Natural wine bar and bottle shop in Nørrebro, Copenhagen

Pompette

Tipsy on Purpose in Nørrebro

3.5 of 5

Pompette is French for tipsy. Nobody here pretends that is an accident. The bar sits one step down from the pavement on Møllegade in Nørrebro, with bare walls and bistro seating spilling onto the street, and it has a single argument it makes every night. Cheap wine is easy. Good wine sold cheaply is the hard part. The owners, who spent years in the trade in France, opened it in 2018 to prove the hard part could be done.

Natural wine runs the place. It doubles as a bottle shop, and the people who have been down the cellar stairs talk about the depth of it: Austrian producers like Tschida and Gut Oggau, Bini from Italy, boxes of things you will not find on a supermarket shelf. The house has built its name on a short run of glasses at the bottom of the price range, one red, one white, one rosé, one orange, and on pricing bottles close to what they cost the shop. For a city where a glass of wine can cost as much as lunch, that is close to a public service.

The food is what a wine bar should serve and nothing more. Cheese, charcuterie, bread, a burrata that gets mentioned in every write-up. Go early in the evening, take the cheap glass first, then ask what they are drinking themselves. Walk home along the cemetery wall.

Order this

The cheapest glass on the board, whatever colour it is, A bottle from the shelves, picked with the staff, The burrata, Cheese and charcuterie

The damage

$$

Go

Early evening, when there is still room in the basement

Find it

Møllegade 3, 2200 København N

Website

etteetteette.dk