Breakfast & brunch near Assistens Cemetery

Assistens was laid out in 1760 outside the city walls and is now firmly inside the city. Long avenues of lime trees run between the plots, and Hans Christian Andersen, Søren Kierkegaard and Niels Bohr are all buried here.

Locals treat it as a park: people read, walk and picnic between the graves, which sounds odd and feels entirely natural once you are inside. Spring, when the trees come out, and autumn, when they turn, are the two best moments.

The cemetery cuts through the middle of Nørrebro, the city's most mixed and most café-dense district, so there is no shortage of coffee and bread on the streets on either side of the walls.