Café Bryggen is one of the cafés in town where you can sense the morning pulse of Copenhagen. Sitting on the bar-stools next to the floor-to-ceiling windows, you have a clear view over the morning busy Fiolstræde. Some people are coming in for a quick take-away coffee, some stroll straight by the cafe at a high pace, and yet others are taking a seat to read the newspaper and steal a quiet moment before going back into the street.
Everything in Bryggen is ecological - milk, juice, coffee, pastry... Our first impressions are that "ecological" seems to be the trend these days in Copenhagen.
But what are people sitting in the café this morning drinking?
Surprisingly enough - it's tea! Wonder if the tea is better here or is it just a coincidence?Are Copenhageners substituting their coffee with tea? Is it because they believe it is more healthy? Or it warms them better in this endless winter?
Just the other day a guy told us that he wants to stop drinking coffee, at least in the weekdays. However, he would stick to coffee in the weekends because there was a certain cosiness about it (Which is Danish "hygge" and, notably, not the "hygge" referred to in the visit Denmark campaign :-)) So, is it "hygge" or the need for a caffeine boost that drives us to reach for a coffee cup?..
Though the majority of the 10 people visiting Bryggen on this particular morning are drinking tea, we order coffee.
Bryggen don’t have filtered coffee. The equivalent they offer is called “Sort luksus” (“Black Luxury”) and they are making it on their espresso machine. What they do is they grind the beans a little less fine than what you would normally do when making espresso-coffee. Di tastes Sort luksus coffee while Casper is deviating from the normal filtered coffee by choosing a cappuccino.
All in all, Bryggen was a good place for a morning coffee. Although situated in a busy place, having your coffee break here it is not stressful at all. On the contrary. Quiet jazz is playing, and people seem to be taking their time. For a tourist this would be the ideal place to make preparations for the day, while watching Copenhageners go around their business.
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We have been writing in “word” this morning. And are now asking the barista of the day for internet. Answer: “Yep, you get 20 minutes for free when you buy something”.
Hm, I guess we won't be doing school projects here. Well, 20 min are good enough for us. We hop on the world wide web and post.
See you guys…
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