The restaurant is located in the oldest building in Copenhagen. Gothic arches, constructed more than half a millennium ago, lend the restaurant its medieval atmosphere. What today is the cellar was then the ground floor ; it must have been delightful, with a view of the Sound, islets and meadows. Three hundred years later H.C. Andersen lived up under the roof of this house in Vingårdsstræde. In Only a Minstrel he writes about his small garret:” The view stretched over chimneys and roofs to the soaring church spire where the watchman patrolled. If the wealthy folk who lived beneath him on the first and ground floors had the whole of the merry street to themselves, he had the great vista of the heavens where the stars shone in the clear evening.” It was here that H.C. Andersen wrote Love in Nicolai Tower.