Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Bakery and pastry shop in Østerbro, Copenhagen
Juno the Bakery
Cardamom, Fluently Spoken
A Swede walks into Copenhagen and teaches the Danes something about buns. That is roughly the Juno story, and the Danes have taken it with good grace. Emil Glaser came out of the Noma kitchen and opened a small bakery on a corner of Århusgade in Østerbro, on the ground floor of a residential block. There is no dining room to speak of. There are a few seats out front and a line of people who clearly planned their morning around this.
Order the cardamom bun. That is not a suggestion. It is the thing Juno is known for, a knotted, buttery Swedish bun with the spice ground fine enough that you never crunch on a husk. The almond croissant is the sleeper, soft and a little underbaked in the middle on purpose, with toasted almonds on top. The vanilla bun is pure perfume. If the case holds a prinsesstårta, the Swedish dome of sponge, raspberry jam, custard and cream under marzipan, take a slice and let the old country win one more round.
They bake through the day rather than once at dawn, so what you get tends to be warm. Prices are bakery prices. I spent years eating hotel breakfast pastries on the consulting dime, and none of them were made with this kind of stubbornness. Juno opens at half past seven from Tuesday to Sunday and stays shut on Mondays. Go early, go hungry, and bring someone who will let you eat half of theirs.
- Order this
- Cardamom bun, Almond croissant, Vanilla bun, Prinsesstårta when it is in the case
- The damage
- $
- Go
- Tuesday to Saturday from 07.30, early, before the line builds; closed Mondays
- Find it
- Århusgade 48, 2100 København Ø
- Website
- junothebakery.com