Editor’s note: This is the second in an occasional series on how local small businesses are coping in the time of COVID.
There’s a Danish word “hygge,” pronounced hue-guh, it’s sort of a concept meant to describe the feeling you get whether alone or with friends, at home or out, that the moment is cozy, charming, or just special.
And you can’t really miss Mikko, the Nordic restaurant on the corner of 17th and R streets in the old gayborhood, a special place to many D.C.
gays. Former chef to the Finnish embassy, a position he held for more than a decade, Mikko Kosonen opened Mikko almost two years ago.