Kafferiet (Kongens Have) - Copenhagen

Kafferiet Copenhagen TCG

The happiest café customers are the ones in serious need of warm hands, happy vibes or caffeine. Giraffes don't need caffeine, so let's assume the first two dominate in this particular little story. The day after arrival.. first impressions and all.. you'd think the city would at least try to welcome me but nope: Denmark did not spare me nor my new Nikes. Now I knew Denmark literally means “Low Lands” which is Nether-Lands. Translation: we share mother nature’s 90% of the year rain policy. But holy shit this was bad. Sorry to drag you into weather talks, but you need to understand the difference. Holland is just Holland. Denmark on the other hand, is an island meaning there is blowy wind too. So when I exultantly flipped open my rainbow print umbrella, it flipped straight into the air right after. Angry at the sky and my naive self, my ego wanted to be satisfied and therefore I tried hard. The guy before me - clearly a Dane with his Ed Sheeran vibe going on - seemed to be equipped to go camping with his fancy pancy version of an umbrella. It didn’t move, completely ignored the wind, like a boss. And like any Scandi object it had a slightly odd, but tasteful design: a rectangle shape that could fit me and Ed together just fine! However, eager moods make you forget that you are a giraffe, and so when I squeezed my 5'9" height under the potential roof, my head seesawed the front right onto his nose which made even a Dane angry. He frowned at me and walked away - and so did my tent. I stood and soaked until I was raining at the same pace as the clouds themselves. And than there was Kafferiet. My first and my fave in all of the 4 months I spent in Copenhagen. Tiny as can be but oh so sweet. Copenhagen has more of them actually, so you’ll hear more about their brand.

Joe for now,

PS. I made a drawing of this café. Hope you like it! I always draw humans in the same happy, innocent style and call them Anna's Miladies. Find more of them on the illustrations page.