Penny Lane

Top choice in Aalborg


This ace cafe-delicatessen (now with petite attached crêperie) has an in-house bakery, so its freshly baked bread, local cheeses and cured meats are extremely picnic-worthy. There’s a buzzing cafe offering a cracker brunch platter (105kr) or lunchtime sandwiches, salads and tapas plates. Leave room for something sweet.


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Nearby Aalborg attractions

1. Gråbrødrekloster Museet

0.05 MILES

This underground museum allows you to step off one of Aalborg’s busiest shopping streets to explore the life of a Franciscan friary in medieval times…

2. Budolfi Domkirke

0.07 MILES

This 12th-century cathedral marks the centre of the old town and its elegant carillon can be heard every hour, on the hour. Its whitewashed interior…

3. Old Town Hall

0.08 MILES

The baroque-style old town hall (c 1762) sits at the corner of Østerågade and Gammel Torv.

4. Jens Bangs Stenhus

0.09 MILES

This five-storey Renaissance edifice was built by a well-heeled merchant in 1624. Today there's a jewellery store at ground level.

5. Langes Gård

0.11 MILES

The neighbourhood around Vor Frue Kirke is worth a wander, particularly the cobbled L-shaped street of Hjelmerstald. Halfway down the street is Langes…

6. Aalborg Historiske Museum

0.12 MILES

Just west of Budolfi Domkirke is the town's history museum, with artefacts from prehistory to the present, and furnishings and interiors that hint at the…

7. Vor Frue Kirke

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This church is a landmark in the old part of town, anchoring a neighbourhood worth a wander.

8. Helligåndsklostret

0.14 MILES

An alley off CW Obels Plads leads to the rambling Monastery of the Holy Ghost, which dates from 1431 and is home to some fascinating frescoes. The…