This Anglo-Irish pub, jointly owned by a Mancunian and an Irishman, boasts Irish folk music on Sunday afternoons, non-stop football if that's your cup of tea, occasional disco music, a good range of beers from Guinness to Boddingtons to Czech, hot fresh pies, and an equally solid supply of Irish and English newspapers, available on the day of publication.

Unpretentious and friendly, the cellar pub attracts a wide range of Danes and expats. If you fall in love with the chilly Danish capital or even with a cool blonde, and decide to settle, or stay for a while, this might be a good place to begin asking questions about work and accommodation.

You can even browse through a copy of Ulysses.

Niels Hemmingsens Gade.

Take the road past the City Post Office. Niels Hemmingsens Gade is the second on the left.

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A splendid new coffee bar in the dynamic Vesterbro neighbourhood. Translated as "Black Coffee & Vinyl" this tiny coffee bar sells quality java to rival anywhere else as well as doubling as a record shop featuring sleazy-listening, moog-pop, electrotrash and acid-folk on vinyl.

It don't get much groovier than this, baby.

Skydebanegade 4, Vesterbro, Copenhagen, right by Istedgade, the main strip in the Vesterbro neighbourhood;
Open: Tues-Thurs 8am-6pm, Fri. 8am-7pm and Sat/Sun 11am-7pm

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A heavyweight on the jazz scene, the Copenhagen Jazz Festival takes over the city like few other events. For 10 bad-ass, funkarythmic days each July, every form of jazz can be heard at dozens of locations throughout the city.

Big names feature regularly, but the best thing is the portable stages that can be found on every square in town, allowing music to waltz through the air wherever you wander.

Ten days every July (2006: July 7-16).
Check the English site at:
festival.jazz.dk/start.asp?l=2

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The locals with hip tendencies stick to the surrounding neighbourhoods when they hit the town by night. In Vesterbro, at the far end of Istedgade, you’ll find the nightclub Vega with the accompanying Ideal Bar. Vega is the venue of choice of visiting bands and the nightclub hosts the touring DJs. Get there before 1am to avoid the queues that form after the cafés close at 2am.

Vega
Enghavevej 40, Vesterbro neighbourhood
vega.dk/

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