Daytime café in Indre By, Copenhagen

Sonny

A Small Kitchen That Knows Its Size

3.5 of 5

Sonny tells you up front that the kitchen is small and the menu is short. I wish more restaurants had that honesty. Sara and David, a Danish couple, built it as a daytime place for homemade breakfast, lunch and cakes, with good coffee and the sort of drinks you do not find everywhere, matcha, golden latte and kombucha among them. Kinfolk called it a friendly neighbourhood favourite, and for once the magazine is right.

The cooking follows the fields at Birkemosegård in Sjællands Odde, the same farm some of the most careful cafés in town buy from. Expect salads that change with the season and rugbrød sandwiches, the dense Danish rye built to carry real weight. The coffee comes from La Cabra, who worked with the owners on brewing, and the house blend is a Brazilian natural. New beans come in every week for the batch brew and espresso, so ask what is fresh. There are gluten-free and vegan options and they are happy to work around allergies.

The original is on Rådhusstræde, in the old centre, with siblings on Frederiksberg Allé and a new one on Østerbrogade that stays open until ten on Fridays. The kitchen shuts at three in most places, so do not wander in for a late lunch. Go before noon, order whatever the farm has sent, and take a slice of cake to go.

Order this

A rugbrød sandwich, Whatever seasonal salad is on, A slice of home-baked cake, The Sonny blend from La Cabra

The damage

$$

Go

Late morning on a weekday, before the kitchen closes at three

Find it

Rådhusstræde 5, 1466 København K, Denmark

Website

sonnycph.dk