Best Copenhagen Restaurants
With over two thousand cafes and restaurants catering to nearly every taste, Copenhagen, the most targeted tourist destination for the first-time Denmark visitors, invites food lovers to try its unique and alluring Scandinavian cuisine. Locally grown ingredients, extraordinary palate of wild herbs and flowers, bitter green leaves and the freshest seafood ever are the main ingredients that make Danish best restaurants unique and exclusive.
Copenhagen’s most convenient restaurants are found in such locations as Nyhavn, Tivoli Gardens, Town Hall Square and Central Railway Station, and can be good for romance, special occasions, doing business, local cuisine, dessert, families with children, outdoor sitting and dinner options. Here are some of the best restaurants in Copenhagen that are surely ‘must try.’
Noma (Danish cuisine)
Once again voted as the ‘World’s Best Restaurant,’ Noma is a two Michelin-starred restaurant that opened only in 2003, offering indigenous food culture specific to the North Atlantic region. Noma — the abbreviated form of two Danish words, nordisk meaning Nordic and mad (food), boasts a great mixture of sophisticated cooking and imaginative ideas of more than 800 food industry experts, not mentioning the respect for ingredients. If you have the good fortune of going to the gorgeous restaurant of Noma, do not miss out ‘vintage potato and whey,’ ‘musk ox and smoked marrow,’ ‘cabbage stem and watercress,’ ‘pike perch and unripe elderberries’ and ‘lovage and prästot’ (a Swesish cheese). René Redzepi, the 32-year-old partner and gifted cook of Noma, has done all to create a truly different and unique dining experience, visitors will not soon forget! Noma is located in the Christianshavn section of Copenhagen, on the ground floor of the North Atlantic Wharf Building, a newly restores warehouse offering splendid views of the city’s inner harbor.
Ida Davidsen Restaurant (Danish Cuisine)
Considered the world’s most noteworthy restaurant where over 250 varieties of smørrebrød are concerned, Ida Davidsen Restaurants is the favorite lunch spot of the Danish royal family. Ida, the owner of the restaurant and the fifth generation of her family works behind the encounter, creating open rye bread sandwiches, piled with various savory toppings that would please any customer. With friendly and helpful waiters, always fresh ingredients and likely the longest sandwich menu in the world, the 100-year-old lunch restaurant ranks among the most visited in Copenhagen. Although their prices can be a little high, this cozy restaurant is something sandwich enthusiasts usually do not miss out. Here online reservation is also available.
Peder Oxe Restaurant
Located in one of the oldest ad pretty squares in Copenhagen, in a cellar, which is the only remaining part of a 13th -century monastery, the laid-back Peder Oxe Restaurant is another exceptional place to try very traditional, awe-inspiring Danish cuisine in a pleasant country-style ambience. From relaxing in an appealing wine bar with a good vintage to building a perfect salad from the overflowing bar to trying delicious fish or a grilled steak to chhosing from a wide range of mouthwatering open sandwiches, Peder Oxe welcomes anyone, whether staying for a light lunch, a glass of wine or a full-course dinner. Experience and enjoy!
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