What Apotek 57 is known for

Apotek 57 is a seasonal eatery inside FRAMA's Studio Store at Fredericiagade 57 in Copenhagen's Nyboder district. Chef Chiara Barla's offer includes house-made food and drinks, with baked goods also available in the former St. Pauls pharmacy. FRAMA dates the eatery's opening to October 2020, separate from the pharmacy's nineteenth-century history.

Apotek 57 is the eatery inside FRAMA's Studio Store in Copenhagen's Nyboder district. Its address, Fredericiagade 57, places it in the former St. Pauls pharmacy, whose history reaches back to 1878. The food business is much newer: FRAMA records its opening in October 2020.

Chef Chiara Barla's menu centres on seasonal house-made food and drinks, with baked goods also available. The selection changes, so the useful reason to visit is that approach rather than an expectation of one fixed dish. Coffee and a pastry can be a shorter stop than a meal, while the surrounding store provides a separate reason to spend time in the building.

The interior keeps pharmacy woodwork and cabinets alongside FRAMA's contemporary furniture and objects. Tables, lighting and tableware are encountered in use rather than only as products on display. That relationship between the café and the design store is the defining feature of the visit. It does not mean that every object sold there was made in Denmark, or that the pharmacy's nineteenth-century date is the café's founding date.