The best street food venues of type "Italian Cuisine" in Hovedstaden
Since 2014, Il Mattarello at Torvehallerne has focused on fresh pasta made with organic ingredients. The menu features Roman classics alongside seasonal specials, all served al dente. Fresh pasta and house-made sauces are also available to take home.
At SURT, it’s all about artisan-made, Neapolitan-style pizzas. Day in and day out, chef Giuseppe Oliva and his team serve pizzas in Carlsberg Byen with carefully crafted dough at the centre. Coming from a family of bakers, great dough is simply part of the foundation.
Taking a little piece of New York to Copenhagen with a distinct gastronomic twist, this spot serves pizza made with hand-stretched dough. Beyond the flavor combinations, the texture and crust stand out. Available for dine-in or take-away across multiple locations.
Morten Paaske trained at high-end restaurants and cooked for the Danish royal court before moving to an Italian island, where he fell in love with the cuisine. His fascination led to the opening of this pasta bar in 2018, set in a semi-basement with green panels and vintage posters.
Mother serves organic sourdough pizza baked in a wood-fired oven, topped with local produce and high-quality ingredients imported from Italy, in Copenhagen’s Meatpacking District. On weekends, buffet-style service and live jazz make it as much about the atmosphere as the food.
From the group behind Jagger, OTTO is a street-food take on Neapolitan-style pizza, baked at over 450 degrees and served in a casual setting. For takeaway, they offer their “Heat at Home” concept—pizzas baked fresh, chilled, and finished in your own oven at home.
Instead of the round shape, this Roman-style pizza counter is one of the few in Copenhagen that bake large trays and serve rectangular slices al taglio. The sourdough with rye and tipo 00 flour is slow-risen, creating a thick base that holds the generous toppings. Red, white, and vegan versions.
At his focacceria off Strøget, Luca Scaglia mixes Italian warmth with Danish simplicity. The airy sourdough bread is split and filled with Italian ingredients such as provolone cheese, pistachio pesto, or grilled eggplant. Sandwiches are offered alone or in a combo with polenta fries or tiramisù.
Stepping into this small eatery with football scarves and framed landscape prints feels like entering a neighbourhood trattoria somewhere in Rome. The adults-only counter has served pasta dishes since 2017, with an ‘nduja-vodka version and carbonara among the signatures, plus tiramisu for dessert.
At Broens Street Food, this outdoor branch of Morten Paaske's pasta bar is one in a good dozen food stalls. The compact selection comprises a handful of pasta dishes and paninis. While the rigatoni come with slow-cooked bolognese sauce made from salsiccia, the spinach version caters to vegetarians.
Two Italians, Paolo Dorati from Milan and Danilo Rustaggia from Sardinia, have cooked fresh pasta at this Reffen stall since 2019. The standout ravioli are filled with spinach and ricotta, with truffle on top. The rigatoni come with carbonara, bolognese, or sausage and mushroom.
After an evening climb up the Round Tower, it is a reward to sit down at this Italian family restaurant, open since 2023. Or why not take a pizza burrata or a chicken-mascarpone sandwich along? The name, Perbacco, is what an Italian says when something surprises them, more or less like "Good Lord!"