Copenhagen food halls and street food: Torvehallerne, Reffen, Broens Street Food and the Tivoli Food Hall, with hours and the winter closures

💡 The Short Version: Torvehallerne by Nørreport is named by the most sources, 44 of those counted, and is open every day, 10:00 to 19:00 on weekdays and to 18:00 at weekends. Reffen, the street-food yard on Refshaleøen, is named by 25 and is shut from November to February. Broens Street Food on the harbour has 15 and an ice rink in winter, and the Tivoli Food Hall has 14, is open 11:00 to 22:00 daily and is free to enter from the street. Or book a tour: Secret Food Toursad starts at Torvehallerne and is from DKK 911 for 3 hours.

📊 The evidence behind this guide. Nothing here is ranked on one visit. This pass read 763 list pages, and counts the 171 pages from 87 English-language publishers and the 163 pages from 27 Danish publishers: newspapers, magazines, guidebooks, broadcasters and travel writers, among them Time Out, the BBC and Condé Nast Traveller in English, and Berlingske, Politiken, ELLE Danmark, Euroman and Mig og KBH in Danish. Copenhagen-only sites without a named newsroom, tour operators, directories and the venues’ own sites are not counted. Counts are publishers, not pages, and the English and Danish counts are shown apart. How the guides are made

⚠️ Reffen is shut from November to February. In 2026 it is open every day to 2 November. Torvehallerne, Broens and the Tivoli Food Hall stay open through the winter.

The four, compared

Torvehallerne

Frederiksborggade 21, 1360 København K · Mon to Fri 10:00 to 19:00, Sat and Sun 10:00 to 18:00 · Cited by 44 sources (38 English, 6 Danish) · torvehallernekbh.dk

Two glass halls by Nørreport station, with the stalls of food producers and small eateries on a daily market. Coffee and bakery items are sold from 07:00, and some eateries stay open after the halls close. The stalls include Hallernes Smørrebrød for open sandwiches, Hija de Sanchez for tacos, Grød for porridge and rice pudding, Boutique Fisk for fish cakes, Il Mattarello for pasta, Glean for flødeboller (chocolate-covered marshmallow cakes), Maggis for ice cream and a Coffee Collective counter. Hallernes Smørrebrød is named by 8 English and 3 Danish publishers for smørrebrød, and the lists tie the halls to smørrebrød (21 publishers), herring (6), oysters and seafood (11) and brunch (11). The decider is the time: go before 14:00 for lunch, when the smørrebrød is fresh and the halls are fullest. Smørrebrød in Copenhagen has the open sandwiches, and Rosenborg Castle is close by: see Rosenborg Castle tickets.

Inside Torvehallerne, with a bánh mì and bao counter at the right. Photo: Jorge Franganillo, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Reffen

Refshalevej 167A, 1432 København K · food 11:30 to 20:30, bars 11:00 to 21:30, coffee shop from 10:30 · closed November to February · Cited by 25 sources (21 English, 4 Danish) · reffen.dk

A street-food and bar yard on the former shipyard island of Refshaleøen, a short way along the harbour from the centre. Reffen’s own page gives three seasons: autumn and Halloween from 1 October to 2 November 2026, closed for winter from November to February, and summer from mid-March to the end of September. The yard is open every day in season. Reffen says it was named Byens Bedste Åndehul 2026, a “best breathing space”, in Berlingske’s Byens Bedste awards. There is no metro station: the harbour bus, which takes an ordinary ticket, calls at Refshaleøen, and bus 2A stops at Copenhagen Contemporary on the same road. The lists tie it to hot dogs (8 English publishers).

Reffen’s quayside terraces on Refshaleøen, seen from the harbour. Photo: Leif Jørgensen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Broens Street Food

Strandgade 95, 1401 København K · food Sun to Thu 11:30 to 20:00, Fri and Sat 11:00 to 21:00 · Cited by 15 sources (11 English, 4 Danish) · broensstreetfood.dk

A covered quay beside the Inner Harbour Bridge, on the Christianshavn side of the water, with permanent food stalls and mobile carts: a sandwich stall, French crêpes, Vietnamese bánh mì, burgers, Argentine sandwiches and empanadas, fish and chips, Mexican corn tacos, poké bowls, ice cream, sausages, Italian pasta, Danish smørrebrød and Greek pita. Bars open Sunday to Thursday 11:00 to 21:00 and Friday and Saturday 11:00 to 22:00. In winter Broens runs an ice-skating rink, which its site calls Broens Ice Skating. The Eating Europe food tour stops at a taco stand here: see Copenhagen food tours. Nyhavn is across the Inner Harbour Bridge: see Nyhavn.

Tivoli Food Hall

Next to Tivoli Gardens, by Copenhagen Central Station · daily 11:00 to 22:00 · Cited by 14 sources (9 English, 5 Danish) · tivoli.dk

Tivoli says it has free entry from the street and direct access from Tivoli Gardens, so you do not need a Tivoli ticket to eat there. The stalls are Chicks by Chicks (chicken), Cocks & Cows (burgers), Dhaba (Indian), Food Hall Grillen (Danish grill food), French Market (a French bistro), Gorm’s (pizza), Hallernes Smørrebrød, Kung Fu Street Food (Asian), La Baracca (pasta), OLIOLI (poké bowls), Strangas (Greek gyros), Sushi Market, Wakha (North African), WokWok (Thai) and Zócalo (Mexican). See Tivoli Gardens tickets.

Hot dogs

A pølsevogn is a hot-dog wagon. Visit Copenhagen describes the classic as a ristet pølse, a hot dog with fried onions, remoulade and pickled cucumber, and a fransk hotdog, a sausage stuffed in a bread with a hole in it. The lists name the wagons as a group (15 publishers, 12 English and 3 Danish), then John’s Hotdog Deli (12), DØP (10) and Harry’s Place (6). The organic stand near the Round Tower, Den Økologiske Pølsemand, is a stop on the Original Food Tourad.

A pølsevogn, a Copenhagen hot-dog wagon, near Nyhavn. Photo: caspermoller, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Plan the rest

Where to eat in Copenhagen ranks the restaurants by how many sources name them, smørrebrød and Danish pastries have their own guides, and Copenhagen food tours compares the guided walks. 3 days in Copenhagen fits the halls into the days, and what to book before you go to Copenhagen lists the closed days.