17.09.2007
New sports bar and restaurant opening at Copenhagen Airport

On 15 September, US-inspired sports bar and restaurant O’Learys opened at Copenhagen Airport.

In future, sports enthusiasts at Copenhagen Airport will have the opportunity to watch major sporting events when sports bar and restaurant chain O’Learys opens its second location.
 
O’Learys is Denmark’s largest sports bar and restaurant, currently enjoying its third year in the country at its highly successful Copenhagen central railway station location.

Sports and food go hand in hand “We are very pleased that we now have the opportunity to open a sports bar at another Danish international traffic hub.  For O’Learys, sports is a passion, so the bars have large flat-screen TVs that ensure a perfect view for anyone who wants to share sporting events with other enthusiasts,” said Jonas Reinholdsson, who founded the first O’Learys in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1988. Since then, the concept has grown to 45 O’Learys restaurants in Sweden and now two in Denmark.

A good sporting experience is often seasoned with a cold beer and some food. To complete the experience, O’Learys serves freshly made hamburgers such as the Boston Celtic BBQ Cheeseburger and the Bobby Orr’s Bacon Burger directly from the barbecue. To quench your thirst, O’Learys also serves a wide and varied range of beers from around the world.

Green walls and photos of sports stars

All O’Learys restaurants have a typically American style inspired by the many sports bars in Boston. The walls are painted green, and there are photos of famous sports stars from the four large Boston sports clubs: the Celtics, the Red Sox, the Bruins and the New England Patriots.

Copenhagen Airport looks forward to offering the growing number of sports enthusiasts a combined sporting and food experience.  

“We see it becoming more and more popular to go on so-called ‘sports trips’ aimed at people who loyally follow their favourite sport or national or local team all over the world. These sports-enthusiast passengers start ‘warming up’ for the experience already at the airport. I am very pleased to welcome O´Learys to the airport as an excellent facility for the growing number of passengers who would like to combine sports and food events,” said Henrik Busch, vice president with Copenhagen Airports A/S.

The new O’Learys is located in Terminal 2: more specifically, between the Eyecon and Kitchen & Co.