Danish Restaurant Bornholm in Boerum Hill Trumped by Visa Problems? [View all]

[brooklynite]

Brownstoner:

After a year in business, a popular Danish restaurant on Smith Street’s restaurant row in Boerum Hill has shut up shop. The reason? The owners, Claudi and Lone Kofod, could not get a visa.

A sign in the window of Bornholm at 138 Smith Street (and a similar notice on the restaurant’s website) reads:

Sorry. As we have been fighting to get our Visa for more than 14 months now and we still haven’t gotten it we have to leave the United States and go back to Denmark. Leaving the country also means that we have to close Bornholm. We want to thank all our customers for the support you have shown us during this past year. We hope to see you before we close down for good this Sunday at 3 pm after brunch.

A winner of OpenTable Diner’s Choice Award for 2017, the restaurant served made-from-scratch Danish-style food and baked goods, such as open-faced sandwiches, cod fishcakes, and braised pork belly with onion-apple jam.

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Damn! I was planning to take my dinner group there...