The history of Café GammeltorvGammeltorv is the oldest square in Copenhagen. The town hall was located here from 1479 until it burned down in 1795. That same year, the building that now houses Café Gammeltorv was built ontop of the old moat – with beer bottling and serving sine 1671. Women’s café and innIn the early years, the place was run by guest host M.S. Bjerre, who also rented out rooms to the square’s merchants, but in 1910 Mrs. Charlotte A. Jensen took over the restaurant and expanded the activities to pub and “women’s café”. Back then, the square’s merchants sold meat, poultry andbutter in particular – and perhaps it was the difficult access conditions to the backyard’s ladies’ toilet that drew the female traders to the restaurant. A visit required that you had to go all the waythrough Café Gammeltorv’s restaurant and kitchen and it was not until the 1950s that the women’stoilet was established with more suitable access conditions.