Section 06 / Food Experience 09 / New · Pizza · Wine · Gelato
06.09
Hanen, enotek og pizza.
The rooster has crossed the street. Louise and Joseph Chmeis, who have run Il Gallo on Brogade for three decades, have opened Hanen — the same bird in Danish — in a yellow half-timbered house opposite: crisp Italian pizza, handmade gelato and wine imported straight from Italy, a few steps from the bridge over Køge Å.
Location: Brogade 24, the shop window with the rooster · Photo: Hanen
File: 19-HANEN-TIMBER / the window, the door and the chairs as shot, the house printed as its own half-timbering
The enoteca
Il Gallo, in Danish.
Il Gallo is Italian for the rooster — a nod to the hens of Køge — and Louise and Joseph have run it at Brogade 21 since the 1990s: Joseph in the kitchen, Louise the house sommelier, a small wine cellar under the dining room. Now the rooster has a Danish twin across the street. Hanen is an enoteca with a pizza oven: crisp Italian pizza, gelato made by hand, and a wine list imported directly from Italy, by the glass or to take home — the pizza that used to come out of Il Gallo’s kitchen, and the ice cream of Freddo, the couple’s gelateria, under one roof.
It opened in October 2026, and the town noticed: a local post called it new life for the town centre and thanked the two for investing in Køge. In the photograph the house is still getting used to the attention — the rooster on the window, a chalkboard on the pavement, café chairs out under a blue sky. It is printed here as its own half-timbering, the window, the door and the chairs left exactly as they were.
Where
Brogade 24, 4600 Køge — across the street from Il Gallo at number 21, between Torvet and the bridge over Køge Å.
What
Enoteca and pizzeria: crisp Italian pizza, handmade gelato, wine imported directly from Italy.
The people
Louise and Joseph Chmeis — Il Gallo (Bella Napoli until 2011), Brogade 21; Joseph the chef, Louise the sommelier.
Phone
Hanen’s own number is not published yet; Il Gallo, same owners: +45 21 71 16 93 (phone hours Tue–Thu 15:00–17:00) · ilgallo@ilgallo.dk.
Hours
Not published on the web when this page was written — Il Gallo’s Facebook page carries the news.
Same street
Hugo’s Kælder & No. 19 at Brogade 19 — Food Experience 14; and from Køge Bro at the end of the street, the walk along Køge Å — Awesome Place 10.
More pizza
Lillesyd in Herfølge, one stop down the line — Food Experience 06, Fridays and Saturdays.
Source
ilgallo.dk (the restaurant, its history and the move of the pizza oven to Brogade 24) and Din Avis on Il Gallo’s 2011 renaming, read 18 October 2026; a local post on the opening. The photograph is assumed to be the house’s own, used here for concept demonstration only.
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