Guide to the best coffee in Oslo
Here's our guide to the city's best coffee shops for coffee connoisseurs.
Where coffee takes center stage
Supreme Roastworks
Coffee bar, coffee equipment retailer and roastery. The coffee is the center of attention at Supreme, an intimate and informal coffee bar. Started life purely as a roastery and then opened a coffee bar in 2013. Barista and co-owner Odd-Steinar Tøllefsen has won the Norwegian Championships in the Brewers Cup category (black coffee), three years in a row (2014-2016). Tøllefsen also won the 2015 World Brewers Cup at the Nordic World of Coffee in Gothenburg, Sweden. Frequented by quality conscious, young, urbane hipsters, cyclists and morning espresso lovers.
Coffee during the day, cocktails in the evening
Fuglen
Coffee bar by day, cocktail bar at night as well as a vintage design store. Opened as a coffee business in 1963 and their coffee and tea brands continue to be a big attraction. Coffee from Fuglen's own roasteries in Oslo and Tokyo is sold here.
A coffee showroom
Tim Wendelboe
Roastery, bar, coffee school, resource center, training center for coffee… a cycling cornucopia. Tim Wendelboe has an impressive CV and is the winner of Nordic Roaster in both 2015 and 2016. The coffee bar has become a show room for all the different coffees you can buy here. Offers coffee tasting sessions for Nkr 150 where two people share four types of coffee (200 ml each) with a presentation of the coffees.
Coffee specialists since 1895
Stockfleths
Nine coffee bars dotted around Oslo. Founded as coffee specialists in1895 and started a chain of coffee bars in the 1990s. Coffee from Solberg & Hansen, the largest and oldest specialist coffee roasters in Norway. In 2004, Tim Wendelboe, then barista at Stockfleths, became world champion barista.
Coffee à la San Francisco
Java & Mocca
Robert W. Thoresen worked as an architect in San Francisco and witnessed the explosion of the modern coffee culture. In 1997 he opened Java on St. Hanshaugen and in 2000 Mocca in Briskeby. They have led the US wave of coffee bars in Norway. The combination of coffee bar and roastery was unique. In 2005, the roastery was spun off into a separate company, Kaffa. Here you can enjoy a coffee brewed by your favorite method, V60, Aeropress, Chemex, Siphon or however you prefer.
Mocca is located at: Niels Juels gate 70.
Based on Nordic food traditions
Norð
Three coffee bars around Oslo. Norð is a relatively new chain based on Nordic food traditions, locally sourced produce and naturally, coffee. Have their own roastery. Popular lunch dishes and home baked cakes and pastries.
Cycle café and repair shop
Café Rouleur
Opened in 2016 as the first cycle café and repair shop in Oslo. The concept was backed by cycling organizations Oslo Sykkelkompani, Dronebrygg, Fuglen, Perla, Trasé, Markolo Bikes and Rapha Cycling Club NYC. A surefire guarantee of quality.
Vintage road bikes and great coffee
OsloVelo
Repair shop with vintage road bikes and specialists in fixed gear/single speed bikes. Their coffee comes from Supreme Roastworks. Food and bar too.
Text by Øystein Tronstad