Illustration by Fig & Ginger, drawn from the review. The venue's own photo is on its way.
Danish-style café and roastery in Bangsar (Bukit Bandaraya), Kuala Lumpur
Kopenhagen Coffee
Danish Breakfast on the Hill
Copenhagen in Kuala Lumpur sounds like a theme park pitch. It is not. Kopenhagen Coffee started in Mont Kiara, across from an international school, and its third café sits on the hill in Bangsar inside Kapas Condominium. This is the one to visit, because it is also where the roasting happens. You can see into the kitchen and the roasting room from your table, and the view the other way is the city skyline.
Breakfast is the point. The all-day menu is built like a Danish table: you pick two, three, five or seven small dishes and they arrive as a board. It is the right format for people who cannot commit, which is most of us before ten. A coffee guide updated this year credits a partnership with a local bakehouse for the bagels. I would not skip them.
The coffee leans Nordic, light and clean, roasted on site every week. The house blends are named after Copenhagen neighborhoods, Nørrebro, Vesterbro and Østerbro, and there is a rotating shelf of single origins for filter. Weekdays run 7.30am to 4pm, weekends 8am to 4.30pm. Reservations are taken online, which is unusual for a café and very welcome in a city where the weekend brunch crowd moves like a tide. Book, sit by the window and order the five-dish board.
- Order this
- A five-dish breakfast board, A bagel from the bakery partner, Filter coffee from the house roastery, One of the house blends as espresso
- The damage
- $$
- Go
- A slow weekday breakfast; weekdays 7.30am to 4pm, weekends 8am to 4.30pm, and you can book
- Find it
- B2-01 Kapas Condominium, No. 3 Jalan Kapas, Bukit Bandaraya, 59100 Kuala Lumpur
- Website
- kopenhagencoffee.com