Coming up Soon: Beach bars, beer gardens and the best of Europe

Junyi Qi

May 13, 2016

This Friday, pop-up restaurants JIPI Empanadas, Más Tacos Cph and Gastrotrucken will be parking their food trucks on Havengade. If you’re into the idea of open-air cheap dining at a waterside hangout, this is the right fit for you (May 13, 15:00-21:00; Havengade, Cph K; facebook.com)

As part of the Mikkeller Beer Week, thrash metal band Stormtroopers of Beer will be playing the whole of Stormtroopers of Death’s studio album ‘Speak English or Die’ outside the Warpigs brewpub (May 13, 21:00; Flæsketorvet 25, Cph K; free adm; mikkeller.dk)

Meet native speakers to practise the language you are learning at Café Kultorvet where you can also get special bar offers. This weekly language exchange is held at the same place and the same time every Wednesday (May 18, 19:00-24:00; Kultorvet 11, Cph K; free adm; mundolingo.org)

After months of renovation work, the urban Beach bar Halvandet is holding its much-anticipated grand reopening. Chill-out music, al fresco dining, volley ball, mini golf … you name it, they’ve got it! (May 16, 10:00; Refshalevej 325, Cph K)

Come and watch the Eurovision final at Studenterhuset this Saturday. A glittering pan-European evening of music and glamour is guaranteed! (May 14, 20:00-02:00; Købmagergade 52, Cph K; free adm; studenterhuset.com)

To welcome in the unusually early summer, cultural house Huset has installed a new sound system in its courtyard, offering you the chance to chill out in the warm evenings (May 13, 15:00; Rådhusstræde 13, Cph K; free adm; huset-kbh.dk)

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