The Top 86 Places to Eat Near Dragsholm Slot Gourmet
-
Thick whitewashed walls, giant glass wine rooms built into the stone, and a Michelin-starred tasting menu called "Time and Place" that means it pretty literally. This creative multi-course restaurant sits inside Denmark's oldest castle, set within a UNESCO Geopark whose hills were shaped by Ice Age glaciers. The kitchen leans hard on the surrounding fields, forests, and coastline, turning hyperlocal produce into precisely crafted, intensely flavored dishes.
-
The chef at this Michelin-starred creative restaurant in a red-brick park house makes the plates himself, which tells you something about how seriously the kitchen takes the whole project. The surrounding studios belong to carpenters and glassblowers, so dinner here feels less like a restaurant visit and more like wandering into a craft collective. Seasonal Danish vegetables, seafood, and game carry the menus, with technique that knows when to step back.
-
-
-
Rank 5. Lieffroy
Classic French
-
Rank 6. Restaurant Jordnær
Creative Seafood
A chawanmushi that arrives in architectural layers sets the tone at this fine dining room in suburban Gentofte, where the cooking moves between spare precision and obsessive detail without losing the thread. Seafood and vegetables do most of the work, handled with a technical seriousness that has earned three Michelin stars and a spot on the World's 50 Best list. The room is polished, the service warm, and the tasting menu long enough that you should probably cancel your morning.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- 50 Best #56 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- White Guide Global Masters Level · White Guide
-
Rasmus Kofoed's three-Michelin-star tasting menu restaurant sits on the eighth floor of a football stadium, which is either the most Copenhagen thing imaginable or the least. Around fifteen courses move through biodynamic vegetables, foraged plants and berries, and seafood from non-endangered species, all plated with the kind of precision that makes you feel slightly underdressed even if you aren't. The wine cellar is enormous. The park views help.
-
Rank 8. Søllerød Kro
Modern French
A thatched inn beside a pond in a postcard-quiet village outside Copenhagen, with a courtyard terrace and three dining rooms full of Louis XIV chairs and well-spaced tables. The kitchen holds a Michelin star and leans into classical French cooking with the occasional modern nudge. The wine list runs to something approaching a small novel. Dress well and clear your evening.
-
-
Finn Juhl furniture fills the softly lit dining room in Frederiksberg, which feels like eating inside a design museum, if the museum had a Michelin star and a serious Burgundy list. This is a modern tasting-menu restaurant with an unusually democratic twist: you pick five courses from roughly a dozen on offer, rather than surrendering the evening to a fixed procession. The cooking is precise and composed, the wine list leans confidently French, and the whole thing runs with neighborhood warmth.
-
The tasting menu here tracks 24 solar micro-seasons, which is either the most poetic way to run a kitchen or proof that Danes have too much time in winter. Either way, the food at this cozy suburban counter-seat spot is the argument: Danish vegetables from organic farms, shaped by Asian technique, with food waste quietly becoming miso and shoyu next door. It holds a Michelin star. Sit at the counter if you can.
-
A red-brick villa in Hellerup, renovated to a high gleam but old-school in its bones. Every table starts the same way: the chef and the whole team receive guests together at a circular marble bar for a welcome drink before seating. From there, the open kitchen runs the show, turning serious Danish produce into boldly flavoured modern dishes. A Michelin star sits here, alongside a wine cellar stocked with prestige champagnes for anyone who needs to feel the occasion.
-
An old machine factory on the edge of town turns out to be a fitting metaphor: ARO runs on craft. The room keeps the industrial bones, exposed ducting and all, softened by black wooden furniture and hand-sketched drawings pinned to chipboard. A three- or seven-course menu gives the kitchen room to get playful with sharp, characterful cooking. The vibe is easier than you might expect from a Michelin-starred restaurant, and that's the whole point.
-
Cookery books line the shelves of this intimate basement dining room inside the Park Lane Copenhagen hotel, which sets the tone nicely: this is a place that takes food seriously without taking itself too seriously. The chef's classically inspired tasting menu leans on Nordic seafood, foraged coastal plants, and locally grown vegetables, and it holds a Michelin star. Bring someone who appreciates a good juice pairing as much as a wine list.
-
A yellow building in Copenhagen's Latin Quarter, where drinks in the courtyard ease you into what comes next. Udtryk, Danish for "expression," runs a tasting menu that pulls from both Asian and European traditions without announcing itself too loudly about it. The cooking is refined and genuinely curious, wagyu alongside Danish eel, Norwegian scallops with gingko nuts. It holds a Michelin star.
-
-
-
A seaside inn inside Mols Bjerge National Park, where the terrace looks out over the water and the menu looks out over most of the globe. The room is quiet and neutral, fresh flowers doing the decorating while the kitchen does the talking. Modern dishes pull from everywhere: squid cacio e pepe sits alongside black lobster with fermented tomato. Dressy-casual, the kind of place where you linger longer than planned.
-
Rank 19. Enomania
Italian
The name translates to "wine mania," and with over a thousand bottles leaning heavily on Burgundy and Piedmont, the obsession is well-documented. This unfussy Italian trattoria on Vesterbrogade holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and runs a weekly changing menu of straightforward, tradition-respecting dishes, the kind where creamy mushroom risotto arrives alongside braised wild boar. There's a wine cellar for tastings, and regulars who never need to see the list.
-
A Neapolitan-style pizza restaurant in Copenhagen's Carlsberg neighborhood, where the dough ferments long enough to stay thin and light while somehow holding up whatever goes on top. The mostly Italian staff moves quietly and efficiently, and the marinara has a way of becoming a second order before you've noticed. Ranked in the 50 Top Pizza Europe and World lists, with a Pizza of the Year award for 2026.
- 50 Top Pizza #72 · 50 Top Pizza World
- 50 Top Pizza #12 · 50 Top Pizza Europe
- White Guide Very Fine Level · White Guide
-
Rank 21. Paesàno
Neapolitan Italian
-
Rank 22. Silberbauers Bistro
French
Chalked-up blackboards, whitewashed walls, and tables small enough to force conversation: Silberbauers is a French bistro doing its level best to make Jægersborggade feel like a side street off the Seine. The menu leans into Provence and seafood combinations, though it covers enough ground to land somewhere between saucisse de Toulouse and crêpes suzette before the night is out. The Michelin Guide awards it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks with the generous portions and relaxed mood.
-
Calma sits on Jægersborggade, a cobbled street that seems to have more character per metre than most entire neighbourhoods. It's a casual neighbourhood restaurant serving French and Italian dishes with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, an open kitchen that keeps the room feeling alive, and bright art popping off light blue walls. Locals fill it early and often, which tells you what you need to know about the pricing.
-
Crystal chandeliers and bold wallpaper inside an 18th-century house in Frederiksberg Gardens make it feel like stumbling into a very well-appointed period drama. This is a Danish restaurant where lunch means classic smørrebrød and the evenings shift to a short à la carte and a seasonal menu. The rooms have genuine plasterwork charm, and the team manages to be enthusiastic without being theatrical about it.
-
Rank 25. Graziano
Tuscan
Wine racks and boxes cover the walls at this snug Italian trattoria, and everything in the glass is from the peninsula. The menu is built around the chef's grandfather's Tuscan recipes, which means this is a place where the food has a face and a family story attached. Tables are close enough that you'll know your neighbour's order, and the service feels like it. The Michelin Guide picked it up with a Bib Gourmand.
-
The name means anarchy, and the menu more or less lives up to it: sharing plates that pull techniques and seasonings from all over without any particular loyalty to a single tradition. It's a neighborhood restaurant near Peblinge Sø, casual and lively, with prices that keep the room full of regulars who seem to know the drill. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand. Wines and spirits roam as freely as the food.
-
A candlelit orangery from the 1700s at the gates of Frederiksberg Gardens, its walls painted with garden scenes and firepits going on the terrace. This is a tasting menu restaurant, five or seven surprise courses, built around a creative kitchen that leans into Asian flavors with French undercurrents. The herbs come from the gardens just outside, which is either very convenient or very on the nose, probably both.
-
A neighborhood smørrebrød spot in Copenhagen where lunch means open-faced sandwiches on housemade rye and sourdough, and dinner flips to a multi-course tasting menu. The kitchen keeps one foot in Danish tradition and uses the other to wander somewhere more contemporary. House-made snaps and aquavit suggest a team that finds the bar as interesting as the kitchen. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, and the queue outside most days makes the case plainly enough.
-
Rank 29. Kiin Kiin
Contemporary Thai
Tom yum prepared in a coffee machine is a fair preview of what this contemporary Thai restaurant is doing. You descend into a dim basement lounge first, where refined street food snacks set the mood, then climb to a dining room hung with golden Buddhas for the full tasting experience. The cooking is genuinely playful in a precise way, which is a harder trick than it sounds. Savoury creme brûlée, pandan ice cream lit with burning rum.
-
Rank 30. Kødbyens Fiskebar
Seafood
A circular aquarium and a glass-fronted wine cellar greet you inside this seafood restaurant, which occupies a former butcher's shop in Copenhagen's old meatpacking district. The kitchen runs its own fish butchery and charcuterie programme, working through the day's local catch on handmade pottery plates. The combination of industrial bones and delicate seafood is exactly as incongruous as it sounds, and somehow that's the point.
-
-
Rank 32. Ark
Vegetarian
-
Rank 33. texture
Modern French
A basement dining room beneath a whitewashed townhouse on Sølvgade, texture is an intimate fine dining spot where the chef's Marseille upbringing, Moroccan father, and Italian mother pull French technique in quietly surprising directions. The room seats few, the menu changes with the season, and the duck fat brioche has its own reputation. It holds a Michelin star.
-
Rank 34. Gabrielle
French
Ceiling fans, white tablecloths, and wooden bistro chairs on the mezzanine floor of an old building near City Hall: Gabrielle is a French bistro that makes Copenhagen feel briefly like Paris without making you feel bad about it. The menu runs classic, the wine list is exclusively French, and the garlic and thyme bread is apparently non-negotiable. A Michelin Bib Gourmand keeps the room packed most nights.
-
Rank 35. Bæst
Nordic Pizza
Sourdough pizza with a Nordic edge in Nørrebro, where the mozzarella and charcuterie are made in-house and the toppings lean on Danish organic producers. The crust comes out dark and aromatic, the wine list runs to orange bottles and serious labels, and the whole setup has the relaxed confidence of a place that's been setting the tone in Copenhagen for a long time. Informal service, strong bread, and a room full of people who know exactly where they are.
-
-
Rank 37. Restaurant Hesselet
Danish-Japanese New American
The terrace and dining room both look straight out over the Storebælt Bridge and the sea beyond, which sets a high bar before anything reaches the table. This is a calm, elegant restaurant where modern wood panelling sits alongside classic whites and blues, and the kitchen pairs a Danish larder sensibility with quiet Japanese touches. The à la carte can also be taken as a tasting menu, for those who prefer to commit fully to the view.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Rank 58. Propaganda
Korean
-
-
-
-
-
-
Rank 64. JUJU
Korean
-
-
-
-
Rank 68. Delphine
Greek
-
-
-
-
-
Rank 73. Mêlée
French
Closely packed tables and a team that actually seems glad you're there set the tone at this French neighborhood restaurant in Frederiksberg. The menu runs classic, think onglet with marrow and shallot, cassoulet with duck and smoked sausage, and the portions land generously. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, which tracks: this is the kind of French cooking that doesn't ask you to be impressed, just fed well.
-
A chandelier made of salvaged metal desk lamps sets the mood here, and the rest of the room follows: dark panelled walls, black low-hanging lights, slates chalked with vegetable drawings. It's a modern restaurant that grows its own organic produce on nearby fields and builds careful, full-flavoured combinations from them. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks. The name, for the record, comes from the old Danish Broadcasting Corporation across the street.
-
Rank 75. Sanchez
Mexican
The mezcal list alone reads like a field guide to agave, which tells you what kind of place this is. Rosio Sanchez, who came up in serious kitchens, runs this lively Mexican small-plates spot on Istedgade, and the cooking leans into bold, unapologetic flavors from her heritage. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand. On weekdays you can stop in just for tacos; any night you can let the kitchen decide with their five-dish menu.
-
Rank 76. Botschaft
Austrian German
A mosaic-tiled floor and a sculpted green ceiling set the tone at this German and Austrian restaurant near the Søerne Lakes, which tucks a small cocktail bar behind the main room for pre-dinner drinks. The menu leans into the classics, pork dumplings, venison stew, and fried calf's head for the adventurous, with shredded pancake to close. The wine list stays loyally in-region. A Michelin Bib Gourmand.
-
Rank 77. Uformel
Danish-Asian New American
A glowing wine cellar and an open kitchen pull focus the moment you walk into this moody modern bistro near City Hall. The casual sibling of fine-dining formel B, it runs on uniformly priced tasting plates, with traditional Danish cooking folded into Asian inflections. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks: this is the kind of place that feels like a find without requiring you to dress for the occasion.
-
Rank 78. MaMeMi
Roman Pizza
Roman-style pizza in the Vesterbro neighborhood, thin-crusted and cooked consistently, with a menu that reads like a tour of the trattoria classics: carbonara, amatriciana, cacio e pepe, all reinterpreted as pizza. It ranks on 50 Top Pizza Europe, for what that's worth to the people who track such things. Outdoor tables appear in summer, service is low-key and responsive, and the appetizers tend to surprise.
-
-
-
A restored Victorian glasshouse inside Tivoli Gardens, which means yes, you'll need a theme park ticket to get here, so factor in time to wander the gardens. Lunch runs smørrebrød and a three-course menu; dinner shifts to a seasonal tasting menu and modern Danish à la carte. The terrace looks out over the lake, and the whole room has a faint fairytale quality that the food, to its credit, takes seriously.
-
-
The facade is still covered in hats, a leftover from the building's former life as a milliner, so the restaurant hiding behind it feels like a genuine discovery. Inside, it's dim and candlelit with tables pressed close together, giving it the mood of a speakeasy that decided to serve dinner. The cooking follows a Nordic-meets-everywhere logic, unfussy and seasonal, with the occasional playful twist, like a tuna dish you finish painting yourself.
-
A pizza spot in Copenhagen's Nørrebro-adjacent northwest that runs from morning coffee through late dinner, Flere Fugle does something modest and slightly absurd: it leans Nordic on a form that is already Italian, so you end up with red beetroot and goat cheese on your pizza and somehow it makes sense. The room is big and Scandinavian-spare, and the garden out back has a leafy, unhurried quality that the city's summer rewards generously.
-
Rank 85. Little Brother
Neapolitan Pizza
A Neapolitan pizza spot staffed largely by young Italians, Neapolitans among them, which goes some way toward explaining why the cornicione here rises the way it should. Little Brother is compact and cozy, the kind of room that fills up with chatter fast. The menu runs from faithful classics to a few more inventive combinations, all built on decent ingredients. Listed among 50 Top Pizza Europe's Excellent Pizzerias.
-
Rank 86. Capa
Steakhouse
Dry-aged Northern European beef anchors the menu at this Copenhagen steakhouse, where the kitchen treats fire as a creative medium rather than just a cooking method. The beef programme runs on provenance and precision, with cuts chosen for character and handled without fuss. The wine list pairs Nordic natural producers against European benchmarks. It ranks among the World's Best Steak Restaurants, and the room feels exactly ambitious enough to believe it.