Nørrebro doesn't have a centre so much as a series of working streets, and the two best are Jægersborggade (food) and Ravnsborggade (antiques), connected by Sankt Hans Torv and lying on either side of the spine. The walk is short, dense, and the kind of thing you do on a Saturday morning to remember why you live in Copenhagen.
Three kilometres, ninety minutes including coffee. Start at Nørrebro S-tog and walk south. Jægersborggade is six hundred metres of small Danish food: Manfreds (Christian Puglisi's natural-wine bistro and the street's mothership), Mirabelle bakery, Coffee Collective, and a dozen others that turn over but maintain the format. Relæ — Puglisi's Michelin-starred tasting menu — closed in 2020 but defined the street.
Sankt Hans Torv is the connecting square. Ravnsborggade runs east — antiques, second-hand, the kind of shops with no signage and a sleeping cat in the window. Less commercial than Jægersborggade but equally Nørrebro.
End at Sortedam Sø — the easternmost of the inner lakes — and walk south along the shore to Dronning Louises Bro (Queen Louise's Bridge). Nørreport metro is on the other side.