Roskilde Restaurants

  1. Café Ce

    'Ci Ce'Ci is a trendy, fashionable café right on the main square, with cathedral views. It's a good place to sit and people-watch, particularly in summer when it sprouts outdoor seating. There's a sound lunchtime menu of soup, sandwiches, wraps, burgers and salads; and the evening bistro-style meals are good too - chicken breast with pesto, braised ham in a Royal Stout sauce, deluxe burgers.

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  2. Gringos

    Parachuting clowns, a desert mural and rainbow seats add a cheerfully tacky backdrop to your meal. The all-you-can-eat taco lunch at this Mexican restaurant is a good deal, service is friendly, and the burritos thick and juicy. It also does food to take away.

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  3. Raadhus-Kælderen

    One of Roskilde's best restaurants is this atmospheric spot in the cellar of the old town hall (c 1430). Herring platters, and open sandwiches with smoked venison, beef tartare and smoked eel feature on the lunch menu. At dinner, creative, French-inspired seafood and meat dishes, such as guineafowl with rosemary sauce, get an outing. There's little for veggies.

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  4. Restaurant Bryggergården

    French and Danish cuisine is served in this busy pub-restaurant. There's a good choice of traditional open sandwiches (shooting stars, roast-beef-and-remoulade, curried herring), plus solid, slightly old-fashioned dishes such as boeuf Bearnaise, roast pork and fish and chips.

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  5. Restaurant Snekken

    Situated by the Viking Ship Museum, Snekken is an upmarket café-bistro sleekly designed in glass, stone and steel. It's great for lunch in summer, when you can sit outside and watch the Viking boats. In the evening, it becomes two restaurants, one serving sushi and sashimi (open weekdays only) and the other classic dishes such as foie gras and buttery grilled plaice.

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