Restaurant Find: Spontan Copenhagen
Located in the Nørrebro area in an expansive former factory building (also home to BRUS, one of the city’s most deservedly hyped brewpubs) is Spontan Copenhagen. Diners can expect an experimental yet relaxed food experience from Copenhagen’s youngest Michelin-starred chef, along with carefully paired craft beers that are brewed on-site. www.tapperietbrus.dk/spontan Spontan Copenhagen Guldbergsgade 29 […]
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Design Hotel Find: STAY Copenhagen
Located about 15 minutes by bike to the city center is STAY Copenhagen, an upscale apartment-style property, for those who prefer to stay outside the more heavily trafficked tourist areas. Each flat is decorated with HAY furniture and accessories that lean toward sleek Scandinavian minimalism. www.staycopenhagen.dk STAY Copenhagen Islands Brygge 79 2300 København S, Denmark +45 72 […]
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Craft Beer Bar Find: Mikkeller & Friends Copenhagen
Take one step into Mikkeller & Friends and your eyes will instantly light up. That design collaboration between Rum4 and Studio-K resulting in the walls, floors, ceilings and bar tops being generously covered in a refreshing Turks and Caicos blue, clearly hit the nail on the head. Add an attractive and minimalistic pairing with natural […]
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Design Hotel Find: SP34 Copenhagen
Nestled in the middle of Copenhagen’s buzzy Latin quarter on a street dotted with cafes and design stores is SP34, a hotel for upmarket yet price conscious travelers who want to up the ante on style, design and cool factor without spending their entire shopping budget (rooms are very reasonably priced, starting from roughly $130 […]
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Concept Store Find: Playtype Copenhagen
Typeface, to the untrained eye, can be mistaken as entirely functional ”“ just a vessel for words on a page, which tell a story. But any designer will argue that a simple change in typeface can change the face and meaning of an artwork ”“ it can modernize, romanticize and most of all it will […]
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Restaurant Find: Almanak Copenhagen
Claus Meyer, the founding father of New Nordic cuisine (not to mention the co-founder of Noma) has joined forces with Danish jazz music legend Niels Lan Doky to convert a 1937 Art Deco customs house into The Standard, now a stylish dining and jazz music destination. With only one eve left in Copenhagen, regrettably, we […]
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Cocktail Bar Find: Lidkoeb Copenhagen
When the owners of Ruby, Copenhagen’s most renowned cocktail institution found a free-standing, heritage listed building (once an 18th century apothecary lab) hidden in a back alley behind a supermarket, they turned it into Lidkoeb ”“ now one of the city’s most stylish watering holes. Situated in Copenhagen’s boho neighborhood Vesterbro, Lidkoeb begins with a […]
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Restaurant Find: TÃ¥rnet Copenhagen
TÃ¥rnet, which translates from Danish into “the tower,” is the restaurant situated inside the uppermost section of the Danish Parliament’s tower, affording one of the most spectacular views of Copenhagen. Just over a year ago, before Danish chef Rasmus Bo Bojesen (a fixture in Michelin star level restaurants across Europe and Japan) took the reigns […]
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My New Roots Copenhagen Guide: Sarah Britton on Traveling for the Health Conscious
(This My New Roots Copenhagen Guide by Jenny Nguyen-Barron first appeared in ForbesLife. Click here to read the original) There’s a movement afoot in food tourism. Travelers who live by that wholesome mantra “you are what you eat” are looking for destinations that provide a healthier, eco-conscious offering. And the Danish city of Copenhagen, known as one of […]
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