Photo: Emily Wilson for Esse
Ahoy! Calling chefs, fishers, students, food professionals and curious eaters. Matt Orlando and Madland invite you to step inside Esse Thursday 7th of May at Madland Festival 2026 for a deep dive into cooking and eating our way to the regenerative oceans of the future. Take part in a rare Regenerative Oceans Masterclass and join us for a one-night-only Regenerative Oceans Communal Dinner to get the taste of a future thriving sea life in symbiosis with a fine dining experience. You are invited!
In collaboration with Madland, Matt Orlando opens his restaurant and kitchen at Esse Thursday 7th of May for a day of diving into how we can eat, cook and act in the present for the regenerative oceans of the future.
It is crucial that we focus on regenerative practices in the ocean and in relation to it, as we are currently facing severe challenges in our nearby waters with deoxygenation, ocean death and threatened fish stocks as consequences of overfishing, fish farming at sea, fertilizer and pesticide leaching and pollution of the marine environment.
However, there are solutions, techniques, sea crops and fishing methods that create the conditions for regenerating life in the oceans that work and exist already today. These are the initiatives and practices we are focusing on at Regenerative Oceans Day at Esse with Matt Orlando at Madland Festival 2026. Curious?
Come join us for a day of learning, asking, talking and tasting.
Programme for a regenerative blue food system
You are invited for a rare masterclass on working with fish that respects both craft and ocean. This is where technique meets responsibility, and where every part of the fish, from fin to gill, finds its place on the plate.
After the masterclass we dive into the realities behind the fish we eat with Johan Flyvbjerg from Ingen Burfisk i Havet (No Farmed Fish in the Ocean). What are the true conditions of farmed fish in the Nordics? And how can kitchens, boats and buyers help restore marine ecosystems instead of depleting them?
Expect an afternoon of hands-on insight, shared knowledge, and new connections across the value chain from sea to kitchen to plate for those who cook, catch, serve, study, source and for anyone who wants to be part of shaping a different future for our oceans and the blue food system.
See the full day time programme here and get your ticket for Regenerative Oceans Masterclass here.
One-night-only Communal Dinner & Talk at Esse
In the evening Matt Orlando and Madland invite you to a one-night-only Regenerative Oceans Communal Dinner & Talk at Esse.
This exclusive evening at Esse is composed by a dinner and talk exploring flavours, food systemic structures and hope for more life in the ocean.
Head chef Matt Orlando and the Esse team will provide a delicious dinner of 5 servings, showcasing how we can cook and eat our way to regenerative oceans. By using sustainably caught fish and regenerative produce from our coastal waters, they provide the vivid flavours of a future with a thriving sea life.
During the dinner Madland will moderate a talk focusing on fishing, organising and producing considerately at sea and by the coast creating the conditions for more regenerative oceans day by day. Jesper Redecker Hansen from Fiskerikajen, Mai Manaa from VisitNordvestkysten and Simon Weber from Dansk Tang will be in conversation with Anton Scharling Krebs from Madland.
The future of the blue food system is already here – and you get to take part and enjoy it in present time at Esse with Madland.
Book your tickets before the ship has sailed for Regenerative Oceans!
See the full evening programme here and buy your ticket for Regenerative Oceans Communal Dinner & Talk here.
Madland Festival 2026 is co-funded by City of Copenhagen and GSFR.
