The Best Neighborhoods to Explore Copenhagen Food and DesignEat and explore throughout Copenhagen's neighborhoods like a local, using CopenPay to earn perks for biking, taking the metro, and making other green choices. Visit a park built around diversity, sleep amongst iconic Danish mid-century design, and check out a restaurant that only serves porridge!AuthorsSteller
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Hotel Alexandra
If you love Danish design, staying at Hotel Alexandra means you’re surrounded by it. This 4-star boutique hotel is located in the heart of Copenhagen's best food and design neighborhoods. Inside, the hotel is filled with mid-century pieces by designers like Finn Juhl, Arne Jacobsen, and Hans J. Wegner, and you can even buy some of the furniture you see. Choose from 61 unique Danish retro rooms that will take you back in time! Bonus: There's a metro station across the street. Tip: Before you set out to explore Copenhagen, download CopenPay on your mobile device to earn rewards and discounts when you do good deeds or make green choices, like cycling or taking the metro. More than 100 museums, hotels, restaurants, and attractions participate in CopenPay, offering discounts and even free items.
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Nørrebro

Superkilen Park
Superkilen was built using more than 100 objects from over 50 countries, each chosen to reflect the neighborhood’s diverse residents. There are three main sections of the park. The Red Square is modern and features cafes, music, and sports. The Black Square is a classic European square complete with a fountain and park benches. The Green Park is designed for picnics, sports, and walking. Bring your camera! This is one of the city’s most photographed public spaces.
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Jægersborggade (Jagtvej)
Jægersborggade is a short street that is packed with small independent shops and cafés, including popular ones like Grød and Coffee Collective. It has become one of the hippest, most vibrant streets in Copenhagen, with nearly 40 art galleries, vintage boutiques, cool cafés, wine bars, and chic restaurants.
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Coffee Collective Jægersborggade
If you're a coffee nerd, then you will feel right at home here! The founders of the Coffee Collective have won numerous awards, including the Barista World Championship and the World Coffee Tasting Championship, and wanted to ensure growers earn fair pay, so they have been buying the beans directly from farmers since they opened their first location on Jægersborggade in 2008. The Coffee Collective has 9 locations around Copenhagen, but each one is unique, so if you love coffee, it's worth visiting all of them!
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GRØD Jærgersborggade
Grød opened inside a small basement on Jægersborggade in 2011 and calls itself the world’s first porridge bar. This place is passionate about porridge! It’s not just oatmeal: the menu includes savory bowls, from risotto to congee. Start your day here. There are several locations around the city, but the one on Jægersborggade is the original.
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Assistens Cemetery
Yes, this is a cemetery, but it is also a park where locals love to stroll, and families come for picnics. And it's not just any cemetery; it's Denmark's most iconic one, as some of the most famous Danes are buried here, including Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard.
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Baka d' Busk
Looking for a gastronomic experience in Copenhagen? Make sure you add Baka d' Busk to your trip. This plant-based bistro changes the menu based on the season and serves up locally sourced vegetable dishes meant to appeal to all the senses.
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Nørreport

SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst
Denmark’s national art museum is the country's largest and covers about 700 years of art, including incredible collections of Rubens and Rembrandt, Danish Golden Age paintings, and one of the best Matisse collections in the world. The innovative, open design is a work of art all on its own. Don't miss Sculpture Street, a corridor with a glass roof bridging the two main museum buildings and featuring massive sculptures. CopenPay tip: Arrive by bike or metro and get special access or other perks like creative workshops.
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Østre Anlæg
This park was built in the 1870s on part of the city’s old ramparts, transforming old military bastions and even a moat into beautiful green hills and waterways. This is the perfect place to take a quiet break between museums, with SMK at one end and the Workers Museum at the other.
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Workers Museum
The Arbejdermuseet (or the Workers Museum) is a unique interactive way to explore the history of the Danish working class. The museum is inside what's believed to be Europe’s oldest surviving workers' assembly hall, built in 1879. Visitors can walk through an authentic two-room flat virtually untouched since 1915, check out a 1950s vintage street, or step outside into a backyard complete with a clotheline. The museum is particularly popular with families. The basement restaurant, Café & Øl-Halle “1892,” still has its 1890s glass ceiling. Try traditional open-faced Danish sandwiches and a historic beer!
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TorvehallerneKBH
Torvehallerne is a must-visit for foodies in Copenhagen. The food market consists of two twin glass halls with beautiful glass-and-steel ceilings soaring above nearly 80 vendors selling specialty foods, including organic produce, artisanal cheeses, fresh seafood, locally sourced meats, and more.
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ARK
Ark is a plant-based fine dining restaurant that builds its menus around seasonal and foraged ingredients like seaweed and mushrooms, turning them into culinary works of art. Ark is the first restaurant in the Nordic region to earn a Michelin Green Star for sustainability. 🌱
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Vesterbro

Værnedamsvej
Once known as “The Butchers’ Street,” Værnedamsvej is now known for its Parisian atmosphere thanks to its sidewalk cafes, specialty cheese shops, and wine bars. Sometimes called "Little Paris," locals and visitors alike love this little slice of France in Copenhagen. Popular stops here include a retro coffee shop, Granola, the Helges Ost cheesemonger, and the French bistro, Les Trois Cochons.
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Folkehuset Absalon
Looking for a way to meet more food lovers in Copenhagen? Folkehuset Absalon is an old church from the 1930s that now serves as a non-profit community house. Nearly 200 people come here each night to sit together at long tables and share inexpensive home-cooked meals.
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Design in the City

Museum of Copenhagen
The Museum of Copenhagen is inside a beautifully restored 1894 building on Stormgade, with its original decorative wooden ceilings still intact. The museum is specifically focused on the history of the city itself from the Viking Age to today through interactive storytelling, archeological workshops, and more. Check out a unique garden featuring seeds extracted from a 1700s latrine and Jens Olsen's World Clock. CopenPay tip: Arrive by bike or metro and unlock a reward at the museum or the museum's cafe.
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Designmuseum Danmark
Design lovers must stop here when in Copenhagen! Designmuseum Danmark features a massive collection of 20th-century Danish and international design icons, including Hans J. Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, Charles Eames, and Marcel Breuer. But the museum itself is also a work of art. The iconic Danish furniture designer Kaare Klint adapted the former Royal Frederik’s Hospital (built in the 1750s and one of Copenhagen’s finest Rococo-style buildings) into the museum in the 1920s. CopenPay tip: Bring a reusable cup for free coffee or tea at the museum café or earn rewards for experiences at the museum by participating in green tourism.
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BLOX
This award-winning glass block building straddling the highway opened on the harbor in Copenhagen 2018 to much debate. Today, you can explore how this unique structure was built and even take a guided architecture tour at BLOX, which is home to the Danish Architecture Center. The structure is also a co-working space, a fitness center, a design shop, private apartments, and a restaurant (BLOX EATS).
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