Budget
Café Charlottehaven
Cafe/restaurant in one of the rare big rooms on Ãsterbro, The daily specials M-F at 125 Kr are a good deal for both your pocket, taste buds and your health, while you can safely give the somehow enormously popular, but completely overpriced Brunch a miss.
Crazy Chicken
This small place mainly serves as a take away place, but also has two tables available for a quick bite. Dishes out some excellent sandwiches and has menus with different sorts of chicken - as the name might imply - served with the option of several different Mediterranean inspired salads from a buffet you get to choose 2 and/or potatoes.
Cafe Sundet
Located on the pier with a great view this place caters to sailors and passersby who just come to breathe in the harbor scene and ocean air. Kitchen is mainly Danish cuisine.
Restauranten, Sejlklubben Frem
Inexpensive restaurant with a more private atmosphere. Barbecue in the summer.
Midrange
Borella
A Brasserie style eatery run by a French couple, who dishes out reasonably priced food in a relaxed atmosphere, there is an option for tables outside during spring and summer and they also have a brunch menu.
Fru Heiberg
A charming place serving non-pretentious and delicious Scandinavian-French food and fantastic wines. Attentive and polite service, a favorite dining haunt for the locals.
Hos Fischer
Is a good, low key, Italian trattoria style restaurant. The menu varies greatly but if you can get hold of the Risotto, it is a treat. Otherwise go for one of the excellent pasta dishes. The Wine is very reasonably priced for Copenhagen, and the staff is informal, but still attentive.
Rex Republic
Located across from the Freemasons Lodge, you can often find the mystic darkly dressed gentlemen crossing the street to have a late steak here. The late opening hours, a raw masculine interior and the overwhelming prominence and thick steaks on the menu coupled with good microbrewery beer on the tabs, should hint that this is a place for the boys. Unfortunately the flame-grilled steaks here is hit or miss, and the wine menu is a bit overpriced.
Romarin
Good, though not outstanding, food at reasonable prices from the Italian and French kitchens, is made even more tolerable by the fact that you can freely bring your own wine and beer to enjoy with your food. Staff is relaxed in both the best and worst way, readily engaging in a hearty chat, but not terribly efficient.
Ãbro Spisehus
This small, laid back restaurant serving French food with a North African twist, does not make much racket of itself, and can be tricky to find Look next to the Sticks N' Sushi take away joint, and the owners prefer it that way. The good atmosphere provided by raw brick walls, solid wooden tables, high ceilings lighted up by intimate candlelight and the view of the chefs working, make the wait for the deliberate slow food much more pleasant.
Den Franske Cafe
This café has outdoor tables by the lake under trees and coloured lanterns. The menu is mostly café classics like filled croissants, nachos, chilli con carne, pasta, burgers, but during the summer there is barbecue available until the late hours.
Gourmanderiet
Originally and in essence this is a high-end organic butchery, but an ever growing popularity with locals have prompted the owners to branch out, and offer a Brunch, Lunch and a evening "Dish of the Day", centred around their high quality meat from organic farms. Thursdays-Saturdays 5.50PM-midnight they transform the place into a restaurant labeled Gourmanderiet by Night, and dish out fantastic steaks of every variety.
Wokshop
Stylish Thai cantina located on a nice square with both outdoor and indoor seating and proper Singha beers to wash down your Thai curry. Most of the classics are on the menu and there is an option for Take away.
Top end
No 1
Good restaurant serving a modern interpretation of the French kitchen, the chef has worked on several Michelin stared restaurants before starting his own place on Ãsterbro, in a old thoroughly renovated, but still visible Bodega, a traditional Danish working class watering hole. Also makes excellent picnic baskets in the summer.
Auberge
Stylish modern looking restaurant fitted into a cellar with bare stone walls and chic interiors. The food on the other hand is classic French/Danish, and rather affordable considering the quality which is usually easily competes with much more expensive restaurants. Also runs a fantastic take away joint with a set affordable dinner dish changing every day on street level.
Le Saint Jacques
Very French kitchen — brasserie style with white walls, candlelights, Russian icons and more religious symbols than your average church. With the quirky décor, good wines, and the style of the buildings on the square, it doesn't take much effort to imagine yourself in Paris when dining here.