Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Vegetarian daytime café in Indre By, Copenhagen
Atelier September
Eggs on a Very Old Plate
Your eggs at Atelier September might arrive on a 150-year-old Etruscan plate. Normally that sentence would make me check for the exit. Here it is just how the place is. Frederik Bille Brahe opened it in 2013 in a former gallery on Gothersgade, and it has kept the calm of a gallery ever since: sunlight, vintage and midcentury furniture, natural wine on the shelves, very little noise.
The cooking is vegetarian and plain in the best sense. The signature is the avocado mad, mad being Danish for food, and it is the dish people come for. Order it, then the Kyoto grapefruit, then granola and berries if you have room. What makes the simple stuff work is the supplier list, and they print it proudly: Birkemosegaard, Søtofte, Hegnsholt, Klippingegaard, Søndergård, Kornby Mølle, Natoora and Lieu-dit, with coffee from April. A plate of avocado on bread has nowhere to hide. These people know it.
The city café is now on Kronprinsessegade, with siblings in Nordhavn, on Gammel Kongevej in Frederiksberg and in Hellerup. The city room takes no reservations, so arrive early or wait. Weekdays open at half past seven and the kitchen closes at three every day. Come with one friend, not six, sit by the window and eat slowly.
- Order this
- Avocado mad, Kyoto grapefruit, Granola and berries, The breakfast plate
- The damage
- $$
- Go
- A weekday before ten, well before the kitchen closes at three
- Find it
- Kronprinsessegade 62, 1306 København K, Denmark
- Website
- cafeatelierseptember.com