Ruby is a speakeasy in Indre By, Copenhagen.
Editorially verified May 20, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Ring at the unmarked door; walk-in only, but the upstairs salon takes overflow. The 18th-century cellar is the date-night seat.
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Geoffrey Canilao opened Balderdash on Valkendorfsgade in 2014 in an 1732 townhouse, with a secret-door back room, a spirits lab on the floor above and a daily-changing menu built around Danish seasonal produce.
TipWednesday through Saturday only; the secret room behind the bookcase seats six and takes reservations. Strawberry-foie gras old fashioned in season.
Centralhjørnet on Kattesundet has run as a gay bar since 1950 in a tavern that itself dates to 1917, and the room claims the title of the world's oldest continuously operating gay bar with rotating drag shows.
TipOpen from noon every day; the late drag sets land Friday and Saturday. Cheap beer at the counter; tip the queens.
Oscar on Regnbuepladsen, the Rainbow Square next to City Hall, runs as a non-smoking LGBTQ+ daytime cafe and evening bar with a Friday DJ programme, kitchen running lunch through dinner and a daily happy hour.
TipHappy hour daily 16:00-21:00; Friday DJs pull the room from 21:00. Pavement seats across the rainbow plaza in summer.
Geoffrey Canilao opened Balderdash on Valkendorfsgade in 2014 in an 1732 townhouse, with a secret-door back room, a spirits lab on the floor above and a daily-changing menu built around Danish seasonal produce.
TipWednesday through Saturday only; the secret room behind the bookcase seats six and takes reservations. Strawberry-foie gras old fashioned in season.
Curfew sits behind an antiquary-bookstore facade on Vesterbrogade, with a buzzer entry, a 30-seat counter and a list led by Humberto Saraiva Marques, the bartender behind World's 50 Best wins at previous rooms.
TipRing the bell at the bookshop facade; walk-ins welcome but Friday and Saturday seat by capacity. Closed all of July.
Lidkoeb opened in 2012 in a former pharmacy in a Vesterbrogade courtyard, run by Adeline and Rasmus Shepherd-Lomborg of Ruby; three floors stack a ground-floor pub, a cocktail bar and a whisky lounge under the eaves.
TipWalk through the courtyard gate; the whisky lounge upstairs runs Friday and Saturday only and takes the brown-spirit drinkers off the cocktail floor.
Centralhjørnet on Kattesundet has run as a gay bar since 1950 in a tavern that itself dates to 1917, and the room claims the title of the world's oldest continuously operating gay bar with rotating drag shows.
TipOpen from noon every day; the late drag sets land Friday and Saturday. Cheap beer at the counter; tip the queens.
Oscar on Regnbuepladsen, the Rainbow Square next to City Hall, runs as a non-smoking LGBTQ+ daytime cafe and evening bar with a Friday DJ programme, kitchen running lunch through dinner and a daily happy hour.
TipHappy hour daily 16:00-21:00; Friday DJs pull the room from 21:00. Pavement seats across the rainbow plaza in summer.
Café Intime on Allégade in Frederiksberg is a Montmartre-inspired piano bar from the early 1920s, with nightly live piano, jazz sets and drag shows.
TipOpen daily 16:00 to 02:00; arrive before the evening pianist starts to get a seat near the piano.
