12 Relaxed Copenhagen Meals for Groups with Vegetarians in 2026

Find shared plates, parallel set menus and individual orders that let everyone eat well at the same table.

Roast aubergine and chickpeas with cauliflower and bread on a shared lunch table

By Gasoline Grill, cooking burgers to order in Copenhagen since 2016.

TL;DR

A good meal for a mixed group starts with the way the table will eat. Try Juma’s thali or the shared dishes at Kate’s Joint, book Høst for separate set menus, or order a Matr burger at Gasoline Grill Hellerup. Ask about group rules before you book.

Which of These 12 Places Suits Your Group?
Where Can the Whole Table Share?
Which Set Menu Has a Green Twin?
Where Can Everyone Order Their Own?
When Should the Menu Decide for Everyone?
What If Most of You Are Vegetarian?
What Does Not Work for a Mixed Group?
Can a Mixed Group of Vegetarians and Meat Eaters Eat Together at Gasoline Grill?
Decide the Format First
Frequently asked questions
Sources

Put a platter of bread, daal and cauliflower in the middle of a table and nobody has to ask which plate belongs to the vegetarian. Put a side salad beside five main courses and the answer is obvious. That is the difference between a kitchen that can feed someone and a dinner everyone can share.

In Copenhagen you can solve it several ways: share a thali, find a full vegetarian set menu, or pick a place where the vegetarian order is as substantial as everyone else’s. The twelve places below run from Nørrebro to Hellerup. Prices exclude drinks.

Which of These 12 Places Suits Your Group?

Read the last column first. A strong vegetarian dish settles the food; it does not settle whether eight people can sit together, or whether everyone must order the same menu. The burger and ramen rows come first; the rest are in alphabetical order, which is not a ranking.

Twelve Copenhagen meals for mixed groups, by format and group rule
Place and format	Vegetarian dish	Group rule to check
Gasoline Grill Hellerup (order your own)	Any burger with a Matr patty; Green Burger with portobello	No reservations; indoor and outdoor seating
Slurp Borgergade (order your own)	Veggie ramen with mushroom and celeriac broth	No reservations; 36 seats; best for small groups
Beyla (plant-based sharing plates)	Roasted butternut squash with pumpkin seeds	Group offers from 10 people
Gaza Grill Kødbyen (mezze to share)	Falafel, halloumi and hummus	Set menu for at least two
Hot Pot Republic (hot pot for the table)	Vegetarian and vegan hot pot versions	Hot pot chosen by the whole table
Høst (set menu with a green twin)	Vegetarian menu of three or five courses	Book; private dining room
Juma (thali for the table)	The thali; the summer card lists daal, aloo curry, tandoori cauliflower	Thali for the whole table, minimum two
Kate's Joint (shared dishes)	Aubergine sambal; beetroot masala	Shared group menu from 12 people
OURI (mains with shared banchan)	Potato pancake; glazed tofu	Groups up to 40; contact ahead above 8
Restaurant Cofoco (small plates)	Vegetarian menu; pan-fried cauliflower	Menu for the entire table; 8 or more pre-order
Royal Garden (dim sum to share)	Vegan-marked dim sum	Set social menu is not vegetarian
Send Flere Krydderier, Union (folk kitchen)	The evening's dish, such as baked squash with feta	Tuesday to Thursday; sharing above four

Sharing solves the problem at its root. When the vegetarian dishes sit in the middle of the table, they stop being the vegetarian's dishes and become everyone's. The meat eaters add what they want; nobody eats a different dinner.

1. Kate's Joint

Kate Kamil opened Kate's Joint in 1990 at Blågårdsgade 12 in Nørrebro, in the room where her mother had run a grill bar. Kate's Joint cooks what it calls Asian home cooking, Indian and Malay with some Middle Eastern flavours, and says plainly that vegetarian and vegan dishes are a big part of its food. That shows on the menu: aubergine sambal with peanut, tamarind and chilli comes with brown rice, and beetroot masala is cooked South Indian style in an almond and yoghurt gravy. The meat eaters can still have a Sri Lankan black pork curry or a lamb curry. One line needs care: the vegetarian laksa uses chicken stock, and the menu says so.

The group arrangement makes the kitchen’s cooking easy to share. For 12 or more, the kitchen serves a shared menu of the day's dishes, five or six mains with refills within reason, and prices it two ways: 185 kroner per person for vegetarian and vegan mains, 210 for meat and vegetarian. The kitchen is tiny and chooses which dishes run each day, so book and let it cook for the room.

2. Gaza Grill Kødbyen

Gaza Grill describes itself as an Arab eating house built on family recipes from Palestine and a love of communal eating and shared dishes. Its Kødbyen branch at Flæsketorvet 39 sits among the area's galleries and nightlife, open every day from 11:00 to 22:00, with DJs playing soul, funk and belly-dance disco at weekends. Mezze is the natural order for a mixed table: on the Kødbyen menu, falafel, hummus, baba ganoush of grilled aubergine and tahini, and deep-fried halloumi with za'atar and pomegranate are each 85 kroner and marked vegan or vegetarian, and every dip is vegan. Falafel, cauliflower and fries are fried separately in fresh rapeseed oil. Beef or chicken shawarma at 105 kroner joins them for the meat eaters.

For a fixed evening, the Kødbyen menu has a Taste of Palestine set, the chefs' choice of seasonal hot and cold mezze with a dessert, for at least two at 375 kroner per person. Ask how it is adapted for vegetarians before the whole table commits to it; the à la carte mezze needs no such question.

3. Juma

At Juma on Ryesgade, between the Lakes and Skt. Hans Torv, everyone starts with the same thing. The thali is a sharing feast served to the whole table, minimum two people, at 175 kroner each on the summer food card, so check the dishes and price for your date. As listed there it is vegetarian: garlic butter naan, roti, green moong daal, aloo curry, tandoori cauliflower, kachumber salad, melon chaat, spicy mint yoghurt and lemon rice with salted lemon.

That reverses the usual problem. The vegetarian does not need a special dish; the meat eaters add one. On that card, grilled sea bass, lamb seekh kebab or monkfish can be added to the thali, and an achari paneer skewer gives the vegetarians an extra too. It is the clearest example on this list of one meal that suits everyone, and the room on Ryesgade is used to a crowd: Juma has hosted weddings and Christmas lunches there.

4. OURI

OURI, a Korean restaurant opened in 2025 by a Korean team on Sankt Peders Stræde, takes its name from a blend of "our" and "I", and the food follows the name: every main course comes with three seasonal banchan and a pot of mixed-grain rice for the table. The menu marks vegetarian and vegan dishes clearly. Gamjajeon, a crisp potato and cauliflower pancake with pickled soy onion, is vegan at 89 kroner, and dubu jorim glazes tofu in gochujang with a scallion sauce. Charcoal-grilled pork neck at 229 kroner covers the other side of the table.

OURI takes groups of up to 40 and asks you to contact it ahead for more than eight.

5. Hot Pot Republic

Hot pot may be the most literal answer to a mixed table. Hot Pot Republic started as a pop-up with Mikkeller before it took its own room on Vesterbrogade, and Visit Copenhagen calls it Denmark's first hot pot restaurant. The table chooses two soup flavours and cooks together, and the dinner menu lists vegetarian and vegan versions of the hot pot beside the standard one with meat, fish balls and handmade meatballs. The full experience is 315 kroner per person, or 285 in its vegetarian and vegan version.

The rule to know is that hot pot must be chosen by the whole table, minimum two. Say when you book how many vegetarians are coming, so the table and the broths are set up for both. Tempura enoki mushrooms make a good vegan starter for everyone, and the extras run to honeycomb tofu, king oyster mushrooms, lotus root and taro.

6. Royal Garden

Royal Garden on Dronningens Tværgade began as a father's dream, and his family has run it since 1999 as a Cantonese restaurant that calls itself one of Copenhagen's first for dim sum. Dim sum is made for sharing, and here the cooks shape every dumpling by hand and send plates out as they are ready rather than in courses, so the table eats at its own pace. The à la carte dim sum card marks vegan dishes with a green leaf, among them steamed rice rolls with spring onion and mushroom, and Chiu Chau dumplings with water chestnut, celery and onion. Siu mai with pork and prawn sit alongside.

This entry comes with a warning that applies to many set menus. Royal Garden's social dining menu needs at least four and must be chosen by the whole table, and the restaurant says it is not made vegetarian. Order dim sum à la carte instead. It opens Wednesday to Sunday.

7. Restaurant Cofoco

Restaurant Cofoco, a bright basement on Abel Cathrines Gade, is where the Cofoco group began in 2004; Høst, further down, belongs to the same group. Every dish here is a small plate meant for tasting and sharing, and the separate vegetarian menu keeps pace with the standard one: four green courses cost 400 kroner, the same as four standard courses, and start with baked yellow beets with pickled gooseberries and Jerusalem artichoke soup. From the à la carte list, pan-fried cauliflower with truffle cream, hazelnuts and lingonberries is 155 kroner; pan-fried cod with potato purée and mussel sauce is 295.

Read the menu rules closely: a menu must be ordered by the entire table, and parties of eight or more pre-order and book through the restaurant. Ask whether vegetarian and standard menus can be mixed at one table before you book; for six friends who would happily go green together, the vegetarian menu settles it, and à la carte avoids the question. A long table seats 28, and two private rooms take 13 and 20.

Which Set Menu Has a Green Twin?

Some evenings are courses, not plates: a birthday, a leaving dinner, a catch-up that deserves dessert. Then the question is whether the kitchen runs a full vegetarian set menu in parallel with its standard one, so the vegetarian gets a progression rather than one swapped main.

8. Høst

Høst, the other Cofoco restaurant on this list, takes its name from the Danish word for harvest and sits on the corner of Nørre Farimagsgade and Ahlefeldtsgade, among brick walls and Danish mid-century furniture. The restaurant has won design awards, among them World's Best Designed Restaurant at the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. Alongside its standard menu it runs a separate vegetarian menu of three courses at 450 kroner or five at 550. The autumn version, served until 9 November, moves from fried carrots with horseradish and sea buckthorn to pearl barley risotto with beech mushrooms and chanterelles. A new menu starts on 10 November, so check the dishes for your date.

For a group, Høst has a private dining room, a semi-private table for up to 10, and room for 60 together on one floor. It opens every evening from 17:30.

Where Can Everyone Order Their Own?

Not every group books. For a smaller, flexible group, the simplest answer is one menu where everybody orders for themselves and the vegetarian swaps one thing. Here the limit is seats, not food.

9. Gasoline Grill Hellerup

North of the city on Strandvejen, Gasoline Grill Hellerup, open since April 2021, works for a mixed group in the most direct way: the vegetarian orders the same burger as everyone else. The Matr Burger is not a separate dish but any burger on the menu made with a Matr patty, fermented from fungi and plants, from 100 kroner. So the vegetarian can have the Cheeseburger, with cheddar, red onion, pickles and Gasoline Grill Sauce, while the person beside them has the same Cheeseburger with beef at 110.

A Gasoline Grill Cheeseburger with a Matr plant-based patty, cheddar, red onion and pickles, with fries — Photo: Gasoline Grill and Matr (@matrfds)

The second vegetarian choice changes with the year. The Green Burger is built on whole vegetables in season, and its log on Instagram tells the story: asparagus arrived in April and stayed into June, grilled summer courgette took over in July, and on 7 October portobello moved in.

A Gasoline Grill Green Burger with asparagus from June 2026, served with crinkle-cut fries and lemonade — Photo: Gasoline Grill (@gasolinegrill)

Today's version adds cheddar, tomato, lettuce, red onion, pickles, Gasoline Grill Sauce and herb oil, at 100 kroner. It is a vegetarian burger with cheese, so ask about the full order if anyone at the table eats strictly vegan.

We designed the Hellerup room with BRIQ, with furniture by Matrikula Studio and leather from Spoor and Friland, and there is space inside and out. The grill runs from 11:00 until the patties are gone. We take no reservations, and an app pre-order arranges food, not a table, so come as a group that can be flexible about where it sits. For a party that must sit together at a set time, choose one of the booked tables above.

10. Slurp Borgergade

Ramen suits a mixed pair or trio because nobody orders from the edges of the menu. At Slurp Borgergade, the second room Slurp opened, in January 2025, the Veggie ramen has a broth of its own, built on mushrooms and celeriac rather than the chicken stock behind the other bowls, and comes with oyster mushroom, kale, pickled fennel and egg at 175 kroner, and the menu says it can be made vegan. A friend who wants seafood in the broth takes the Shio, with smoked mackerel in its stock, and the bowls arrive side by side.

Group size is the catch here. The city-centre room has 36 seats and takes no reservations, and Slurp's own advice is that its restaurants are not well suited to big groups: arrive before opening or be ready to split up. It is best for three or four. Borgergade serves lunch from 11:30 and dinner from 17:00.

Sometimes the easiest way to avoid a debate is to let the kitchen choose.

11. Send Flere Krydderier at Union

Kulturhuset Union on Nørre Allé was built as a school in 1857 and became a culture house in 1993, and the large hall upstairs was named Aula. In the building, Send Flere Krydderier runs a folk kitchen on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, with one dish a day and a menu published ahead. November's list reads like a vegetarian's wish list: baked half squash with feta, pine nuts and warm tahini on 10 November, dolmas with rice and vegetables on 11 November, and creamy pumpkin soup with coconut and lime leaves on 19 November. Groups of more than four are served sharing style at the table, and nobody has to arrive at the same moment: guests come when it suits them during the evening.

The kitchen recommends a ticket, which is valid only for the chosen day and is not refunded; book a table instead if your numbers may change.

What If Most of You Are Vegetarian?

When most of the group wants plant-based food, a kitchen that builds its menu around vegetables can give the table more choices. At Beyla the mushrooms are a reason to go in their own right.

12. Beyla

Beyla in Carlsberg Byen is a casual plant-based eatery for dinner and weekend brunch, from the team behind Restaurant Ark, and takes its name from the Norse goddess of bees and fertility. Mushrooms matter here: the group co-owns Funga Farm, an urban mushroom farm in Copenhagen that grows for its restaurants, and the evening menu runs from Beyla fried mushrooms with gochujang at 145 kroner to a lion's mane main at 249. Roasted butternut squash with pumpkin seeds, smoked ricotta and pickled prunes is 119; labneh with za'atar, leek oil and confit garlic is 99. The evening tasting menu at 399 kroner must be ordered by the whole table, which works when the whole table has agreed to go plant-based.

Beyla has group offers from 10 people, starting at 595 kroner per person for the tasting menu with water and two drinks. It closes from 21 to 27 December.

What Does Not Work for a Mixed Group?

Three plans fail more often than they should. The first is the grill or steakhouse chosen because "they have a veggie option", when the option is a starter. The second is a set menu that must be ordered by the whole table and has no vegetarian version, which turns a dinner booking into a negotiation on the night. The third is a walk-in counter for twelve at 19:00 on a Friday: the food may suit everyone, but the seats will not.

Can a Mixed Group of Vegetarians and Meat Eaters Eat Together at Gasoline Grill?

Yes. At Gasoline Grill Hellerup every burger on the menu can be made with a Matr patty instead of beef, so the vegetarians order the same Cheeseburger or Original Burger as everyone else. The seasonal Green Burger, now made with portobello, is the second vegetarian choice. The Cheeseburger and the Green Burger both come with cheddar, and neither is described as vegan.

The practical point for a group is seating rather than food. Hellerup has plenty of room indoors and outside on Strandvejen, opens daily from 11:00 and serves until the burgers sell out. There are no reservations, so a group that can arrive together and sit where there is space will do best; the branch menu shows today's burgers and prices.

Decide the Format First

Before anyone opens a menu, decide how the table should eat: sharing dishes, set courses, or one order each. Then check whether everyone must choose the same menu and from how many people the kitchen wants notice. With that settled, you can get on to the enjoyable choice: thali, hot pot, mezze or a burger with a different patty.

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Frequently asked questions

Which Copenhagen restaurants are best for a group that includes vegetarians?

Juma’s thali is vegetarian as listed, Kate’s Joint offers vegetarian group menus and Høst runs a vegetarian set menu beside its standard one. For small walk-in groups, Gasoline Grill Hellerup can make burgers with a Matr patty.

Which of these places can a group try without booking?

Gasoline Grill Hellerup and Slurp Borgergade take no reservations, so they suit small groups that can be flexible about seats; Slurp is best for three or four. For eight or more, book ahead: Kate's Joint, OURI, Høst and Restaurant Cofoco all have group arrangements.

What if someone in our group is vegan?

Beyla is plant-based. Elsewhere, look for dishes marked vegan: Gaza Grill lists falafel and hummus, Hot Pot Republic offers vegan hot pot, Royal Garden marks vegan dim sum, and Slurp says its Veggie ramen can be made vegan. Tell the restaurant when you book.

Do we all have to order the same menu?

At some places, yes. Hot Pot Republic, Juma's thali, Restaurant Cofoco's set menus, Royal Garden's social menu, Beyla's tasting menu and Kate's Joint's group menu are ordered by the whole table. Høst offers a vegetarian set menu beside its standard menu, and à la carte ordering avoids the rule elsewhere.

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By Gasoline Grill

Gasoline Grill started in a petrol-station kiosk on Landgreven in 2016. We grind our beef fresh every day and cook every burger to order. Here, we share food stories and places to eat around Copenhagen, from a quick lunch to a slower evening.