Wine bar and restaurant in Indre By, Copenhagen

Bar'Vin

Just Wine, Plus Dinner

3.5 of 5

The name translates roughly as just wine. That is false modesty. Bar'Vin is a small, warm room on Skindergade, around the corner from the Round Tower, and it does wine and dinner with the same care, which in the middle of the tourist centre is less common than it should be.

The list leans biodynamic and organic, mostly from small farms, with conventional bottles where they deserve a place. Plenty is open by the glass at any time, and in 2025 the Star Wine List jury named it the best long list in the country. The cooking takes Danish seasonal produce and runs it through French, Spanish and Italian technique, and both the menu and the list change with the season, because the kitchen and the cellar are planned together. That is the whole point of a place like this. The food is there to make the next glass make sense.

Go for dinner on a weeknight, or slip in late in the afternoon after climbing the tower. Tell the staff what you usually drink, then ask them for something from a grape you have never heard of. Order whatever plate they suggest with it. A former road warrior learns to trust a place where the wine and the food are clearly arguing with each other in a friendly way.

Order this

A run of glasses from the biodynamic end of the list, Whatever seasonal plate the kitchen has built around the wine, Cheese to finish

The damage

$$$

Go

A weeknight dinner, or late lunch after the Round Tower

Find it

Skindergade 3, 1159 København K

Website

barvin.dk