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Copenhagen for The Food Pilgrims: a Friday-to-Monday weekend

Copper roofs, bicycles, and the long northern dusk.

Eating is the itinerary. Breakfast where the porters eat, a market tour, the dish the city is known for in the place that does it best, and one serious dinner.

Friday: The halls and the herring

  1. Torvehallerne

    Two glass market halls: the fishmongers, Unika cheese, a coffee from Coffee Collective and the porridge counter; stock the hotel fridge here.

  2. Ved Stranden 10

    A wine bar in a canal-side townhouse where the pours are chosen for you from small growers, with a plate of cheese; the chairs are Wegner.

  3. Selma

    Smørrebrød taken seriously at dinner, the pork belly and the fried herring on dark rye, and snaps from the shelf; a Bib Gourmand with low prices.

Saturday: Buns, a class, the cellar

  1. Juno the Bakery

    The cardamom bun the city queues for, best eaten warm outside the shop; be in line before opening at eight on a Saturday.

  2. Meyers Madhus

    Claus Meyer's cooking school: a four-hour class in Nordic sourdough or the season's vegetables, eaten together at the end with wine.

  3. Kong Hans Kælder

    A Gothic cellar vaulted in the 1400s with a tasting menu of classical cooking, whole turbot and sauces, and the deepest cellar in town.

Sunday: The brewery and the cellar lunch

  1. Home of Carlsberg

    The brewery's 1847 site reopened as a museum, with the Elephant Gate, the Jacobsen stables and two beers at the end of the tour.

  2. Restaurant Kronborg

    A low cellar of smørrebrød and snaps, the kitchen staff from the big restaurants eating at the next table; the dyrlægens natmad is the one.

  3. Coffee Collective roastery

    The roastery and café in a former printing works, where the beans are cupped on Sundays; take a bag of the Kenyan for home.

Monday: Pastry, patisserie, counter

  1. Andersen & Maillard

    Croissants laminated like a Paris bakery and coffee roasted on site, at the Nørrebro window where the cyclists stop on their way in.

  2. Conditori La Glace

    The 1870 patisserie with its layer cakes under glass and a lined-up waiting staff; a slice of sportskage and a hot chocolate at a marble table.

  3. Hallernes Smørrebrød

    Three pieces of smørrebrød at the stall, then the metro from Nørreport straight to the airport.

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