Copenhagen Restaurants

Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark, as well as the home of the reigning monarch, Queen Margrethe II. The city was founded in 1167 and has been Denmark's capital since 1417.About.com: The City of Copenhagen, Denmark

When dining in Copenhagen, you can experience traditional continental cuisine, or seek out local specialties such as marinated reindeer or frikadeller.Official Tourism Site: Gastronomic Copenhagen

Smoorebrod is a Danish open faced sandwich, typically served at lunch. The word is derived from a Danish phrase meaning "butter on bread", but a smorrebrod is more elaborate than mere bread and butter.

A smorrebrod is typically based on a slice of dark, whole grain bread, topped with a variety of fish, meat, or vegetables. More than one smorrebrod may be served at a meal, in which case the fish smorrebrod is consumed before the meat based sandwich.All Scandinavia: [http://www.allscandinavia.com/smorrebrod.htm Smorrebrod

The Danish Tourism board recommends several restaurants for smorrebroad, including Ida Davidsen and Slotskælderen hos Gitte Kik hos Gitte Kik . Ida Davidson features a smorrebrod menu that has so many choices, its 6 feet long, while Slotskælderen hos Gitte Kik is reportedly a good place to spot Danish politicians.Official Tourism Site: Open-faced Sandwiches

• Ida Davidsen Light Fare/Fast Food, Phone: 3391 3655 Google Map
• Store Kongensg. 70
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Fodor's Choice: 'Creative sandwiches include the H. C. Andersen, with liver paté, bacon, and tomatoes. The terrific smoked duck is smoked by Ida's husband, Adam, and served alongside a horseradish-spiked cabbage salad."
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• Axelborg Bodega Scandinavian, Phone: 3311 0638 Google Map
• Axeltorv 1
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Recommended: "Most regulars here opt for the dagens ret (daily special), which is the equivalent of the old blue-plate special served at diners throughout America in the 1940s. Typical Danish dishes are featured on those specials, invariably frikadeller and the inevitable pork chops, which was the favorite dish of the Nazi occupation forces in the early '40s."

• Restaurant Peder Oxe Scandinavian, Phone: 3311 0077 Google Map
• Grabrodretorv 11
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "We have found that the chefs cook the best fried herring in all of Copenhagen here, and we'll let you in on their secret. They coat filleted fish with Dijon mustard, grated fresh horseradish, and even caviar before rolling them in rye flour and pan-frying them in Danish country butter."
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• Noma Scandinavian, Phone: 3296 3297 Google Map
• Strandgade 93
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Exceptional: "During its relatively short life, this showcase of Nordic cuisine has received greater amounts of favorable press than virtually any other restaurant in Denmark. Positioned within an antique, stone-sided warehouse in Christianshavn, it makes it an almost religious duty to import ultrafresh fish and shellfish three times a week from Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands."
  • Fodor's Choice: "The seven-course tasting menu with complementary wines is a delight, and is served in an understated, minimalist-chic atmosphere on Royal Copenhagen china. An a la carte menu is also available."
  • New York Times Pick
  • Guardian Unlimited Pick
  • Condé Nast Selection
  • Travel + Leisure Go-List Winner

• Era Ora Northern Italian, Phone: 3254 0693 Google Map
• Overgaden Neden Vandet 33B
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Exceptional: " This reminder of the "Golden Age" is on virtually everyone's list as the very best Italian restaurant in Denmark and is one of the best restaurants in Copenhagen...You're likely to find some chic people dining here, including members of Denmark's royal family, lots of politicians, and well-known Danish writers and artists."
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• Kong Hans Kaelder French, Phone: 3311 6868 Google Map
• Vingardsstræde 6*Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Exceptional: "The menu is inventive, delicious, sublime, and full of flavor, with market-fresh ingredients decisively seasoned and appearing in combinations perhaps unknown to you. Take, for example, foie gras with dried wild goose breast and beet root stalks, followed by breast of duck..."
  • Zagat Food Tops
• The Paul International, Phone: 3375 0775 Google Map
• Vesterbrogade 3
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Exceptional: "When we last visited, we asked Paul to serve us what Bill Clinton had tasted on his visit. What arrived was hardly bubba food but a divine free-range chicken from the island of Bornholm served with a confit of veal sweetbreads."
  • Fodor's Choice: "Located in the middle of Tivoli, and only open during the park's season (mid-May to mid-September), this exquisite dining room in a glass-encircled pavilion seems to be favored by everyone in the entertainment world, and it witnesses unannounced visits from members of the Danish royal family."
  • Travel + Leisure Go-List Winner

• Formel B Contemporary/Scandinavian, Phone: 3325 1066 Google Map
• Vesterbrogade 182
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Exceptional: "No chefs in Copenhagen are as fanatical about serving fresh ingredients as this pair, who take the best of Danish raw materials and transform them into classical French dishes."
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• Kommandanten Danish/French, Phone: 3312 0990 Google Map
• Ny Adelgade 7
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Exceptional: "To date, this is the only Michelin restaurant in Copenhagen to have received two coveted stars...The cuisine reflects the seasons and features the very finest products and high-quality ingredients that the country offers. The aim of the chefs is simplicity in which natural flavors are never subdued..."
  • Zagat Most Popular

• Cafe Ketchup International, Phone: 3332 3030 Google Map
• Pilestræde 19
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Recommended: There's a nearly hallucinogenic collection of cocktails offered...The cuisine is competent without being great.."
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• Umami Japanese/French, Phone: 3338 7500 Google Map
• 59 Store Kongensgade
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Very Highly Recommended: "Ingredients are fresh, flavor combinations are novel, and presentation is elegant and stylish, as evoked by such dishes as Wagyu beef with three sauces or rabbit loin stuffed with shiitake mushrooms and served with pickled eggplant. Minimal cooking makes for a superb texture, as represented by the breast of guinea fowl teriyaki."
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• Bø Bof & Ost Scandinavian, Phone: 3311 9911 Google Map
• Grabrodretorv 13
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Recommended: "Even if the food weren't good, we'd like to come here on a summer evening to occupy a cafe-style table overlooking Grey Friars Square. We consider this eatery the best people-watching place in Copenhagen."
• Nyhavns Faergekro Scandinavian, Phone: 3315 1588 Google Map
• Nyhavn 5
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "The kitchen prepares a daily homemade buffet of 10 types of herring in different styles and sauces, including fried, rollmops (rolled or curled herring), and smoked."

• Restaurant Puk Danish, Phone: 3311 1417 Google Map
• Vandkunsten 8
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Recommended: 'Menu selections include Danish meatballs, platters of smorrebrod or several kinds of smoked fish, herring offered either cold and marinated or fried and served with dill and new potatoes, and tournedos of beef with a sauce made from fresh tomatoes and herbs. The cooks prepare these dishes like your mother does -- assuming she's Danish."
• Chili American, Phone: 3391 1918 Google Map
• Vandkunsten 1
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Recommended: "Chili serves at least 17 versions of burgers, available in quarter- and half-pound sizes, whose descriptions read like a map of the world."

• Happy Cow: Copenhagen Vegetarian Restaurants

• Atlas Bar Scandinavian, Phone: 3315 0352 Google Map
• Lars Bjornstr. 18
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Recommended:"This joint has always been a darling of local hipsters, and you may want to join them for a slice of Copenhagen life often not seen by the casual visitor."
• Riz Raz Mediterranean, Phone: 3315 0575 Google Map
• Kompagnistræde 20
• Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Frommer's Highly Recommended: "Bustling and unpretentious, this decidedly un-Danish hideaway offers the best all-vegetarian buffet in Copenhagen...Expect a medley of virtually every vegetable known to humankind, prepared either au naturel or as part of a marinated fantasy that might include the antipasti of Italy, the hummus of Lebanon, or an array of long-simmered casseroles inspired by the cuisine of the Moroccan highlands
  • Fodor's Choice: "The inexpensive all-you-can-eat buffet is heaped with lentils, tomatoes, potatoes, olives, hummus, warm pita bread, yogurt and cucumbers, pickled vegetables, and bean salads."
• Den Grønne Kaelder Vegetarian, Phone: 3393 0140 Google Map
• Pilestræde 48
• Copenhagen, Denmark