Conditori La Glace

A MUST when visiting Copenhagen. Conditori La Glacé is mentioned through various travel guides for their famous Danish Sportskagen cake, which is wonderful. However, their hot cocoa is probably the best hot chocolate I’ve ever had! I’m still dreaming of their homemade whipped cream.

Sugarholic and chocoholics dream! They have everything from macarons to cakes to thick drinking chocolate. We went on a Saturday afternoon, and there was a line out the front door, and we waited about 15 minutes for a seat. Smaller parties are able to get seats faster.
The line outside makes the time provided to choose your order short, so it might be easier to decide what you’re getting before going inside. We were ushered inside and given a menu and had about 2 minutes to order. I didn’t really see prices on the menu, but nothing here is really cheap. Expect to pay around $ 10 for each cake slice and $ 10 for each drink.

J’aurais dû suivre mon intuition concernant cette pâtisserie. Certes, elle est dans tous les guides, tout le monde en parle comme de l’endroit où l’on mange les meilleurs gâteaux de Copenhague, les gens font la queue dehors même en cas de froid glacial. Mais les gros gâteaux qui débordent de crème comme ça, force est de constater que ce n’est définitivement pas mon truc.
Alors, c’est vrai, ce n’est pas mauvais. Mais, déjà, c’est hyper cher pour ce que c’est: comptez au moins 8 € la part de gâteau. Et pour le prix, ce n’est pas si exceptionnel que ça et j’ai trouvé ça un peu trop sucré.
J’ai hésité entre 2 et 3 étoiles, mais je me suis dit que 2 c’était peut-​être un peu strict quand même vu que ce n’est pas mauvais.
Je né vous conseille donc pas cette adresse, sauf si vous y tenez vraiment !

The very best of such a wonderful city! See my photo of the displays in the windows. So sweet! There were pretty dolls with dresses of buttercream blossoms and macarons. Service was so warm and welcoming, but this was the predominant theme of Copenhagen. Try their Danish cookies and pastries. And a soothing cup of tea. Free wifi. Nice, clean toilets. Plenty of tap water available. Absolutely lovely place.

A bit pricey? Yep. totally worth it? Yep! Delicious cakes and sweets and THE best hot chocolate and natural, unsugared-​up whipped cream ever. Once you’ve paid for it, it’s bottomless. BOTTOMLESS HOT CHOCOLATE AND WHIPPED CREAM.
Really adorable place too!

Fast service in the counter. Very patient staff. Lots of pastries and cakes to choose from. The Karen Blixen was not overly sweet. Thumbs up! Free wifi! Decaf coffee available! Coffee runners are efficient. Host explains the cakes as well. Try the famous sportskage. Centrally located.

I read about this place from Pinterest, under 27 best hot chocolate in the world. One of our waitress recommended this place as well. Wow, let me just say. The hot chocolate was so delicious. The cakes were delicious as well. It’s a great place to rest. Savor each sip of hot chocolate and each bite of your cake!

We came here on our last day in Copenhagen and I wish that we had come on our first (and second and third…)
There was a short line of people ordering. Don’t make the mistake I made — take a number right by the door. I ended up waiting longer than needed because I didn’t know to take a number. They have indoor and outdoor seating but it was too crowded so I just bought two slices to go. I chose the Sports Cake (sportskage) and the Othello Cake (othellokage).
The Sports Cake has crushed nougat, whipped cream, macaroon bottom and caramelized choux pastry, while the Othello Cake consists of custard cream, macaroon bottom and chocolate icing, decorated with butter icing swirls. Both were amazing and not super sweet at all, making you want to finish it all in one sitting and yet not feeling like a lardass.
Both slices ended up costing me a total of $ 22USD — pricey but SO worth it. Highly recommended!

This jewel box of a pastry shop has been in business since 1870 and with good reason. Try any of the cakes, cookies or pastries and enjoy. Order a coffee and it will come with silver pot and real cups (free refills of the pot!). For fun, take a good look at the sugar packets which also serve as a reminder note of how you met someone at La Glacé!

I’ve been here a rough 5 – 6 times, while living here in Copenhagen. So just by that, you can garner i am a fan. A very big fan indeed! I read through the other reviews and get a bit stung, it feels like people walk in with the wrong expectations before visiting the place. Expecting a modern run efficient cake diner. The place is made on the premise of «Take your time, sit down, relax and have a prolonged lapse from the world outside». Heck i myself even found the coffee quite expensive, until i found out it was with endless refills. They do this, so you can sit here for however long you want and just enjoy yourself, slowly!
Out of the roughly 6 – 10 different sliced cakes i have tasted, they were all exquisite. Not all of them suiting my subjective tastebuds perfectly, but always a joyous journey down a very specific narrative. It is no wonder that the old institutions confectioners, constantly places highly and/​or wins «cake of the year».
Of the ones i ordered for myself, i liked «Det gyldne tårn», «HC hat» and «Efterårskage» the best, basically 2x chocolate (white and black) and 1 caramel based cakes. Outside of that i have tried the following «Karen Blixen» which would have been my 4^th best with it’s coffee theme, «Kanneworff» that i should probably not have tried due to me not being to fond of grand marnier/​orange overall and «HC Andersen» which i enjoyed immensely although i somewhat prefer the sweeter cakes.
Now you might say! That doesn’t make 10! No, it doesn’t. Luckily for my waist I’ve shared a lot of my pieces of cake and tasted from the people i went with. While i wasn’t to fond of «lucky you», it suited my eating partners palate perfectly (at the given visit) so she was indeed «lucky». I might have forgotten a few cakes, as some stars just shine more bright than others.
I tasted their «Othello» cake during the visit i most fondly remember. Which is my two cousins and me bringing our grandmother and grandfather here. Both have worked in Copenhagen, yet never quite made it around to visiting this lovely place. I think we sat for 2 hours, just enjoying ourselves. Drank however much coffee, talked and slowly enjoyed our cake (except for my one cousin, who had to go grab another…). However what i will always remember, is the look in their eyes and the smile on their face while appraising the «Othello» cake. A very traditional cake, that they have both had times and times again (it’s their favourite!). They’d never had better. So i owe this place a special thanks, for letting me give back a wonderful experience to my grandmother and grandfather. As they have done so many times for me. Thank you.
If it wasn’t obvious, I will be coming back in the future! I have my sights set on the blueberry concoction for the next visit! (With «stjernekræs» hopefully soon after that. Also have to try their æblekage and their sportskage at some point)
Yes they seem expensive at first, but worth every penny and then some in my book.

Came here for tea on a Sunday afternoon. Fortunately for us, there was no queue! Ordered the sports cake (sportskagen) and the potato cake (kartoffelkagen)! They were excellent. I don’t normally like whipped cream but the sports cake was made entirely out of it and it was absolutely fantastic! The potato cake was a bit of a nice surprise because I didn’t know what to expect, but it tasted really good. Will definitely come back again to try the other cakes! There is a huge variety and selection to choose from, I wish I could eat everything!

I understand that this place is a Big Deal. Is it worth it? Perhaps? My visit today was enjoyable. My boyfriend and I stopped by on a Tuesday afternoon and waited for only five minutes to get a table. The slice of appelsinlagkage that I ordered was most definitely the most delicious piece of cake I have eaten in my life, though my assessment might be based on the fact that American cakes generally have one thing going on at a time whereas this cake had like five different things going on at the same time. Like the macaroon crust. Wow. And the frosting. And the clementine orange slice that had a caramel coating. That slice of cake freaking blew my mind. Definitely worth the DKK 57 ($ 8)
Their varm chokolade is fancy fancy, but I’m glad that I ordered coffee instead because hot chocolate AND cake is too much of a good thing.
Would I insist that an American friend visit here? Mehhh… perhaps if they liked fancy cake and wanted a cute European café experience. I wouldn’t bring my parents, ‘cuz I know they aren’t into that sort of thing, especially if it would involve a wait longer than five minutes. But damn, I would most definitely return for another piece of that cake.

Visit here after I was convinced by my friend. It was in the list of 25 bakery must-​try in the world on buzzfeed, so I decide to stop by this place, despite the long lines.
I thought the line was going to take long, but it only took 20 minutes of wait. And I’m glad they have tables for one person, that reduced my waiting time too.
After you get seated, you will have to walk to the counter and order your stuff. It is another line before you order== I got the signature sports cake (57kr) and the la glacé tea (59kr). I think they should list the price of the drinks. La glacé is a crème tea with sense of orange, rose and vanilla in it. It is really smoothing and refreshing I think. The sports cake was really unique too. At first I was expecting to be a pound cake, a cake with flour and baked. But the sports cake is a cake made with whip cream. I hate whip cream, but I actually like this cake. I like the flavors and the crunchy nougat they added to the cream, and the crust/​cake base was on point! I’m sure I’ll miss this cake when I leave Copenhagen.
This place gets five stars because of its service. The servers are really nice, I was there at three pm, and all the servers would smile at you, they are also pretty helpful.

It’s impossible to get seating at this lovely cake shop. The cakes are displayed in the windows and it’s easy to get take away pieces after consulting the English/​Danish menus with photos and descriptions. What made the cakes unique is their macaroon base layers. For something light, I recommend the Volmer Sorensen which is made of whipped nougat and apricot and is encased in a rich marzipan border. For something much more decadent, go for the HC Hat which is thick chocolate ganache galore.
I hope to return so I can get the full seated experience. Then I can see if the 60 dkk hot chocolate is worth it…

It is like travelling back in time to an old pastry/​tea shop. Not only the décor but the attention to detail & even the packing. Come here to indulge and sample rich delights and forget your hips for now.
They have an amazing array of pastries which you can eat in or take away. You are warned that whilst they have a table service, primarily they are a shop & will get to you when they can. When busy, you have to take a number to get served.
They add a fee for foreign credit cards so watch out & no take away option for beverages.

OK so once you do the wait like everyone else and get inside my god. this is like no other bakery in new York I don’t care what you say. the best choco in the world resides in front of my eyes. ordered French macaroons all flavors. then the bars of choco, ordered 4 sets and mailed them home. last, the choco they use for hot coco, OMG… I have died…

It is very likely that upon arrival in Copenhagen someone will recommend this place to you. Then, most likely you will walk by (the result of being strategically situated right where everybody walks) and you will notice first the spectacular confections on the window, then the seemingly endless stream of people going in. And you’ll think: cool, this might be it!
But before you get too excited, let me tell you what I personally could go without any given saturday morning:
— Cake, coffee and tea ordering can get VERY chaotic. I can’t help to feel bad for the locals, having such a delightful little kondiotori but having to fight the hordes of tourists to have a piece of cake.
— Menu is not of great help because not all cakes offered in writing are available everyday. So basically you’ll just have to pick something from the window, even though you might not be sure what’s in it.
— Good luck finding a table.
— Service is as s– l-​o-​w as it can get. And then some.
— Pretty basic tea and coffee selection.
I have mixed feelings because I just can’t help but loving it’s old time charm. It’s one of those places that transport you to a different place in time.
The cakes are beautiful, though, very airy and creamy, if you are into that kind of thing this place might still be worth the visit. Me? I rather have some epic coffee/​tea, and grandma style (less sophisticated) cakes somewhere beautiful and quiet… and with Wi-​Fi.

Visited this place with family based on reviews. Definately experienced hygge :). Hot chocolate– the best. Will definately visit again and maybe again to try lavish cake options!

La Glacé was good. But a bit of a let down.
I couldn’t leave Copenhagen without trying a kartoffelkage. And I should mention that I really don’t like marzipan. Too bad that hartoffelkage is enrobed in a goodly layer of marzipan. But I will not hold that against La Glacé — I knew what I was getting in to. So I made the quick trip here from my hotel the last morning of my stay, and ordered a coffee, a kartoffelkage, and a pistachio macaron, just because I love them and I’m a fatty.
The kartoffelkage was better than i expected, given the whole marzipan thing. For those who don’t know, it’s a light layer cake with a cream filling, wrapped in marzipan and then rolled in cocoa. It looks like a browned spud when you’re done — hence the name «potato cake.» This was probably better marzipan than I have ever had. No fake cherry taste from artifical flavoring, not dried out or objectionably textured. The cake was light and moist, the filling wasn’t too thick and heavy, and I liked the cocoa to cut through the sweetness. However, one is enough of these. I want to try some of the other things here, but I needed to do the right thing and try the local item first.
The macaron, sorry to say, does not compare to what I love from Belle Epicurean in Seattle. This is not to say that La Glacé’s are correct and Belle’s are wrong, or vice versa, it’s to say that I want Belle’s before I want La Glacé’s. Belle has a silky filling and rich, chewy cookies, while La Glacé really has neither — the filling was kind of blah, and the cookies were mostly air bubble that crumbled as soon as I bit in. Maybe I had a «bad» one, but I won’t be dreaming about these later tonight.
Finally, the coffee — tasty, but at ~$ 10, way way way overpriced, even for Copenhagen.
The staff were friendly — note, when you show up early, like 5 minutes after opening, you have the place to yourself and they may not even have all their items set out yet. They had to go get my kartoffelkage from the kitchen. Doesn’t bother me either way, but if you don’t see what you want, you may want to ask.
So I would still come back, but I would take the baked good away and get coffee elsewhere. I almost had a heart attack at the ~$ 20 this cost me… and then I realized my hotel had been charging me $ 25 for breakfast every morning. Sigh.

It was just ok. Not remarkable by any means. Maybe my friend and I order poorly (we did not order any slices of cake).
So take my opinion as suspect since no cake was had.

Well worth the hype, you won’t regret it.
I came here for tea time on birthday and had the othellokage. I thought it was going to be too sweet or too creamy with all the whipped cream but it actually wasn’t. The cake was quite light and I liked the chocolate icing on the top. I had the la glacé tea with the cake and it washed it down nicely. It’s amazing how the place is still open, it’s been what over 200 years? I definitely need to come back again for another session of tea time. The hot chocolate looked good, my friend ordered it and said it was a bit too thick? But I’ll be the judge of that.