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Best Vegetarian Restaurants in Copenhagen 2026
Plant-forward New Nordic · Copenhagen · 8 tables ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 27, 2026 · Updated June 27, 2026
Two of Copenhagen's three-Michelin-starred kitchens have stopped serving meat. Rasmus Kofoed pulled all land animals from Geranium in January 2022; Eric Kragh Vildgaard's Jordnaer runs on seafood and vegetables alone. Below them sits something rarer still: two fully plant-based kitchens, Ark and Bistro Lupa, that each hold a Michelin Green Star, an award few vegan rooms anywhere have earned. This is what a decade of New Nordic obsession with foraging, fermentation and the short growing season produced once it turned away from meat. It made vegetables the main event rather than the apology. These are the eight Copenhagen tables worth booking for plant-forward eating in 2026, from vegan tasting menus to the seafood-and-vegetable temples that will cook you a dedicated vegetarian menu, ranked on the cooking, the room and the value, with the dish to order and how to book.
1.Ark
Brett Lavender cooks the Nordics' most ambitious vegan tasting from mushrooms grown on the group's own farm; book Ark for plant fine dining with a Green Star.
Ark, on Norre Farimagsgade in Indre By near Norreport, is the most serious vegan fine-dining room in the Nordics and the first Nordic vegan restaurant to earn a Michelin Green Star, awarded in 2021. Executive chef Brett Lavender, under founder Jason Renwick, builds the menu around mushrooms cultivated on the group's own Funga Farm, threading local and foraged produce through Japanese technique and flavour. The nine-serving weekday menu runs 1,299 DKK, the thirteen-serving weekend menu 1,499 DKK, with wine pairings from 799 DKK. It serves dinner Tuesday to Saturday and is booked directly through restaurantark.dk. For plant cooking at the highest ambition in the city, start here.
Book direct at restaurantark.dk; the Funga Farm mushroom courses, the fermented preparations, the wine pairing.
2.Bistro Lupa
The casual sibling to Ark with an ex-Noma forager on herbs; book Bistro Lupa for a 549-krone plant tasting that still holds a Green Star.
Bistro Lupa, on Melchiors Plads in Osterbro, is the Ark Collection's casual room and a rare thing: a fully plant-based bistro holding both a Michelin Green Star and a Bib Gourmand across 2023, 2024 and 2025. Brett Lavender oversees the kitchen, with a foraging programme led by ex-Noma head forager Christina Rasmussen, and the five-course Lupa Tasting Experience runs a remarkable 549 DKK, with the group's own-grown mushrooms running through it. Politiken gave it six hearts. It is booked directly at bistrolupa.dk. For Green-Star plant cooking at a fraction of the fine-dining price, this is the value pick of the whole list.
Book direct at bistrolupa.dk; the five-course Lupa tasting, the mushroom courses, the seasonal vegetables.
3.Geranium
Rasmus Kofoed's three-star eyrie went meat-free in 2022 and will cook a full vegetarian menu; book Geranium for the grandest plant cooking in Denmark.
Geranium, on the eighth floor of the national stadium building overlooking Faelledparken in Osterbro, is Rasmus Kofoed's three-Michelin-starred flagship, retained at three stars in the 2026 Nordic guide and a former World's 50 Best number one (2022). In January 2022 Kofoed removed all land meat; the restaurant now runs on vegetables and seafood, and a dedicated vegetarian and vegan menu is offered alongside. The roughly twenty-course tasting runs around DKK 3,500 to 4,200 food-only, with a 1,500 DKK per-person deposit to book. Reserve through SevenRooms about three months ahead. For the most ambitious plant-leaning cooking in Denmark, in one of the world's great rooms, this is it.
Book on SevenRooms three months out; the vegetable courses, the dedicated vegetarian menu, the juice pairing.
4.Jordnaer
Eric Kragh Vildgaard cooks seafood and vegetables with no meat and a dedicated vegetarian menu; book Jordnaer for three-star precision north of the city.
Jordnaer, inside the Gentofte Hotel in greater Copenhagen to the north, is Eric Kragh Vildgaard's chef-owned three-star, awarded its third Michelin star in 2024 and holding it in the 2026 Nordic guide. Like Geranium, the concept is built on seafood and vegetables with no meat, and a dedicated vegetarian menu is offered for those who skip the fish. The cooking is exacting and produce-obsessed, premium-priced, and booked directly through restaurant-jordnaer.com. For diners who want three-star precision and a genuine vegetarian option a short ride from the centre, Jordnaer is the second of the city's meat-free temples worth the journey.
Book direct at restaurant-jordnaer.com; the vegetable courses, the dedicated vegetarian menu, the wine pairing.
5.Beyla
Ark's loose, low-key cousin in the Carlsberg district; go to Beyla for gochujang oyster mushrooms and a 399-krone plant tasting.
Beyla, on Kobkes Plads in the Carlsberg Byen district, is the Ark Collection's relaxed bar-and-eatery, the place to eat the group's farm mushrooms without the fine-dining commitment. The signature is the gochujang oyster mushrooms, grown on Beyla's own farm, and the Beyla Tasting Menu runs a friendly 399 DKK for the table, with a la carte alongside. AOK named it the city's best vegan room. It does weekend brunch and lunch plus dinner Wednesday to Sunday, booked directly at beyla.dk. For plant-based eating that is genuinely casual and genuinely good, this is the everyday answer to Ark's special-occasion ambition.
Book direct at beyla.dk; the gochujang oyster mushrooms, the 399-krone tasting, the small plates, natural wine.
6.Gro Spiseri
A communal greenhouse table on a rooftop farm; book Gro Spiseri for a daily set menu cooked from what grew on the roof above you.
Gro Spiseri sits in a greenhouse on top of the OsterGro rooftop farm on Aebelogade in Osterbro, a single communal table for about twenty-five diners. A four-person collective cooks a daily-changing three-to-five-course set menu from produce grown on the roof, the herbs, flowers and honey among it, with a natural-wine list to match; the cooking is vegetable-forward and hyper-seasonal. Expect around 560 DKK for the set dinner, served Thursday to Monday roughly March to November at 17:30 and 20:30 seatings, prepaid online at grospiseri.dk. For the most literal expression of farm-to-table plant cooking in the city, eaten under glass on a working roof, book ahead.
Prepay online at grospiseri.dk; the rooftop-grown set menu, the natural-wine pairing, the greenhouse table.
7.Souls
Copenhagen's go-to plant-based all-day room; go to Souls for the Soul Burger when you want vegan food without a tasting-menu commitment.
Souls, with its main room on Melchiors Plads in Osterbro and a stall in the Torvehallerne market, is the city's reliable all-day plant-based address, founded in 2016 with Danish plant-based chef Neel Engholm and named best vegan restaurant in Copenhagen at Berlingske's City's Best awards. The signature is the Soul Burger, a plant patty with caramelised onions, pesto, grilled zucchini and rosemary dressing, with a main and a drink around 130 DKK. It is walk-in friendly and booked directly at soulscph.dk. For everyday vegan eating, brunch through dinner, with none of the formality of the tasting rooms above, this is the default.
Walk in or book at soulscph.dk; the Soul Burger, the bowls, the smoothies, the weekend brunch.
8.POPL
Noma's fermentation lab built a vegan burger days in the making; go to POPL for a plant patty glazed in garum and smoked vegan butter.
POPL, on Strandgade in Christianshavn near the old Noma 2.0 site, is the burger restaurant Noma opened in 2020, run by Noma alumni and fed by the same fermentation lab. The vegan burger is the destination dish: a quinoa-and-tempeh patty fried in smoked vegan butter and glazed with fermentation liquids, the soya and garum that take days to make, for around 185 DKK. It is not a vegetarian-only room, it serves beef too, but the plant patty is a genuine reason to cross the harbour. It is largely walk-in and casual, booked at poplburger.com. For New Nordic fermentation technique applied to a vegan burger, nowhere else comes close.
Walk in or book at poplburger.com; the vegan quinoa-tempeh burger, the fermented condiments, the fries.
How Copenhagen eats plant-forward
Copenhagen has quietly become one of the world's most serious cities for vegetable cooking, an outgrowth of the New Nordic movement's obsession with hyper-seasonality, foraging and fermentation, techniques pioneered for meat and fish and now turned fully toward plants. The clearest signal is at the very top: three-Michelin-starred Geranium and Jordnaer both abandoned land meat for vegetable-and-seafood menus, and both will cook a dedicated vegetarian menu. Below them, the city holds two of the few Michelin Green Stars given to entirely plant-based kitchens, at Ark and Bistro Lupa.
Underpinned by Denmark's strong organic-farming culture and rooftop projects like OsterGro, the scene treats vegetables not as a concession but as the main event, shifting course by course with the short Nordic growing season. The casual end is strong too, from Souls' Soul Burger to POPL's fermentation-lab vegan patty. One honest note for travellers: the great meat-free fine-dining rooms book months ahead, so plan early. For the rest of the city's cooking, the smorrebrod, the bakeries, the new-wave bistros, see the full Copenhagen dining guide and our best vegetarian restaurants worldwide pillar.
Where not to look for it
Skip these for real plant-forward dining
Manfreds. Christian Puglisi's beloved veg-leaning natural-wine bistro in Norrebro has closed for good, and its famous tartare moved to Mirabelle, so do not go looking for it. For a comparable plant-forward, natural-wine room, book Bistro Lupa or Beyla instead; the older Relae closed back in 2020.
The single sad risotto at a meat-first fine-dining room. Copenhagen makes you not settle for the one vegetarian afterthought on an omnivore menu. For a real vegetarian tasting, book Geranium or Jordnaer ahead; for fully plant-based, Ark or Bistro Lupa.
Frequently asked
What is the best vegetarian restaurant in Copenhagen?
For fully plant-based fine dining, Ark is the city's most ambitious, the first Nordic vegan restaurant with a Michelin Green Star. For the grandest plant-leaning cooking, the three-Michelin-starred Geranium and Jordnaer both went meat-free and offer dedicated vegetarian menus. For Green-Star plant cooking at a fraction of the price, Bistro Lupa is the value pick. The right answer depends on budget and occasion, from a 549-krone tasting at Lupa to a months-ahead booking at Geranium.
Did Geranium stop serving meat?
Yes. Chef Rasmus Kofoed removed all land meat from Geranium in January 2022. The three-Michelin-starred restaurant now runs on vegetables and seafood from non-endangered species, and it offers a dedicated vegetarian and vegan menu alongside the seafood tasting. It retained its three stars in the 2026 Nordic guide. So while it is not a strictly vegetarian restaurant, it is one of the best places in Copenhagen to eat a serious vegetable-driven tasting menu, booked through SevenRooms about three months ahead.
Are there Michelin Green Star vegan restaurants in Copenhagen?
Yes, two, which is unusual anywhere in the world. Ark, near Norreport, was the first fully vegan restaurant in the Nordics to earn a Michelin Green Star, in 2021. Bistro Lupa, in Osterbro, holds both a Green Star and a Bib Gourmand. Both are plant-based kitchens built around mushrooms grown on the group's own Funga Farm, run by the Ark Collection under chef Brett Lavender, and both are bookable directly through their own sites.
How much does plant-based fine dining cost in Copenhagen?
It spans a wide range. Bistro Lupa's five-course tasting is a remarkable 549 DKK, and Beyla's tasting is 399 DKK, both Ark Collection rooms. Ark itself runs 1,299 DKK for the weekday menu and 1,499 DKK for the weekend menu, with wine pairings extra. The three-star meat-free temples are far higher: Geranium's roughly twenty-course tasting lands around DKK 3,500 to 4,200 food-only, with a per-person deposit to book, and Jordnaer is similarly premium.
Where can vegans eat casually in Copenhagen?
Souls is the city's reliable all-day plant-based room, with the Soul Burger and bowls for around 130 DKK and a stall in the Torvehallerne market. POPL, Noma's burger spot in Christianshavn, makes a destination vegan burger from a quinoa-and-tempeh patty glazed with fermentation liquids. Beyla, the Ark Collection's casual room in the Carlsberg district, does gochujang oyster mushrooms and a 399-krone tasting. All three are far easier to get into than the fine-dining rooms and far cheaper.
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