Specialty roastery café in Södermalm, Stockholm

Drop Coffee

Roasted for Clarity at Mariatorget

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Drop Coffee began in 2009 as a coffee bar near Mariatorget whose only stated ambition was serving tasty coffee. A year later somebody squeezed a one kilo roaster into the back of the shop. Today the roasting happens on a 25 kilo Diedrich up in Rosersberg, north of town, the house holds a silver medal from the World Roasting Championships, and the café on Wollmar Yxkullsgatan is where the whole operation comes home to be tasted.

The bar rotates its coffees every day, on espresso and on brew-on-demand filter. One day it is a crisp lot from a Kenyan cooperative, the next a round, chocolatey Bourbon from Central America. Everything is roasted light to medium, for clarity, so the fruit and the sweetness do the talking. They buy only coffees that score 86 or better on the SCA scale, and they publish the prices they pay. I sat through years of boardroom speeches about transparency. This roaster simply prints the numbers.

Order a filter and the espresso of the day side by side and ask where each one came from. The baristas know, and they like being asked. Pastries and sandwiches come from Svedjan Bageri, baked with heritage grain from Warbo Kvarn, which is the right thing to put next to coffee this careful. Leave with a bag of beans. The shelves are stocked straight from the roastery, and the trip home is the cheapest part of the deal.

Order this

Filter coffee of the day, brewed on demand, Espresso of the day, A Svedjan Bageri pastry, A bag of beans from the shelf

The damage

$

Go

Weekdays 8.00 to 18.00, weekends 10.00 to 17.00; a weekday morning gives you the baristas' full attention

Find it

Wollmar Yxkullsgatan 10, 118 50 Stockholm

Website

dropcoffee.com