The most costeffective dinners (801 OOkr), however, are usually found in ethnic restaurants (most commonly Chinese and Middle Eastern, with a smaller number of Indian, Indonesian and Thai), which, besides a la carte dishes, often have a helpyourself table ideal for gluttonous overindulgence and you usually get soup and a dessert thrown in as well. Often the same Danish restaurants that are promising for lunch turn into expenseaccount affairs at night, offering an atmospheric, candlelit setting for the slow devouring of immaculately prepared meat or fish, where you'll be hard pushed to spend less than 200kr each.
¦ Drink
If you've arrived from near teetotal Norway or Sweden, you're in for a shock. Not only is alcoholic drink entirely accepted in Denmark, it's unusual not to see people strolling along the pedestrianised streets swigging from a bottle of beer. Although extreme drunkenness is frowned upon, alcohol is widely consumed throughout the day in Denmark by most types of people. Even at business meetings, there'll usually be a crate of beer or a bottle of Akvaviton hand.
Although you can buy booze more cheaply from supermarkets, the most sociable places to drink are pubs and caf6s, where the emphasis is on beer although you can also get spirits and wine (or tea and coffee). There are also bars and bodegas [see "Food"), in which, as a very general rule, the mood tends to favour wines and spirits, and the customers are a bit older than cafe patrons.
• The cheapest type of beer is draught beer [fad0!\, half a litre of which costs around 12kr Draught is a touch weaker than bottled beer which costs 1718kr for a third of a litre, and a great deal less potent than the export beers {Guld0l or El