The gourmet menu in a salon at Dragsholm Slot

Why it is on the list

Dragsholm Slot Gourmet holds one Michelin star in the 2026 selection.¹ The kitchen cooks vegetables and herbs from Lammefjorden, the reclaimed land around the castle, and changes the menu often.² On request the same menu leaves the vaulted cellar dining room and is served in a room joined to the restaurant or in one of the castle's salons; the house calls this dinner Gæstebud.²³ The castle was most likely first built around 1215 and given its present baroque form between 1694 and 1697; it has taken guests as a hotel since 1937 and has 41 rooms and its own church.⁴

It is the wrong choice when the evening has to end in the city: the castle is an hour from Copenhagen.³ For a private room at a Copenhagen table, take the private dining room at AOC instead. It is also wrong for a guest who wants single courses left out: the kitchen does not serve the menu with elements removed, and there is no vegan menu.²

How to get it

Write to info@dragsholm-slot.dk or call +45 59 65 33 00; the booking desk answers Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 17:00.⁵ Ask for the gourmet menu served privately in a salon and give the number of guests: the gray room takes one long table of eight, the Rose hall twelve, the room of the Baroness, with the Baron's group room, sixteen.³ The restaurant serves from 18:00, Thursday to Saturday, and Tuesday to Friday in July and August; it is closed in January.⁵ The Michelin Guide gives Wednesday to Saturday from 18:30, so confirm the evening when you write.¹

The menu, Time & Place, is DKK 2,200 a guest for about fourteen servings; the restaurant's own page calls it a 12-course tasting menu.⁶² Wine pairing is DKK 1,800 on the booking page and DKK 1,850 on the current menu card, which also lists a reduced pairing at 1,250, a juice pairing at 950 and champagne by the glass from 285.⁶⁷ Neither a fee for the salon nor a cancellation rule is published: ask info@dragsholm-slot.dk what the room adds to the bill and the terms for cancelling. Smaller gatherings can be arranged at shorter notice, subject to availability; the castle asks three to six months ahead for larger events.⁸

Allergies and dietary needs go in writing at least 48 hours before arrival; anything not confirmed in writing costs DKK 499 a guest. Vegetarian menus are served from May to October.² When the rooms are full, the house quotes return transport from nearby stations, airports and Copenhagen, and arranges a Fly & Dine arrival with Copenhagen Helicopter.⁵ Parts of the outer wall are under restoration, with some noise from 09:00 on selected days.⁵

Discretion

In a salon the dinner is served in private, away from the cellar dining room.³² Only overnight guests may use the castle's facilities; day visitors may walk in the park, except when it is signed closed for a private event.⁵ Photo shoots are allowed only for guests holding their event at the castle.⁵ For the cost of taking a salon, or the whole restaurant, write to info@dragsholm-slot.dk.