None of this, he adds quickly, is to say that other bakery shops in the city are not good.
When I lived near Kastellet my nearest baker was Emmrys on the corner of Sankt Pauls Gade and Store Kongensgade. It is one of a chain of shops but good for bread and good for a cake for lunch or for a cake with a coffee away from the desk and with a chance to sit and read a magazine but it was also a place to stock up with muesli and good coffee beans for breakfast or with biscuits if friends were coming round to the apartment for coffee.
I've not even mentioned Lagkagehuset - now a big player with some 114 branches - or Meyers. Both are excellent - not just for bread but for cakes.
I've also posted on this blog about Wulff & Kunstali … cafes with good bakers attached or is it bakers with good cafes attached? They also have really good bread and cakes but this post has been about small independent bakers with a single shop or, at most, have two shops.
Having said all this, my favourite bakery is still Det Rene Brød on Rosenvængets Allé in Østerbro. It's tucked away from the main street and inside it's what I would describe as comfortable rather than stylish. Parents bring their kids in here for a treat after picking them up from school and friends definitely meet up here for a coffee.
Det Rene Brød are well established - they have been in business since 1988 - although they only have four shops so I'm back to the idea that small is good and Det Rene Brød does prove that you don't have to be big to survive.
That's where we get to the bit about artisan bakers in the broader context of the economy and of planning and the role of independent bakers for a good life here in the city.
Planners and developers have to make space for this sort pf business, even in areas of new housing, and that might well mean tax incentives as well as the physical space and foresight where bakers need delivery access and need to start work very, very early.
And, with luck, where the bakers succeed then the butchers and candlestick makers might well follow.
Copenhagen specifically but also smaller cities and towns need thriving independent businesses and, in the broader context of the environment, local production and simplified delivery and distribution can have a smaller impact on the environment.
Watch people coming to these bakeries and you see that they reconnect people with food production because they make people think about how essential foods like loaves of bread are produced.
After all ….. bread is the staff of life.
And no … I’m not actually sure what that means but it sounds good.