Volca is a Latin American micro-roaster and bakery. Almost 90% of the team behind it are immigrants from South and Central America, some of whom lived in North America before moving to Europe. Several had seen coffee from their friends’ or families’ farms on the shelves of coffee shops in America, Asia and Europe, and they started Volca to keep bringing those coffees to as many people as possible and to help the people who grow them. With the coffee they also wanted to bring the culture, music and art of Central America.

Volca stays in close contact with each grower, either through intermediaries or directly, and invests in machinery and in its team’s skills to match the quality of the green coffee. Its coffees come mostly from El Salvador, Colombia, Ethiopia, Peru and Guatemala, with lots from Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Brazil, Panama, Bolivia, Ecuador, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

There are two cafés, one on Kungsholmen and one on Södermalm, and a sister company, Volca Kitchen. Volca teaches a 90-minute coffee tasting that runs from dark roast to specialty coffee and a 150-minute brewing course on extraction, espresso and grinders. In 2024 it was nominated for Baristornas Kaffeupplevelse, the coffee experience award of the Svenska Gastronomipriset.

Coffee on the shelf

Photograph: Volca Coffee Roaster