4 Best Restaurants in Zealand, Denmark

Zealand’s largest fishmonger has been in the same family for three generations. You can stop by to buy fish and delicacies, and sit down on the benches outside of the store with your sushi, grilled fish fillets, or seafood platter.

This café-restaurant serves its own beer produced on the premises, with up to six varieties on tap and many more bottled. The café serves sandwiches and a popular fresh-vegetable-laden "brewery burger." A quality carvery buffet, with freshly sliced roasted meats and salads, and an à la carte menu are available in the restaurant. Try the classic pork shank marinated in brown ale at either the restaurant or the café.

The basement of City Hall, near the cathedral, houses this charming and popular café-restaurant with exposed brick walls, curved white ceilings, and low lights. The dinner menu features French-Danish dishes and various cuts of beef and lamb grilled on a lava-rock barbecue. The decor is as old-fashioned and traditional as the menu.

Located on the Roskilde Harbor, this seafood restaurant has views of the Roskilde Cathedral. Menus here change monthly; its five-course tasting menu, with matching wines, represents the best of each season.