Reffen - Copenhagen Street Food
Container-built street food market on a former shipyard, with converted kitchens, bars and an industrial event hall.
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This guide to Reffen in Copenhagen starts with the Soviet crop-dusting plane bolted to a workshop roof and traces what the joke is about: a shipyard, Burmeister and Wain, that built ships here from 1871 until it went bankrupt in 1996, after which the old engine workshop was rented out to a car wrecker. You'll hear how restaurateur Jesper Moller, after losing an earlier street food market on Paper Island when its lease ran out in 2017, brought the idea to this former shipyard in 2018. Look up at the old engine hall, now called Werkstatt, for the bare steel and left-in grime the renovation kept on purpose.
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