Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Ice cream shop in Ørestad, Amager, Copenhagen
Ismageriet
Made in Every Back Room
Ismageriet began in 2005 in a villa on Kongelundsvej on Amager, in a shop that had been a family bakery since 1958 and still had its late fifties fittings. The founder walked past, fell for the room and turned it into an ice cream parlour. That is a better origin story than most business plans. Two decades on it has become a small Copenhagen fleet, with shops in Ørestad, Østerbro, Kødbyen, Refshaleøen, Søborg and Rødovre.
What matters is that each shop makes its own ice cream in its own kitchen, in small batches through the day. The style leans on Italian gelato, the range changes every week, and the place is built for regulars who come often enough to notice. There is soft serve too, with a special that changes with the season, sometimes served in a little flowerpot. It is silly. It is also exactly what a grey weeknight needs.
Order a scoop of whatever arrived this week, then the soft serve. The ice cream flødeboller are the Danish move, the old chocolate-coated foam treat rebuilt around ice cream, and the caramel and the marzipan pistachio are the pair to try. Litre boxes go home for the family. The Ørestad shop near DR Byen does croissants and coffee from the morning and keeps scooping until ten at night.
- Order this
- Whatever is new in the case this week, The seasonal soft serve, Caramel ice cream flødebolle, Marzipan pistachio ice cream flødebolle
- The damage
- $
- Go
- After dinner; the Ørestad shop stays open until 22.00 every day
- Find it
- Rued Langgaards Vej 6E, 2300 København S
- Website
- ismageriet.dk