Alice Ice Cream & Coffee

Coffee, pastry and ice cream in Amagerbro

Alice is a small Amagerbro café built around Koppi coffee, homemade ice cream and a short pastry counter. The format is deliberately compact, a former kiosk-style, hole-in-the-wall stop where a few well-made things beat breadth, and the stated ambition is simple: food made with care, and ice cream pushed as far as it will go. The seasons move the balance. In summer the place leans café and ice cream shop; in winter the counter turns pastry-led, with hard-packed pints available year round to carry home. It has become an Amager staple on word of mouth rather than advertising.

A daily neighbourhood ritual

The experience is casual and counter-led, closer to a daily habit than a meal out. Guests come for morning coffee and pastry, Danish breakfast items, lunch sandwiches and, later, ice cream, and the rhythm shifts with the season and the time of day. A paper scroll has been used to mark pastry timings, which says everything about the small-batch scale of the operation. Weekends draw queues for warm pastry and scoops; weekday afternoons tilt toward drinks, pints and whatever baking is left. The room is small and plain in the good sense, white walls and wooden stools, a simple Copenhagen café look rather than restaurant polish, busy but calm, serving locals, families and regulars from the trade in the same short queue.

Order around the signatures

Build the order around the named items. For ice cream, milk is the central favourite, often taken with batch brew, while pistachio is the one noted for smoothness and balance and sea buckthorn adds a sharper fruit line. Scoops come in cups or cones, including tonka bean waffle cones, and the affogato brings the coffee and ice cream sides together in one glass. On the pastry side, look for butter croissants with clean lamination, almond croissants, cinnamon rolls, cardamom buns, pain au chocolat, tebirkes, kouign-amann and fastelavnsboller in season. Brunsviger and salted morning buns come up again and again, which is why Alice is discussed alongside Hart, Juno, Iso Bar and Østerberg in Copenhagen’s bun conversation. Savory runs to a ham and cheese baguette in the jambon-beurre register, while the drinks extend past Koppi coffee to lemongrass lemonade and a short natural wine list. Ask what came out of the oven most recently and order that.