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Toto

Toto on Amagerbrogade is Copenhagen's neighbourhood wine bar done right – ambitious comfort food, a globe-spanning wine list, and White Guide recognition.

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Crafted with passion, served with love

A Neighbourhood Bar That Earns Its Stripes

Toto sits at Amagerbrogade in the Amager district of Copenhagen, and in a short few years it has become what every neighbourhood deserves but rarely gets: a place where serious cooking and a thoughtful wine list coexist with a genuinely relaxed atmosphere. The crowd is local, the service is friendly and enthusiastic – particularly around the wines – and the ambitions are quietly, consistently met.

Ambitious Comfort Food, Done Without Dogma

The kitchen describes its own output as ambitious comfort food, and that phrase holds up under scrutiny. Rather than anchoring itself to a single culinary tradition, Toto draws freely from kitchens around the world. White asparagus arrives with plump prawns, smoked cheese and a deeply creamy egg-yolk sauce, lifted by a Basque txakolina poured alongside. Pickled mackerel takes an East Asian turn with rhubarb kimchi, lemongrass and dried miso – enough umami to balance every sour note. Oven-roasted cod comes with a cabbage ragout, fresh sweet peas and an elderflower sauce; duck breast is cooked to a perfect pink and plated with grilled spring onion, nasturtium, a miso cream and gastrique – a dish where every fundamental flavour finds its place.

The side dishes are not an afterthought. Small new potatoes with lovage hollandaise, cress and grated dried salted egg yolk, and larger potatoes fried in beef tallow with a spiced aïoli, have been singled out as genuinely addictive. A crème brûlée with tonka bean and raspberry compote closes the meal on a precise, satisfying note.

A Wine List That Travels

The wine list is as free-ranging as the food. Funky natural wines sit alongside conventional, more familiar bottles, and around twenty options are available by the glass – a generous range that lets guests move through different styles over the course of a meal. The pairing of an organic 2015 Spätburgunder from Weingut Kranz in the Pfalz alongside the richly composed duck breast illustrates the approach: wines chosen for the food, not for the label.

White Guide's Very Fine Level recognition for 2026 confirms what Amager locals already know. Toto is not simply another wine bar with a small menu attached. It is a place where the cooking is genuinely skilled, the wine knowledge is real, and the whole experience adds up to something greater than its parts.

Recognition

Awards & accolades

2026
White Guide
Very fine level

Details

At a glance

White Guide 2026 — Very fine level
Services Bar, Outdoor Seating, Parking, Private Parties, Vegetarian, Wheelchair Access

History

On the record

2026
White Guide — Very fine level

På blot få år er det lykkedes Toto at blive et naturligt samlingspunkt for amagerkanere med hang til god mad og vin. Efter en kort stund står det klart, at Toto ikke bare er endnu en vinbar med et ganske fint lille spisekort. Ambitiøs comfort food kalder stedet det selv, og her er køkkenet ikke blot ambitiøst – det kan også sit kram og lader sig dogmefrit inspireres af alverdens køkkener. Vinkortet kommer ligeledes vidt omkring både geografisk og stilmæssigt. Her fås både funky naturvine og mere sikre konventionelle dråber, og godt en snes forskellige kan købes på glas. Vi lægger ud med en forfriskende txakolina fra Baskerlandet, der passer strålende til hvide asparges med saftige rejer, rygeost og en yderst cremet sauce på æggeblomme. Herefter syltet makrel à la Østasien med rabarberkimchi, citrongræs og tørret miso, der giver umami nok til at balancere rettens syrlige elementer. Af større retter prøver vi først en skøn ovnristet torsk, der severes med kålragout, friske søde ærter og en sauce med hyldeblomst, og derefter perfekt rosastegt andebryst med grillet forårsløg, tallerkensmækker, en smagfuld creme på miso og havesyre samt gastrique – en herligt velkomponeret ret, hvor alle grundsmage er repræsenteret. I glasset en økologisk spätburgunder 2015 fra pfalziske Weingut Kranz, der på trods af sin elegante lethed godt kan følge med den noget kraftige ret. Vi må ikke glemme at nævne de fantastiske kartofler, der bør tilvælges. Både de små nye med løvstikkehollandaise, karse og revet tørret, saltet æggeblomme på toppen og de større, der er stegt i oksetalg, serveret med en krydret aïoli er fabelagtige og afhængighedsskabende. Efter en crème brûlée med tonkabønner og hindbærkompot er vi mætte og glade. Stemningen er afslappet, betjeningen venlig og entusiastisk omkring vinene, klientellet lokalt. Alt i alt en herlig vin- og spisebar, som ethvert nabolag burde have, hvor ambitionerne opfyldes til ug.

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Amagerbrogade 1452300,København
Copenhagen, Denmark
+45 30 48 36 22