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Show me your playlist, and I’ll tell you what kind of café you are. Music critic Alexander Vesterlund conducts a musical spot test of 10 Copenhagen cafés.

How do the city’s cafés sound? A music critic sat down in 10 of them to find out

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Foto: Ida Marie Sandgren/POLITIKEN
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The one that takes you 200 years back

Navnløs Kaffebar. Enghave Pl. 6, Kbh. V.

Two men sit in intense concentration, their glasses perched low on their noses, bent over a game of chess, while the writer Olga Ravn is tucked away in the corner, writing. Candle wax drips down the sides of empty red wine bottles as I step in one early morning. The noise from the construction work out on Enghave Plads turns into a pleasant kind of background jazz – not just anything random, but solid local goods from Bremer/McCoy and, best of all, a whole album from start to finish.

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