Copenhagen on the Cheap
Hi CH,
I am in Copenhagen this week and I'm looking for some good cheap eats. I realize that Copenhagen in general is more expensive, but if you have any suggestions for good food on the cheaper side, I'd love to hear them!
I know that hot dog stands are widespread here, but what else do you recommend? I'm open to eating pretty much everything, but I'd like to try some more traditional Danish fare.
Also, I'm looking to take my friend who I'm staying with for dinner one night as a thank you, so recs for that too would be great? (I'd love to go to Noma, but alas..i'm a student).
Thanks in advance!
By aoc220
on Mar 13, 2009 01:09 AM
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I'm going to Copenhagen in July. Where are good restaurants to take kids (other than the hot dog stands)? My husband and I are foodies but don't want to go somewhere too urbane where kids would be out of place.
And are many restaurants closed for July there? Seemed to be the case from older posts.
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They sell milk in the pastry shops. Don't pass up danish pastries, wash it down with their excellent milk and you have at least one superb meal - for breakfast, lunch and/or dinner. They sell savory pastries as well as sweet. Look for the twisted pretzel sign hanging out on the streets and beeline towards them.
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Well Danes are normally pretty relaxed about kids. But Bio Mio on Halmtorvet is a new organic semiself serve restaurant. On the backside of tivoli you will find Waga Mama which is an Asian noodle chain originating from England - very tasty.
If you go to the Christianshavn area you will find an excellent Italian called La Bottega, very good Pizzas.
A nice Café could be Café Kreuzberg in "Strædet" 4 steps down, a really cosy place in the center parallel to the big pedestianstreet "Strøget" Just around the corner from Kreuzberg you will find Café Sorgenfri which serve a very traditional danish lunch with open faced rye sandwiches "smørrebrød".
There is two bakery chains which excel over the others: Reinh Van Hauen and Lagkagehuset that is where you get the best danish pastries and bread.
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Our pretty ordinary single plate dinner at the little house on the lake in Tivoli with two beers and dessert set us back US$140, plus the Tivoli admission charges.
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