Odense Restaurants and Dining

(Odense, Region Syddanmark, Denmark)

Many visitors to Odense choose to eat their breakfast at hotel restaurants, enjoy a lunchtime snack at one of the countless fast-food outlets and inexpensive bakeries around the city, and relax in the evening to savour a serious meal of Danish cuisine. Most restaurants in Odense come alive any time after 17:00 and soon begin to fill up.

Dining out in the summer months is especially enjoyable in Odense, since many restaurants based around public squares and next to wide pavements choose to move some of their tables outside, creating quite an inviting atmosphere, particularly as the night draws in.

What to Eat

Danish food is traditionally based around various different meats and fish, with potatoes also often being included in some way. Popular Danish dishes that you can expect to see appearing on menus at restaurants in Odense include roast pork and crackling (floeskesteg), pork meatballs with red cabbage (frikadeller), beef wrapped with cabbage (fyldt hvidkalshoved) and also a rich and tasty Funen omelette (aeggekage).

Where to Eat

A number of fast-food restaurants and takeaways are close to Odense Town Hall and around the Vestergade, which later turns into the Overgade. Close by, the Kongensgade offers more than its fair share of dining options, with many restaurants choosing to stay open all through the day, from 11:00 until around 22:00 or 23:00. Also check out the eateries lining the Jernbanegade, Norregade and Vintapperstroede.