Scandinavian-style coffee and pastry cafe in Vasastan, Stockholm

Café Pascal

Cardamom and Calm

3.5 of 5

Café Pascal is one of the main coffee stops in Vasastan, with a light, rustic room on Odenplan and a counter full of cinnamon buns, croissants and other pastries. It has a few branches in the city, but the Odenplan one is the neighborhood's living room.

Tasting Table lists the cardamom buns, semlor, pistachio morning buns and danishes, and describes minimal Scandinavian design with single origin coffee, warm and welcoming. Cardamom is the right spice for a Swedish bun. It is cleaner than cinnamon and a little less sweet. The pistachio morning bun sounds like a cousin from a French bakery who moved north. Coffee here is taken seriously, though the room is not precious about it.

Late morning midweek is when the locals with laptops and the locals with strollers are both present. Take your time. Nobody here is going to hurry you off a chair, which is more than you can say for the busy places in the center. Order a bun, order a coffee, and sit near the window. I could not find a current price list or an email, so check the opening hours before a long walk. A good cafe is a daily habit, not a destination, and Pascal knows that.

Order this

Cardamom bun, Pistachio morning bun, Semla in season, Single-origin coffee

The damage

$ to $$

Go

Weekday mid-morning, when there is a seat

Find it

Odenplan, Vasastan, Stockholm (several locations)

Website

cafepascal.se