Even though the ticket price was SEK 1600, all tickets were sold out. 120 guests gathered this weekend in a restaurant in Gothenburg without knowing what they would get to taste. Master chef Ievgen Klopotenko keeps the menu a secret. All his dishes he presents himself.
"I give people not just food, but stories. I do a little "stand up" and people don't expect a master chef to be able to do it. People have also been shocked by the flavor combinations. We can combine, for example, beef and herring, or white chocolate, beets and walleye," he says.
Touring Europe
When the war began, Ievgen Klopotenko's restaurant in central Kiev was turned into a dining room for refugees. In May last year, he started his tour across Europe – to introduce Ukrainian cuisine and raise money for people in war-torn areas.
The money raised in Gothenburg is enough for 600 food packages for war-affected people in Ukraine.
A gastronomic victory for Klopotenko is that he has succeeded in getting the UN to list the dish borshch, a Ukrainian beetroot soup, as an endangered cultural tradition to be preserved. In Gothenburg, guests got to taste a variation of the traditional dish.
See what Ievgen Klopotenko offers for dinner in the clip rehearsal.