Gluten-free at the Copenhagen Christmas market: what a coeliac can actually eat

The short answer

Copenhagen’s Christmas draw is Christmas in Tivoli: the historic gardens in the city centre, with rides, stalls and food all through the park. It’s a mixed setting, not a gluten-free one. At the stalls, the reliable things are the whole ones: roasted chestnuts, the gløgg in your mug once you’ve asked what’s in it, and a grilled sausage taken off its bun. Æbleskiver and most baked things are wheat. The better news is off the stalls: Copenhagen has gluten-free bakeries listed as dedicated and a good bench of places with gluten-free options we’ve read against their own information.

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This season’s market

Christmas in Tivoli runs from 13 November to 3 January, as the organiser prints it on its seasons page (the listing sits ahead of Tivoli’s Easter 2027 season, so these are the dates for the coming winter). Daily opening hours are on Tivoli’s opening-hours calendar. Official page: tivoli.dk.

Tivoli is at Vesterbrogade 3, in the heart of Copenhagen. The organiser says the rides stay open through the Christmas season, with stalls, food and shopping threaded through the gardens. It’s a mixed market, not a gluten-free one, so treat it the way the hub describes.

What’s likely gluten-free at the stalls, and what isn’t

The Danish Advent staples here are gløgg (hot spiced wine), roasted chestnuts, candied almonds and æbleskiver, the small round pancake puffs. Roasted chestnuts are naturally gluten-free, handling permitting. Gløgg is an alcoholic drink, and like any drink over 1.2% alcohol it needs no ingredient list, but the seller must still be able to tell you if it contains a gluten allergen. Ask what’s in it, especially if it comes from a ready mix. Candied almonds are ask-first: ask whether anything is dusted on after roasting.

Æbleskiver are a pass. The batter is usually made with wheat flour, and we haven’t found a gluten-free version at this market. A grilled Danish sausage (pølse) can work if you have it without the bun, which is usually wheat. Ask what’s in the sausage and what else goes on the grill first.

The three questions to ask a stall

Where to eat gluten-free in Copenhagen

Always tell them you have coeliac disease and confirm how they handle it on the day.

Listed as dedicated gluten-free, not yet checked by us

• Glean, bakery, Frederiksborggade 21, 1360 København.
• H.U.G Bageri, bakery, Øster Farimagsgade 20, 2100 København Ø.
• Be Gluten Free | Pastry & Cafe, bakery and café, København.
• PALÆO, restaurant, with branches in central Copenhagen and Frederiksberg.
• Thunberg’s Kreative Hjørne, bakery, København Ø.

Gluten-free options, read against the venue’s own info

• Sticks’n’Sushi, restaurant, at the Tivoli Hotel (Arni Magnussons Gade 2, 1577 København) and on Borgergade (Borgergade 13, 1300 København).
• 20 Grams, Specialty Coffee Shop, café, Rosengården 13, 1174 København.
• Emmylou Café, café, Krystalgade 4, 1172 København.
• Il Grappolo Blu, restaurant, Vester Farimagsgade 35, 1606 København.
• Poco Picante, restaurant, H. C. Ørsteds Vej 43A, 1879 Frederiksberg.
• Ø12 Coffee & Eatery, café, Silkegade 1, 1113 København.

Gluten-free options, listed by a directory or Google, not yet checked by us

• Reffen – Copenhagen Street Food, street-food market
• Høst, restaurant
• Nozomi, restaurant
• Told & Snaps, restaurant

The last two lists are options, not dedicated kitchens. If you know a gluten-free-friendly kitchen in Copenhagen we should look at, tell us. A reader’s tip is how this page grows.

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Getting there and staying

Tivoli sits in the city centre, so the market itself needs no separate trip planning. We don’t yet have a gluten-free breakfast we can vouch for at a Copenhagen stay, so we don’t name one here. Whichever hotel you pick, ask about the gluten-free breakfast when you book, and plan a morning stop at one of the bakeries above.

FAQ

What can I eat at the Copenhagen Christmas market if I’m coeliac?
The whole things: roasted chestnuts, the gløgg in your mug once you’ve asked what’s in it, and a grilled sausage without its bun. Æbleskiver and most other baked stall food are wheat. Ask before you eat anything assembled.

Are æbleskiver gluten-free?
Not the standard kind. The batter is usually made with wheat flour. We haven’t found a gluten-free version at this market, so ask, but expect a no.

Are there dedicated gluten-free places in Copenhagen?
Several are listed as dedicated gluten-free, among them the bakeries Glean and H.U.G Bageri, but we haven’t checked them ourselves yet, so we label them “listed”, not “checked”. We also have a bench of places with gluten-free options read against their own information. See the lists above.

Is gløgg gluten-free?
Ask. Like other alcoholic drinks over 1.2%, it needs no ingredient list, but the seller still has to tell you if there’s a gluten allergen in it. Ask especially about a ready mix.

Sources and review

Market dates, location and the rides-open note from Tivoli’s own pages (tivoli.dk seasons, tivoli.dk Christmas), last verified 24.09.2026. Æbleskiver batter from Wikipedia’s Æbleskiver entry, last verified 24.09.2026. Food and labelling facts: EU 1169/2011 and the German coeliac society DZG (allergen declaration on alcoholic drinks, bread rolls at grill stalls, almonds), and the Swiss coeliac society IG Zöliakie (chestnuts). Venues and addresses from the HTGF Atlas, each with the evidence label shown above. We haven’t walked this market in person yet: this page is answer-first and grows after a visit or a reader’s verified tip.

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Next stop

Copenhagen to Sweden’s two markets in this set, Gothenburg and Stockholm, or back to the method. Everywhere else in the region is on the Scandinavia Atlas page.