Stockholm coffee guide: the light roasts behind the fika

At Johan & Nyström’s coffee bars the coffee comes first and the bun is only a small bonus. Eight of these ten Stockholm businesses roast their own coffee. Drop has roasted since 2010, Johan & Nyström roasts just outside the city in Länna, Lykke roasts coffee from its own farms, Muttley & Jack’s roasts on an island in the archipelago, and Standout, Café Pascal, Volca and Solkant pour coffee they roast themselves. Nordic Brew Lab features a new guest roaster every week, and À la Lo serves Belleville Brûlerie from Paris. Most of these coffee shops in Stockholm are on Södermalm, in Vasastan, in Östermalm and on Kungsholmen, with one in Frihamnen.

Drop Coffee Roasters, Södermalm

Drop Coffee Roasters opened in 2009 as a coffee bar near Mariatorget and started roasting a year later on a 1 kg roaster in the back of the shop. In 2012 it moved to a 25 kg Diedrich in a dedicated facility, and since 2018 it has roasted in Rosersberg, just north of Stockholm, as a certified organic roaster. Co-owner Joanna Alm is a three-time Swedish Coffee Roasting Champion and the author of Manifest För Bättre Kaffe; she runs Drop with Stephen Leighton. Drop buys only fully transparent coffee from single farms and cooperatives it has visited, mainly in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ethiopia and Kenya, pays several times the commodity price, gives the FOB price for every coffee and buys nothing below 86 points. It roasts to order in batches of 8 to 16 kg, on a light to medium profile for every brewing method. The café is still in its original spot and rotates through all the current coffees every day, on espresso and on brew-on-demand filter, with bread and pastries from Svedjan Bageri. A second Drop café opened in Nakano, Tokyo, on 18 September 2026.

Standout Coffee, Frihamnen and Östermalm

Standout Coffee was founded by Oskar Garberg and Alexander Ruas, both Swedish and Nordic Barista Champions, on the idea that the world produces far fewer extraordinary coffees than most people realise. The team tastes thousands of coffees a year and works with producers in Panama, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ecuador and Kenya, which gives it lots rarely found outside competitions and private collections. It has customers in more than 90 countries and has sourced, roasted and coached for champions such as Agnieszka Rojewska, Ian Kissick and Dan Fellows, and it was named Best Nordic Roaster at the 2024 Nordic Coffee Festival. The showroom and coffee bar in Frihamnen is its original home, serving espresso, V60s and competition-style coffees. The second bar is inside Singular Society’s flagship store in Östermalm, with cappuccinos, pour-overs and rare competition lots.

Café Pascal, Vasastan, Östermalm and Södermalm

Café Pascal has four cafés: by Odenplan and by Torsplan in Vasastan, in Östermalm and on Södermalm. Pascal Coffee Roastery roasts fresh coffee every week and also sells to wholesale customers. It looks for coffees that are “transparent, sustainably grown, carefully handled from farm to cup”, from single farms and groups of smallholders, from Elkin Guzman’s striped red bourbon in Huila to a geisha from the Kataleya project in Peru and a natural from the Rwenzori region of Uganda roasted for espresso.

Johan & Nyström, Södermalm

Johan & Nyström roasts in Länna, just outside Stockholm, on roasters that run on biogas. It buys only coffee scoring 80 points or more, directly from growers or through cooperatives and export partners, and many of these partnerships are more than ten years old; its whole buying volume now carries Enveritas Responsibly Sourced status. The coffees come in four series, from the House blends to Prime, which is released three or four times a year in runs of around 200 bags. Its first concept store, on Södermalm, carries the freshest coffees from the roastery, and its baristas are trained to serve both a latte-art cappuccino and a hand-brewed cup of a new single origin. Another coffee bar is in Helsinki.

Lykke Kaffegårdar, Nytorget

Lykke Kaffegårdar, Lykke Coffee Farms, grows, buys and roasts its own coffee. It owns its farms and the company together with the farmers, is setting up showcase farms in El Salvador, Panama, the Andes, Brazil and East Africa without monocultures, and runs a washing station in the Rwenzori Mountains of western Uganda. It roasts on a Loring S35 in Kuopio and in Stockholm, where the roastery is in an old coal power station. Lykke Nytorget, on Södermalm, serves that coffee from the farm to the cup “in an unbroken chain”, with breakfast, lunch, brunch and dinner, baked goods, cocktails and craft beer. Lykke Live puts on small concerts every Thursday and Friday, and tables can be booked.

Muttley & Jack’s Coffee Roasters, Södermalm

Muttley & Jack’s Coffee Roasters is Jack, who roasts the coffee, and Muttley, the dog whose ears inspired the bean logo. Jack has run the micro-roastery on a small island in the Stockholm archipelago since 2017, roasting mostly microlots, nanolots and single estates that score between 87 and 90. He buys through Nordic Approach, Sucafina Specialty and Panama Varietals and joins their trips to origin once or twice a year. The coffee bar on Södermalm serves breakfast, lunch and fika, with a pour-over menu of microlot, nanolot and competition-series coffees hand-brewed on a V60 with Sibarist filters, and a single origin espresso pulled on a La Marzocco Strada. Laptops are welcome in parts of the café on weekdays and not at all at weekends.

Volca Coffee Roaster, Kungsholmen and Södermalm

Volca Coffee Roaster is a Latin American micro-roaster and bakery run by a team that is almost 90% immigrants from South and Central America. Some of them had seen coffee from their friends’ and families’ farms on café shelves abroad, and Volca was started to keep bringing those coffees to Europe, along with the culture, music and art of Central America. It buys from growers it keeps in close contact with, directly or through intermediaries, and most of its coffees come from El Salvador, Colombia, Ethiopia, Peru and Guatemala. There are cafés on Kungsholmen and on Södermalm, coffee tastings and brewing courses, and in 2024 Volca was nominated for Baristornas Kaffeupplevelse at the Svenska Gastronomipriset.

Solkant Kafferosteri, Kungsholmen

Solkant Kafferosteri roasts in Mariefred, and its café on Kungsholmen opened as “a place to slow down, drink coffee, explore flavors and bring something special home”, with lunch and fika. It roasts and ships only from Tuesday to Thursday, and no bag reaches a customer more than two weeks after roasting. The range pairs light-roasted single origins from Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Colombia, Rwanda and Kenya with medium roasts built on Brazilian coffee for espresso and brewing.

Nordic Brew Lab, Vasastan

Nordic Brew Lab was started by the competition baristas Håkan Sävlind and Pierre Tymms. Håkan has twice won Baristornas Barista, the Swedish gastronomy award for barista of the year, and store manager Julia Bergenstråle won it in 2026, the year the shop itself won “Sweden’s Baristas’ Coffee Experience”. Every coffee on the shelves is light or ultra-light roasted, from Nordic, European and international roasters, with a new roaster featured every week; SEY is among them. The experience bar pours from Reserve and Rare + Exclusive menus, and the Competition Coffee Experience is a set menu of four exclusive coffees. The flagship also sells brewing gear and runs pour-over workshops, and a second shop is in Malmö.

À la Lo, Vasastan

À la Lo is a fully plant-based café and cantine started by Annika and Lovisa, a mother and daughter who wanted food, coffee, France and croissants in one place. The coffee comes from Belleville Brûlerie in Paris, poured as café filtre with a refill, espresso, noisette, allongé, flat white and cortado, with oat milk as standard. The croissants, baked each morning, reached the final of the French Embassy’s “Stockholm’s best croissant” competition. Tables are not booked, dogs are welcome, and Lovisa teaches croissant-baking courses that also cover the basics of brewing coffee at home.

What you need to know about Stockholm specialty coffee

Which Stockholm coffee shops roast their own coffee? Drop, Standout, Café Pascal, Johan & Nyström, Lykke, Muttley & Jack’s, Volca and Solkant all roast the coffee they pour.

Which roasters do the other cafés serve? Nordic Brew Lab features a new guest roaster every week, all of them light or ultra-light roasters, SEY among them. À la Lo serves Belleville Brûlerie from Paris.

Where is the coffee roasted outside the city? Drop roasts in Rosersberg, just north of Stockholm, Johan & Nyström in Länna, just outside the city, Muttley & Jack’s on an island in the Stockholm archipelago, and Solkant in Mariefred. Lykke roasts in Kuopio as well as in Stockholm.

Where can you drink competition coffee? Standout serves rare competition lots at both of its bars, Muttley & Jack’s has competition-series coffees on its pour-over menu, and Nordic Brew Lab runs the Competition Coffee Experience, a set menu of four exclusive coffees.

Can you work on a laptop? Muttley & Jack’s welcomes laptops in parts of the café on weekdays and is laptop-free at weekends. Lykke Nytorget welcomes laptops on weekdays but may ask screen workers to move to its downstairs studio at lunch, and allows no screens at weekends.

Where can you learn to brew? Volca runs coffee tastings and brewing courses, Nordic Brew Lab holds pour-over workshops, and À la Lo’s croissant-baking courses include the basics of brewing coffee at home.