Cheap Eats in Copenhagen for Visitors: 14 Good Meals Under 200 DKK in 2026

Updated 17 October 2026

What Does a Good Meal Under 200 DKK Buy in Copenhagen in 2026?

A meal here means one main dish a person can eat as lunch or dinner: a burger, a bowl of noodles, three tacos, two open sandwiches, a plate of rice. Snacks and drinks stay outside the count unless a combo includes them.

An inexpensive restaurant meal in Copenhagen averages 140 to 160 DKK, so 200 DKK is a ceiling with some air above the average. VAT is already in every price, tipping is optional and tap water is free, with more than 60 public fountains for refills, which matters when a lemonade can add 35 DKK.

The full ladder, from street food to a tasting menu, is priced in what a good meal costs in Copenhagen in 2026. This list holds to one cap and names the dish.

14 Cheap Meals in Copenhagen, Compared for 2026

Gasoline Grill and Slurp open the table and the other twelve follow in alphabetical order. Prices were read on 17 October 2026.

Which Danish Kitchens Come in Under 200 DKK?

Where Can You Get Smørrebrød Without Paying Restaurant Prices?

Hallernes Smørrebrød opened in Torvehallerne in 2012, started by three owners with unrelated careers: a business graduate who founded a tea shop, an architect, and a goldsmith who is also a journalist. They shared a love of smørrebrød, shut themselves in a kitchen with two experienced smørrebrød makers to rework the classics, and banned the lettuce-leaf garnish.

The fixed menu starts at 78 DKK for the Kartoffelmad, potato with fried and raw onion, mayonnaise and chives, and stops at 128 DKK. Two pieces make lunch: marinated salmon with fennel and dill at 88 DKK plus the Kartoffelmad at 78 DKK comes to 166 DKK. Frikadelle with potato salad is 85 DKK and roast pork with red cabbage is 95 DKK.

The Torvehallerne bar has 16 stools around the counter, cannot promise a seat and takes no bookings, and there are shared tables outside. It opens 10:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and 10:00 to 18:00 at weekends.

Rørt reinvents the open sandwich at Broens Street Food. Jean Michel Grønnegaard Deleuran left an office job in 2019 to give smørrebrød lighter toppings, less mayonnaise and more vegetables. Pieces are 55 DKK each, two for 99 DKK and three for 140 DKK, with toppings such as fungi-fermented vegetables with Jerusalem artichoke cream, or hot-smoked salmon rillette with miso and ponzu, which carries a 20 DKK supplement.

Where Can You Get a Hot Bowl of Porridge or a Weekday Lunch at a Long Table?

Lasse Skjønning Andersen was 21 when he dropped his music studies in London, cashed in his childhood savings account and opened GRØD on Jægersborggade in Nørrebro on 24 September 2011. GRØD calls itself the world's first porridge bar, and its savoury bowls are the meal. Rød daal, an Indian red lentil porridge with cherry tomatoes, coriander, skyr and salted almonds, is 99 DKK. Svampebygotto, a mushroom and barley dish with aged Gammel Knas cheese, pickled mushrooms and thyme, is 109 DKK.

Chicken Congee, an Asian rice porridge with hoisin chicken, crushed peanuts, kimchi cabbage and sesame, is 119 DKK. The shop at Jægersborggade 50 opens 8:00 to 20:00 on weekdays and 9:00 to 20:00 at weekends, with outdoor seats, and the savoury dishes can be ordered from 11:00.

Nordhus opened on 11 October 2024 in Den Røde By (the Red Town) in Nordhavn as a youth-run cultural house founded by Felicia Nørgaard, with an opening programme curated by 30 young culture-makers. Each weekday it now serves one set lunch at long tables for 125 DKK: the dish of the day, a salad and bread. The week of 19 October runs from potato and leek soup on Monday to mushroom bourguignon on Friday, and meat or fish appears only on certain days, such as ginger and lime roast chicken on Thursday.

The house is open 11:00 to 13:30 on Monday, 11:00 to 21:00 from Tuesday to Thursday and 11:00 to 19:00 on Friday, and it is closed at weekends. Lunch is booked through the site and no walk-in rule is published. Nordhus cannot accommodate individual dietary requirements or allergies, so check the day's dish before you book.

Where Can You Eat Dinner With Strangers for 75 DKK?

Absalon is a former church in Vesterbro that reopened as Folkehuset Absalon in August 2015. The house now runs more than 100 events a week, from life drawing to bingo, and dinner is served in the main hall, which has a high ceiling, long tables and a table-tennis table.

Every evening at 18:00 the hall serves one communal dinner: 75 DKK from Sunday to Wednesday and 100 DKK for two courses from Thursday to Saturday, with a vegetarian version on meat days. The menu for Saturday 17 October was chicken in ratatouille with gremolata, herb rice and paprika bread, with long-baked carrots in place of the chicken for vegetarians. Tickets sell online until 16:00 and at the door from 17:00 if any remain. Lunch at 12:00 costs 60 DKK, ordered at the bar, and no tables are reserved for it.

Where Can You Fill Up on a Burger, Tacos, Gyros or Pizza for Under 200 DKK?

What Does 110 DKK Buy at Gasoline Grill?

The Original Burger at Gasoline Grill costs 110 DKK and arrives with lettuce, tomato, red onion, pickles and the house sauce, in a potato roll made to the house recipe with mashed potatoes. The patty is flattened on a smasher that came out of a garage in northwestern Jutland. Founder Klaus Wittrup's father Peter, a retired toolmaker, and his friend Egon machined the first prototype in stainless steel and fitted an oak handle, and they made every smasher by hand before helping to develop a production version.

Bought one by one, an Original Burger, regular fries at 40 DKK and a homemade lemonade at 35 DKK come to 185 DKK. The combo of burger, fries and drink starts at 155 DKK, which keeps a full meal 45 DKK under the cap. A vegetarian Matr patty goes on any burger from 100 DKK.

Gasoline Grill takes no reservations, opens every day from 11:00 and sells until sold out, so lunchtime is safer than late evening. Landgreven 10 has outdoor seats only. Købmagergade 23 has seats inside and out, serves breakfast from 7:30 to 11:00 and burgers after that, and takes pre-orders through the Gasoline Grill app.

What Can You Eat on the Broens Quay?

Broens Street Food has stood on the Greenland Trading Square since 2018. The merchant Andreas Bjørn founded the square in 1735, and the 1761 warehouse on the square was Noma's original home. Today the food stalls open 11:30 to 20:00 from Sunday to Thursday and 11:00 to 21:00 on Friday and Saturday, and Rørt, above, is one of them.

Rosio Sanchez, a former Noma pastry chef, opened Hija de Sánchez, Spanish for "daughter of Sanchez", as a taco stand in Torvehallerne in June 2015. In 2018 a panel of 73 food experts assembled by easyJet Traveller magazine named it the best street food in Europe. The Broens stall sells a taco combo for 115 DKK, three tacos filled with pork cochinita, beef barbacoa and seasonal vegetables. Chips and salsa add 55 DKK and bring the meal to 170 DKK.

Nikolas Strangas got the idea for Greek street food on a windy beach in Mykonos and left his job as a pastry chef at Era Ora and Hotel d'Angleterre to follow it. His flatbread is baked daily to his own recipe, brushed with butter and toasted, then filled with spiced pork, chicken or halloumi for 109 DKK. The gyros menu with fries and mayonnaise is 149 DKK, and halloumi makes it a vegetarian meal.

Where Can You Sit Down for a Pizza Under 200 DKK?

SURT's founder Giuseppe Oliva comes from a family that has made bread since 1941. His grandfather headed a water mill that baked bread for the Italian army in the Second World War, his father opened a bakery in 1978, and he opened SURT in December 2019 in Carlsberg Byen, the old brewery district, with an oven built on site by an oven maker called Ernesto.

Two pizzas come in under the cap: Marinara at 165 DKK and Margherita at 175 DKK. The other pizzas cost 235 to 265 DKK. SURT is open 12:00 to 21:30 every day and takes bookings online. The first bottle of water is free, and a table is yours for about 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Which Asian Kitchens Come in Under 200 DKK?

Where Can You Eat Sushi or a Japanese Rice Bowl at Lunch?

Restaurant Tokyo has served Japanese food in Copenhagen since 1964 and describes itself as the first Japanese restaurant in Scandinavia. Its lunch menu runs Thursday to Saturday from 12:00 to 15:00, with the kitchen closing at 14:30, and tables are booked online or on +45 33 31 01 65. The dining room is upstairs over a 7-Eleven, and Teruo Nakazawa, who bought the restaurant in the 1970s, was still the one cooking when Heartbeats reviewed it in December 2022. Gyuudon, a beef rice bowl, and karaagedon, a fried chicken rice bowl, are 135 DKK each, vegetarian curry rice is 120 DKK, katsu curry rice is 145 DKK and a katsu sandwich is 110 DKK.

Selfish, a sushi counter at Elmegade 4 in Nørrebro, runs a lunch from 12:00 to 15:00, Tuesday to Saturday: seven pieces for 125 DKK, nine for 150 DKK and thirteen for 195 DKK, plus a vegetarian special at 195 DKK. Owner-chef Kaoru Fujisawa selects and imports the counter's sake himself. The all-day sets cost more, with seven pieces at 155 DKK, so the lunch hours are where the price is.

Where Can You Sit Down in the Evening for Modern Asian Plates?

Propaganda opened in December 2021, run by the Italian sommelier Riccardo Marcon, owner of Barabba, with the former Noma chef Youra Kim in the kitchen. The short menu now runs from haddock wonton to Korean fried chicken. Mushroom coconut sticky rice, steamed in banana leaves with green pepper and tamarind sauce, is 140 DKK and needs no side. The haddock wonton with potato purée and lemongrass is 155 DKK, and the galbi-marinated beef ribs are 170 DKK before the 45 DKK rice.

Propaganda serves from 17:00 Monday to Saturday, closing at 23:00 on weeknights and at midnight when the weekend starts, with last orders an hour earlier and online booking for groups of up to 12.

Goldfinch opened in December 2022 after two years in the making, in the courtyard behind Esmée at Kongens Nytorv 8. It takes its name from the Hong Kong restaurant of the same name in Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love. Will King-Smith, formerly of Geranium, cooks nostalgic Cantonese food built for sharing, so a meal for one is a single large plate: fried rice with egg, smoked bacon and dried shrimp at 175 DKK, shrimp cheung fen, steamed rice noodle sheets with seasoned soy, also at 175 DKK, or dan dan noodles with seasoned pork at 195 DKK.

The full menu runs from 17:30 to 22:00, until 23:00 on Fridays and Saturdays, and the restaurant always leaves room for walk-ins.

What Does a 185 DKK Bowl Buy at Slurp?

Slurp opened on Nansensgade in 2017, and the crowdfunding page for our second room, Slurp Borgergade, shows 1,054,500 DKK raised against a 500,000 DKK goal. Most of it came from one reward: 5,000 vouchers for two bowls at 180 DKK, against a regular 360 DKK, which add up to 900,000 DKK of the total. Each voucher was valid for a year from opening day in January 2025.

Today the plainest bowl on the menu is the Shoyu at 185 DKK: a chicken broth with chashu cut from pork neck, a soft egg, spring onions, mushroom paste, chard and garden sorrel, over house-made noodles we roll and cut each morning. Veggie is the lowest-priced bowl at 175 DKK and can be made vegan.

Prices have moved since the first year. In October 2017 a reviewer paid 140 DKK for a spicy miso special: chicken broth with slow-cooked pork belly, grilled bean sprouts and a smoked, marinated egg, with pork gyoza at 55 DKK on the side. The recipes have changed, so a like-for-like comparison is impossible, and today's bowls run 35 to 55 DKK above that special.

At 185 DKK a Shoyu costs 75 DKK more than the burger at Gasoline Grill and 86 DKK more than two pieces of Rørt. It suits the evening or the lunch when you want a hot, hand-built bowl, and the counters above suit the days when price decides.

Slurp Nansensgade has 22 seats and Slurp Borgergade has 36, and neither takes reservations. Lunch orders run until 14:45 at both rooms.

How Far Does 400 DKK Go in a Day of Eating?

Three plans use only prices from the entries above. Each stays under 400 DKK before drinks, which compares with the 350 to 450 DKK a single three-course dinner costs at a mid-range restaurant.

These totals use the prices read on 17 October 2026, the Sunday to Wednesday rate at Absalon and no drink beyond the one inside the Gasoline Grill combo, so a beer or two eats into the change.

What Can You Order at Slurp for a Casual Dinner Under 200 DKK?

Four ramen bowls stay under 200 DKK at dinner in both Slurp rooms: Veggie at 175, Shoyu and Shio at 185 and Nduja Miso at 195. Dinner orders run until 20:45 at Nansensgade and 21:45 at Borgergade, and the Shoyu is the plainest of the four.

Shio adds smoked mackerel to the chicken broth and Nduja Miso is a creamy chicken broth with spicy nduja butter. Two dinner-only specials sit at or above the cap: the Unagi ramen at Nansensgade, 200 DKK, and the Borgergade tonkotsu, 210 DKK, 15 bowls a day.

Picture two friends at Nansensgade at 20:00 on a weeknight, with dinner orders open for another 45 minutes. One has the karaage chicken, deep-fried and served with Japanese mayonnaise, at 120 DKK plus a 65 DKK beer, 185 DKK in all. The other has a Veggie bowl at 175 DKK. Both leave under the cap.

Nansensgade opens for dinner at 16:00 and Borgergade at 17:00, dogs are welcome in both rooms, and the kitchen cannot accommodate guests who need to avoid gluten.

Which Cheap Meal Should You Pick Tonight?

Pick by the hour first. Before 15:00, Hallernes, Gasoline Grill, Selfish, Absalon's 60 DKK lunch, Nordhus on weekdays and, from Thursday to Saturday, Restaurant Tokyo all work. After 20:00 the Broens stalls are closing (they shut at 20:00 from Sunday to Thursday and an hour later at the weekend), so Goldfinch (kitchen to 22:00), Propaganda (to 23:00, last orders an hour earlier), SURT (to 21:30) and both Slurp rooms carry the evening.

Pick by diet second. A Veggie ramen at 175 DKK can be made vegan, Gasoline Grill's Matr patty makes a burger vegetarian from 100 DKK, the halloumi gyros at Strangas is 109 DKK, and Absalon cooks a vegetarian version of its dinner every night.

Pick by the plate last. The Margherita at SURT, the fried rice at Goldfinch, the gyuudon at Restaurant Tokyo and a bowl of ramen are cooked-to-order plates you eat sitting down, while the Gasoline Grill burger and the smørrebrød bars win on speed and price.

Where a seat matters, book SURT, Restaurant Tokyo, Propaganda or the Nordhus lunch. Everywhere else, arrive early.

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