Talormade is a coffee roastery and bakery in Oslo, and its café in Bispevika, opened in the summer of 2020, serves its coffee with doughnuts made from scratch every day.

Talor Browne has worked in coffee for more than 25 years. She started in cafés in her home town of Albury Wodonga in Australia, moved to Melbourne in the early 2000s, led the team that opened the second Coutume in Paris in 2011 and came to Oslo in 2012 to work for Tim Wendelboe, where she became head roaster. Her first company was the roastery Talor&Jørgen. She had trained briefly as a pastry chef before moving to Norway, and in 2015, after a stage at All Day Doughnuts in Melbourne, she began monthly doughnut pop-ups in Oslo under the name Fryd, which drew queues of more than a hundred metres. She left Talor&Jørgen after a dispute with her business partners and started Talormade.

The roastery sits in a former textile factory from the early 1900s by the Akerselva river, where a Loring S15 Falcon was installed in June 2019. The team cups every week, and the green coffee comes through the importer Nordic Approach. Talormade roasts each coffee for sweetness rather than to a fixed style, so most of its roasts work for any brewing method, with espresso suggestions given coffee by coffee. Its coffees are sold online and by membership, and the bakery takes doughnut orders for weddings and birthdays.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Talormade