Cafe Jordan ★ 3.6
One of the cheapest places to eat a full Danish lunch in Frederiksbjerg. At Jaegergaardsgade 38. Booking recommended. Cash and card accepted.
Try: Bar lunch and draft lager
Meyers Bageri is a brunch budget eat in Aarhus.
Editorially verified May 25, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: Paradisgade 7, 8000 Aarhus C
One of the cheapest places to eat a full Danish lunch in Frederiksbjerg. At Jaegergaardsgade 38. Booking recommended. Cash and card accepted.
Try: Bar lunch and draft lager
The long-established bodega kitchen serves proper Danish classics at prices that have not kept pace with inflation. At Skolegade 7. Booking recommended.
Try: Frikadeller med rødkål
A cardamom bun and filter coffee at La Cabra is the best value specialty-coffee experience in Aarhus, from the roastery exporting to thirty countries; $85.
Try: Cardamom bun and filter coffee
An artisan take on Denmark's most democratic food. Free-range pork sausage, pickled red onion, crispy fried onion and house remoulade for under $80.
Try: Artisan polser with remoulade
The cave cafe near the university has served students cheap coffee and food since the 1980s. At Studsgade 5. Booking recommended. Reservations advised.
Try: Student lunch and coffee
The oldest bakery in Aarhus, founded 1898, charges less than most specialty cafes for a kanelsnurre that is genuinely better. At M.P. Bruuns Gade 56.
Try: Kanelsnurre and dark coffee