Muttley & Jack’s is one human, Jack, who roasts the coffee, and one dog, Muttley, who does not but whose ears inspired the bean logo. Jack has run the micro-roastery since 2017 on a small island in the Stockholm archipelago. It roasts mostly microlots, nanolots and single estates that score between 87 and 90 on the SCA scale.

The roastery is too small to fill container ships, so its sourcing is “Assisted Direct Trade”: it buys through Nordic Approach, Sucafina Specialty and Panama Varietals, importers used to working with small roasters, and Jack joins their trips to origin once or twice a year to meet the farmers. Every coffee can be traced to an individual farm or washing station. Beside the single origins there is a subscription with two new origins a month and the Archipelago Coffee range of classic Nordic blends. Courses, education and consulting are part of the business too.

The coffee bar on Södermalm serves breakfast, lunch and fika. Its pour-over menu offers microlot, nanolot and competition-series coffees, hand-brewed to order on a V60 with Sibarist fast filters, and the single origin espresso rotates with the season, ground on a Swan grinder and pulled on a La Marzocco Strada. Laptops are welcome in parts of the café on weekdays, and the whole café is laptop-free at weekends. Well-behaved dogs are welcome, and there is always a gluten-free lunch option.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Muttley & Jack's Coffee Roasters