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Ravelinen at Christianshavn

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Who are we?

The idea behind Ravelinen is to create Copenhagen's most honest Danish restaurant.
Ravelinen is Danish lunch, lunch and evening cuisine at its best! The food is carefully made from scratch with fresh ingredients. If possible, the ingredients are of course Danish and we pay close attention to the seasons.
No cutting corners. We don't make anything new - but we just do it right.

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Where are we located?

Ravelinen must be one of Copenhagen's most rural restaurants - right in the middle of Copenhagen. You can sit in our large garden with a direct view over the old canals and the beautiful old ramparts around the Copenhagen of that time. And yet 300 meters from Christianshavns Torv with, among other things, harbor tours and the Metro.

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Both inside and out

Ravelinen consists of a large, beautiful garden with a view of the water, as well as our 2 cozy pavilions. So, when it's a lovely summer, it's of course most fun to sit in our garden. The entire garden can be covered by our mobile roof with the push of a button, should the Danish summer decide to tease. So, at Ravelinen, there's both a plan A and a plan B. Otherwise, we have our 2 cozy pavilions with a view of the water.

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Your next party

There is plenty of space at Ravelinen. In total, there is room for 360 guests, with ⅔ in our garden and ⅓ in our pavilions. The garden can also be divided into different sections, where you can still sit with a fantastic view of the water. The roof is also mobile and can be moved back and forth depending on the weather. And the whole thing can be heated so that it can be used all year round - whether it's for a summer party or a Christmas lunch - just as you wish - also with regard to orchestra and dance.

The team behind

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Preben Brink

Restaurateur
I started as a restaurateur at Ravelinen on April 1, 1994, so it has gradually become quite a few years at the helm. Ravelinen should be Danish lunch and evening cuisine at its best! The food is made with care from fresh ingredients from scratch. No cutting corners. We don't make anything new - we just do it right! My goal every day is that all guests leave here happy - a good experience richer after experiencing hospitality and delicious food.
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Nichlas & Co

Chef

Our chef Nichlas and his team ensure that the food is made with care from fresh ingredients from scratch. It must be delicious Danish cuisine, where we are constantly aware of the season for ingredients. No cutting corners.

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Dui & Co

Head Waiter
Dui and her team of waiters put in the effort every day to give guests the feeling of attentive service that ensures that as a guest you feel well taken care of and experience good hospitality. We try to maintain a slightly relaxed and informal tone, where you can lean back and enjoy the visit.

History

In the capital, Copenhagen, we have Ravelinen here by the rampart on the outermost part of Christianshavn

– and we have the small gardens in Frederiksberg – below Frederiksberg Castle – all of them very special restaurants with history and atmosphere – and both outdoor and indoor service.

Ravelinen was built in 1728 and is of course listed today. From the start, the buildings were a kind of toll house and military guard room, where guards held back passers-by to check that they had paid toll when crossing from land to city. Amager was open farmland, and Christianshavn was seen from here as the start of the big city. The name ravelin is French and means "angle-bent outwork between two bastions". If we translate it into a slightly more modern Danish – it means a kind of advanced fortification between two of Christianshavn's rampart bastions – "Elefantens Bastion" (the Elephant's Bastion) towards the SAS hotel – and "Løvens Bastion" (the Lion's Bastion) towards Christiania and Holmen. Christian IV had the rampart around Christianshavn built to protect the city from this side as well – and today the rampart is the city's most intact and unspoiled of all outer defense systems.

This is where people go for a walk on Great Prayer Day Eve, among other things. The complex consisted of a series of bastions, and projecting between them were even more advanced fortifications – slender ravelins – like Ravelinen here. It lay like a small artificial island out in the middle of the moat, which is difficult to understand today, where the road between Amager and Christianshavn has grown large and wide and forces its way through the moat. Before, there was a small narrow road from Amager to Ravelinen and from Ravelinen a wooden bridge to Christianshavn. In 1856, the city completely closed the fortress and thus Amagerport, but Ravelinen, the small artificial island, remained, and thus also the house Ravelinen. The arrangement with paying tolls ceased as late as 1915.

In 1941, the building opened as a restaurant and inn with a magnificent view of the moat. Since then, some has been added.

Peter Olesen, journalist and author

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Opening Hours and Address

Ravelinen
Torvegade 79
1400 Copenhagen K
Phone: 32 96 20 45
CVR: 17 68 59 37
[email protected]

Every day until December 27th
Monday:
Closed

Tuesday - Saturday:
Lunch opens at 11:30 and the last new tables are started at 14:30.
Dinner opens at 17:30 and the last new tables are started at 19:30

Sunday:
Lunch opens at 11:30 and the last new tables are started at 14:30 - dinner closed

In the period from December 28th to the end of March:
Only open for private events by appointment.
Please write to [email protected]

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