The best French cuisine restaurants Copenhagen

It all started with the experimental brewery and the idea of brewing new types of beer. Then food was added to the project. Established in a beautifully restored 19th century metalworking factory, this brewery restaurant stands out for the originality of its menus prepared with traditional products that go well with homemade beers. The dishes are hearty, pork belly served with apple sauce or lobster with its cauliflower purée. The vegan menu adapts to the rhythm of the gardener and his vegetables.

This restaurant is playing extra time with success since the site was already visited in 1539! After several fires, the restaurant moved into a vaulted cellar in 1750, a simple setting but with a touch of history! It is said that the place protected the frolics of the "mad" king, Christian VII, and his mistress... As the successive owners were originally from the island of Bornholm, specialities such as plankebøf (fillet of beef) are still on the menu. In the evening, tasting of Scandinavian plates (aften platte) and liqueurs from the island of Møn!

Forget the nouvelle cuisine and the plates with the laughing portions! Here, the plates are more than copious and enhance the Danish grandmothers' cuisine. In an elegant street lined with red brick buildings, in the half basement or on the wooden terrace, you will enjoy specialities: several preparations of herring, "Danish stew", North Sea plaice in white sauce, fjord eels or calf's liver and, for dessert, the famous, unpronounceable and delicious rødgrød med flød (red fruit and cream). Authenticity and generosity.

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.

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!

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.

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 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.).

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!

Housed in the Workers' Museum, this "old-fashioned" café has been in existence since 1892 and offers excellent smørrebrød, beautifully presented as a buffet, as well as Danish specialties such as the traditional rhubarb crumble with whipped cream(rabarberkage). It's even better when washed down with a local beer from the Braunstein brewery! All in a fin de siècle atmosphere. When the weather's fine, a smørrebrød van, which was very popular in the city in the 1920s and 1930s, is back in service. Take a seat at the carpenters' tables!

The clientele of the "little" Oscar café is a charming mix of students, residents of this somewhat upscale neighborhood and tourists passing through. But all of them like to settle down in the room with a very bistro decor for a lunch break. Various sandwiches, smørrebrød, mixed salads, burgers with crispy fries... Everyone will find something to suit their appetite. Possibility to eat on the spot or to take away. A tiny terrace is set up on the sidewalk, the street can be busy but the address is lively and friendly.

On the even side of Nyhavn, a restaurant in the great Danish tradition: fricadelle, grilled meats and, of course, fish are served, in homage to the port of Gilleleje, 50 kilometers away in northern Seeland. We come for the atmosphere, the typical setting of port towns and sailors' haunts. The service is impeccable (white tablecloths and cloth napkins) and the smørrebrød delicious. All this is accompanied by a wide choice of beers on tap. A great time and authenticity for more than decent value.