Dragør (smoked herring and harbour fish) ★ 4.2
Dragør on Amager island, 30 minutes by bus from Copenhagen, has smoked-herring smokehouses, harbour fish counters and a yellow-cottage fishing village preserved from the 1700s.
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Roskilde ★ 4.2
Roskilde is 30 minutes from Copenhagen by train, with the Viking Ship Museum cafe, Snekken's fjordside restaurant and traditional smørrebrød counters in the old town centre.
Helsingør (Elsinore) ★ 4.3
Helsingør is 45 minutes north of Copenhagen by train, with Kronborg Castle, Stengade smørrebrød counters and harbour-front fish restaurants by the Øresund crossing to Sweden.
Lammefjord (asparagus and root vegetables) ★ 4.4
The Lammefjord polder west of Copenhagen is Denmark's protected root-vegetable and white asparagus origin, with farm shops and seasonal lunches at Lammefjordens Spisehus.