Food festivals in Copenhagen worth planning a trip around, by month.
Food festivals in Copenhagen worth planning a trip around, by month.
Copenhagen Cooking and Food Festival runs 10 days in late August across the city's restaurants, bars and markets, with chef takeovers, tasting menus and outdoor street-food events.
Focus: Nordic gastronomy, restaurants, markets
Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen brings 100 international craft breweries to Øksnehallen in Vesterbro across four tasting sessions, with around 800 beers across the weekend.
Focus: Craft beer, 100+ international breweries
Mikkeller Beer Week takes over Copenhagen's bars and breweries for seven days in May, with collaborative brews, brewery dinners, tap takeovers and the MBCC weekend as the finale.
Focus: Craft beer takeovers across the city
Tivoli Food Festival runs 9 days each May in Copenhagen's 1843 Tivoli Gardens, with chef demos, masterclasses, market stalls and pop-up restaurants in the week before the Nordic Michelin ceremony.
Focus: Nordic gastronomy, chef demos, market stalls
Tivoli Christmas Market in November and December turns the 1843 Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen into a Danish Christmas market with æbleskiver, gløgg, julemad and seasonal stalls.
Focus: Danish Christmas food: æbleskiver, gløgg, julemad
Peak food season in Copenhagen is year-round.
Local dining hours: lunch around 12:30, dinner from 19:30.
service is typically included; small extra is welcome but not expected.
Ask the next local you meet what they would order. Copenhagen rewards trust.