Cafe Wilder

This was a great Unilocal find. We had just flown over from Stockholm, with 36 hours to spend in Copenhagen before our trip back to the states. I talked my wife into riding the underground to Christianshawn, which was clearly a BIG young nightlife area on a Friday night — she commented on the police presence, of which we have seen little here. So I suggested we walk and get a bit away from the main plaza (plads?) with the young people. I pulled up Unilocal and found two restaurants nearby with good ratings. We looked in on both and chose this. It was terrific. Fairly small menu but plenty of choices for us. Nice wine and beer list. I had a bargain 3-​course meal and my wife had 2 starters and then ordered dessert (her version of 3 courses). Everything was excellent, including a local beer. British couple sitting on one side of us, an Australian couple across the aisle and three young women from neighborhood celebrating something with champagne — an eclectic place. Service was inconsistent, which was fine since we were happy to relax — but with a little more focus on service, I might go 5 stars. But the service was very friendly — just not particularly attentive or quick.

Fantastic open faced sandwiches. The fish/​mayonnaise/​dill was awesome, as was the chicken salad. Prices a little high for quantity, but delicious.

A VERY nice and mellow place to grab a light meal and caffe in the arty Christiana neighborhood. The food is tasty and the staff VERY nice and informative. (Had a very pleasant, fragmented conversation with my waiter about photography and local culture. Very helpful for scouting out shots.) And the vibe of the venue is so comfortable & inviting. Definitely stop in when visiting Copenhagen.

What a surprise! Having Café Wilder just in the neighborhood is a blast!
If you want to experience true danish cuisine, then you definitely have to check this place out.
As I know is one of the first café in the city and it has a huge notoriety for its food and drinks. And I agree, although we stay in the average.
The place is pretty small, I didn’t count more than 20 seats, so either if you go there for lunch or dinner, you should definitely call in before and book, otherwise it’ll be very hard to find a spot.
I enjoyed my night and my dinner. The waitress was super nice and polite, very patient and never lost her smile. :)
The food was good as well! My goat cheese salad with walnuts and broccoli was pretty good (and I also tried to copy the recipe back home the following day) and I appreciated the draft beer choice they have.
As a matter of fact, we were the only non-​danish speakers in the restaurant that night, and I loved the fact we were able to feel like in a true dansk restaurant.
Prices might be a little bit higher than usual as we spent circa 250 kr. each for a main course and a beer. But the quality, the environment and the service explains it all. And I’ll definitely be back at Wilder. Definitely.

Really enjoyed both the meal and service. Had the mussels and the warm cheese salad. Both fantastic.

Tried this place based on a recommendation from The Lonely Planet, and
didn’t disappoint. We started with a wonderful bisque, then the best lamb I’ve ever had. Small, quiet and friendly.

Review is only for after dinner drinks and dessert…
Really cute place and they were very generous in their drink pours.
Desserts were nice as well.
Definitely will return!

Great brunch options, nice atmosphere. Slooooooooow service.

On our last evening in Copenhagen, we had dinner at Café Wilder, a small restaurant located on an unassuming corner of Wildersgade and Sankt Annæ Gade in the residential area of Christianshavn. The place had opened bay windows all around, creating a warm, intimate, and romantic atmosphere.
We ordered four dishes: Salmon (79 KR), Mackerel (189 KR), Poussin (179 KR), and Ox (209 KR). I had the poussin, which was butter roasted chicken, served over a creamy risotto with portobello mushrooms, spring onions, and parsley oil. The risotto was perfectly cooked, and the parsley added an amazing layer of flavor to the dish. This dinner was probably my second favorite meal during my entire trip through Scandinavia, Germany, Estonia, and Russia (best meal was in Tallinn).
Service was okay, considering it was our server’s first night on the job. He was a bit confused and slow throughout, but it was understandable and we weren’t in a hurry to leave. We did have some issues with our credit card transaction, but that was quickly fixed by another server, who was much more experienced. Both servers were so welcoming, friendly, and conversational (good looking too, I might add).
And of course, free Wi-​Fi is alway a plus!

If there were 5 more stars I would give it all 10. I had one of the specials, a traditional pork dish with celery hearts and mashed potatoes. It sounds simple but it was unbelievably delicious. The savory pork played perfectly with the bitter/​aromatic celery hearts and the mashed potatoes.
Great painting on the wall! Good cheese selection. Very good both times that i have visited. Had a great variation of chicken coq au vin on a second visit. Also fantastic.
Thanks to the other Unilocalers for their reviews. I had my favorite meal to date here (the pork dish).

I had the open rye bread chicken salad sandwich. I have no idea how the rest of the menu is and to be honest, I figure I’ll never find out. With chicken salad soo good, why ever pick anything else?
Let me paint you a mouth drooling picture:
The food comes on a rustic black stone board. Here, you’ll find two pieces of thin, perfectly toasted coarse rye bread and a jar of deliciously home made chicken salad (chicken, mustard, mayo, parsley, salt and pepper) and small gherkins. Yummy!
The rest is history.
I wanted to take a picture for you guys, but I got so overly thrilled when the food arrived that I accidentally ate everything before I remembered to take the photo. Sorry! Apparently, you need to go and experience for your selves :-)

That has to be the prettiest chicken salad sandwich I ever saw on a plate. Prepared in typical smørrebrød fashion, it was an open-​faced creation with a carefully spooned dollop of chicken salad atop a thin, manicured piece of rye bread and festooned with haricots vert and three strips of crispy bacon (see photo). It was lovely but rather pricey for 89 DKK (Danish krone), which converts to about $ 15.82. Now that price point would make the Asian ladies at Lee’s Deli back home in San Francisco keel over. But I was on vacation so what the heck.
Café Wilder is a compact corner eatery with a very light lunch menu in the bohemian part of Copenhagen called Christianshavn. It appears to be a local favorite because it was abuzz with bicyclists coming in for a quick bite and latte. What I like about this kind of place is that it doesn’t look at all like a Starbucks knockoff but rather classic European with chandeliers, white walls, dark wood café tables for two, and big, inviting show windows that open to the quiet residential streets. There is a more robust dinner menu that’s served starting at 6PM. Worth checking out.
FOOD — 4 stars… cold salads are their specialty, but it may be pricier than you would expect
AMBIANCE — 4.5 stars… European smartness in a corner café
SERVICE — 4 stars… the manager was very friendly and quite fluent in English
TOTAL — 4 stars… I think I need me some smørrebrød now

We liked this so much for lunch, we almost went back for dinner too. Slightly off the beaten track in a residential part of Christianshaven but only a short walk from the Knippelsbro bridge. Good range of locally produced Danish foods — generous helpings of open sandwiches, salads, herring without the silly price tags you see outside some Copenhagen restaurants. Service was really friendly and the place was full of Danes — few tourists — so we knew it was a good choice.

Bei einer Tour durch Christianshavn und Besichtigung der Vor Frelsers Kirke bietet sich eine anschließende Stärkung im Café Wilder an. Die herzhaften Speisen an den Nachbartischen sahen reichlich und lecker aus, aber wir hatten Apfelkuchen und grünen Tee. Dieser war von hoher Qualität; eine besondere Mischung in kleinen Stoffbeutelchen.
Die Bedienung dauerte recht lange und das Café war sehr voll — aber man entschuldigte sich mehrfach für die Wartezeiten, die durch einen vorangegangenen halbstündigen Stromausfall entstanden waren.
Wenn wir mal wieder in Christianshavn unterwegs sind, werden wir das Wilder vermutlich mal ohne Stromausfall testen. Wir kommen jedenfalls bei Gelegenheit gerne wieder.

Das Café Wilder liegt außerhalb des Zentrums, ist aber absolut einen Besuch wert. Es gibt drei Speisekarten jeweils für Frühstück, Lunch und Abendessen. Sie sind übersichtlich, bieten aber abwechslungsreiche Gerichte. Die Dänen haben offenbar ein Faible für Sandwiches, allerdings sind die angebotenen Sandwiches alles andere, als was man sich normalerweise darunter vorstellt. Wenn man hier ein Sandwich bestellt, bekommt man einen riesigen Burger mit krossen, kräftigen Brötchen, üppig belegt mit frischem Gemüse sowie gebackene Kartoffeln und Salat als Beilage. Ich hatte einen Salat und der war auch sehr lecker. Das Preis-​Leistungsverhältnis stimmt ebenfalls.

This small café in the afternoon cum restaurant in the evening reminded my a whole lot of l’Utime Atom in Bruxelles, that being, somewhere cool to hang out as well as eat. Both places have the massive unexpected bonus of the food being absolutely superb (well, the first time you go anyway!)
This steak (pictured), was, quite literally, incredible. No ultra-​lean cut, but marbled with quite a lot of delicious fat, and they didn’t ask how I wanted it, but it was perfect.
There’s a decent lineup of beer too, including Tuborg on draft which tastes a lot better then when I remember it being on sale in the UK.
Very laid back, and highly recommended.