Copenhagen Travel Guide

F&W’s guide features spectacular food destinations from Copenhagen’s most famous restaurant, Noma, to lesser-known Nordic finds and fantastic bars.

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Top Hotel

Bertrams Hotel Guldsmeden

This boutique hotel has zen (if smallish) rooms and comfy beds, but the real draw is breakfast: a mostly organic spread featuring whipped homemade yogurt with vanilla and chestnut, nutty rye-bread-crouton granola, farm eggs, danish (of course) and attractive staff baking fresh loaves of banana bread and blending smoothies in the open kitchen. hotelguldsmeden.dk

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Aamanns Restaurant in Copenhagen — Aamanns: At this casual restaurant and takeout spot, Adam Aamann reinvents open-face Danish sandwiches known as *smørrebrød* using house-made ingredients, like beef tartare with a tarragon-egg emulsion.

Editor’s Pick — Aamanns: At this casual restaurant and takeout spot, Adam Aamann reinvents open-face Danish sandwiches known as *smørrebrød* using house-made ingredients, like beef tartare with a tarragon-egg emulsion.

Insider Guide

René Redzepi’s Copenhagen Picks

Three of superstar Noma chef René Redzepi's favorite restaurants are on Jægersborggade Street. Plus, two cool design shops.

Expert Strategy

How to Get Into the World’s Most Exclusive Restaurants

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Nordic Recipes

Oyster Tartare Sauce with Potato Chips

This ingenious, briny sauce couldn’t be simpler: Chef René Redzepi purees raw oysters with rice vinegar, oil and diced vegetables for texture, then serves the dip with potato chips.
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Grilled Salmon Gravlax

Megan Walhood and Jeremy Daniels cure salmon with aquavit before grilling it over hardwood charcoal. They serve it with lefse, a Norwegian flatbread.
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Brown Butter Chicken Jus with Citrus and Greens

This dish is loosely based on one that René Redzepi makes at his Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, using Nordic herbs instead of cilantro and pickled vegetables in place of citrus.
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Norwegian Meatballs

In her cookbook Scandilicious, London-based Signe Johansen shares her unusual cocoa-sauced meatball recipe.
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Cabbage with Parsley Cream

Cabbage-leaf rolls simulate the pointed cabbage heads that Claus Henriksen uses at Dragsholm Slot.
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