In a former B&W-storage room, you’ll find the banquet facilities of Aamanns, a 200-person venue characterised by its raw concrete floors and open view of the chefs’ delicious work. As a social hub where seasonal ingredients, tastiness and community-feeling are essential, the location can be used for all sorts of personalised events—from weddings and receptions to product launches and company parties. Aamanns also runs several other excellent establishments around Copenhagen.

Behind a massive 13-foot-tall bronze door, Alchemist’s Head Chef Rasmus Munk is creating the future of fine dining. Serving 50 courses per sitting, Munk introduces an extrasensory experience they call ‘holistic cuisine’. Alchemist will have four kitchens, 30 cooks, seven dining spaces, and eating there will take from three to five hours. Sounds otherworldly? Maybe. But as Munk puts it: “We want to create magic at Alchemist. And I mean, who hasn’t dreamt of pulling a rabbit out of a hat during dinner?”

Alchemist opens in spring 2019

B&W Antiques is not your average flea market. Going there you’ll find Danish furniture classics, vintage lamps or maybe even that special vinyl record you never knew you just had to have.

BARBARA I GONGINI is a Nordic brand established in the field of international luxury avantgarde fashion design. The core of the BARBARA I GONGINI-DNA is centred on strengthening the individual rather than sex, sexual orientation, societal order or other normative pressures. They celebrate a playful, imaginative tale of craftsmanship that breathes freedom of self-expression.

We have quite a few unorthodox buildings on our island, so imagination and unconventional thinking is a must when using them—and that’s precisely what Blocs & Walls have done. Collaborating with architects and climbing manufacturers, they transformed an old B&W-building into a beautiful mecca for climbers.

Broaden & Build is the latest project of Amass Head Chef Matthew Orlando–an ingredient-focused brewery serving over twenty kinds of beers. Beyond the brews, Broaden & Build is also a casual restaurant and cosy bar. With deliciousness and sustainability as the driving forces, they draw inspiration from local ingredients while combining the creative processes of a chef and a brewer.

On a mission to transform how cities work for and with people, CPH Village designs co-living villages with container-based, transportable housing solutions. The goal is to solve homelessness among students, and their first village opened in the summer of 2018 at Refshaleøen. Already 164 students are enjoying one of the most magnificent views of Copenhagen.

Coast is an architectural research and photography studio based in The Loft. By operating in the temporary territories between land and sea, Coast explores the built environment and the entanglement of society and nature.

Now celebrating the 16th anniversary of creating messy and memorable experiences, Copenhagen Paintball Arena was one of the first to inhabit Refshaleøen in 2003. Putting socialising and team-building front and centre, participants will encounter laser games, paintball, skeet shooting, human football and much more.

Emma Ekstam is a Danish illustrator and painter located in the creative community at The Loft. Her works intersect motives from European medieval imagery and nature with a slight touch of discomfort and absurdity.

Some say that spirits are the next frontier for New-Nordic gastronomy. If that’s the case, Empirical Spirits are indeed pioneers; they’re leading an investigation into brewing and distilling, looking at flavours, traditions, technologies and techniques. Empirical Spirits are shaking things up in the spirit industry by asking questions like why can’t spirits be seasonal, as food can, or have vintages, as wine does?

A festival for a good cause. Engage Festival is an annual music festival presenting well-known Danish artists. Established by the Danish Foundation for war veterans, Engage strives to support Danish veterans and their relatives by creating a platform for positivity and community around veteran affairs.

Enter Art Fair is an international art fair, presenting progressive and thought-provoking art by national and international galleries. The fair will present galleries from all over the world, taking place in a 3000 m2 tent, for the first time in August 29 – September 1, 2019. The annual event has a strong vision to strengthen the art scene of Copenhagen and co-operates with museums, restaurants and cultural institutions around Copenhagen.

Excellent coffee is at the heart of everything Factory Roast Lab does. Gathering a coffee-centric community around their pride—a fully equipped 15K Loring coffee roaster—amateurs and professionals alike can dive deep into the world of beans and flavours.

In various places around Refshaleøen you’ll notice small and gorgeous transitional shelters called Kolonien. Created by architect Jane Ostermann-Petersen, the shelters are flexible and resilient structures that can adapt to particular needs. Easily assembled and just as easily dismantled, Kolonien can be packed down by just three people to pop up in ever-changing locations.

Change requires creativity to imagine the new. KreaTherapy provides a safe space for individuals to awaken their creative side and support the liberation of full potential to create wishful change. Creative therapy provides you with the opportunity to discover inner and outer resources that may have remained unconscious until now.

Every district needs a local bakery, and we’re pretty excited about ours. Buying a loaf of bread at Lille (Danish for little) is so much more than what you’ll find at your usual baker. By bridging high-quality local produce with exceptional craftsmanship, you’ll get great tasting baked goods in environmental harmony. They also do small dishes for lunch every day and great dinners every once in a while.

Highlighted by The New York Times as ‘the Food World’s Most Game-Changing Festival’, MAD Symposium gathers top chefs from all over the world. During the two-days of norm-challenging discussions, they explore the things that matter most in food. Themes on the agenda include sustainable agriculture, social entrepreneurship, science, health, and creativity discussed by the likes of René Redzepi, Ferran Adrìa, Jay Fai, David Chang, Angela Dimagyua, Diana Kennedy, and Vandana Shiva.

Until quite recently Denmark didn’t have a great tradition for microbreweries and experimental beers, but the world-renowned brews of Mikkeller have certainly changed that. Located right by the harbour front, the Mikkeller offspring Baghaven lets you flush down a varied range of ales and saisons. Also, the industrial structure is one of the most sun-soaked spots on our island.

MoveCopenhagen rethinks what it means to move. By playing, exploring, inspiring and (of course) moving they reconstruct the very idea of movement to create better lives by inspiring people to move more and in new ways. At Move, you’ll be dancing and yoga-ing as well as trying out parkour and slacklining.

Founded by partners Laust Sørensen and Michael Droob, POINT creates poetic architecture that contributes positively to society and quality of life, while maintaining a consistently high level of performance and integrity. At POINT, architecture is only successful when it’s relevant for the human.

When Reffen (formerly known as Copenhagen Street Food) opened in 2018 it immediately became one of the most beloved activities on our island. It’s arguably the most visited Street Food Market in Denmark, offering culinary experiences from all around the world, while also engaging with inventive concepts within design and fashion. Going there in the summer you’ll experience dancing, DJs, sports, parties and much more while enjoying your favourite cuisine.

Refshalevej 185 is a hangar structure transformed into a raw event space in a withdrawn location. Located next to a small forest-like area, the space serves as an inspirational platform for cultural projects in Copenhagen with a positive output, and even hosts a bonfire in the courtyard for those long summer evenings.

Simple Feast is on a mission to change our current food system through healthy, organic and sustainable dinner solutions with vegetarian and vegan food at heart. By delivering your dinner directly to the front door, they’re also making it remarkably simple to be both healthy and sustainable.

Located just behind Reffen, skaters, BMX-riders and rollerskaters of all ages enjoy the skate spot at Minefield. Every year when the international pro-skating elite gathers at the infamous CPH Open in Copenhagen, our skatepark becomes one of their prime destinations.

Snowglobe is a film production company by producers Mikkel Jersin, Katrin Pors & Eva Jakobsen. With its wide international roots and particularly strong affiliation with Latin America, Snowglobe creates feature films across borders. Among their works is The Untamed (La Region Salvaje) by Amat Escalante and Brakland by Martin Skovbjerg.

Steen Brogaard is a portrait photographer capturing the world with all of its injustices, absurdities and deafening beauty. Based at Pavillionen, he spends his time photographing actors, artists, politicians and royals under the working title, Tales Through Photography.

An endless desire to test limits is in the DNA of Urban Ranger Camp. As a haven for daredevils and adrenaline-junkies, you can try the world’s highest indoor High Roping at 50 meters height with four tracks and a total of 28 obstacles. At the Team Challenge department various team building activities from climbing, rappelling and free fall are available.

The Urban Rigger prototype is floating just behind Amass at Refshaleøen, showcasing how smart thinking and design can lead to creative ways of solving housing challenges. The LEGO-inspired turquoise container modules are transportable and can be situated throughout the harbour. In other words, Urban Rigger is leveraging unused spaces to create housing while also providing the ability to connect more containers and create modular floating villages.