Andersen Bakery

In the center of the city, across from the Central Station and next to Tivoli Garden is a bakery called Andersen Bakery. For those of you in (from) Tokyo, the name and the logo may look familiar, but it is a "faux-Danish" bakery franchise based in Japan. It originally started in Hiroshima and now has branches in Tokyo and Copenhagen and even in San Francisco. Their bread is pretty good, (not the best), and the bakery is still pretty popular in Japan.

We stopped by on our way to go on our little excursion on Saturday. Because of the location, and because it was a Saturday morning, the bakery was very busy. They have pretty much the same kind of breads you will find in most bakeries here, but they also have some Japanese speciality breads like "cream bread"(クリームパン）- a soft bun with custard cream filling and "melon bread"（メロンパン）- a soft sweet bread topped with a cookie dough layer. I got them both for Mio, and she was so excited as she was probably getting tired of the hard and chewy brown rye bread or the super flaky danishes, and misses the soft and sweet bread that she is familiar with... (we can get them in NY as well). Jonathan got his usual frøsnapper, and I got my usual thebirke, both of which were also pretty good.

I think it is impressive that they do good business here where there are so many good local bakeries to compete with. While I have not come across any review saying their bread is exceptionally good, I have read in quite a few travel guides and on the internet that they have the best hotdogs in Copenhagen. That is pretty amazing, right? I would love to try one before we leave, but I don't know if I will get to as we only have 5 days left. Oh well, if it doesn't happen, we will save it for the next time...