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For sausages a cut above (and from a storefront—not a cart), stop by the
little grill restaurant Andersen Bakery, directly across the street from the
train station (next to the Tivoli entrance). The menu is limited—either pork
or veal/beef—but the ingredients are high-quality and the weenies are tasty
(50-kr gourmet dogs, daily 7:00-19:00, Bernstorffsgade 5, tel. [phone]).
Picnics
(See “Copenhagen Hotels & Restaurants” map, here .)
Throughout Copenhagen, small delis (viktualiehandler) sell fresh bread, tasty
pastries, juice, milk, cheese, and yogurt (drinkable, in tall liter boxes). Two
of the largest supermarket chains are Irma (in arcade on Vesterbrogade next
to Tivoli) and Super Brugsen. Netto is a cut-rate outfit with the cheapest
prices. And, of course, there's the ever-present 7-Eleven chain, with branches
seemingly on every corner; while you'll pay a bit more here, there's a reason
they're called “convenience” stores—and they also serve pastries and hot
dogs.
Pastry
(See “Copenhagen Hotels & Restaurants” map, here .)
The golden pretzel sign hanging over the door or windows is the Danes' age-
old symbol for a bakery. Danish pastries, called wienerbrød (“Vienna bread”)
inDenmark, are named forthe Viennese bakers whobroughtthe art ofpastry-
making to Denmark, where the Danes say they perfected it. Try these baker-
ies: Lagkagehuset (multiple locations around town; the handiest options in-
clude one right in the train station, another nearby inside the TI, one along the
Strøget at Frederiksborggade 21, and another on Torvegade just across from
the Metro station in Christianshavn) and Nansens (on corner of Nansensgade
and Ahlefeldtsgade, near Ibsens Hotel). For a genteel bit of high-class 1870s
Copenhagen, payalotforacoffeeandafreshDanish at Konditori LaGlace,
just off the Strøget at Skoubogade 3.