Best wine bars in Copenhagen — 8 with a map

Finding a wine bar in Copenhagen is not the hard part. Choosing one is. The city keeps its wine in cellars, in bakeries, on a swimming jetty and behind shop counters, and those are not the same evening. In some rooms the wine is a craft. In others it is the mood. Both are fine — you just want to know which door you are walking through.

Here are eight, ranked by our editorial score. Each entry gives the address and the opening hours written out in full, and further down you will find the answers visitors actually need: where you can walk in without booking, where there is enough food to count as dinner, where anything is still open after midnight, and what natural wine actually means. To see all of them on a map with live opening status, use the list: all wine bars in Copenhagen.

All eight in one table

Opening hours are the earliest and latest in the week. "Closed" lists the days the door does not open at all. The price level is the venue's own level on our scale of 1 to 4.

Wine bar	Address	Area	Opens	Latest close	Closed	Price
Ved Stranden 10	Ved Stranden 10	City centre	12-15	22	Sun	3
Lille Bakery	Refshalevej 213B	Refshaleøen	08	17	Mon, Tue	2
Den Vandrette	Havnegade 53A	City centre	17	23	Sun, Mon	3
La Banchina	Refshalevej 141	Refshaleøen	08	20	None	2
Je t'aime	Dybbølsgade 9	Vesterbro	08-12	24	None	2
Terroiristen	Jægersborggade 52	Nørrebro	11-12	19	Sun, Mon	2
Bar Una	Oehlenschlægersgade 53A	Vesterbro	17	04	Sun-Tue	3
Nebbiolo	Store Strandstræde 18	Nyhavn	15	24	None	3

Three things jump out. Only three of the eight open all seven days — La Banchina, Je t'aime and Nebbiolo. Half of them close before eleven, and two close before dinner. And Bar Una is the only one open at all after 1am. A wine bar evening in Copenhagen has to be planned around closing time, not opening time.

1. Ved Stranden 10, city centre

Ved Stranden 10. The bar every other one gets measured against. The list leans German and French, a lot of bottles are open by the glass, and the staff ask what you normally drink before they recommend anything. That sounds obvious. It is not — most places just hand you the list.

It is also a wine shop, so a bottle can go home with you at retail price plus a corkage fee. The food is small, precise plates built to follow the wine: cheese, charcuterie, one or two hot dishes. Monday brings a set menu, Wednesday a tasting.

Open Monday to Friday from three in the afternoon until ten at night, and Saturday from noon until ten. Closed Sunday. In summer the seats facing the canal are the best in the house, with Christiansborg on the other side.

2. Lille Bakery, Refshaleøen

Refshalevej 213B. A bakery with a wine list you would normally have to book a restaurant to reach. It sits in an industrial hall on Refshaleøen, and the morning is bread and pastry; from midday it turns into small vegetable-led plates with acidity and a clear season.

The bakery has been on the island for more than seven years and buys from small farms on Zealand. The bread is why people cycle all the way out, but the wine is better than a bakery has any obligation to serve.

Open Wednesday to Sunday, eight in the morning until five in the afternoon. Closed Monday and Tuesday, which catches out plenty of day-trippers.

It is the one place on this list where a glass with your mid-morning coffee raises no eyebrows. There are seats outside facing the water.

3. Den Vandrette, city centre

Havnegade 53A. Low ceilings, a cellar, and close enough to the harbour that you can put the glass down on the quay. The list is natural wine with a French bias, and it changes constantly.

The bar belongs to the importer Rosforth & Rosforth, which explains the bottles: low sulphur, small growers and things no supermarket stocks. Food is cheese, charcuterie and a couple of hot dishes — enough for an evening, not enough for dinner.

Open Tuesday to Saturday from five in the afternoon until eleven at night. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Come in the warmer half of the year and sit outside with your feet towards the water. This is the one for two people who want to hear each other.

4. La Banchina, Refshaleøen

Refshalevej 141. Sixteen seats, a swimming jetty and a sauna. You can count the tables, and in summer people jump in the harbour between courses. The list is natural wine, and the kitchen cooks a few dishes at a time from whatever came in: fish, vegetables, bread.

Open from eight in the morning every single day. Thursday, Friday and Saturday they stay open until eight in the evening; the rest of the week they close at six.

Sixteen seats means you either arrive early or wait with a glass in your hand. In winter the sauna is the reason to make the trip; in summer it is the water. Bring a towel.

5. Je t'aime, Vesterbro

Dybbølsgade 9. French the whole way through: croissant and coffee in the morning, charcuterie and a glass in the afternoon, proper food at night. The list is French, weighted towards what can be poured by the glass.

Open Monday to Friday from eight in the morning until midnight, and Saturday and Sunday from noon until midnight. Sixteen straight hours on a weekday makes it useful in a way few wine bars are.

It sits in Dybbølsgade behind the Meatpacking District, with tables on the pavement. Early in the day you can walk straight in; the evening fills up, Friday especially. Prices are moderate by Copenhagen standards, and it is the most flexible choice here when you do not yet know how long you want to stay.

6. Terroiristen, Jægersborggade

Jægersborggade 52. A wine shop and a bar in one room: they sell the natural wine over the counter and pour it at the few tables. Because it is a shop, the bottle price is lower than at a normal wine bar — retail plus a modest fee to drink it there.

Open Tuesday to Thursday from noon until six, Friday from noon until seven, and Saturday from eleven until six. Closed Sunday and Monday.

Read those hours carefully: this is not an evening venue. What it is instead is one of the very few places in the city where you can drink serious wine at two in the afternoon. The selection is European with a bias towards small growers, and there is cheese and charcuterie. Ask the staff — they chose the bottles.

7. Bar Una, Vesterbro

Oehlenschlægersgade 53A. More cocktail bar than wine bar, but the wine is there beside it, and the bartender asks what you like rather than handing over a menu. The room is dark and small, and it fills late.

Open Wednesday and Thursday from five in the afternoon until one in the morning, and Friday and Saturday from five until four in the morning. Closed Sunday to Tuesday.

This is where an evening ends, not where it starts. There are snacks, but you come for what happens behind the bar. Oehlenschlægersgade is minutes from both the Meatpacking District and Værnedamsvej, so it slots naturally onto the end of a night that began somewhere else. The rest of the city's late rooms are on the bars in Copenhagen list.

8. Nebbiolo Winebar, Nyhavn

Store Strandstræde 18. An Italian wine bar one corner from Nyhavn, and one of the few addresses in that quarter not built around tour buses. The list runs from Piemonte upwards and goes deeper inside the Italian regions than anything else here.

Open all seven days from three in the afternoon until midnight. La Banchina and Je t'aime also run the full week, but Nebbiolo is the only one that goes to midnight every single day — which makes it the answer when the rest of the city centre has shut.

The food is antipasti and small plates: cheese, charcuterie, a pasta or two. There are seats outside in the lane when the weather allows. If the evening needs real food afterwards, several of the best restaurants in Copenhagen are within walking distance.

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Where you can walk in without booking

None of the eight require a reservation, but they are nowhere near equally easy to get into.

Terroiristen and Lille Bakery are the safe bets: one is a shop, the other is big enough that a table is almost always free. Nebbiolo opens at three, and the first couple of hours are quiet. Ved Stranden 10 usually has room at the bar on a weekday if you arrive before five.

The hard ones are La Banchina, with its sixteen seats, and Den Vandrette, small enough to be full by six on a Friday. Je t'aime is open so many hours that the question is when rather than whether — go before six or after ten.

Where there is enough food to be dinner

A Copenhagen wine bar typically serves cheese and charcuterie and calls it a night. Four of these do more.

Je t'aime cooks bistro food in the evening and comes closest to a proper meal. Nebbiolo has pasta alongside the antipasti. Ved Stranden 10 serves small hot dishes designed for the wine rather than the other way round — you can leave full, but you will have to order several things. Lille Bakery does a vegetable-led lunch, but closes at five, so it is an early solution.

La Banchina and Den Vandrette have food, but not enough to replace dinner. These are small plates in the literal sense, and it is worth knowing before you build the whole evening around them.

Where it is open late

Bar Una is the answer past midnight: until four in the morning on Friday and Saturday, until one on Wednesday and Thursday.

After that come Je t'aime and Nebbiolo, both closing at midnight every day. Den Vandrette closes at eleven, Ved Stranden 10 at ten, and the rest are finished before dinner — Terroiristen around six, seven on Friday, and La Banchina at eight on its longest days.

Assume a wine bar in Copenhagen has to be reached before nine. The exceptions are listed above.

Sunday and Monday are the difficult days

Only four of the eight open on Sunday: Lille Bakery, La Banchina, Je t'aime and Nebbiolo Winebar. Ved Stranden 10, Den Vandrette, Terroiristen and Bar Una are shut.

Monday is slightly better and slightly different: Ved Stranden 10, La Banchina, Je t'aime and Nebbiolo are open. Lille Bakery, Den Vandrette, Terroiristen and Bar Una are not.

Three of the eight open all seven days: La Banchina, Je t'aime and Nebbiolo. Of those, only Nebbiolo runs to midnight daily — La Banchina closes at six on Sunday, and Je t'aime does not open until noon at the weekend. Worth remembering when a Sunday evening plan collapses.

What natural wine actually means

Natural wine is not a flavour, it is a method: grapes grown without pesticides, fermentation on wild yeast, little or no added sulphur and usually no filtering. The result can be almost anything — from something that tastes like ordinary white wine to something that tastes of cider and bread dough.

Two practical consequences. First, the word "natural" tells you nothing about whether you will like the bottle; the grape and the grower do. Second, a bottle can be less predictable than a conventional one, and it is entirely acceptable to say you do not care for it. All eight of these places will change the glass.

Den Vandrette, Terroiristen and La Banchina are the three most committed natural wine bars on the list. Ved Stranden 10 and Nebbiolo pour both natural and conventional. If you are trying orange wine for the first time, start at Terroiristen in the afternoon, when there is time to ask questions.

The wine bars by neighbourhood

Four neighbourhoods, and they do not do the same thing. Worth knowing before you get on the bike.

The city centre has two, and both are among the best in Copenhagen: Ved Stranden 10 by the canal and Den Vandrette in the cellar on Havnegade, a good quarter of an hour's walk apart. Both close early by Copenhagen standards — ten and eleven — and both are closed on Sunday. Nebbiolo on Store Strandstræde by Nyhavn is technically city centre too, and it is the only one in the quarter running until midnight every day.

Vesterbro has two, and they are each other's opposites. Je t'aime on Dybbølsgade opens at eight in the morning and closes at midnight — sixteen hours straight — while Bar Una on Oehlenschlægersgade does not open until five and is in return the only one on the whole list still open at three in the morning. They are ten minutes' walk apart, and they are the most natural sequence on this list: dinner at one, last glass at the other.

Nørrebro has exactly one here, and it is not an evening place: Terroiristen on Jægersborggade closes at six — seven on Fridays. In return it is the only address in the city where you can drink serious natural wine at two in the afternoon at retail price. Jægersborggade is also the street with the shortest distance between a wine bar and everything else; the rest is on the bars in Copenhagen list.

Refshaleøen has two, Lille Bakery and La Banchina, a couple of hundred metres apart — and both close before the city properly gets going. Lille Bakery at five, La Banchina at six, though eight Thursday to Saturday. Refshaleøen is an afternoon, not an evening. Take the bike or the harbour bus; the trip out is part of the visit, and there is no reason to go after three.

What it costs

Only one of the eight publishes a by-the-glass price on its own page, and it is more honest to say so than to estimate: Nebbiolo Winebar lists wine by the glass at 85, 110, 135 and 160 kroner, and an antipasti plate at 225. The other seven do not publish their lists, so ask when you sit down — or use the price level shown on each place's own page.

There is one reliable shortcut to a cheaper evening: the two that are also wine shops. Terroiristen and Ved Stranden 10 sell the bottle over the counter, and if you drink it on the premises you pay retail plus a fee rather than restaurant price. That is the single biggest difference in the bill between these eight, and it is why Terroiristen is the cheapest way to drink a good bottle in this guide.

On our own scale, Lille Bakery, La Banchina, Je t'aime and Terroiristen sit in the middle price band, while Ved Stranden 10, Den Vandrette, Bar Una and Nebbiolo are the most expensive of the eight.

Two of them have a role in December that is not written anywhere else. Ved Stranden 10 and Den Vandrette both sit five minutes' walk from the lunch cellars in Indre By, and a julefrokost there ends at five — so the wine bar is the second half, not an alternative. Which cellars hold a julefrokost, and when they close, is in julefrokost in Copenhagen.

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Questions and answers

Which wine bar in Copenhagen should a first-timer pick?

Ved Stranden 10. It has the widest list in the city, the most bottles open by the glass, and staff who will explain them without turning it into a lecture. Come on a weekday before five and there is usually room at the bar.

Can you walk in without a reservation?

Yes, all eight take walk-ins. La Banchina has sixteen seats and Den Vandrette is a small cellar, so timing decides it at those two. Terroiristen and Lille Bakery are the easiest to get into.

What is open on Sunday?

Lille Bakery, La Banchina, Je t'aime and Nebbiolo Winebar. The other four are closed. La Banchina, Je t'aime and Nebbiolo Winebar are the three open all seven days; the last two stay open until midnight, Sunday included.

When do the wine bars open and close?

The earliest are Je t'aime, La Banchina and Lille Bakery, all from eight in the morning — though at that hour they are coffee and food. Terroiristen opens at noon, Ved Stranden 10 and Nebbiolo at three, Den Vandrette and Bar Una at five. The latest close is Bar Una at four in the morning on Friday and Saturday.

Where can you buy the wine to take away?

Terroiristen and Ved Stranden 10 are both wine shops as well as bars. Drink the bottle on the premises and you pay retail plus a fee; take it with you and you pay retail.

Which wine bars have outdoor seating?

Seven of the eight. Ved Stranden 10 has seats facing the canal, Den Vandrette tables on the quay, La Banchina the whole jetty, Je t'aime the pavement on Dybbølsgade, Lille Bakery seats towards the water and Nebbiolo the lane. Bar Una has outdoor seats too, but it opens at five, so that is rarely where you end up. Terroiristen is the only one with none.

What is the difference between a wine bar and an ordinary bar?

In a wine bar the list is the product and the food is arranged around it. Bar Una is the borderline case here: a cocktail bar with wine beside it, not the reverse. If that is what you are after, the bars in Copenhagen category is the place to look.

What does a glass of wine cost in a Copenhagen wine bar?

Nebbiolo Winebar is the only one of the eight with the figures on its own page: 85, 110, 135 and 160 kroner for a glass, and 225 for an antipasti plate. The other seven do not publish their wine lists, and we do not estimate a number we have not been given by the venue. To keep the bill down, go to Terroiristen or Ved Stranden 10 and drink a bottle at retail plus a fee — it is cheaper than four glasses in the same room.

Which wine bar suits a party of ten?

None of the eight is built for it, and that is more honest than picking one. La Banchina has sixteen seats in total, Den Vandrette is a small cellar, Terroiristen is a shop with a few tables, and Bar Una is neither large nor early. The two that can genuinely take a group are Lille Bakery, because the hall is big, and Je t'aime, because it has enough hours that a party can come off-peak. Call in both cases — neither has a private room.

Can you take children to a wine bar?

Lille Bakery and La Banchina are the two where it makes sense: both are daytime places on Refshaleøen with outdoor seating and food that is not only cheese. Bar Una has an age limit in practice, because it opens at five and fills after midnight, and Den Vandrette is too small. Ruby, close to several of these, has a formal age limit of 21 — but it is not on this list.

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The order follows our editorial score, which weighs the wine list, the food served with it and whether the house chose the bottles itself. Addresses and opening hours come from the venues' own information and were checked on 26 September 2026. On that day we corrected two things against the venues' own pages: La Banchina states sixteen seats, not fifteen, and Lille Bakery writes its own address as Refshalevej 213B, not 213A. Prices are given only where the venue has published them itself — so far that is only Nebbiolo. Public holidays, seasonal closures and private events change the hours — especially on Refshaleøen, where winter is a different season entirely.