Morgon Coffee Roasters, registered as Gothenburg Coffee Group AB, sources single-origin filter and espresso lots direct from farms and cooperatives on Lindholmen. Orders ship weekly, with subscriptions dispatched monthly.
Best for Morgon Coffee Roasters, registered as Gothenburg Coffee Group AB
Morgon Coffee Roasters operates out of Anders Carlssons Gata on Lindholmen, in Gothenburg, under the registered name Gothenburg Coffee Group AB. The roastery works directly with single farms, estates and cooperatives rather than buying through blended commodity lots, and turns that sourcing into a webshop split between filter and espresso roasts that changes with the season, alongside subscriptions, bundles and brewing gear.
Shipping runs on a fixed schedule rather than on demand: orders go out weekly, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with subscription orders dispatched monthly on the first Thursday. Two bags or more ship free within Sweden, and four bags or more ship free internationally, with delivery estimated at one to two days domestically and five to ten days further afield. Customer service responds within 24 hours, a stated commitment that, paired with the fixed shipping cadence, points to a roastery run on a tight, repeatable operational rhythm rather than one scaling loosely.
Opened in 2006 as one of Sweden's first modern specialty micro-roasteries, Lilla Kafferosteriet roasts coffee in central Malmo and serves it at its cafe in the Claus Mortensen house on Baltzarsgatan. Bags of beans are sold over the counter and shipped to the door through its web shop, with free delivery on orders over 300 kronor.
Best for Small-batch roasted coffee beans and cafe pours from one of Sweden's first
Solde roasts single-origin coffee on a 12-kilo drum roaster at its Frihamnen base in Malmö, naming each lot individually — Mäster's, Bror's, Bodi'l's, Vera's. Each is processed natural, washed, anaerobic or honey.
Best for Single-origin coffees named Mäster's, Bror's, Bodi'l's and Vera's
6/5/4 is a surf and lifestyle shop in Stockholm's SoFo neighborhood selling surfboards, wetsuits, apparel, and outdoor gear from brands including Patagonia, Fjällräven, Carhartt WIP, and Gramicci. The shop also has an in-house coffee bar. It is located at Nytorgsgatan 27.
Best for Surfboards, wetsuits, and outdoor lifestyle apparel
Roasting in Stockholm on a Diedrich IR-25 since 2013, and buying nothing that scores under 86 on the SCA scale. Drop publishes the FOB price of every coffee it buys. Silver at the 2015 World Coffee Roasting Championship, as recorded by Drop Coffee.
Best for Single-origin coffee roasted in small batches
Drop Coffee Roasters has run its Stockholm roastery since 2013, roasting every batch on a Diedrich IR-25 and holding to a strict sourcing floor: every lot must score 86 or above on the SCA's 100-point cupping scale before it earns a place in the lineup. The company builds relationships with producers directly — some partnerships now run past ten years — and publishes the FOB price paid for each coffee, a transparency practice not every roaster follows.
The roasting style is deliberately restrained: a light-to-medium profile intended to let each origin's own character come through rather than be masked by the roast, and versatile enough to suit espresso, filter, or any other brew method. The current single-origin list runs to Mugaya AA from Kenya, Los Altares from Guatemala, and Los Andes from El Salvador, priced individually rather than folded into house blends. For home brewers, the "Little Drop" Single Brew Kit packages the roastery's approach into a smaller format. The roastery has also placed on the competitive circuit, taking a silver medal at the World Roasting Championships — a result that sits alongside, rather than instead of, the sourcing and cupping discipline that defines the day-to-day business.
Alkemisten is a specialty coffee bar on Hisingen with sites on Gustaf Dalensgatan and at Lindholmspiren. Its Lindholmen location also serves weekday vegetarian and vegan lunches.
Best for Specialty coffee at Kvillebäcken
Alkemisten opened on Hisingen's Gustaf Dalensgatan, in what founder Kristian Hedborg has described as a still-under-construction Kvillebäcken, after he left a difficult café partnership and read Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist, which gave the new venture its name. Within two months the café was nominated for Rising Star of the Year at Sweden's White Guide awards, and in 2019 Alkemisten won the Swedish Roasting Championship; in 2022 it placed second at the Svenska Gastronomipriset for outstanding coffee experience. Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet has credited it with shaping not just Gothenburg's coffee scene but the country's, and USA Today quoted Hedborg on specialty coffee's move into a 'fourth wave,' where each cup carries a farmer's and a terroir's story. The Lindholmspiren location extends that philosophy into food, serving weekday vegetarian and vegan lunches alongside the espresso bar. Beans are sourced as traceable specialty coffee, organic where available, roasted with attention to origin and sold in bags noting tasting notes such as cherry, plum, butter, and honey. Two sites on Hisingen now carry the name a champion roaster built from a single unfinished shopfront: a neighborhood coffee bar with competition-grade roasting and a menu built around ingredient transparency rather than volume.
Gringo Nordic hand-roasts fully traceable specialty coffee from single farms and cooperatives at its premises on Varholmsgatan, using a low-energy roaster. The shop stocks single-origin and espresso coffees plus grinders, kettles and other brewing kit.
Best for Single-origin and espresso coffees plus grinders, kettles and other brewing kit
Simon's Coffee Roasters sources green beans directly from producers and roasts them in small batches in Linköping, selling blends like Swedish Forest and Nordic Morning. Each origin is roasted for its own character rather than a fixed house profile.
Best for Simon's Coffee Roasters sources green beans directly from producers and roasts them
Simon's Coffee Roasters works from Linköping, sourcing green beans through direct relationships with producers rather than through blind wholesale purchasing — the company's own stated standard is "inget får lämnas åt slumpen," nothing left to chance, applied to the whole chain from bean to roast. Two named blends anchor the retail lineup, Swedish Forest and Nordic Morning, sold alongside single-origin lots in 250g, 500g and 1000g bags for drinkers who want to buy by volume rather than a fixed size.
Rather than chasing one house roast profile across every origin, the team roasts each lot to draw out characteristics tied to its own soil and growing conditions — an approach that treats origin variation as the point rather than something to roast past. Beyond bagged coffee, the shop also sells grinders, filters and scales, positioning itself as an equipment source as much as a bean supplier.
For a Linköping roaster, two distinctly named blends and a stated bean-to-roast sourcing discipline are the specifics that separate Simon's from a generic small-batch operation.