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Restaurant Nytorv
Nytorv 15About
It occupies a building at the most distant end of the most elegant square in central Copenhagen, a baroque perimeter that's particularly charming on warm summer nights. Inside, you'll find a warren of cozy dining areas, each low-ceilinged, each evoking 19th-century Copenhagen, and each a bastion of uncompromising Danish nationalism in all things cultural and culinary. The place, like so many others in the area, used to shelter drunks, sailors, and prostitutes. Don't come here expecting cutting-edge cuisine or decor, as very little has changed since the early 1960s in terms of decor -- and since the early 1920s in terms of cuisine. But prices are relatively affordable for this part of town; the smørrebrød are suitably thick; and the Københavner platte, a platter piled high with Danish herring, cheese, meatballs, and more, is suitably filling. If you happen to have children in tow, there's a kids' menu, and it's otherwise hard to turn down for diners of any age. Menu items include Danish pork sausage with potatoes, beef sirloin with béarnaise, frikadeller with potatoes, biksemal (Danish hash), and Madagascar-style pepper steak.
