The Mill Café
Local seasonal produce on your plate
The sweetness of the apple pie comes from the variety hanging just outside the window. Take a seat in the sunny café courtyard and enjoy the view of the apple grove, or find a cosy nook inside the Mill Café. Here you can sate your appetite in an eatery run as a social economic business with room for people and diversity. Soak up an atmosphere that you will want to take back to your own kitchen.
Menu – on the plate
SOURDOUGH BUN
Served with butter and cheese or jam
DKK 40,-
SEASONAL VEGETARIAN SOUP
Served with sour creme and bread
DKK 85,-
OPEN SANDWICHES
Several flavors. Served on homemade seeded rye bread
From DKK 95,-
MUSHROOM PATE
With hazzelnuts, salad and bred
DKK 125,-
KILDENS CHEESE PLATTER
3 kinds af cheese and bread
DKK 95,-
CHILDREN’S Dishes (up to 12 years old)
Organic chicken sausages with gnawed vegetables and bread
DKK 75,-
PLEASE SEE TODAY’S SWEET SELECTION
DKK 25,-
Menu – in the glass
HOT DRINKS
Americano, cafe latte, espresso, iced coffee, cortado, tea, cappuccino.
From DKK 30,-
COLD DRINKS
Kagerup must, assorted variants
DKK 30,-
Soft drinks, various flavors
DKK 30,-
BEER
Small draft beer, Esrum Kloster, My Hazy, IPA, Humlefryd
DKK 45,-
Big draft beer, Esrum Kloster, My Hazy, IPA, Humlefryd
DKK 60,00,-
Non-alcoholic beer
DKK 40,00,-
WINE
House wine, glass
DKK 55,00,-
House wine, bottled
DKK 325,00,-
Lunch for all ages
Grab a lunch at the Mill Café. The menu features all sorts of Danish open-faced sandwiches and special dishes for children. Everything is predominantly organic and homemade. The bread is baked on site, the salmon is smoked in the smoker in the café courtyard, and we hand whisk our own mayonnaise. There is a large selection of cakes to help satisfy your sweet tooth, and wine, abbey beer and juices from local farms.
A socio-economic eatery
The Mill Café is run by the Kilden Foundation, a socio-economic enterprise that helps young people and citizens with special needs. Imagine a place where no one has to struggle because of being different. A place where everyone is regarded as a whole person with more opportunities than challenges. That’s Kilden. The training and employment they offer develop young people in a way that transforms special needs into special skills – skills that the business world can use. Students and employees from Kilden’s catering course help out in the Mill Café. You are bound to meet them behind the counter. Those on the gerdening course grow herbs and crops that are also used in the Mill Café.
A human cause
It is no coincidence that the Mill Café has a socio-economic profile. Esrum Abbey & Møllegård has a long tradition of helping people progress in life. Across the years, before they were restored in the late 1990s and then opened to the public, the buildings were home to all sorts of people. The Abbey not only housed monks, royals or colonels’ widows; it was also a children’s home and county headquarters, a nature school and a post office. Prior to that, for 200 years the monks of the Middle Ages prayed on behalf of humankind.
The Mill Café
“As a provider of education and employment, it is vital for our teaching and everyday life to be business oriented. That is exactly what the Mill Café is all about. As students or employees here, young people acquire numerous skills that they can use afterwards: hosting, customer service, cooking, presentation and much more.”
Dorte Meldgaard, CEO, Kilden Foundation
