sight
1 Istedgade
Vesterbro's long spine - from gritty at the station end to boutiques, bars and bakeries the further west you ride.
Moderate · 4.1 km · 50 min
Vesterbro: Meatpacking, Beer & Backstreets
Meatpacking halls, craft beer and a neighbourhood transformed.
Sights & culture
Food & drink
Your route, stop by stop
Vesterbro is the city's great transformation - red-light spine turned bakery-and-bar district. Ride Istedgade, dive into the white-tiled Kodbyen for pizza and brewpub beer, cross to Enghave Plads and the linear park of Sonder Boulevard, and finish among the cobbled lanes of Carlsberg City. As much about urban change as it is about food and beer.
Turn by turn
Directions
Street-by-street cues for the whole ride - the numbered stops match the pins on the map.
- Head south-west on Istedgade 101 m
- Turn right onto Abel Cathrines Gade 152 m
- Turn right onto Viktoriagade 20 m
- 1 Mikkeller Bar 143 m
- Turn right onto Istedgade 87 m
- Turn left onto Gasværksvej 141 m
- Turn right onto Halmtorvet 121 m
- Turn left onto Høkerboderne 103 m
- Turn right onto Flæsketorvet 55 m
- Turn left onto the path 328 m
- 2 Kodbyen (The Meatpacking District) 352 m
- 3 WarPigs Brewpub 7 m
- Turn left onto Flæsketorvet 122 m
- Turn right onto Høkerboderne 72 m
- 4 Mother 12 m
- 5 Prolog Coffee Bar 42 m
- Turn left onto Halmtorvet 111 m
- Turn right onto Sønder Boulevard 20 m
- Turn left onto Sønder Boulevard 294 m
- Turn right onto Dybbølsgade 269 m
- Bear right onto Dybbølsgade 105 m
- Bear left onto the path 26 m
- Turn sharp right onto the path 29 m
- 6 Enghave Plads 37 m
- Turn left onto the path 27 m
- Turn right onto Enghave Plads 28 m
- Turn sharp left onto Haderslevgade 152 m
- Turn left onto Ny Carlsberg Vej 10 m
- Turn right onto Haderslevgade 101 m
- Turn right onto Sønder Boulevard 82 m
- 7 Sonder Boulevard 186 m
- Bear right onto Sønder Boulevard 97 m
- Turn right onto Dannevirkegade 27 m
- Turn left onto Slien 196 m
- Continue onto Flaskegade 186 m
- Turn right onto Bohrsgade 127 m
- Turn left onto Franciska Clausens Plads 77 m
- Turn right onto the path 62 m
- 8 Carlsberg City (Carlsberg Byen)
Along the way
Stops worth making
bar
2 Mikkeller Bar
The original Mikkeller bar on a Vesterbro side street - the cellar that started a beer revolution.
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sight
3 Kodbyen (The Meatpacking District)
White-tiled former meat halls now packed with restaurants, galleries and bars - dead by day, alive at night.
bar
4 WarPigs Brewpub
A Mikkeller-and-Three Floyds Texas-style brewpub in Kodbyen - house beers and barbecue by the tray.
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restaurant
5 Mother
Sourdough Neapolitan pizza in the heart of Kodbyen - reliably good and family-friendly.
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cafe
6 Prolog Coffee Bar
A tiny, much-loved specialty coffee bar tucked into the Kodbyen lanes.
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sight
7 Enghave Plads
The leafy square at the heart of west Vesterbro - cafes, a metro stop and Sonder Boulevard rolling off it.
park
8 Sonder Boulevard
A wide linear park down the middle of the boulevard - petanque, playgrounds and Vesterbro at its most local.
sight
9 Carlsberg City (Carlsberg Byen)
The old brewery grounds reborn as a quarter of cobbled lanes, towers and the famous elephant gate.