4 Italian Restaurants to Try in Copenhagen

Italian food in Copenhagen is having a proper moment, and it goes a long way past pizza. These are four Italian restaurants in Copenhagen worth planning a night around: Roman-style pizza that ranks among the best in Europe, a Tuscan hosteria making its own pici, a retro diner running three courses for 199 kroner, and one kitchen that flatly refuses to pick a single country. Four different budgets, same obsession with doing it properly.

MaMeMi: Roman pizza and a serious antipasti table in Vesterbro

This is one of the best pizzas in Copenhagen, and the 50 Top Pizza list agrees: MaMeMi came in 22nd in Europe in 2026, up a place from the year before. MaMeMi sits on Mysundegade, a quiet Vesterbro side street, and it punches far above what you expect from a neighborhood pizzeria. The dough is worked by hand and goes straight into a screaming-hot oven, so the pizza lands thin, crispy and properly Roman.

Arrive hungry, because the antipasti carry the first half of the meal. Beef tartare hand-cut with aged Piedmontese cheese. Silky vitello tonnato. Roman-style braised artichokes with mint and olive oil. Oxtail ragù finished with dark chocolate, and a focaccia built for mopping. Then the pizza: the Amatriciana with guanciale, Pecorino Romano and black pepper is the one to order first, and the scarola is the vegan one you end up talking about. Behind all of it sits a cellar of thousands of natural Italian bottles, so there is always the right glass for whatever just landed. Finish with the homemade tiramisu and the limoncello. We were invited.

Il Magnifico: Tuscan cooking with no shortcuts at Jarmers Plads

This one feels like a little piece of Tuscany. Il Magnifico sits at Jarmers Plads on the edge of the city center and commits fully to the Tuscan idea: rustic, honest, generous, and a wine list that backs it up.

Start with the antipasto misto Toscano, with wine-marinated beef, homemade focaccia and a rich kale crostino. Then the Tuscan cold cuts: their own imported salami, cinghiale, which is wild boar, and the silky lardo. The stuffed polenta arrives full of gorgonzola under their homemade ragù. But the pici is the reason to come back. It is made in house and cooked properly al dente, one plate all’arrabbiata with a spice that wakes you up, the other with a deeply meaty white ragù. Drink Chianti Classico with it, then cantucci dipped in Vin Santo. We were invited.

Palazzo Diner: the Pasta Club, three courses for 199 kr.

Good vibes, great pasta, and the best midweek value in the city center. Palazzo Diner on Axeltorv leans all the way into cozy retro diner charm, and from Sunday to Wednesday the Pasta Club takes over: pasta from 99 kr., pasta plus a starter or dessert for 179 kr., or all three courses for 199 kr.

The signature spinach carbonara is where to start, vibrant green and perfectly al dente, silky and light with heaps of grated cheese on the side. The rigatoni al limone is the other one to watch for, creamy and chewy with toasted hazelnuts for crunch. Open with the tuna carpaccio or the prosciutto crostini, and close with the chocolate lava cake, warm and gooey against cold berry ice cream. Go on a Sunday and start the week right. We were invited.

Camour: the one that refuses to pick a country

Strictly speaking this is not an Italian restaurant, and that is the point. Camour on Høkerboderne in Kødbyen takes the best ideas from Spain, France and Italy and plates them family style, so the whole table eats together.

The pulpo carpaccio opens: paper-thin octopus with tuna cream, capers, herbs and lemon zest. Then giant head-on prawns in roasted pepper butter, the kind of sauce you immediately want bread for, and freshly baked bread topped with stracciatella, roasted peppers and anchovies. The stuffed poussin comes straight out of the oven onto roasted Jerusalem artichokes and radicchio, carved at the table. The Italian end shows up again at dessert with a bergamot tiramisu built on vermouth and Earl Grey, next to a Basque cheesecake and pistachio soft serve with olive oil and sea salt. We were invited.

Which one first?

Depends on the night. Roman pizza and a long antipasti graze with someone who shares: MaMeMi. A proper sit-down Tuscan dinner with a bottle of Chianti: Il Magnifico. A weeknight pasta fix that still feels like a night out: Palazzo Diner, Sunday to Wednesday. A big table that wants to order wide and eat family style: Camour.

All four are pins on our map of Copenhagen, which only has one rule: every pin is somewhere Mikey has actually eaten. Want more options? The full list is over at All eats.

But now… the real question is… where do we go next?