Thorvaldsend Museum Cafe

The Spis take

The café attached to Thorvaldsens Museum on Slotsholmen — worth knowing as a pause inside one of Copenhagen's most atmospheric museums (Denmark's first, opened 1848, devoted to sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen). Reports on the café vary from a proper lunch-and-coffee spot to little more than a drink in the courtyard, so expectations should be modest and tied to a visit. You go for the museum's astonishing painted halls first; the café is a bonus.