Where to Eat Lunch After 2pm in Copenhagen: 12 Places That Still Serve in 2026

Updated 17 October 2026

Picture Hauser Plads at 14:07 on a weekday. Lunch at Schønnemann stopped at 14:00 and starts again at 14:14, so anyone arriving now waits seven minutes, then walks down four steps into a room that has served herring since 1877.

Many lunch kitchens in the city stop cooking somewhere between 14:00 and 15:30, which is exactly when a long morning leaves people hungry. The twelve places below kept cooking when their hours were checked on 17 October 2026. They are grouped by the clock rather than by cuisine, because at 14:20 the time on the door settles the choice before the menu can.

Which Kitchens Take Their Last Lunch Order Between 14:45 and 15:30?

Three kitchens finish lunch within forty-five minutes of each other. Each rewards an arrival by 14:30, and by 15:30 on most days all three have stopped cooking. They run here from the latest finish to the earliest.

Told & Snaps: Kitchen to 15:30, or 16:00 on Friday and Saturday

Told & Snaps has filled a high cellar on Toldbodgade near Nyhavn since 2000, with white tablecloths, tall wall panels and well-known Danish faces on the walls. Mette Borum opened it, and, as Scan Magazine described it, guests take three steps down from the street into the basement.

From Sunday to Thursday the restaurant runs 11:30 to 16:00 with the kitchen closing at 15:30, and on Friday and Saturday it runs 11:30 to 17:00 with the kitchen closing at 16:00. Order the matured marinated herring with red onion and a smiling egg at 109 DKK, or the pariserbøf at 209 DKK, a fried tartare of young beef with pickles, horseradish and egg yolk. More than twenty homemade snaps change with the season, and there is no vegan smørrebrød.

Slotskælderen hos Gitte Kik: Kitchen Until 15:00

The cellar at Fortunstræde 4, a short walk from Christiansborg, sits in a building from 1797 that held a small aquavit distillery before it became a restaurant, and the Kik family took over in 1910. The Kik in the name goes back to Karl Kik, the street's first publican, who according to a history written for the family's centenary in 2010 picked up his surname because he kept stepping out to see who was coming in.

The room is open every day from 10:00 to 17:00, but the kitchen cooks from 11:00 to 15:00 only. Dishes start at 105 DKK. Look for smoked eel with warm scrambled egg, plaice fillet with remoulade, and Dyrelægens natmad, whose name translates as the vet's midnight snack.

Slurp: Last Lunch Order at 14:45

Slurp has stood at Nansensgade 90 since 2017, and in 2018 its founder Philipp Inreiter summed up the idea for Scandinavia Standard: "Ramen is Japanese comfort food", and his first bowl in Japan "really stuck with me". A second room opened on Borgergade in January 2025.

Both Slurp rooms take last lunch orders at 14:45 and close at 15:00, every day of the week, Sunday included. That is the earliest finish among the twelve, so arrive at 14:50 and the answer is no, with dinner starting at 16:00 on Nansensgade and 17:00 on Borgergade. The unagi ramen at Nansensgade and the tonkotsu at Borgergade are dinner only.

The bowl to order is the Nduja Miso at 195 DKK: a creamy chicken broth with spicy nduja butter and minced pork, finished with tamago, spring onions and burnt onion oil. The menu pairs it with the 60 DKK amazu plate of pickled carrot, daikon and cucumber, and with sobacha, a roasted buckwheat infusion without caffeine.

Where Does Lunch Run Until 16:00 or 17:00?

These three rooms treat 14:00 as the middle of lunch rather than its end, and they are the safest picks for a 15:30 arrival.

Paté Paté, Kødbyen: Lunch Kitchen Until 16:00

Paté Paté fills a former paté factory at Slagterboderne 1 in the Meatpacking District, which explains the name. The Copenhagen Post reported in 2015 that Kenn Husted opened it at the peak of the 2008 financial crisis, turning a rundown factory into a restaurant with southern French cooking, a Spanish lean and North African spices.

The lunch kitchen runs 12:00 to 16:00 Monday to Saturday, and on Sunday the doors open at 16:00. Start with the pâté de campagne, pork and duck liver with pistachio, at 155 DKK. Follow it with hanger steak, green beans and fried potatoes at 175 DKK, or mussels in white wine with green chilli at 160 DKK.

Schønnemann: A Second Lunch Service From 14:14 to 17:00

The restaurant at Hauser Plads 16 began in 1877 as Café Hauser Plads at number 11, run by Maria Henriksen, and farmers from the suburbs left their horses on the square outside while they drank freshly brewed beer and snaps. It moved to number 16 in 1901.

After the First World War Erna, the daughter of the house, married Peter Schønnemann, and the restaurant took his name and stayed in the family until 1963. Søren and John Puggard took over in 2007, and Juliette and Thomas Gaarn Rasmussen own it today.

The restaurant is open every day from 11:30 to 17:00, with lunch served from 11:30 or 12:00 to 14:00 and again from 14:14 to 17:00. The marinated herring comes with curry salad, onions, capers and a soft-boiled egg for 135 DKK. The classic tartare, 180 DKK, is beef with raw egg yolk, capers and horseradish.

Kronborg: Kitchen Until 17:00, or 21:00 From Thursday to Saturday

Restaurant Kronborg sits in the basement at Brolæggerstræde 12, a house finished in 1796 for Carl Dahlén, a first dancer at the Royal Danish Ballet, after the fire of 1795 destroyed the street.

The restaurant is open 11:00 to 18:00 Monday to Wednesday and Sunday, and 11:00 to 22:00 Thursday to Saturday, and the kitchen closes an hour before the doors do. Order the warm fried herring in pickling brine at 140 DKK, or pan-fried plaice fillets with remoulade from 165 DKK.

Which Kitchens Cook Right Through the Afternoon?

Two places print no break between lunch and dinner, so any hour from 11:00 works.

Cap Horn, Nyhavn: Kitchen Open 11:00 to 21:00

The room at Nyhavn 21 is where Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band formed in 1956, and live jazz still returns to it every second Thursday.

The restaurant is open daily from 10:00 to 22:00 and the kitchen runs from 11:00 to 21:00. On the lunch list, the beef tartare is 135 DKK, the moules marinières 185 DKK and the fish 'n' chips 215 DKK.

Sticks'n'Sushi Borgergade: Kitchen Until 22:00

Sticks'n'Sushi opened on 22 March 1994 in a rented basement at Nansensgade 59. Jens Rahbek Hansen had come home from six years in Japan with a yakitori chef's training, and his brother Kim argued that sushi alone was too bold for Danes, so grilled skewers went on the menu in case raw fish was too much. The mix unsettled the Japanese side of the family, because it broke tradition.

The Borgergade restaurant, at number 13, fills the old Workshop and Industrial House with four interconnected rooms, an interior inspired by Velázquez's Las Meninas, and mirrors and openings that join the rooms. The kitchen runs 11:00 to 22:00 Monday to Saturday and 11:00 to 21:30 on Sunday. Dogs sit on the terrace only.

Which Counters Serve Until the Food Is Gone?

Two places sell what they cook until it is gone, whatever the clock says.

Gasoline Grill: Burgers From 11:00 Until the Beef Is Gone

At Gasoline Grill, the closing time is arithmetic. The menu says each location grinds its beef in-house every morning and plans each day's production so little goes to waste, then sells all of it.

During the 2020 lockdown, founder Klaus Wittrup told photographer Cory Smith that only Landgreven truly sells out because of capacity ("We make all the burgers we can and sell them"), while the team judges how many burgers each other counter needs to sell to stay open until 20:00. He added that Gasoline Grill kept posting plain opening hours then rather than announce its sell-outs, because boasting felt arrogant toward struggling colleagues.

Today most counters' pages say open from 11:00 until sold out, with 12:00 at the Broens counter and 11:30 at Tivoli. No last order is published, so a burger at 14:30 is likely and never promised. The Cheeseburger, which the menu calls The Benchmark, costs 110 DKK at the Landgreven storefront on 17 October 2026: organic beef, organic cheddar, red onion, pickles and Gasoline Grill sauce, with an extra patty on request.

Seating differs by counter. Landgreven has outdoor seats only, Værnedamsvej has indoor seats, and Carlsberg Byen has both, in an 1880 building that once served as a dining hall for brewery workers. None of the three takes reservations.

Warpigs, Flæsketorvet: Texas Barbecue From 11:30

Warpigs opened in 2015 in a former slaughterhouse, as a collaboration between Mikkeller in Copenhagen and Three Floyds of Munster, Indiana, and its smoker can handle up to a ton of meat a day.

The brewpub at Flæsketorvet 25 to 37 opens at 11:30 every day and the kitchen closes at 22:00, though it sells out of meat most nights, so lunch is the safer slot. The Trooper Tray, a quarter pound each of brisket, pork neck and sausage with coleslaw and mac 'n' cheese, costs 285 DKK. Four house sauces sit on every table: Alabama, Texas, Kansas City and Carolina mustard.

Where Can a Group Split Up Over Several Stalls?

Two street food markets keep their stalls open past 20:00, so a table that cannot agree on one cuisine can split and meet again.

Broens Street Food, Strandgade

When Copenhagen Street Food on Papirøen closed at the turn of 2017, the Noma team began planning a new street kitchen with the group that had run it. The result opened on the harbour at Strandgade 95, between Noma's sister restaurants 108 and Barr.

The food stalls run 11:30 to 20:00 Sunday to Thursday and 11:00 to 21:00 Friday and Saturday. They cover sandwiches, crêpes, Vietnamese bánh mì, Argentine empanadas, fish and chips, tacos, poke bowls, handmade Piedmont pasta, smørrebrød and filled Greek breads. The market sits on an open quay, so dress for late October.

Reffen, Refshaleøen

The other half of that story is Reffen. Copenhagen Street Food began on Papirøen in May 2014 with seven food trucks in an empty warehouse and drew 1.5 million visitors over four years, then the same team opened Reffen on Refshaleøen in May 2018.

The street food stalls at Refshalevej 167A are open 11:30 to 20:30 every day until Reffen closes for winter in November. It is a trip out to the island, so it suits a long afternoon better than a quick bite.

Which Popular Lunch Kitchens Stop Too Early for a 2pm Start?

Barabba, on Store Kongensgade, jokes on its homepage that it used to do things late. Its pasta lunch now runs Friday to Sunday from 12:00 to 14:30, with spaghetti cacio e pepe at 180 DKK and a set lunch of two dishes at 250 DKK, so a 14:20 arrival has ten minutes. Apollo, Frederik Bille Brahe's restaurant in the courtyard of Kunsthal Charlottenborg, has closed. Check any older list before you walk over.

12 Places Compared by Last Lunch Service in 2026

The table opens with Gasoline Grill and Slurp, which both take walk-ins only, then lists the other ten alphabetically. Times were checked on 17 October 2026 and change with the season.

Can You Have a Proper Lunch at Slurp in Under an Hour?

Yes, if a seat is free when you walk in. A bowl at Slurp is meant to be eaten fast, since Philipp Inreiter told Scandinavia Standard in 2018 that noodles start to go soft after about 20 minutes. With no reservation to keep, the bowl is the only clock.

The speed is prepared before the doors open. Slurp's custom-built noodle machine, Suzy, cuts the day's noodles each morning, the broths have simmered for hours or longer by lunch, and the tare, the seasoning that goes into every bowl, is adjusted each day to the season, the humidity and the rhythm of the kitchen.

A long line outside Nansensgade 90 on a normal weekday evening is nothing unusual, MigogKbh noted in January 2025, and it usually moves quickly.

Shoyu is the bowl for a short lunch: 185 DKK for a chicken broth with pork neck chashu, tamago, spring onions, mushroom paste, chards and garden sorrel. Still hungry? Kaedama, a second helping of noodles, adds 25 DKK.

Which Late Lunch Fits Your Afternoon?

Start with the time on your phone. Before 14:45 every place on the list is open, and the choice is about appetite: a bowl of ramen, a burger from a counter, two pieces of smørrebrød, or a table of small plates.

Between 14:45 and 15:30 the choices narrow: Slotskælderen until 15:00, Told & Snaps until 15:30, and the counters that sell until the food is gone. After 15:30 Paté Paté runs to 16:00, Schønnemann and Kronborg to 17:00, Cap Horn, Sticks'n'Sushi and Warpigs into the evening, and the two street food markets until 20:00 or later. Reffen closes for winter in November.

Looking for the evening instead? The late dinner guide covers casual kitchens after 21:00.

Sources

• Slurp homepage, history, craft and opening hours
• Slurp menu and prices
• Slurp Nansensgade
• Slurp Borgergade
• Scandinavia Standard on Slurp, originally published 22 October 2018
• MigogKbh on Slurp Borgergade, 27 January 2025
• Gasoline Grill menu page
• Gasoline Grill locations and opening hours
• Gasoline Grill Landgreven
• Gasoline Grill Carlsberg Byen
• Gasoline Grill Værnedamsvej
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• Cap Horn hours, menu and jazz history
• Sticks'n'Sushi, the story of the first restaurant
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