The 17 best restaurants in Odense
From smørrebrød cellars to bistros and shared plates — the places you come back to.
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Kok & Vin
8.9French brasserie tradition with Funen produce, in a side street off the high street.
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Goma
8.8Japanese omakase in the middle of Odense — the kitchen decides, you sit back.
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Restaurants in Odense
17 places · From smørrebrød cellars to bistros and shared plates — the places you come back to.
Kok & Vin
8.9French brasserie tradition with Funen produce, in a side street off the high street.
Restaurant Madeleine
8.8A tasting menu three days a week — Odense's most ambitious table after Aro.
HOS
8.7Open sandwiches and fish on Kongensgade, from a kitchen that dares more than the classics.
Goma
8.8Japanese omakase in the middle of Odense — the kitchen decides, you sit back.
Restaurant SL
8.7Fish, shellfish and vegetables in five and seven courses — dinner Monday to Saturday.
Albert
8.5A buffet of twenty-five dishes with an open bar — Tuesday to Saturday.
Restaurant Nordatlanten
8.6Fish and shellfish on the harbour, with the North Atlantic as the starting point.
Kong Volmer
8.4Open sandwiches in Brandts Passage — lunch as lunch should be.
Restaurant Værdsat
8.4Open sandwiches on weekdays from eleven to three — and nothing more than that.
Den Gamle Kro
8.2An inn in a half-timbered courtyard on Overgade — Danish food in historic surroundings.
Oluf Bagers Gård
8.5Open sandwiches and Funen cooking in a 16th-century Renaissance courtyard.
District 13
8.1Asian cooking Tuesday to Saturday — small plates and long evenings.
Sortebro Kro
8.3Danish inn cooking in a half-timbered inn by the Funen Village.
Klosterkroen
8.0A Danish inn in the middle of town — all-you-can-eat fried pork, Tuesday to Saturday.
Eydes
7.9A steakhouse with long hours — and a bar that stays put.
Moc Chay
8.2Meat-free Vietnamese on Nørregade — a short menu, low prices, and most of it goes out the door.
Della Nonna
8.1Italian pizza by the harbour — takeaway only, Tuesday to Sunday.
All 17 restaurants in Odense in one list
| Place | Where | Opening hours | Price | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kok & Vin | Store Gråbrødrestræde 19, Indre By, Odense | Mon-Sat 17:30-23:59 | Expensive | 8.9 |
| Restaurant Madeleine | Vestergade 5B, Indre By, Odense | Wed-Sat 17:30-23:00 | Very expensive | 8.8 |
| HOS | Kongensgade 65, Indre By, Odense | Tue-Thu 11:30-15:30 · Fri-Sat 11:30-15:30, 18:00-21:30 · Sun 11:30-15:30 | Expensive | 8.7 |
| Goma | Kongensgade 68, Indre By, Odense | Mon-Sat 17:30-23:59 | Very expensive | 8.8 |
| Restaurant SL | Pogestræde 31A, Indre By, Odense | Mon-Wed 17:15-21:00 · Thu-Sat 11:30-14:00, 17:15-21:00 | Very expensive | 8.7 |
| Albert | Vestergade 13, Indre By, Odense | Tue-Sat 17:00-21:30 | Expensive | 8.5 |
| Restaurant Nordatlanten | Nordatlantisk Promenade 3, Odense Havn, Odense | Mon-Fri 11:30-23:00 · Sat 10:00-23:30 · Sun 10:00-16:00 | Expensive | 8.6 |
| Kong Volmer | Brandts Passage 31, Odense | Mon-Fri 11:00-16:00 · Sat 10:00-16:00 | Moderate | 8.4 |
| Restaurant Værdsat | Kongensgade 31B, Indre By, Odense | Mon-Fri 11:00-15:00 | Moderate | 8.4 |
| Den Gamle Kro | Overgade 23, Odense | Mon-Sat 11:30-21:00 · Sun 12:00-21:00 | Expensive | 8.2 |
| Oluf Bagers Gård | Nørregade 29, Indre By, Odense | Mon-Sat 12:00-17:00, 17:30-21:30 | Expensive | 8.5 |
| District 13 | Torvegade 1, Indre By, Odense | Tue-Wed 17:00-21:00 · Thu 12:00-21:00 · Fri-Sat 12:00-22:00 · Sun 12:00-21:00 | Moderate | 8.1 |
| Sortebro Kro | Sejerskovvej 20B, Den Fynske Landsby, Odense | Mon-Sat 12:00-16:00, 17:30-00:00 · Sun 12:00-16:00 | Expensive | 8.3 |
| Klosterkroen | Lille Gråbrødrestræde 2, Indre By, Odense | Tue-Thu 12:00-22:00 · Fri-Sat 12:00-23:00 | Moderate | 8.0 |
| Eydes | Kongensgade 31A, Indre By, Odense | Mon-Wed 11:00-23:00 · Thu 11:00-00:00 · Fri-Sat 09:00-03:00 · Sun 09:00-23:00 | Expensive | 7.9 |
| Moc Chay | Nørregade 32, Odense | Tue-Sat 11:00-19:00 | Cheap | 8.2 |
| Della Nonna | Thomas B. Thriges Gade 91, Odense | Tue-Fri 11:30-14:30, 16:00-21:00 · Sat-Sun 16:00-21:00 | Moderate | 8.1 |
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About restaurants in Odense
A restaurant in Odense almost always means the old town. Apart from a couple of outliers they all sit within the same square kilometre, and they fall into three groups: the evening tables where the kitchen decides, the inns serving Danish cooking, and lunch, which here nearly always means smørrebrød — open sandwiches on rye, eaten with a knife and fork.
Goma on Kongensgade is omakase: the kitchen chooses, and it opens evenings only, Monday to Saturday. Restaurant Madeleine on Vestergade runs one menu from Wednesday to Saturday with few tables, so book well ahead. Kok & Vin on Store Gråbrødrestræde is the least formal of them — a French brasserie built on Funen produce, with a wine list the staff will happily choose from if you tell them what you normally drink.
Lunch is the city's strongest hand. HOS on Kongensgade puts fish first and closes on Mondays. Kong Volmer in Brandts Passage does the classics — herring, roast beef, the prawn-and-plaice plate — and shuts at four, so it is not an evening option. Oluf Bagers Gård on Nørregade serves in a Renaissance courtyard from the 1500s, where the street cannot be heard, with lunch and dinner and a break in between.
The rest covers more ground than the number suggests: Danish inn cooking on Overgade and in Lille Gråbrødrestræde, a half-timbered inn out by the Funen Village open-air museum, and Vietnamese, entirely plant-based food at Moc Chay on Nørregade at the cheap end of the scale. One shared warning: Sunday is the difficult day. Several houses are shut altogether, and those that open close earlier than usual.