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fice tel. 33 15 10 12). If the Tivoli Symphony is playing, it's worth paying
for. The ticket box office is outside, just to the left of the main entrance (daily
10:00-20:00; if you buy a concert ticket you get into Tivoli for free).
Free concerts, pantomime theater, ballet, acrobats, puppets, and other
shows pop up all over the park, and a well-organized visitor can enjoy an ex-
citing evening of entertainment without spending a single krone beyond the
entry fee. Friday evenings feature a (usually free) rock or pop show at 22:00.
People gather around the lake 45 minutes before closing time for the “Tivoli
Illuminations” (except on Fri, when there's no show). Fireworks blast a few
nights each summer. The park is particularly romantic at dusk, when the lights
go on.
Eating at Tivoli:
Inside the park, expect to pay amusement-park prices
for amusement-park-quality food. Still, a meal here is part of the fun.
Sø-
cafeen
serves only traditional open-face sandwiches in a fun beer garden with
lakeside ambience. They allow picnics if you buy a drink (and will rent you
plates and silverware for 10 kr per person). The
pølse
(sausage) stands are
cheap, and there's a bagel sandwich place in the amusements corner.
Færgek-
roen
offers a quiet, classy lakeside escape from the amusement-park intens-
ity, with traditional dishes washed down by its own microbrew (190-265-kr
hearty pub grub). They host live piano on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday
evenings from 20:00, often resulting in an impromptu sing-along with a bunch
of very happy Danes.
Wagamama,
a modern pan-Asian slurpathon from the
UK, serves healthy noodle dishes (at the far back side of the park, also pos-
sible to enter from outside, 100-130-kr meals).
Nimb's Terrasse
has dignified
French food in a garden setting (175-225-kr dishes).
Café Georg,
to the left
of the concert hall, has tasty 75-kr sandwiches and a lake view (also 100-kr
salads and omelets). The kid-pleasing
Piratiriet
lets you dine on a pirate ship
(140-170-kr main dishes).
For something more upscale, consider the complex of Nimb restaurants,
in the big Taj Mahal-like pavilion near the entrance facing the train station.
Nimb's Louise
is Tivoli's big splurge, with seasonal menus that are well-
regarded even by non-parkgoers (lunch: three courses-495 kr; dinner: four
courses-750 kr, eight courses-1125 kr).
Nimb's Brasserie,
sharing the same
lobby, has more affordable prices (175-235-kr main dishes).
