Taste of Denmark — Restaurant in San Diego

Since my beau happens to be a Dane, we try and find good eats spots that are Scandinavian wherever we are traveling to. We were so surprised to find that San Diego not only offered Scandinavian food but specifically Danish! Woot! We were sad that they only opened on certain days and for even shorter hours on those days too but still we impatiently waited and it paid off.

Husband and wife duo who run the whole operations like a well oiled machine, she foh and he the executive chef. Odds were stacked against us this day because their supply deliveries were late plus since he was only the first day of their own work week, a lot of the things we wanted to try we couldn't and though I promised to return the same week, I didn't have a chance. But that just leaves me space to come back!

So ordered all that was available at the moment on the menu and I was looked at skeptically and said it would be too much... Oh yee of little faith... That's what take out containers are for post meal! We were given a little amuse bouche of their wonderful housemade Danish rye bread with their housemade rødkål aka braised red cabbage, and a Dane's favorite condiment, roumalade. OMG that bread.... Cold fermented starter begins their process of making this bread, produces this not bitter, nutty seedy hearty piece of love. We loved it so much we flew 2 loaves back to NYC! Rødkal is usually more finally chopped up but their version was chunkier and rough cut which was a different presentation that what we are used to, still it was on point and very tasty! And roumalade is any form Danish style is always delicious. Their pølse aka hotdog brought me back to the very first one I had the first day I arrived in Denmark, all the great individual flavors of fried onions, rødkal, roumalade melded together on top of the red hotdog just work, so make sure you get it with the works! Their Hakkebøf, course chopped meat sandwich, is waaay better than any American burger. Come on it's slathered in GRAVY! I feel like it's a cross between a burger and a Salisbury steak and it was instant love for me. We ran out of time to dine in so we took out smørrebrød and housemade danishes with us and so happy we did! Portions are very generous for the price and all very delicious.

Enjoy the food, meet the great owners, take home a loaf of their amazing rye bread and be a little Danish for a day! Eat local!...

If I could put 100 stars I would. First I want to say that the food is something I've never tried before but now I will def be coming back to have again and again. I started with the butternut squash soup with cheese... it was absolutely perfect. My boyfriend had the red sausage, the explosion of delicious flavor when you took that first bite 😚👌🏼 Chefs kiss. When we thought how can this be topped? On came round 2! I had the tartlet and my boyfriend had the grill bar burger. Both were so amazing I dreamt about it that same night. We even bought some cheese to take home, which was also so delicious.

The service is probably the best service I've had since moving to San Diego. You can tell she was so excited to share her culture with us and I was just as excited to hear about it. One trip to this fantastic restaurant and I'm ready to become a regular. Please do yourself a favor and check out this one of kind outstanding restaurant. If you've never been here then you're truly...

While the decoration isn't the highly admired Danish design, the owners of Taste of Denmark make up for it with the amazing food and friendly service.

Tina brought us a plate of appetizers, which included 4 items: in-house made rye bread, pickled cabbage, apples and cranberries, strawberries, and roumelade.

We ordered the mushroom soup which was delicious and flavorful, with a creaminess from the Danish cheese.

Our entrée was the open face rye sandwiches, which included Meatball on potato, Salmon lox and dill, Pickled herring and radish.

We talked about travels to Copenhagen and she was lovely to take the time to chat, as it seemed like she was the only person working the front of the house.

We booked our reservation thru OpenTable.

They've been here for 6 years. We're happy to support local businesses and see they do well with specialized dishes.

This restaurant is very un-hyped but very very good, and not expensive. It was about $15 per person before...