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Copenhagen Cooking in Copenhagen
Copenhagen Cooking runs more than 100 events across ten days each late August, drawing an estimated 80,000 visitors into a programme of pop-up street dinners, markets, chef talks and tastings tied to Denmark's role as the birthplace of New Nordic Cuisine. Its signature event is a harvest feast at Frederiksberg Alle, where roughly 1,200 people dine together at open-air tables spanning the street.
More than 100 separate events unfold across ten days each late August for Copenhagen Cooking, Northern Europe's largest food festival and the event most directly tied to Denmark's role as the birthplace of New Nordic Cuisine, the movement that reshaped Scandinavian fine dining's relationship to local, seasonal ingredients in the 2000s.