Things to do in Copenhagen to get well fed

"the safety railing on the spiral stairs is pretty low"

Drone is at Nørrebro, not Christania, and is a pretty cool place. Lots of pretty girls. I love Tivoli, what is amazing about it is mainly that it's placed right in the center of the city - right next to city hall. Apart from that, yeah, rent a bike, ride around and see the city. Go to Louisiana north of town if you want to see art.

I visited the city very briefly in January. Tivoli was closed because of (re)construction work but if I remember correctly it would re-open this month. A friend of mine recommended Radio for getting well fed, but that, too, was closed (just for holidays though)...

I'm going there in a few weeks! Cant wait

I just came back from Copenhagen yesterday, and Tivoli is indeed open again.

If you like to do some shopping, a road called "Gammel Kongevej" has some nice boutiques with clothes and design, and a couple of well-stocked records stores, Sound Station and Goldmine. (The latter is located in small recess on the north side of the road.)

when we went to christiania it was about 9:30am and no-one was around. lazy bloody hippies

Also, Gamle Ole (old, smelly cheese) is an interesting food experience

Yeah, Gammel Kongevej is cool. Also, 5 min from where I live.

The well-fed thing: The places called Madklubben are quite good and cheap. Different menus. If you're going to Drone, then start the evening by eating the Quatro Funghi pizza at Leif's at Ægirsgade. Four kinds of mushroom, parmasan and mascarpone cheese, pine nuts and truffel oil. Bindia is good takeaway indian. If you're at Gammel Kongevej, take HC Ørstedsvej north and go to Vietsense for fine vietnamese food. Also: Smørrebrød. Huset ved det Grønne Træ at Gammeltorv is the best in the game right now, but Husmann's is also a classic, and the three places at Frederiksberg, called Haverne - take Gammel Kongevej west, then turn south, it'll take you right past - are quite good as well.

Lots of pretty girls

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Hey Frederik, I might be visiting Copenhagen again this spring/summer (my gf is currently studying in Roskilde, and her sister and the sister's gf live in CPH, so we can crash at their place), since your local, would you happen to know any good clubs that play electronic/dance music (preferably not too mainstream)? I'd love to go dancing, but I haven't really checked out the clublife the previous time I've been there.

Well, I don't really know that much about it, but my club-friends talk about Harvey's at Kødbyen. Or maybe Culture Box, though apparantly it's not such a great place. Or Rust at Nørrebro, they have some cool names at times, other times it's a hipster-blog hell-hole. I'd check if there is a good DJ anywhere, but I don't think Copenhagen is the best place for clubbing.

If you're interested in architecture I really could go on and on. Maybe I have upthread. Denmark has had a couple of different moments of being the site of really great intense design culture, and that's made for some cool buildings. Depends how heavy you're into that kinda thing obv. Seconding the Louisiana rec - it's a small train trek to get up there but it is a wonderful setting for art, very well-scaled, very nicely integrated with the landscape, good light. I can't tell good art from a hole in the ground but if they have it, it'll look good there and you'll have the peace and quiet to look at it. They also have a sculpture garden with some big names so there may in fact be significant holes in the ground. Anyway, I wouldn't necessarily go if you only had two or three days there, but if longer, sure.

And yes it is a non-stop babe fest, as has been alluded to.

I don't know where you live, but if it the U.S., be prepared for major sticker shock.

My favorite part of Copenhagen is all of it, by bike! A much easier place to bike in Amsterdam imo--the bike laneage is superb and you don't have as much navigating-around-pedestrians.

My life goal is to live in Copenhagen when it is not too cold and Tokyo when it is not too hot.

What's Copenhagen likely to be like in mid-November? (Around the 18th, so possibly before Xmas events kick in).

^ but mid-December, so possibly after Xmas events kick in

Cold, chilly, rainy. But beautiful and cosy.

Where would you recommend as a good area to stay in? Probably doing AirBnB. Got flights booked but not accommodation.

Hm, I don't know. Depends on what you want to do. But the city is kinda small, can really get anywhere on a bike. I'd say Vesterbro, Nørrebro or Frederiksberg, but some prefer to be more central or at Christianshavn.

How about Amager Vest? Found a cheap place there near a metro station that looks ok.

What we want to do - not much really, see a few museums/galleries, preferably involving minimal walking. It's our first time in Denmark so I think anything and everything will be interesting tbh.

I have heard the city is beautiful in winter - is there a good place to get a good view of the city?

Amager Vest is very suburban in feel IIRC, but very close (by transit/bike) to the center of things. I could imagine that being a fine base unless you want to stay someplace that has street life right outside your door etc.

Amager Vest is a very newly build area, and there really isn't much life. But yeah, it's build around the metro, which means you can be at the center of the city in 15 min, close to a lot of museums. So yeah, that's a fine area to stay. There aren't that many places with views, there aren't that many high buildings. But Christianskirken on Christianshavn is one of the best.

We ended up staying near Amagerbro station which is probably the place I was talking about upthread. It was quite suburban as you say but easy to get around from, and we liked the building we stayed in. I did make it to the top of Christianskirken!

Anyway we liked it there enough to go again this August for my birthday. This time we are staying in Christianshavn near Christiania. I'm keeping an eye on the listings for the Loppen venue but they have nothing up for early August yet. Are there any decent record shops in that area? Last time there was a stall in the Christiania market hall which had some bootleggy looking reissues of some cool albums (I think some Throbbing Gristle stuff) but not much else.

... uh, when are you going to be there, I might be going there in August too. Haven't decided yet.

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Oh, Amagerbro, I thought you meant somewhere completely different! Christianshavn and Amagerbro is quite close to each other, through don't tell people who live at Christianshavn :) You'll be so close to the rest of town that it should be possible to go to pretty much every record shop. I don't know if there's anything particularly at Christianshavn. There's a couple ok cheap Indian restaurants around there.

Any new ideas?

Just stay away from those scooters!