Fotografiska x Nolla Blackout Dinner

This is an evening when the lights go dim and the dishes reach the table in a kitchen that has used not a single watt of artificial energy in their preparation.

The Blackout Dinner is not just a dinner but a curated whole experience: a carefully thought-out menu in which every ingredient and every method of preparation matters.

This Blackout Dinner takes place in collaboration with Fotografiska Tallinn’s head chef Gerli Travkin and the co-founders of the Helsinki restaurant Nolla, Carlos Henriques and Albert Franch Sunyer.

Menu

The menu follows one clear principle: the journey of the raw ingredients should be as free of electricity as possible, from growing and storage to processing. It is a deliberate protest against familiar and widespread kitchen logic, in which electricity drives almost every step.

The electrical footprint of a restaurant’s work can be very large and, sadly, keeps growing over time. Almost every step of storing and processing ingredients needs more or less electricity. But we ask: what if we did it differently? This evening is exactly the practical and flavourful answer to that question.

The Blackout Dinner

The Blackout Dinner format was born in 2014 in the Amass restaurant in Copenhagen, when an unexpected power cut turned an ordinary dinner into a complete experience. From that chance, a deliberately created format of dining in darkness grew, which lives on today and has reached the Fotografiska restaurant several times.