Specialty coffee in Copenhagen
20 cafés, 14 roasters, 8 neighbourhoods
Copenhagen, like Oslo, stands for the light Nordic roast. Filter or espresso, the coffee often tastes more of berries, flowers and tea than of chocolate. Many of the city’s roasters pour their coffee in their own cafés. Take a bike: Nørrebro, Indre By and Vesterbro are close together.
The cafés, by neighbourhood
For 15 of the 20 cafés we know whose coffee they pour. The neighbourhoods with the most cafés: Nørrebro, Amager and Indre By.
More about these labels
- In-house
- The coffee is the café’s own roast.
- Regular roaster
- The café pours this roaster’s coffee. Cupd researched this, mostly on the café’s or the roaster’s own website. Once a café has claimed its profile, it can confirm or remove the roaster.
- Roaster not listed yet
- Cupd does not know yet whose coffee the café pours. Cafés can add their roaster for free, and guests can report it in the app.
Nørrebro
7 cafés
Coffee Collective
Jægersborggade was Coffee Collective's very first coffee shop. It has since moved into a larger space. The company is still fully owned and run by its founders, Peter Dupont, Casper Engel Rasmussen and Klaus Thomsen. They trade directly with farmers and say they pay prices far above market level.
Darcy's Kaffe
Darcy's Kaffe started in 2018 as a specialty coffee cart and opened this corner café, its first, in 2020. The batch brew and pour-over change regularly, with coffees from local and international roasters.
Impact Roasters
Founder Daniel Balla Halalla grew up in the coffee-rich south of Ethiopia. Impact buys directly from small-scale farmers in Ethiopia and roasts in Copenhagen. The first shop and roastery opened at Langgade Station in Valby in 2017.
KAF
KAF is a bakery and specialty coffee shop in one. The patisserie focuses on natural fermentation, everything is made in-house, and it is all plant-based. The coffee comes from Saftig, a Copenhagen roaster.
Norange
Norange was founded by Alex Nerantzis, Greek Roasting Champion 2022, who launched Cafetierra on Corfu back in 2007. The roasting style is inspired by Nordic coffee culture, and from the window stools you look out onto Sankt Hans Torv.
Saftig
Jonas and Magnus started Saftig as a nano-roastery in 2024 and opened this small, living-room-style espresso and brew bar in summer 2025. They roast light, and you'll find micro-lots and unusual processing methods here.
The Artisan
Owner Jose Antonio is from Peru and travels back regularly to source coffee from micro-lots and small farms. The Artisan roasts it itself, in small batches.
Amager
3 cafés
Coffice Coffee
Elias Egholm used to work at ROAST before he opened Coffice inside a cultural centre. Pour-overs here are brewed on an Origami dripper.
ROAST Coffee
ROAST was founded in 2014 and roasts all its coffee in Copenhagen. Vestmannagade is one of its two coffee bars with a roastery. The other is in Sydhavn.
Yellow Bird Coffee
Yellow Bird roasts in small batches on a Giesen at its own roastery in Hvidovre. The team travels to the coffee-growing regions themselves, and they say they know exactly where each coffee comes from and who grew it.
Indre By
3 cafés
Det Vide Hus
La Cabra
La Cabra was founded in Aarhus in 2011, has roasted its own coffee since 2013 and later moved to a larger roastery in Copenhagen. This café shares its space with Another Aspect.
Prolog Coffee Bar
Co-founder Jonas Gehl runs Prolog as CEO. They omni roast, so one roast profile serves both espresso and filter, and the company is a certified B Corp.
Østerbro
2 cafés
April Coffee
Patrik Rolf, a Swede and 2022 World Barista Championship finalist, founded April in Copenhagen in 2016. The café on Ryesgade was April's first.
Kontra Coffee
Kurt Dalsgaard founded Kontra in 2005 as a micro-roastery. They still roast their own coffee, today at Avedøre Holme.
Vesterbro
2 cafés
Orsa Coffee
Orsa was started by two baristas, and the coffee comes from Prolog.
Social Brew
Social Brew serves freshly made brunch alongside its specialty coffee. You'll find a second Social Brew at Kultorvet.
Other neighbourhoods
3 cafés
Kaffedepartementet
Kaffedepartementet is a small micro roaster: every coffee is roasted and cupped in-house. Each one comes from a single farm, and they roast light, or medium when that makes more sense.
Hip Hop
A former Prolog employee and roaster opened this tiny shop of his own.
Pontes Roastery & Coffee Bar
Pontes began with two people, one from Santa Cruz in California, the other from Copenhagen. They roast in small batches at their micro-roastery in Valby and say they source from ethical, sustainable farms.
Roasters poured in Copenhagen
14 roasters across the cafés above, by how many of them pour each one.
Roasters from Copenhagen
Prolog Coffee
Co-founder Jonas Gehl runs Prolog as CEO. They omni roast, one roast profile for espresso and filter alike, and are a certified B Corp.
Saftig
Jonas and Magnus started Saftig as a nano-roastery in 2024 and roast in Nørrebro. They go for light roasts, micro-lots and unusual processing, and want the value farmers create to find its way back to them.
April
Impact Roasters
Kaffe Departementet
Kaffe Departementet roasts and cups all its coffees itself in Copenhagen, each from a single farm. They roast light, or medium when that makes more sense.
Kontra Coffee
La Cabra
Founded in Aarhus in 2011, La Cabra has roasted its own coffee since 2013 and now roasts in Copenhagen. Each coffee gets a single profile, decided at the cupping table, never aimed at filter or espresso.
norange
Norange was founded by Alex Nerantzis, Greek Roasting Champion 2022. They roast single origins on a Loring S15 Falcon at The Coffee Roasting Company on Refshaleøen, in a style inspired by Nordic coffee culture.
Pontes Coffee
Pontes began with two people, one from Santa Cruz in California, the other from Copenhagen. They roast in small batches at their micro-roastery in Valby.
ROAST Coffee
ROAST was founded in 2014 and roasts all its coffee in Copenhagen. They say they want a transparent link between the farmers and the people who drink the coffee.
The Artisan
Yellow Bird Coffee
Yellow Bird roasts in small batches on a Giesen in Hvidovre. The team travels to the coffee-growing regions themselves and picks the coffees in close collaboration with the farmers.
From elsewhere
Questions
Which roasters can I find in Copenhagen’s cafés?
This page lists 14 roasters, among them Prolog Coffee, Saftig, April, Coffee Collective and Friedhats. Next to each roaster it says whether the coffee is the café’s own roast and where Cupd got the information. The labels are explained above the list.
How up to date is this list?
It is a copy of the Cupd app as of November 11, 2026. Cafés and guests keep the app current, so open Copenhagen in Cupd to see what has changed since.
A café is missing. How does it get on here?
In the app, search for it and tap “Missing a café? Tell us”. If it is your café, claim it for free on the page for cafés and enter your roaster. It shows up here with the next update.
Where the café texts come from, read on November 11, 2026
- April Coffee: sprudge.com, sprudge.com
- Coffee Collective: coffeecollective.dk, coffeecollective.dk, sprudge.com
- Coffice Coffee: baristamagazine.com
- Darcy's Kaffe: sprudge.com
- Hip Hop: sprudge.com
- Impact Roasters: cphpost.dk, impactroasters.dk
- KAF: cafekaf.com
- Kaffedepartementet: sprudge.com, kaffedep.com
- Kontra Coffee: kontracoffee.com
- La Cabra: lacabra.com, lacabra.com
- Norange: norange.dk, baristamagazine.com
- Orsa Coffee: sprudge.com, visitcopenhagen.com
- Pontes Roastery & Coffee Bar: pontescoffee.com, pontescoffee.com
- Prolog Coffee Bar: prologcoffee.com, prologcoffee.com, prologcoffee.com
- ROAST Coffee: roast.com, roast.com
- Saftig: saftig.coffee, saftig.coffee
- Social Brew: socialbrew.dk
- The Artisan: baristamagazine.com, theartisan.dk
- Yellow Bird Coffee: yellowbirdcoffee.dk
- Prolog Coffee: prologcoffee.com, prologcoffee.com, prologcoffee.com
- Kaffe Departementet: kaffedep.com
- norange: norange.dk, baristamagazine.com
- Pontes Coffee: pontescoffee.com, pontescoffee.com
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