New wine bars keep opening across Copenhagen, but one thing puzzles me
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- Copenhagen appears to be opening several new wine bars each month, reflecting the wine bar's role as a modern successor to older Danish drinking venues.
- The writer welcomes the trend but wonders why almost none of Copenhagen's traditional brown pubs serve wine, with Café Nick as a notable exception.
Copenhagen is awash with wine bars. It feels as if a handful open every month, turning the wine bar into the modern successor to the brown pubs of the 1970s and the cafés of the 1980s.
The writer admits to having a soft spot for a good traditional pub, unlike colleague Søren Frank, but is also enthusiastic about the wine-bar boom. The popularity of the format, however, raises a persistent question.
Why have almost none of the old brown pubs kept a few bottles of wine behind the bar? Café Nick on Nikolajgade is singled out as the exception.
The observation appears alongside other Copenhagen food coverage, including Søren Frank's sharply negative assessment of Tivoli's new food area and his praise for the city's cheapest fine-dining restaurant, as well as a five-star review of a revived neo-classical Copenhagen restaurant.
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Originally published by Berlingske in Danish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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