The Top 12 Places to Drink Near Dragsholm Slot
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Rank 1. Lidkoeb Bar
Cocktail Bar
Finding Lidkoeb means crossing a courtyard behind a supermarket, through an unmarked alley, which is either annoying or half the point. The cocktail bar from the team behind Ruby spreads across three floors of a low-lit 18th-century building, all candles and dark wood and a long bar with a fourteen-strong house cocktail list. The kind of place that rewards the people willing to look for it.
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The bar at Salon 39 occupies the lower level, and it is genuinely small, the kind of place where snagging a seat feels like a minor victory. By night it fills fast, and large groups get turned away so the lucky ones who squeeze in can actually enjoy themselves. Café by day, bar and restaurant by evening, it pulls a crowd that keeps coming back, which tells you something about how the drinks land.
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Rank 4. Vinbar Lundren Torvet
Wine Bar
A steep climb to the door opens into a wine bar that keeps things pleasantly simple: chequerboard floors, an old leather sofa, candles on bare wooden tables, and about 30 wines chalked up behind the counter. The kind of place where the list changes and nobody pretends otherwise. Snacks arrive without ceremony. The second room, warmer and a little looser, is where the evening tends to drift.
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Rank 5. The Barking Dog
Cocktail Bar
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Rank 8. Brass Monkey
Tiki Cocktail Bar
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Rank 9. Oak Room
Cocktail Bar
The name conjures oak paneling and leather armchairs, but this cocktail bar on Birkegade is curved, contemporary, and very much alive. The U-shaped room wraps around an oak-topped bar counter, which is probably where the name actually comes from, though Danish speakers will note the street name and wonder what took everyone so long. The crowd figures it out fast enough, and the cocktails give them a reason to stay.
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