ARO
A restaurant in a former machine factory on Østerbro in Odense, holding one Michelin star in every edition from 2023 to 2026.
- Address
- Østerbro 32, 5000 Odense C
Pictures © ARO, from restaurant-aro.dk.
Why it is renowned
The Michelin Guide gave ARO a star in 2023 and has kept it in the 2024, 2025 and 2026 editions.12
The kitchen cooks set menus of five or seven courses, with snacks, wine or juice pairings, coffee and sweets, and each course pairs two or three ingredients, such as halibut with toasted bread, bleak roe and carrot.3
The story
The chefs behind ARO are Bjørn Jacobsen and Christoffer Schärfe, who worked at Geranium, Le Sommelier, d'Angleterre and Pluto, at Tetsuya's in Sydney and at wd~50 in New York.4 ARO sits in the old Østerbro machine factory in Odense, and they describe it as a workshop in the literal sense of the word.45
The two also run Anneksgården in Bovense, and aim for ARO and Anneksgården to supply as much of their own meat and vegetables as the seasons allow.4
What to know it by
- Store AROSeven courses with snacks, sparkling wine, wine pairing, coffee and sweets
- Lille AROFive courses with snacks, sparkling wine, wine pairing, coffee and sweets
Sources
- List of Michelin-starred restaurants in Denmark, Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org, read 28 September 2026.
- Restaurant Aro - Michelin star 2023, 2024 & 2025. restaurant-aro.dk, read 28 September 2026.
- Maden - Michelin Restaurant Aro. restaurant-aro.dk, read 28 September 2026.
- Historien - Michelin Restaurant Aro. restaurant-aro.dk, read 28 September 2026.
- Restaurant Aro - Michelin Restaurant Aro. restaurant-aro.dk, read 28 September 2026.
Last checked 28 September 2026, against the maker's own pages.