The best restaurants Copenhagen

Like many addresses on the banks of the Nyhavn canal, this restaurant is housed in a building dating from the 17th century. A setting that has managed to preserve its ancient cachet. Honorable parquet flooring and open fireplace in the room. The cuisine, which is Danish and traditional, favours organic and seasonal ingredients. At midday, the smørrebrød formula is enough to satisfy a small hollow. Otherwise, the hungry will opt for a more substantial dish: grilled meat or seafood. We liked the grilled langoustine marinated in garlic. Heated terrace in winter.

This trendy conceptual coffee has a speciality: porridge! It is made from oat flakes and organic products. And don't think the menu is poor. On the contrary, it shows great creativity. The menu adapts to seasonality. You'll be eating porridge, but a tasty porridge. The instigator of this original place is Lasse Andersen, who had the idea in 2011 to open the world's first porridge bar here in Nørrebro. His goal? To prove to everyone that oatmeal is good, healthy and cheap! The gamble paid off.

This hostel will appeal to all those who want to try traditional Danish cuisine.... And therefore the herring! At lunchtime, the buffet is a good option, not very expensive, as it allows you to taste the different recipes, about ten of them served with small potatoes, rye bread and butter. Finally, to conclude a Danish meal worthy of the name, there is nothing like a glass of aquavit. The house has about twenty fruity or spicy eaux-de-vie in its reserves. Every year in February, the Nordic herring championship is held here!

Huks Fluks brings color, freshness and Southern European taste to your plate. This inn-like restaurant - with its exposed brickwork, open fire, slates and hanging hams - serves (mostly) Mediterranean cuisine. Pata Negra and tapas (the house staple!), duck rillettes, croque-madame, Caesar salad, steak-frites and even coq au vin are all on the menu. Attractive terrace and giant outdoor barbecue! The wine list also features French and Spanish wines, all at reasonable prices.

A large Franco-Danish brasserie under the patronage of the second Secretary General of the UN, photographed with John F. Kennedy, dominates the stylish dining room. The café area is more relaxed. In the morning, you'll be served hearty breakfasts and a variety of teas and coffees. Depending on whether you come for lunch or dinner, a variety of dishes are available à la carte. The classic recipes are prepared bistro-style: salads, remoulade, moules-frites, open-faced sandwiches or appetizing burgers (always well presented).

Salt Bar § Restaurant is part of the Admiral Hotel. Its particularity: a modern cuisine known as fusion: Scandinavian specialities are mixed with French or Asian influences. The menu changes every quarter, a sympathetic bias whose aim is to maintain an effect of novelty for guests who would like to come often. In this cosy setting, the evening continues at the bar, especially as dinner cruises or jazz lunches are also organised... In short, a nice opportunity to break the routine!

Perfect setting for a friendly and gourmet experience. Varied and generous traditional pancakes, such as salmon pancake of Daniel Letz. You can also enjoy a quiche/salad, a plate or onion soup; many specialities as well of us! The house of French wines, ciders, local beers and syrups. We will happily finish the meal with a pancake caramel salted butter.

In half basement, this elegant restaurant has the wind in its sails! Warm lighting, long tables d'hôtes and high chairs, an address in the popular (but trendy) Vesterbro district where it's good to meet up, renowned for its gastronomic menu. We settle down next to unknown neighbours with whom we quickly make friends. This is the very concept of the place. If you want a little more privacy, specify this when you make your reservation. Refined cuisine and flavors are at the rendezvous. By the way, Cofoco stands for Copenhagen Food Company.

Nothing Russian in this cafe brasserie neighborhood: his name refers to the Embassy of Russia which occupied this building for a while. In a relaxed atmosphere you can enjoy the usual smørrebrod and other compound plates which make the ordinary of every Dane worthy of this name.

A familiar face looms up in front of this crowded café! Sure enough, it's Gaston Lagaffe himself! And there's a reason for that: Gaston in Danish is Vakkse Viggo. And the restaurant's menu features the great classics of French cuisine: omelettes, galettes and sweet crêpes. Inside, the decor is worthy of a French-Belgian comic-book museum, with panels featuring Tintin or the Marsupilami. And the icing on the bistro's cake, French is spoken... as you'd expect on Copenhagen's most Parisian street!

At Bagelman (or Bagel store!), you will find no less than 12 different bagels: pastrami, crab, turkey, chicken, tuna, salmon... in lunch formulas or by the unit. As many sandwiches or wraps, but you can also enjoy delicious fresh salads (corn, red cabbage, snow peas, remoulade, tomatoes...) and pressed fruit juices. Something to satiate yourself between two visits to change a bit from smørrebrød! You will find them on Istegade next to Enghave Plads. To eat on the spot or to take away.

It is a place out of time that you will find here around this former port police station built in the early eighteenth century. A postcard-like setting on the edge of the canal, facing the boats that glide softly along the quay. To be lived from the terrace or comfortably installed inside, near the windows. A quality cuisine, inevitably inspired by the sea (fiske frikadeller and various kinds of herring on the programme), prepared by a chef honoured with several fine distinctions, including the Euro-toques label and the Michelin Bib Gourmand.

The story begins in 1898 with the installation of a boat rental company, between boat and rowboat. Soon a modest café opened its doors. Since then, you can eat excellent snacks halfway between French and Danish cuisine,(smørrebrød obliges...) for a good quality-price ratio and, especially, in a unique setting. Located on a pontoon moored along the canal, surrounded by the 18th century facades of Christianshavn, in the middle of ducks and ships of all kinds!

If you have a sea legs, this restaurant is installed in a boat moored on the island, at the foot of the bridge of Langebro. Its specialty: seafood. If you are not a fan of shellfish, there is always a meat dish on the menu. It would be a shame not to enjoy the setting and the panoramic view of the Black Diamond. The restaurant participates every year in Diningweek, two weeks of gastronomy with a 3-course menu at a single price. The cuisine is made with fresh and seasonal products only!

A colorful sign draws attention to this wooden cottage set in a small garden, which houses a vegetarian and organic restaurant. It's like being in the countryside and, to complete the illusion, the toilets are also in the garden... An address for ecologists or not, and/or those nostalgic for the flavors of yesteryear. In any case, for all those who love authentic places that don't deny themselves. The restaurant is run by volunteers, so don't expect too much from the service. Live for the moment, it's great fun!

Hansen's Garden is a restaurant situated in an ocean of greenery in Frederiksberg Park, on farms that once depended on the castle. You can come here with family or friends, for lunch in the garden or dinner under the beautiful glass verandah. The recipes of yesteryear are revisited with a few notes of modernity, the plates are copiously served by waiters in white shirts and black waistcoats on checkered tablecloths. Noisy but convivial, crowded Saturday and Sunday lunchtime.

Formel B plays in the league of the city's top Michelin-starred restaurants... Its innovative, modern Nordic cuisine uses flavors borrowed from French and Asian gastronomy. It's a bit expensive to be a gourmet, but then again! Haute gastronomy has to be earned. Each dish is prepared with meticulous attention to detail, a minimal, uncluttered aesthetic, and chromatic notes! Plates as beautiful as contemporary works of art. Added to this is a particularly careful selection of accompanying wines.

Feel like a little home-cooked dish? The Saint-Jacques will delight you with its traditional French cuisine. But we mainly come here for the home-smoked salmon, the Impérial Daniel Letz, named after the chef from Strasbourg. A la carte: Jerusalem artichoke soup, braised beef cheeks, well garnished sauerkraut, terrine of foie gras and elderflower jelly... You can eat in the brasserie-style dining room, under the gaze of a Christ on the cross, or on the beautiful, large terrace which in summer spreads out over the small square that gave its French name to the restaurant.

If you're feeling homesick, head for Café Wilder, where Danish cuisine is infused with French influences, in a restaurant that has a tenderly familiar allure. Seafood gratin, fish roe and brioche toast, beef bourguignon... A friendly, relaxed atmosphere. When it comes to wine, you won't feel out of place thanks to the many French bottles on offer. We recommend the buttered brioche bread with minced beef tartare, candied egg yolk, tarragon mayonnaise, gherkins and fried onions, served with a green salad. Yummy!

A little removed from the tourist hustle and bustle of Nyhavn, this very smart restaurant produces dishes combining seafood and gourmet vegetables, processed and presented in refined preparations. The restaurant is organized on several levels: a beautiful courtyard amidst ^17th- and ^18th-century buildings, warmed by an outdoor fireplace; an upstairs room with a more intimate decor; and a cabinet reserved for private snacks. The overall atmosphere is very cosy, with candles and marine paintings adding a harbor touch. Beautiful and very good!

Eat at the inhabitant's house! What a great idea! Meet the Danes' is a concept created and founded in 2001 by Anett Waeber, a resident of Copenhagen. The association allows you to have lunch or dinner with an authentic Danish family during your stay. As we dine early in Denmark, the hours are between 6:30 pm and 10 pm approximately, but you can make other arrangements with your host. The menu includes three courses and drinks (wine or beer). The hosts mostly receive guests for dinner or weekend meals. This is normal since they have a job!

If you are in a shortage of French croissants, you will find it as good as in the Hexagon at Marie-France: The baker is French, and some come from far to buy (open from 4 a. m.).

At CPH coffee Lab, coffee is a science but ethical. Founded in 2013, the house has grown around high-quality specialty coffees. A wholesaler but also baker baristas! Because the pastries are to die for taste satisfaction! For a lunch on the go, the traditional Danish rye bread is one of the classics. It is made with sourdough, has a dense structure and a nice sour taste that reminds of old-fashioned snacks with a piece of cheese. If you live in the southeast of France, you will find them. Lucky you!

Ma Poule has quite a reputation! The address is very popular with locals, especially at lunchtime, who come here to feast on French and Mediterranean recipes. Édouard ensures the quality of the products he imports directly and sells from his stand in the Torvehallen covered market. These include cured meats and charcuterie, such as the famous pata negra, and cheeses such as the 36-month-old Marcel Petit Comté. His best-seller: the famous sandwich with duck confit, mustard and arugula, voted "best sandwich in Copenhagen".

Pulpo is a bar-restaurant where you can stop for a cup of coffee in the sunshine, or enjoy a glass of wine or a cold beer at any time of day! Depending on your mood, opt for a quick lunch with a single course and a glass of wine, or for the 4-course tasting menu including wines, cheeses and desserts. The menu is inspired by Italian and Spanish cuisine (linguine with shrimp, fried calamari), with a few detours to South America (ceviche, N'duja). Good ingredients that change with the seasons throughout the year.

12 years ago, Ulrich and Peter opened their first Halifax burger. Since then, 12 restaurants have opened across the country. The address is renowned for being a veritable burger workshop! You choose the bun, then the meat and finally the side dish to create a sandwich to your taste. Very good burgers, organic, vegan for the Berlin, hallal meat for the chicken. Not the cheapest in town, but the quality is there, the Danish producers are highlighted and they're served with a smile in a very jazzy atmosphere.

Reservations are essential to avoid the queue where languages from all over the world mingle. Indeed, the place is very popular. It's not every day you get to have lunch at the Danish Parliament! Entrance is via the inner courtyard. At the top of the Parliament Tower, Tårnet offers a breathtaking view of Copenhagen, and serves "new Nordic cuisine" that follows the seasons. The restaurant collaborates with the non-profit organization Zero FoodPrint Nordic, which supports visionary Nordic farmers committed to protecting nature.

The Granola is part of the Hotel Central, the smallest hotel in the world. Not very big either, this nice restaurant has that something that makes that as soon as you enter it, the charm works. It's from another era, the 1920s or 1930s. The French brasserie-inspired cuisine is simple but of high quality. From omelette revisited to beef tartar, salads and other fruit porridges... Behind the counter, the walls are dressed with bottles, so you can eventually let yourself be tempted by a homemade cocktail!

For a change of pace from the traditional Smørrebrød, Famo is a famous osteria offering traditional Italian cuisine of the highest quality, using seasonal produce. The menu is created by chef Fabbio Mazzon. Living in Denmark for 25 years, he made a name for himself in the world of haute cuisine before becoming his own boss! A fine Italian wine list, with good advice from the staff. The establishment is pleasantly situated in Østerbro, facing the lake, with a view of swans and seagulls.

In this trendy restaurant, which has taken over an old pâté factory, you will enjoy slow food (eco-gastronomy) and rustic and classic dishes revisited with a Scandinavian touch, always based on fresh and seasonal products linked to the market activities! On the menu: crab salad, octopus tempura, beef tartar, tapioca chips, eggs Benedict... In the heart of the Meatpacking District, the renovated and trendy neighborhood of old butcher shops, you'll recognize it by the two closed fists drawn on its facade and tattooed "Paté Paté". Don't forget to make a reservation.

Behind this name is a restaurant nestled in the house of the Royal Danish Horticultural Society in Frederiksberg Park. His philosophy? Sharing stories and emotions. And this is achieved through a cuisine that is in harmony with the seasons, using organic and often raw produce. A truly multi-sensory experience. The Danish chef with a wild temperament, Jakob Mielcke, takes you into his creative and gustatory world. A beautiful decoration where vegetable impressions combine harmoniously with the nature on the plate!

Make no mistake, Fischer is a restaurant that loves la Dolce Vita and concocts the traditional antipasti of Burrata or prosciutto mozzarella, all pasta recipes (excellent Fettuccine all amatriciana, spinach ravioli), not forgetting pizzas. Delight in the Italian-scented cuisine of chef David Fischer, who has long worked in Rome, in a friendly Danish pub setting! We like the large terrace in the summer, the relaxed atmosphere with billiards and games machines in the basement for rainy days.

Kiin Kiin is a Michelin-starred restaurant renowned for its gourmet Asian cuisine. The chef skilfully blends the strengths of Thai and European cuisines. The decor is in tune with the aesthetics of the dishes and the delicacy of the food. Two menus are available: the Theater menu, served only at 5:30pm (ending at 7pm), featuring 4 dishes changed daily; and the Tasting menu, a 7-course variation with wine pairings (if desired). Good news: Kiin Kiin has opened VeVe in Østerbro, as refined as ever but 100% vegetarian.

A former oyster bar when the fish market was in full swing in the square, this fish and seafood restaurant was founded in 1910. It is housed in a beautiful 18th century house decorated with large mirrors and murals executed in 1880 by a certain Valdemar Andersen. A timelessly chic address where you can enjoy oysters and shellfish, fish or lobster soup, sole or monkfish, smoked salmon... in a refined setting. Beautiful cellar and impeccable service on white tablecloths lit by candles. A romantic address.

It is a long time ago that the "Little Pharmacy" of 1720 was converted into a café-restaurant whose charm is partly due to the original preserved decor. In the old days, people used to frequent its basement room, which was barely lit by small leaded-tile windows and venerable quinquets. Among the illustrious regulars was Andersen, who came here every day in 1854. He is said to have written The Ugly Duckling while tasting his herring with capers! For of course, the cuisine is typically Danish and prepared with fish.

A very pleasant microbrewery located a stone's throw from the Latin Quarter, Rådhuspladsen Square, in a beautiful 17th century building. A new concept was born there: "the new kitchen of Danish beer". Let's hear it! The pleasure of taste around a locally brewed beer and traditional gastronomy. We start by visiting the facilities and then we sit down to eat. On the menu: oysters, grilled sausages, matured beef... Vegetarians are not forgotten, a menu is specially concocted for them. To be tasted: a seasonal cuisine nicely prepared!

Perhaps the cheapest sandwiches in Copenhagen: in fact, there is a long queue in front of this small store close to Huset/Use-it. There is a choice of about twenty classic or vegetarian sandwiches prepared every day in a flash. The concept was born 20 years ago after a stay in Italy to feast on paninis. The two friends then thought: why not create fresh, good and homemade sandwiches in Denmark? A second address was born in Torvegade 29 in the district of Christiana, if you wanted to eat on the go!