.
We were at Frederiksbergcenteret and looking for some lunch. Choices there are a bit slim (it’s not that big a mall), limited to a bakery, a Joe & The Juice, Paleo, and 42Raw. It was basically the Battle of the Celebrity Diet out there. And seeing as I don’t count bacon as a vegetable, we ended up on 42Raw rather than Paleo.
They seem to have loosened up on their original concept, that nothing was heated above 42 degrees celsius (the main idea in raw food and the origin of the number ‘42’ in their name), a bit. Their menu now counts both pizza and burgers, though everything is vegetarian/​vegan.
I opted for their pizza slice and salad combo, and holy guacamole, Batman! The pizza was the portobello mushroom version, and a salad with broccoli and pear, and both were excellent. All vegan, well-​made, jammed-​pack with flavour, and very filling. My better half had the avocado and hummus sandwich, and that seemed to be a hit, too. My side limonade and the cocoa and date smoothie were great, too, in particular the smoothie, which tasted so creamy and sinful that you’d almost expect a call from your doctor!
So yes, I’m convinced. And I’ll most likely be back, here or in their other outlet in downtown Copenhagen. I’ll just pretend the ‘42’ is a reference to the answer to the great question of life, the universe and everything.