WWFB: Frumbiti Should Be Faroese for “Yum” Edition
The scene: Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. You’re on a brief vacation from your Iceland vacation. It’s a beautiful summer day by Faroese standards: Partly sunny! No rain! You’ve planned one fancy dinner for Tórshavn, and this is it.
We’d read about Frumbiti on a bunch of best-new-restaurant lists so we were eager to visit. After spending the day taking in some of the world’s most jaw-droppingly gorgeous scenery, we had worked up quite an appetite. The small plates looked amazing, so we started with a few and then ordered the Chef’s Choice menu to fully savor the local culinary creativity.
In this post you’ll find amateurish photos of delicious food (some already partially eaten) with poorly remembered descriptions of each dish, as well as photos of the wall art which featured some seriously rugged Faroese gentlemen.
VERDICT: 10/10 for tastiness, amiable yet impeccable service, and originality in decor.
House-made bread and 3 spreads: one was a beet hummus, one was something creamy with chives, and one was something creamy with something else. Yum!
This was a lamb terrine topped with something fruity and some herbs and something crunchy. More, please!
This fish was amazing and perfect and I have no idea what it was.
It’s me! Aaaaaaaaaand wine!
Finally, some fermented meat! This dish consisted of poached eggs topped with fermented lamb meat that was then rolled out and dried and cooked to a crumble (consistency of very fine bacon bits with more umami flavor). The potatoes were cooked in the fat from the fermented lamb. So tasty!
Lamb belly topped with a garlic sauce, salted tomatoes, and tarragon. Perfection!
Rhubarb granita with lemon cream, apples, and lemon balm. Yum!
So this guy was on the wall across from me. #ohhithere. He is a modern-day whaler, let’s leave it at that.
He got a lamb to submit to a hugging… I must know his secret!
Someone just stepped out of a Faroese J. Crew catalog! #hello
This bird was stalking us through the window all evening. #nofishforyou!
