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Scandi design on the coffee menu

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Coffe Bars in Copenhagen not only offer quality coffee, they also offer specially designed spaces and surroundings with a strong focus on aesthetics and great design to enjoy your coffee in. 

The design and space of a good café is almost half the experience when going out for a coffee. And given Copenhagen and Denmark’s love affair with sleek lines and masterly built furniture, it makes sense that some of the city’s best cafés are also some of the best looking.

The Scandinavian design heritage recur throughout most coffee bars in the city, but more often than not you’ll find traces of Japanese, French or other exotic design features woven into the classic minimalism to give it some extra flair.

Where to go for the best looking coffee bars in Copenhagen

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Coffee Collective - The Carlsberg City District

The newest spot from Coffee Collective in Copenhagen. Located in the 120 meter tall Pasteurs Tower, the café is designed by Design Studies and is definitely the most impressive of all the Coffee Collective shops. The aesthetics lean heavily on raw materials like exposed vertical bricks, Douglas fir and concrete.

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SMK Kafeteria - The National Gallery of Denmark

Located inside the National Gallery of Denmark. Founded by restaurateur Frederik Bille Brahe and designed by Danh Vo. The overall look is a mix of classic Danish (and Italian) design furniture and minimalistic lines combined with a Japanese touch. Entrance to the café does not require a museum ticket.

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Prolog Kødbyen
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Prolog - The Meatpacking District

The first location of Prolog was originally supposed to be a temporary coffee bar but stayed because of its success. The bar is a rather weird and tiny space. But everything is neat and stylish with a wall of magazines, raw and painted wood in blue/green and the constant ambience of French radio playing in the background. The space is designed by OEO Studio and is definitely a unique look on the Scandi coffee scene.

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Connie Connie Copenhagen Contemporary
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Connie Connie - Copenhagen Contemporary

The café at Copenhagen Contemporary is as much a work of art and a showroom of contemporary Danish design as it is a nice and funky looking café. The space is designed along with Australian designer, Ari Prasetya, and Danish design company, Tableau.

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April showroom
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April - Ryesgade

The April Coffee Roasters ‘showroom’, as they call it, is a collab between House of Finn Juhl and April. It’s truly a full on design experience paired with good coffee. They even built their espresso machine into a wooden cabinet.

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H A N S Coffee - Wildersgade

Recently rebranded CUB Coffee Bar (now HANS Coffee) opened a new spot on Christianshavn with a real sleek look in bright wood and towers of butter on brushed steel shelves. It's not extreme in any way, but classic Scandi style very well executed.

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Apotek 57 Frama
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Apotek 57 - Fredericiagade

Very stylish café located inside the already crazy beautiful Frama Studio Store. Just a masterclass in how minimalism can also be cozy and inviting.

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Format Designmuseum Denmark
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Format - Designmuseum Denmark

The café at Design Museum Danmark almost has to be good looking. And luckily it is. OEO Studio redesigned the café and museum shop along with the recent overall renovation of the museum and went with a ‘monolithic’ approach letting the heavy stone floor and massive steel doors shine through. Naturally you can sit on a myriad of different Danish design classics both inside and outside in the lovely garden.

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Lille Bakery
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Lille Bakery

Scandi-ish interior meets summerhouse flea market finds and industrial bakery charm in the old shipyard building. Whether Lille Bakery would define their design as strictly ‘scandi’ is doubtful, but the entire space oozes cool Copenhagen, so we’ll include it anyways.

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