6 Best Restaurants in Copenhagen, Denmark

This combined cafeteria, bar, and venue in an old carrier hall is one of the best places to go for a cheap but delicious breakfast, a glass of wine with a friend, an organic cup of coffee, or a light lunch or bigger dinner. The service is casual and friendly, and the dishes are creative and inexpensive despite their outstanding quality. After dinner the place becomes a popular bar.

Dark oak tables, wooden floors, and chairs with lamb-fur accents are a rustic interpretation of Nordic luxury that's appropriate to the setting—a former warehouse on the waterfront. This restaurant is at the vanguard of new Nordic cuisine and Denmark's most highly acclaimed. Chef Rene Redzepi and his innovative team pair the best local ingredients like berries, mushrooms, vegetables, and herbs with game, Jutland marsh lamb, Greenlandic musk ox, and Faroe Islands scallops. Dishes from the 20-course tasting menu can be served with wine pairings or a juice menu for an additional charge. Service is irreproachable. Given the hype, it's nearly impossible to book a table—reservations are taken a full three months in advance. So plan well ahead, and be prepared to settle for lunch instead of dinner. The chef plans to close noma after New Year's Eve 2016 and reopen it in 2017 as an urban farm-to-table restaurant in a new location.

When international foodies visit Copenhagen, AOC is high on the list of restaurants to visit. The restaurant, which has two Michelin stars, offers one tasting menu with a strong focus on sensory pleasure, Nordic produce, and imaginative cooking.

Five centuries ago this was a vineyard; now it's the site of one of Scandinavia's finest restaurants, and the oldest Michelin restaurant in Denmark. Chef Mark Lundgaard's French- and Danish-inspired dishes employ local ingredients and are served in a medieval subterranean space with whitewashed walls and vaulted ceilings.

René Redzepi, one of the world’s most influential chefs, announced he would finally close Noma, widely considered to be one of the world’s best restaurants and the place that started the New Nordic food revolution, for good at the end of 2024. Noma had only reopened in a new location in 2018 after another shut-down (albeit a temporary one, which also garnered headlines around the world) and has since been awarded three Michelin stars yet again. It's almost impossible to get a table, but worth the try. It serves three menus every year: seafood in the winter, vegetables in the summer, and game in the fall.

Among the dozens of restaurants and cafés lining Nyhavn, Nyhavns Færgekro is one of the most atmospheric, with moderately priced Danish treats served in a cozy dining room. Its windows date back to the building's early incarnation as a home to the shipping company White Star Line, which ominously sold tickets for the Titanic.