Copenhagen Restaurant advice
 

I'd appreciate input on where to dine in Copenhagen. These are the parameters:

I shall be in the city dining out on a Sunday night.

I am looking for good food (well, who isn't?), but not necessarily any Nouvelle Cuisine or similar style.

I would welcome particularly suggestions for places with local style food - I can have any other cuisine style right here at home, so Danish or Scandinavian would be my preference for their authenticity.

And finally the atmosphere should be ditinguished, but laid back. Upscale casual, if you catch my drift.

If any of you could fill in with recommendations, I'd be delighted!
Thanks in advance.

hsv

Here is a list of danish cuisine resturants:

http://www.aok.dk/search?type=grid&f...Danish+cuisine

If you are a fish fan, Nyhavns Faergekro is a great returant. Its a very popular. Its basically a Herring Buffet.This maybe better for a lunch, but it is very unique and worth a visit.

Hope that helps a little bit. :)

Cafe Victor in the fashionable Ostergade area definitely fits the bill for upscale casual. Some reviews: says
"Café Victor is known mostly for its oyster and champagne menu—a favourite lunchtime indulgence of the business and financial set. Given the upscale clientele, the prices at Victor are surprisingly reasonable and its menu of European café-style classics easily digestible." (bradman's guide to European cities)

"There is always an occasion to visit Cafe Victor. All day long the cappuccino machine is hard at work and there is lively ambience in Denmarks leading cafe and restaurant since 1981." www.boingo.com (have no idea who they are)

"For a good Danish lunch, the place to be seen is the Cafe Victor (8 Ostergade)" www.businesstraveller.com

"Despite its name, Victor is actually a brasserie, warm and woody inside, where you won't go wrong if you order the Dover sole or just a dozen oysters and a glass of fizz at the bar." (NYTimes.com)

When I was there, I didn't have champagne or oysters, I had the pasta of the day, a glass of red wine, and cappuccino. It was all good (my best cappuccino outside Italy), and cheaper than I expected. And it's also a wifi hotspot, if that's a consideration.

Cafe Victor Cafe-Brasserie
Ny Østergade 8, 1101 København K, Tel. +45 33 13 36 13, Fax +45 33 91 13 40

Oops, forgot their web site, with menu, photos, etc.:
www.cafevictor.dk (danish and english)

Thanks a lot, MNP and BTilke (I do appreciate your advice all the more after our little Hamburg argument about a year ago ;-) ) - those to are really helpful suggestions, which I do appreciate immensely!

I will gladly report back upon my return.

Enjoy your weekend!
hsv

Hi,
why not try NOMA - a brand new restaurant that specializes in nouvelle scandinavian. I am Danish myself and don't enjoy the traditional Danish food - too fat and boring, but that is my opinion. Noma is supposed to be fantastic (but expensive) see www.noma.dk - but cafe victor is the worst! just received very bad reviews, and the food is just overpriced and, if you are lucky, ordinary. Nyhavns Færgekro is also a possibility.
see also www.aok.dk - you can search for restaurants that matches your description.
Hope you have a wonderful stay here!

I tried the herring buffet at Nyhavn Faergekro about a week back. While the atmosphere definitely was nice, and I'm a lover of sea food under ordinary circumstances, I actually found the herring buffet too much of a good thing. And all the varieties [you get about 10 types in all] are not as palatable. Still, the place was very nice, and they do have other stuff on their menu [though I think they're basically most famous for the herring buffet]. There are other [more expensive] restaurants also along the Nyhavn with the same atmosphere. Didn't check them out.

katrine and ayakkadan,

thanks so much to both of you for your comments!

katrine, I can relate to what you're saying about the Danish cuisine, but I was hoping that it might be undergoing some "upgrading" as our North German cuisine (which BTW is in parts pretty similar - and I take some pride in being able to pronounce Rode Grod med Flode the proper way ;-) )is experiencing by capable chefs using lighter ingredients in traditional meals.
E.g. I once had dinner at that spectacular restaurant called Fakkelgaarden just North of Flensburg in Krusa. The French chef had some fantastic domestic influences in his dishes.

Unfortunately my trip to Copenhagen has been postponed. There was some business appointment attached to it which I will have to take care of a bit later this summer.
I will report back upon my return.

Cheers
hsv