Restaurants in Jutland
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Pingvin Tapas & Vincafé
Definitely one of our favourites and it seems we’re not alone. This warm restaurant-bar offers a brilliant selection of 30 ‘tapas’ (it’s not so much a place to order dishes to share among a group, but more an individual tasting-plate approach). Make your selection and sit back to enjoy taste sensations such as figs wrapped in Parma ham, smoked duck breast on coleslaw or prawns cooked with sun-dried tomatoes and chilli. There’s a superb wine list, plus lunch-friendly one-stop dishes such as soup, sandwiches and burgers.
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Mortens Kro
Hands down both the best and priciest place to eat in town, Mortens Kro is owned by celebrity chef Morten Nielsen, Denmark’s answer to Gordon Ramsay (minus the swearing, possibly). It’s a superstylish, well-hidden setting for the immaculately prepared food – you’re best to go with a menu of plentiful courses in order to experience the full ‘Morten magic’. This place is always hot, so advance booking is a good idea. Mølleå Arkaden is accessed from Danmarksgade or Peder Barkes Gade.
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Dronning Louise
The Queen Louise commands a great position on Torvet and entertains her loyal subjects with something-for-everyone panache: she’s a café, restaurant, pub and even a nightclub (until the wee hours on Friday and Saturday). There’s also live music each Thursday. You can dine from the wonderfully broad all-day menu on the square, inside or in the rear courtyard. The brunch plate (95kr) offers serious bang for your buck, or try local boutique brews at the pub. You may not need to venture elsewhere.
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Brygger Bauers Grotter
Follow the candlelit passageway for a fine-dining experience inside ‘cave rooms’ that date back more than 100 years. Service is polished and the menu is nicely upmarket, with traditional touches – we’re talking venison with redcurrant sauce and mushroom roulade, or maybe fried plaice. There’s an excellent beer and wine selection, including local boutique brews. Lunch is considerably more casual. You can also enter from Domkirkestræde, behind the cathedral.
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Pakhuset
Best for seafood, atmosphere and for late-night summer drinks (often accompanied by live music). The discerning seafood-lover will feel at home upstairs at Pakhuset, where fresh fish dishes are meticulously prepared and served on white linen. Downstairs is the more relaxed café, with easier-on-the-wallet prices and appetising meals such as fish soup or steamed mussels. We give Pakhuset the nod over its downstairs café solely for the cheerful wooden ship mastheads it displays inside.
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Gourmet
If you name a restaurant Gourmet, you better be pretty certain you can back it up. This new place at Rømø Golf & Wellness has certainly got the setting and the décor right, and is home to the island’s loveliest terrace. The lunch menu holds few surprises but plenty of smørrebrød and seafood. The kitchen really struts its stuff of an evening, with high-class Rømø produce aplenty (local lamb, organic chicken, Rømø shrimps). Top stuff.
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Café Saltlageret
This is our favourite spot on Jomfru Ane Gade, with its cute outdoor seating and classy interior. If you can face this street again after a big night on the turps, there are good brunch offerings served until 2pm and the potential for hair of the dog. Otherwise, peruse the lengthy menu for classic café fare. It transforms into a bar-club later on (hey, don’t they all?) and stays open until 6am on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Sand’s
If you’re in Denmark on a short break and want to sample traditional cuisine, make a beeline for this classy 100-year-old restaurant and order up big! The menu is an ode to old-school Danish favourites: lunchtime smørrebrød and herring platters, evening fish (try the bakskuld, a fish not unlike a flounder) and plenty of bøf (beef).
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Skagen Fiskerestaurant
The town’s favourite restaurant, cheaper, more casual downstairs snacks and meals (superb fiskefrikadeller, fishballs, or fresh-off-the-boat prawns you peel yourself), and a smarter upstairs area for fancy-pants dining. Downstairs is rustic and fun (you know it doesn’t take itself too seriously when the floor is covered in sand).
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Restaurant Gastronomisk Institut
The grand name (Gastronomy Institute) creates high expectations, but this place lives up to them – and the prices are excellent for the quality on offer, especially the two-course lunch (105kr) and four-course dinner (305kr). The changing menu features creative dishes made from fine local produce; evening bookings are recommended.
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Rosdahls
Rosdahls may look rustic but the cooking is sophisticated, and the locals love it – especially the good-value 189kr fish and seafood buffet on Friday and Saturday nights (come hungry!), or the legendary Saturday brunch (149kr) from 11am. A great fresh-produce market sets up down on the docks on Saturday morning.
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Otto & Ani’s Fisk
Right on the harbourside at Havneby, so the fish are as fresh as they come. Pull up a pew outside, feast on fish and chips (55kr) or a bread roll filled with Rømø shrimp (40kr), and revel in the fact that you’re on holiday. You can also buy fresh uncooked fish and seafood, and smoked fishy delicacies.
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Jakobs Café & Bar
The outside terrace of this relaxed café-bar makes a great spot for people-watching, and the comprehensive menu has universal favourites such as pasta, Caesar salad, steak sandwiches, fish soup and steaks. On long summer nights the place is generally heaving with young Danes enjoying a few warm-up drinks.
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Sælhunden
Top choice for a leisurely meal is this handsome old black-and-white restaurant down by the waterfront, with outdoor seating by the Johanne Dan sailing ship .Sælhund means seal, so it’s no surprise this place dedicates itself to serving the best seafood in town.
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Kolvig
Kolvig is gorgeously situated by the water, so alfresco dining is understandably popular and offers prime Ribe-watching. The menu is a good mix of traditional and modern; most interesting is the tapas plate of local flavours that includes lamb from Fanø plus shrimps, mussels and codfish.
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Møllehuset
This handsome old kro from the mid-18th-century is in a pretty setting in the Bangsbo area (what a pity the outdoor seating overlooks the car park when there is so much surrounding greenery). Still, the small menu has plenty of appeal in the form of cheese platters and fresh fish.
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Café 1.Række
The name means first row, and (appropriately enough) this large modern space is part of the Jysk Musik & Teaterhus. There’s a great waterside terrace, while inside smartly dressed tables and plenty of plant life accompany a crowd-pleasing menu of sandwiches, seafood and pasta.
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Natalies Ristorante
In among the family restaurants, cinema and café-bars of Papirfabrikken is Natalies, wooing a mixed crowd with a large, good-value menu of Italian and Mexican staples (pizza, pasta, burritos and tacos). It’s a fairly generic place, with the better views outside.
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Café Humlechok
With a well-stocked bar, a classic menu of café fare, wallet-friendly prices (most meals under 100kr) and occasional live music, it’s no surprise this café-bar draws a hip local crowd. Fab brunch options (served until 1.30pm) will kick-start your day.
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Penny Lane
A heavenly little delicatessen offering its own freshly baked bread, local cheeses and cured meats for fine picnicking, plus there’s an in-house café offering a standout brunch platter (99kr) or snack-worthy sandwiches, quiche, cake and tarts.
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Vægterkælderen
The timber-heavy décor down here seems made for cold weather – soft leather banquettes and booths (a touch dated but very cosy). The menu is huge and runs the gamut of small dishes, salads and smørrebrød to quality steaks.
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Caféministeriet
Generous portions of fresh café fare includes burgers, sandwiches, salads and so on. The cool crowd seated inside and out on the summer terrace seem indifferent to the slow service. Becomes a popular drinking spot later in the night.
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Café Morville
One of those chic all-day cafés that seem compulsory in Danish towns. You can park yourself on the leather banquettes for a mid-morning coffee or late-night drink and everything in between, from brunch plates to burgers.
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Coffee & Bread
Fresh from the school of obvious business names, the modern, richly coloured décor complements the strong coffee, perky smoothies and filling sandwiches served here with aplomb. A good pit stop.
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Café Klostertorvet
A funky, laid-back café with a studenty feel, thanks largely to its dirt-cheap meals (baguettes, lasagne and the like), strong coffee, cheap house wine and backgammon-playing clientele.
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