Section 06 / Food Experience 11 / Lunch · Smørrebrød · Snaps
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Frokost MALT.
Smørrebrød built high and made from scratch, on rye bread baked in the house, in Køge’s cosiest courtyard — off the square, at the address where the town once distilled its brandy. Snaps from family recipes, beer from the harbour, lunch six days a week.
Location: CF’s Gård, Torvet 19C · Photo: Frokost MALT
File: 21-MALT-SNAPS / two inks, black and snaps red, over the house’s own photograph
The lunch
Malt, then and now.
In the 1800s the owners of Torvet 19 turned part of the house into a brandy distillery: grain in, spirit out, and the spent mash fed to the cattle in the courtyard. Køge was thirsty — in 1869 a town of just over 3,100 people made 431,000 pots of brandy. The courtyard is now CF’s Gård, and the name of the lunch restaurant in it remembers the grain.
The plates are classic Danish smørrebrød with a modern touch — generous, high, made from the bottom up, on rye baked in the kitchen. The snaps are the house’s own, from family recipes; the beer comes from the brewery at Køge harbour, the wine from Kjær & Sommerfeldt. The faces on the house’s own page are Betina and Christian Krüger Dannevang. Order smørrebrød to take away three days ahead.
Where
CF’s Gård, Torvet 19C, 4600 Køge — through the gateway off the square.
When
Monday–Thursday 11:30–15:30, Friday–Saturday 11:00–16:00, kitchen closes at 15:00. Sundays and public holidays closed, except for events and private parties.
Phone
+45 42 92 02 53 · tables online through the house’s booking page.
Mortensaften
Saturday 7 and Tuesday 10 November 2026: three courses, 455 DKK — citrus-cured salmon, roast duck with red cabbage and port-soaked plums, apple tarte tatin.
Christmas
Jul på MALT: a Christmas plate at lunch, 355 DKK; julefrokost at the table or as an evening buffet for 20 or more.
Smag på Køge
MALT cooked three courses for 249 DKK on six evenings around the turn of September and October 2026.
Same square
Braunstein, whose beer is on the table, is down at the harbour — Food Experience 12; the market fills Torvet on Wednesdays and Saturdays — Food Experience 15.
Source
frokostmalt.dk — the front page, Om MALT, Mortensaften and Jul på MALT, read 18 October 2026. The photograph is the restaurant’s own, used here for concept demonstration only.
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