Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Bakery and eatery in Refshaleøen, Copenhagen
Lille Bakery
An Oven Paid For by Friends
Lille's oven was paid for by a Kickstarter campaign. Friends, strangers and helping hands chipped in, and in the summer of 2018 a small bakery opened out on Refshaleøen, the old industrial island across the harbour. More than seven years later it still runs on that kind of goodwill. The regulars are art students on lunch, sailors and boat fixers from the harbour, and small business owners from the sheds nearby.
The menu changes every day because the farmers decide it. Lille works with small growers on Zealand who do not till or spray, and with millers who treat wheat as a crop with a flavour rather than a commodity. Every loaf is sourdough made from Danish grains and seeds, baked that morning. Breakfast is honest: bread, butter, cheese and jam or ham for seventy kroner, or egg on toast. Lunch might be a focaccia slice, a sandwich, a quiche or a soup with more bread. The berliners and blomster buns go until they are gone. Coffee is Prolog filter, with Søtofte milk or oat milk.
There is a deli shelf by the door with flour, eggs, cheese and their own jams, and it is a better souvenir than anything at the airport. Lille opens Wednesday to Sunday from eight and closes on Mondays and Tuesdays. Bike out midweek, eat at the long tables, and buy a loaf for later.
- Order this
- Bread, butter, cheese and jam, Egg on toast, A blomster bun, The focaccia slice at lunch
- The damage
- $$
- Go
- Wednesday to Friday morning, when the bread is fresh and the island is quiet
- Find it
- Refshalevej 213B, København K, Denmark
- Website
- lillegrocery.com