visit-copenhagen

Visit Copenhagen

Food Norrebro:
Wascator: hipster, danish kitchen, cosy, only one dish, not touristy
Kate's joint: kinda Indian
Thai food (not on google maps, but right next to the Michelin star restaurant kiin kiin): very good food, rather cheap, cosy but quite packed
Nicecream: vegan icecream
Durum bar: good and cheap durum falafel with feta

Nightlife norrebro
Quite international, hipster, chill, not high class neighborhood
Few bars in Blågårdsgade, e.g. Props cafe, blågårdsapotek (has often live music)
Kassen and Mexibar for cocktails at decent prices
Barcelona/gefarlich for dancing
Ølbaren for a nice danish bodega experience

Food inner city
Sporvejen: burger, nice decoration inside, next to nice square
Host/vakst: two similar restaurants. a bit pricy, but best value for money to try the new Nordic cuisine. Unique experience. Better to book.
La fiorita: very good Italian pizza place
Neighborhood: very original pizzas with a delicate crust, a bit pricy it worth it
Kalaset: burgers and brunch, hipster atmosphere

Cafe/things to do, inner city
Cafe paludan: worth a stop for the decoration
Bastard cafe: very popular place where you can play board games.
Improv comedy theater: they have shows Thursday to Saturday at 8pm. Original experience.

Nightlife inner city
La fontaine (on Friday and Saturday enter for free before 9pm, cheap happy hour until 9-9.30. Live jazz at 10pm until 2). My favorite. It's quite popular and gets packed. No jazz in august (check)
Bird and churchky: for gin and tonic lovers
Madame chu: for cocktails and a bit of dancing (may be quiet before 11pm)
The Jane: nice club

Food vesterbro
Neighborhood: very original pizza with delicate crust, pricey but worth a try
Absalon church: food served everyday at 6pm, (come at 5.30). Communal kitchen, tasty food. Long table shared with others. Family style. Very nice and original experience.

Traditional danish food
Skindbuksen: very traditional and old restaurant. Decent prices. Go there for warm dishes (usually potatoes and pork...) you can also try smorrebro there, but you can also find them somewhere else.
Try some smorrebro. TODO: Place to recommend... they have some nice ones in the street going north of kongens nytorv.

Things to do, (touristy, but I'll recommend that to my visitors)
Rent a bike for most of your stay, around 70dkk per day. Plenty of bike shops doing that. Luca's cykler might be a cheap place, he is a bit unfriendly but can accommodate maybe. The annoying thing is shops usually close at 5pm, closed on sundays, and they don't counts days as 24h, so better rent early morning when they open (sometime 10)
Bike tour to the little mermaid (see section below).
Bike along the "green bike line" (nørrebroruten) and stop at the red and black squares, with small constructions for all over the world. Do a bit of gym outside. Some swings. Nice and relaxing bike ride all the way to frederiksberg.
Bike on the bike bridges south of islands brygge
Go to Christiania: maybe smoke a joint there. Walk up all the way to the water. Walk along the water, look at the nice hippy houses, you can walk quite a lot along the water, it's more quiet, relaxed. Go Sundays at 5 in summers for some free concerts.
Go to one high point for a view: I recommend Vor Frelsers Kirke.

Bike tour to the little mermaid
See kongens nytorv. Spot the French embassy, the theater, the hotel d'angleterre, the magasin du nord.
Go to the beginning of nyhavn, park there. Go up the bench above the boat departure. Take the perfect picture of nyhavn. Walk along nyhavn. Notice the blankets of the restaurants. They are all quite pricy, but can have some traditional danish food. Towards the end there is a nice ice cream shop.
Bike north towards Frederik's Kirke (go inside) and amalienborg (the guards rotates at noon, if you are there around that time)
Bike along the water going north.
Potential stop to walk around kastelet. If not all around, park at the entrance, and walk up on the left all the way to the old wind mill.
Potential stop at tolboden. Look at the metallic statue and play with the rusty mechanical lift. Have a cocktail/glass of wine/fish and chips, chill on the lounge chairs there.
Bike all the way up to the little mermaid. It's small, but now you have seen it

Things not too touristy but still touristy to see/do
Go to illum bolighus, and walk inside, it's the expensive IKEA, with some danish design
See brogrødstorv in the center, it's a cute little square, easy to miss

Things danes do if it's sunny
Chill on the bridge "dronning Louise's bro" with some beers
Chill in a park with some beers, BBQ and "kongens spil" (a wooden game)
Enjoy fish and chips food and drinks in a dock next to water: Kayak bar, or Tolboden
Have some world food and chill in papirøn along the docks
Chill on the grass in Christiania, concerts every Sunday at 5pm

Danish alcohol:
Worth trying their fisk for the experience of a shot on a night out. For the hard core ones, trying à snaps after a smorrebro at lunch. (Bodega doctor nielsen)
Beer: carlberg, tuborg, jacobsen (high brand of carlsberg). Mikkeler breweries for alternative beers (see also war pigs for food). Many beers at tap house.
Fisk: likerish shots
Snaps: Nordsø olie, doctor Nielsen