A century old piano bar on Allégade where the grand piano plays every night and the regulars have seen everything twice.
Café Intime opened at Allégade 25 in 1922 and has spent the century since becoming Frederiksberg's bohemian institution, per VisitCopenhagen. A pianist sits at the grand piano every night, and Sunday afternoons bring live jazz to a room that holds maybe fifty people.
Fodor's describes the interior as classic brown café: red walls, lamp light, candles, simple furniture, an L shaped room with the bar in the corner. In the early years patrons drank in private locked stalls, and the bar slowly became one of Copenhagen's most loved gay meeting places.
Who would hate it? Anyone chasing a scene that changes weekly. Intime's whole argument is that it does not.
The European Bar Guide calls the room a time capsule: red walls glowing under fringed lamps, candle flames doubled in old mirrors, and the piano by the entrance setting the volume for the whole bar. Foursquare tips from 615 visitors repeat the same advice: squeeze in close and sing along when the room does.
The bar mixes classics rather than inventions: gin tonics, espresso martinis, and a Dark and Stormy poured generously, with cocktails from around 85 kr and draft beer below cocktail price.
Order whatever lets you keep one ear on the piano. Skip table hunting on Sunday afternoons; the jazz set packs the room by the second number, per VisitCopenhagen.
The crowd mixes artists, intellectuals, Frederiksberg locals, and a largely gay clientele that has anchored the room for decades, per Travel Gay and Fodor's. Everyone is welcome and the piano flattens every difference by the chorus.