All-day café in Vesterbro, Copenhagen

Mad & Kaffe

Run First, Then Tick the Boxes

3.5 of 5

Every Friday at seven in the morning, a pack of runners sets off from Mad & Kaffe on Sønder Boulevard, and afterwards they all sit down to breakfast together. The running club is free and the pace groups are wide enough for most people. That tells you what kind of café this is. It belongs to the street first.

It opened here in 2015 as one café with one idea: you take a card and tick off what you want. Three, five or seven small dishes from five categories, for 120, 160 or 190 kroner. Ten years on there are five locations, including Aarhus, but this corner by the green strip down the middle of Sønder Boulevard is still the first. They make nearly everything themselves, the butter, the jams, the dressings and the cakes, and admit it is slower and messier that way. The bread comes from Andersen & Maillard and Berta Bageri, the fish from Fiskerikajen, and the coffee is their own, roasted by Copenhagen Coffee Lab. At lunch the card turns to smørrebrød on rye and sourdough, with steak tartare for the stubborn.

There are about seventy seats inside and thirty on the pavement when the weather allows, with Folkehuset Absalon across the road and Kødbyen a ten minute walk away. Brunch runs until half past twelve on weekdays and one at weekends. Book at the weekend. On a weekday, walk in, tick five boxes and stay longer than you planned.

Order this

Brunch with five ticks, Smørrebrød at lunch, A coffee from the house roast

The damage

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Go

A weekday before half past twelve, or Friday morning after the club run

Find it

Sønder Boulevard 68, 1720 København V, Denmark

Website

madogkaffe.dk