The cutting-edge hotel network, White Line Hotels, picks their favourite events at Copenhagen's popular February festivals, Wondercool Copenhagen and Copenhagen Cooking.

“Experience everything cool in Copenhagen this February (weather included) with a stay at design-savvy Avenue Hotel,” our friends at White Line Hotels recommend.
White Line Hotels is a network of creative boutique hotels that reflect local culture and embrace individuality. For the popular February festivals, Wondercool Copenhagen and Copenhagen Cooking, they put in a good word for the Andy Warhol exhibition at Lousiana – Museum of Modern Art, Silver Spoon Guerilla Dining’s playful fashion week event, The Dirty Model Edition, as well as our very own Avenue High Tea with cakes by Nikolaos Strangas.

More about White Line Hotels and the festivals in Copenhagen
Find more information about the innovative hotel network, White Line Hotels, enjoy their recommendations and find additional information about the culture festival, Wondercool Copenhagen, as well as the food festival, Copenhagen Cooking.
Or experience it all firsthand by staying at Avenue Hotel.

Photo by Wondercool Copenhagen

Explore the world of music, food, architecture, fashion, art and design in Copenhagen as popular festivals and acclaimed cultural institutions join forces to tempt your ears, delight your taste buds and indulge your aesthetic senses at the culture festival, Wondercool Copenhagen.

You may want to bring your favourite sweater when going to the culture festival Wondercool Copenhagen in the Danish capital during the chilly month of February.
In return you are guaranteed lots of hot culture as nine popular summer festivals and acclaimed cultural institutions join forces to tempt your ears, delight your taste buds and indulge your aesthetic senses.

Well-known Successes and Innovative New-comers
The culture festival Wondercool Copenhagen offers you a well-shaken cocktail of music, food, architecture, fashion, art and design as the popular summer festivals, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Copenhagen Fashion Festival and Copenhagen Cooking join forces with new-comer, rock festival FROST, and acclaimed cultural institutions, Danish Design Centre, Danish Architecture Centre, National Gallery of Denmark as well as art museums Arken and Louisiana to create events within and across familiar genres.

Event: Wondercool Copenhagen 2013
When: Friday 1 February to Thursday 28 February
Where: All over Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and North Zealand
Price: Varies (many events are for free)

More about Wondercool Copenhagen
We are of course proud to announce that our own event, Avenue High Tea with Cakes by Nikolaos Strangas, is one of the official highlights of the food festival Copenhagen Cooking but encourage you to explore the complete programme for Wondercool Copenhagen 2013.
And remember, Avenue Hotel makes a great – and cosy – base from which to explore Copenhagen.

Photo by Wondercool Copenhagen

Danish food magazine, COPENHAGEN FOOD, keeps you updated about food, trend-setters, travel and other enjoyable things. Enjoy the New Year’s issue in front of the fireplace in the comfy lounge bar at Avenue Hotel.

“Danes eat too much crap food,” says one of Danish cuisine’s grand old men, Bo Jacobsen, owner/chef at gourmet restaurant, Restaurationen, in the Januay/February issue of the Danish food lovers’ favourite magazine, COPENHAGEN FOOD.
Enjoy Bo Jacobsen’s controversial take on the Danish food culture – or lack thereof – check out the readers’ best food pictures, let COPENHAGEN FOOD guide you to Denmark’s best television shows for foodies, go deer-hunting,  and much, much more…

More about the January/February issue of COPENHAGEN FOOD
Pick up a copy of COPENHAGEN FOOD at your newsagent’s, subscribe and get special offers, and remember to join the community at their Facebook-page.
Or browse the January/February issue of COPENHAGEN FOOD in front of the fireplace in the comfy lounge bar at Avenue Hotel.

A few years ago Jægersborggade was a no-go area due to drug-related gang wars but local entrepreneurs have conquered the gangs and today Copenhageners are flocking to the vibrant street. Check out their Christmas Days on 1 & 2 December 2012.

“Jægersborggade is my favourite street in Copenhagen. It is popular with the locals but the shop-keepers have an international orientation,” said our resident DJ, Katrine Ring, when we asked her to recommend her best-loved spot in Copenhagen.
This coming weekend, 1 & 2 December 2012, there is even more reason to visit the vibrant street as the local shops, cafés and restaurants gang together to create their unique take on a Christmas market.

Event: Christmas Days in Jægersborggade
When: Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 December 2012 – 11 am-4 pm
Where: Jægersborggade, 2220 Nørrebro (Copenhagen)
Price: Free entry

More about Jægersborggade
Find out why Katrine Ring, our resident DJ at Yellow Lounge, loves Jægersborggade, find more information about the Christmas Days in Jægersborggade (sorry, in Danish only), and remember, Avenue Hotel is  a leisurely ten-minute bike-ride from Jægersborggade.

Photo courtesy of Wonderful Copenhagen

Danish magazine COPENHAGEN FOOD keeps you updated about food, trend-setters, travel and other enjoyable things. Enjoy the Christmas issue in front of the fireplace in the comfy lounge bar at Avenue Hotel.

COPENHAGEN FOOD, the Danish food lovers’ favourite magazine, celebrates Christmas in their November/December issue.
We especially love the mouth-watering cake recipes from Nanna Pörtner a.k.a. the “Dessert Dragon”, the untraditional dessert recipes using fir by acclaimed chef, Jakob Mielcke from Mielcke & Hurtigkarl, and the long-awaited crusade for aquavit by startender Nick Kobbernagel from award-winning (and one of our favourites) cocktail bar, Ruby .
Further to this COPENHAGEN FOOD guides you to some of Copenhagen’s best places to enjoy glögg or to gorge on the notorious Danish Christmas lunch, and much, much more…

More about the November/December issue of COPENHAGEN FOOD
Pick up a copy of COPENHAGEN FOOD at your news agent’s, subscribe and get special offers, and remember to join the community at their Facebook page.
Or browse the November/December issue of COPENHAGEN FOOD in front of the fireplace in the comfy lounge bar at Avenue Hotel.

The Danish tourism organization, Visit Denmark, has compiled a Top 10-list over the most ‘hygge’ things to do in Copenhagen. Some of our favourites, like Christmas in Tivoli Gardens (pictured), picnic in The King's Garden and lunch at Restaurant Kronborg, made the grade.

“It can be hard to explain the Danish word ‘hygge’ (pronounced a bit like ‘hooga’),” claims VisitDenmark, the Danish tourism organisation.
“Roughly it translates to cosiness but that definition doesn’t quite cover it… ”
VisitDenmark adds: “’Hygge’ is so much more and always involves creating a nice warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with people around you.”
To help visitors to the Danish capital VisitDenmark has worked out a Top 10-list over the most ‘hygge’ things to do in Copenhagen, including some of our favourites, like Christmas in Tivoli Gardens, a picnic in The King’s Garden (best in summer, though) and lunch at Restaurant Kronborg.

More about ‘Hygge’
Read more about VisitDenmark’s ten suggestions for where to find ‘hygge’ in Copenhagen or book a room at Avenue Hotel and find out about that ‘hygge’ thing yourself…

Photo courtesy of Tivoli Gardens

All designers and products at blickfang Copenhagen 2012 have been handpicked by the Copenhagen-based jury, aiming for the individualistic taste of an urban, design-oriented audience. All products exhibited at blickfang fairs are for sale.

More than 100 exhibitors from ten different countries will make the design fair, blickfang Copenhagen 2012, at Øksnehallen a hotspot for design lovers.
Acclaimed Spanish designer, Jaime Hayón, ensures the cutting-edge fair’s focus on quality and helps mix furniture, fashion and accessories into an amazing shopping experience for design savvy visitors.

The Personal Contact creates Blickfang’s Identity
“The personal contact between the exhibiting designers and the visitors at the fair is especially important to us,” says Jeanne Reeves, General Manager at blickfang Copenhagen 2012.
“Hearing the story behind the design objects from the designer himself is a very special and rewarding experience to many of our visitors, and helps create our unique identity.”
Every single designer at Blickfang Copenhagen 2012 has been handpicked by a jury consisting of local design connoisseurs, like Rolf Hay (Hay), Peter Bonnén (Muuto), Mads Nørgaard (Nørgaard Copenhagen), Mette Barfod (Editor at RUM) and Anne Lohse (Editor at Eurowoman).

Quality and diversity are key factors for the products exhibited at blickfang Copenhagen 2012, for example fashion designer Freya Dalsjö’s debut collection (pictured) appeals to strong, self-conscious women, whereas Jean//phillip’s men’s wear attracts attention for its use of minimalism and exquisite materials.

Takes Design to a Higher Level
“In our globalized design world an exhibition format like Blickfang, where designers and manufacturers sell directly to the consumer, is an extremely progressive concept,” says Spanish designer Jaime Hayón.
“Lots of products lack personality and are frankly quite boring. When you have the opportunity to meet the designer in person and learn more about the design process it elevates the fair to a higher level.”
Jaime Hayón designs for world-famous brands, like Bisazza and Fritz Hansen, and advises Blickfang in creative matters.

Event: blickfang Copenhagen 2012
When: Friday 9 November 4-10 pm, Saturday 10 November 12 noon-9 pm and Sunday 11 November 11 am-7 pm
Where: Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1170 Copenhagen V
Price: DKK 90/Students DKK 70

More about Blickfang – and Avenue Hotel
Find more information about the cutting-edge design fair and shopping experience, blickfang Copenhagen 2012, including the list of designers.
Avenue Hotel is a preferred partner of blickfang and will host an exclusive blickfang Party on Saturday 10 November 2012 9 pm-01 am.

Copenhagen and Frederiksberg buzz with life on Friday 12 October as Culture Night launches more than 600 events in one night. Most of the events are less than a ten minute leisurely bike ride from Avenue Hotel (Pictured: Thorvaldsen Museum).

On Friday 12 October 2012 more than 250 museums, galleries, political institutions and other venues all over Copenhagen and Frederiksberg will open their doors to expose the hidden sides of the city’s cultural landscape.

Imagination creates Culture Night
“Culture Night has a unique ability to make the big official cultural institutions as well as the underground open their doors at the same time,” says project manager Marie Myschetzky from Culture Night.
She adds: “The programme has no theme but grows in all directions enabled by the sheer force and imagination of the participants.”

Select Events in Frederiksberg
Some of the potentially most popular events in our local ‘hood, Frederiksberg, are bound to be the pop-poetic concert by Mouritz/Hørslev Duo in collaboration with indie veteran, Nikolaj Nørlund, at atmospheric Møstings Hus, the chance to sneak a peek into the HQ of the Freemasons at Sct. Andreas Ordenen, or joining Mayor Jørgen Glenthøj as he guides an intimate group behind the scenes at Frederiksberg Town Hall.

Tickets and More Information
If you buy a ‘KulturKit’ (Culture Night Pass) for DKK 90 (approximately 12 Euros) you get free admission to all events as well as free access to public transportation from 5 pm to 5 am.
Find more information about the Culture Night Pass and browse the entire programme at Kulturnatten.dk.
And remember, most of the events are less than a 10 minute leisurely bike ride from Avenue Hotel.

Photo by Michael Daugaard

“The Kate Spade girl is making her way around the world and finding style in all the right places: from Shanghai’s south bund fabric market to Copenhagen’s sandwich shops,” says Pavia Rosati, Founder and CEO at Fathom.

“There’s a little something extra going on here,” writes Fathom for Kate Spade New York in their newly launched guide to Copenhagen.
The lovely ladies at Fathom aim to reinvent travel websites by combining inspiring personal stories and curated destination guides with the best travel resources and products. So it was an obvious move for the fashionistas at Kate Spade New York to partner with Fathom to create the perfect travel guides for the Kate Spade girl.
Oh, and did we remember to mention that Fathom and Kate Spade New York recommend you stay at Avenue Hotel, when in Copenhagen..?

More about Kate Spade New York and Fathom
Check out the Kate Spade girl’s stylish finds at Fathom for Kate Spade New York and sneak a peek into her wardrobe at Kate Spade New York.
And remember to read why, the savvy travellers recommend you stay at Avenue Hotel, when in Copenhagen.

Experience the true Skagen atmosphere at Avenue Hotel as Skagen Fiskerestaurant, Ruths Hotel, Marie Krøyer, Georg Jensen, Verdensballetten and many, many more spoil you with finger food, champagne, live entertainment and lots of prestigious prizes.

Skagen, the favourite beach resort of Danish celebrities, takes Copenhagen – and in particular Avenue Hotel – on Monday 8 October 2012 at 8 pm.
Experience the true Skagen atmosphere as Skagen Fiskerestaurant, Ruths Hotel, Marie Krøyer, Georg Jensen, Verdensballetten and many, many more spoil you with finger food, champagne, live entertainment and lots of prestigious prizes.
All proceeds from the ticket sales will be donated to the charity organization, Barndrømmen.

Event: Skagen i København (Skagen in Copenhagen)
When: Monday 8 October 2012 at 8 pm
Where: Avenue Hotel, Åboulevard 29, Frederiksberg
Price: DKK 400, buy your ticket at Skagenbilletten.dk

More Information about Skagen in Copenhagen
Find more information about Skagen in Copenhagen, the charity organization, Barndrømmen, and read our interview with the founder of Barndrømmen, cultural entrepreneur Dorthe Foged.
Or simply book your room at Avenue Hotel.