Fuglen has served coffee in Oslo since 1963, when the bar opened as Kaffefuglen. It was renovated and reopened as Fuglen in 2012, keeping the original 1963 bar and wallpaper and filling the rest of the room with vintage mid-century pieces or handmade copies in the same materials. The same year Fuglen opened its first bar in Tokyo, and the original Oslo bar is still the blueprint for its flagship bars in new cities.

Fuglen Coffee Roasters started in Tokyo in 2014 as a sister company to Fuglen and now roasts in Oslo and in Noborito, Tokyo. The Oslo roastery roasts lightly, in the Nordic style, on a German-made Probat from 1956, roasts to order every week and ships to bars and restaurants in Europe and North America. It buys small lots as directly as possible through producers, cooperatives, exporters and import agents, with attention to traceability and pricing, and its team travelled to Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Guatemala and Honduras in 2026. Its head roaster, Ludvik, won the 2024 Norwegian Coffee Roasting Championship.

Fuglen Gamlebyen is a coffee bar, cocktail bar and roastery in one, part of Gamlebyen Loft with a shared front yard that hosts street jazz in spring and summer. Late in the week the roastery turns into a cocktail bar, and there are live music, DJ sets, quizzes or food pop-ups every week. A renovation in August 2026 sanded the floors back to the pebble stone beneath and opened up the roasting area behind the counter. Fuglen Oslo Sentrum serves light-roasted Fuglen coffee in the morning and becomes a classic cocktail bar at night, with cocktails made from fresh, local ingredients. Since August 2026 both bars sell pastries, focaccia and cookies from Oslo Andelsbakeri, a bakery Fuglen opened with two partners.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Fuglen