Limfjord Oyster (Wild Østers) is a signature dish of Denmark; we have verified places to eat it in Aarhus. Wild flat oysters from the Limfjord in northwest Jutland served raw on ice with lemon and mignonette. Start with where to eat Limfjord Oyster (Wild Østers) in Aarhus.

Limfjord Oyster (Wild Østers) · Aarhus

Wild flat oysters from the Limfjord in northwest Jutland served raw on ice with lemon and mignonette. The Kattegat and Djursland coast wild Pacific oysters provide the second source.

Wild flat oysters from the Limfjord have been harvested since Viking times and were a Danish export commodity to northern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. A disease killed most of the population in the late 19th century; the current stock are descendants of the revived population from the 1970s. Pacific oysters from the Djursland coast are the more abundant modern harvest.

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