Osteria 16

Diamond in the rough. This restaurant captures the true meaning of this idea, with it extremely unpretentious yet high quality dishes.
The place is hard to find, no signs or lights mark the restaurants presence. But nonetheless, it is a buzzing local gem. Don’t count on getting a seat without a booked table.
It almost goes without saying at this point, but the food was excellent. 8 dishes, the only choice, were almost all perfect. They were all delicious and incredibly unique. From Spanish to Pakistani, they didn’t try to do anything else than deliver 100% in taste.
I can and will recommend this place to all — casual excellence at its best!

I honestly felt this place had an authentic feel to it. You don’t order anything specific. You just sit down and get fed. Not too much hazzle.
Each dish was freshly made and lots of the ingredients has been brought in directly from Italy. I even tried some new food I usually don’t want to eat, but because of the freshness here I knew it had to be tried. Thus, the value for money factor was very reasonable.
Unfortunately, the only subpar dish was their curry dish, which was made by the dishwasher (we were told). It had decent flavours, but the meat was overcooked and unfortunately didn’t suit the rest of the meal.

Go go go –with a reservation– it s a good and great place. The waitress are very cool, the dish are perfect and simple

This is just down my alley when it comes to what I expect from a Restaurant! Yes, you sit tight, but the «hygge» (a danish discourse for coziness) and the good food make up for all that. The Food is rustic, good tasting Italian. GO HERE. You won’t regret it (unless you have a little bit of socio phobia).
Everyday they have an 8 course menu for 250 kr (I think). The style is italian in the non-​pretentious kinda way. They ain’t got no pizza if that’s what you’re asking!
An excellent place to dine out especially during the weekdays. Actually, go here on weekdays, the chances of getting a table is better.

Thanks Unilocal for helping find this wonderful restaurant in Copenhagen.
I had the best dinner of my trip in Osteria 16; this place is a small restaurant (probably 10 tables, at most), with a set menu of «tapas» with fusion plates made with octopus (exquisite!), cod fish (exquisite!), pasta, meat ending with chicken (in this same order).
Dessert wasn’t that impressive, but who cares after such a great dinner.
Great wine, excellent service and great food; what else can have?

Say hallo to my new favorite restaurant in Copenhagen. This is SO good.
I went here last week. We had reserved a table in advance, and got a small table in the back of the room. Already when entering the restaurant I felt like I was in Italy. It’s exactly like some of the best restaurants that I’ve visited in Rome — with small tables and lots of people — in the good way. Not in the «we wanted a romantic dinner for two but felt like we had a romantic dinner with the table next to us as well» kind of way.
This place only have one menu — eight antipasti dishes for 250 dkk. Some of the dishes reminded me of Italian food I’ve gotten in Italy, and some were more modern and different small dishes. They all had in common that they were perfectly cooked and suited so good together. With no doubt the best Italian food I’ve gotten in Copenhagen.
We got a glass of the rosé wine to begin with — one of the best rose’s I’ve tried. And it was only 55 dkk/​glass, which is quite good at a restaurant in Copenhagen.
The service was really good, and the waiters constantly checked that everything was okay, served us a bit more wine and bread and when I said I don’t eat milk, it was no problem to fix milk free dishes for me.
The water is served in white plastic cups, the food is prepared in a partly opened kitchen and it’s all very authentic. Sometimes with restaurants like this, that really try to look like Italian restaurants, I feel that they try to hard. But not this time. This time it was just perfect.

I will never get over this meal. Never-​ever.
Ever since coming here with my family we’ve all been working hard on trying to recreate the dishes we were served. No luck. You can’t google this shit– this is homecooked Calabrian food as you’ve never tried it before. The seafood! Tuna salads, langoustine, fish, octopus… Everything in the best quality, served in smaller antipasti dishes.
The staff was amazing, too. After a few bottles of wine we were standing outside smoking hand rolled cigarettes with our waitress, swapping life stories.
PS. THIS IS NOT ITALIAN LIKE PASTA BOLOGNESE & RED/​WHITE CHECKERED TABLECLOTH, OK?

Excellent and great value for money. 8 course antipasta menu for 250 kroner is hard to come by in Copenhagen — and the quality and taste was fantastic. Atmosphere is small and cozy. A real local gem.

Ok, I am Italian and I am judging an Italian restaurant abroad. That is not fair, but to be honest I was not enjoying this place for several reason. I went here with my boss and colleagues for a dinner. We had the standard 8 appetizers/​starters with a lot of different tastes and good wine.
The food was really good: the taste of the food is almost near to my grandma’s dishes, but the thing that I really don’t like is the high number of people in that small area.
There is a small area dedicated to tables and everybody is «compressed»: I am not the kind of guy that loves to accidentally touch strangers while having dinner. Because of that, the place gets noisy really quick: you cannot have a talk with other people without screaming or without listening to other people’s conversations. I was feeling like a chicken in a cage, and I realized this when I went inside the place for the first time: I was forced to touch strangers to reach the main waiter and tell to him that I booked a table. Bad thing.
I give 3 stars, instead of 1,5 or 2, just because of the waiter: he was really nice and gentle, I think his name was Claudio Maria and he was Italian. If you are there ask to talk to him: he made me feeling in a «real Italian place»… But to be honest: the furniture and the «overpopulated» area is really far from an authentic and cozy Osteria, but the food is really good as in the Italian ones.