Raw Food House

Why not take a different fika from time to time? A more healthy one as well. Pastries that will keep your blood pressure in balance, since they are sweetened with agave syrup, dries fruits or honey. Apart from being truly delicious they contain lots of vitamins and minerals. What a great excuse for having a fika often! Raw Food House bakes their cakes and cheesecakes themselves. And they do not need to put up signs with gluten free - since everything is baked without flour. The most popular cake is the French Chocolate Cake, but there are other things as Nutella pie, Lemon balls or Mint kisses.

At Raw Food House they have unusual but healthy breakfasts. Try the chia porridge flavored with blueberry and cardamon or fermented cashew yoghurt with oat granola. With that you may drink birch sap. But there are normal drinks too. My favorite is Mocca Java with almond milk, raw cacao and chai. Last time I had stayed in the sauna for a long time, I was recommended a Sparkling Green; freshly squeezed juice with lots of chlorophyll. It will keep you going.


Some info
Filter coffee - 29
Chaga latte - 35
Chia porridge - 49
Brunch - 119
Wi-Fi - Yes

Getting here
Friisgatan 8
Mon-Tus 11-17
Wed-Thu 11-21
Fri 11-19
Sat-Sun 11-17
Phone 040-12 92 00
Facebook

Söderberg & Sara

Malmö is so lucky - the best bakery in Ystad has decided to open a branch here, next to S:t Knuts Torg. After five years Tilde and Per felt they could produce and bake more in their gigant stone oven. And the natural choice was of course to expand to Malmö. They already run the café in Ystad but also Kafferosteriet in Löderup, where they roast their own coffee but you can also get wonderful leaven dough pizza with fanciful toppings.

The bread is baked in Ystad and driven to Malmö in the morning. And it is chewing in the right leaven bread way. It is obvious that they are careful about ingredients; organic, nor preservatives and real butter etcetera. Inspiration for the pastries come from all over the world, like Portuguese Pastel de nata, Italian Siena cake and French croissants. No wonder White Guide has put Söderberg & Sara on the Ten Top list of cafés in Sweden.

Some info

Filter coffee - 25

Wi-Fi - Yes

Getting here
Mäster Danielsgatan 3
Mon-Fri 7.30-18
Sat 8-16
Sunday closed
Website
Facebook

Kafé Agnez

Kafé Agnez is not only Malmö's first vegan café with only organic food. This café also has a more important purpose, because it is a safe haven for the young people who live in the home next door. Here they may work and grow and get appreciation while baking cinnamon buns or making coffee.

This is the perfect place on a windy day, because the backyard is always still and calm. You would not believe that you are right in the middle of the city center. Here one can sit forever - even if it starts to rain, because there are small roofs to protect you. It is cozy inside as well. Kafé Agnez is situated in a house from the 19th century and downstairs, there are several tables in the beautiful furnished cellar.

This is a vegan café, but you can get cows milk in your coffee or chai latte. Most of the cakes are vegan, some even gluten free but there are exceptions. Like the Mud cake, it is made with lots of dark chocolate and real butter. Kafé Agnez has been nominated Café of the Year since 2011 and they get a stream of tourists who have heard about them before hand.

Some info
Americano 30
Toast 69
Wi-Fi - Yes

Getting here
Agnesgatan 11
Wed-Sun 12-17
As soon as it gets a little warmer, the opening hours will be extended.
Facebook

Bar Italia

At Bar Italia they make their own ice cream - from a Sicilian recipe. That means with sugar, milk and cream, but without the eggs. There are lots of flavors to choose from, like the Nougat KitKat that I tasted. Delicious. During the summer the queue is looong, but do not despair - it moves pretty fast.

In addition to the wonderful ice cream, Bar Italia has a spectacular view. On a clear day you can see the whole Ribersborg beach, the Öresund bridge and the silhouette of Copenhagen. If you come here on a sunny day you may get the feeling that all of Malmö's 300 000 inhabitants have come here for a stroll along the boardwalk. Some summer evening there are also people dancing tango outside, close to the water. Bar Italia is a perfect place to sit and enjoy life in Västra Hamnen.



Some info
Americano - 25
Wi-Fi - No

Getting here
Scaniaplatsen 3
Mon-Sun 11-18
Warm summer night they are open longer
Phone 040-23 67 54
Facebook
Website

Lilla Kafferosteriet

The scent that meets you when you open the green wooden doors, is seducing. The reason for this might be that there has been a coffee roastery here before. In 2006 there was almost only Espresso House to visit for people in Malmö who wanted fika. Filip Åkerblom then decided to start a local roastery where coffee would be served as well. This turned into Lilla Kafferosteriet, situated in a yellow 17th century building on Baltzarsgatan. He thought that knowledge about coffee was very limited at the time and wanted to increase the knowledge among people in general. But first he himself needed to get entirely educated. For several years Filip Åkerblom travelled to meet coffee planters in Central and South America. Then later to Africa and now lately to Asia. Next week's destination is Indonesia.

In the beginning the roastery lay in the café, like an open kitchen in a restaurant, but then it got too big. Therefore the shop next door was bought and the roastery and shop moved over there. But soon this was not large enough either. So now the roastery is down in the harbour. Together with a coffee school. People from all over the world come here to learn about coffee. A fun fact is that it was Filip who wrote the rules for the World Cup in coffee brewing!, a competition that was last held in Rimini, Italy.

The customers also get educated. For each filter coffee there is one refill, and in that way we get to flavor different blends. Maybe someone will dare try a lightly roasted coffee, if one first have tried medium roast. But the most important thing is that everyone should feel welcome and that there are no no-noes. Like for example - pouring milk in the coffee. Even though it is nice when someone in the clientele discovers that there are coffee qualities with very little tannin acid (grown on the lowlands in Brazil), where milk is not needed.

The pastries are carefully chosen, like the Cardamom bun from the bakery around the corner, the bread from Organic bakery and the Carrot cake from Olof Victor's out on Österlen. The café itself has many smaller rooms (you might get lost) with eclectic furniture. It is a little like coming home to an old aunt on the country side. If you sit down, you might have trouble getting up again. So cozy.

Filip does not want to get too big, but it seems he has difficulties to stop expanding. Next year he will open a coffee bar close to the new Concert Hall - Malmö Live.

Some info

Americano 26

Breakfast 60

Served all day

Brunch or Scanian breakfast buffé 95

Served Sat 10-13 & Sun 11-14

Wi-Fi - No

Getting here
Baltzarsgatan 24 A
Mon-Fri 8-19
Sat 10-17
Sun 11-17
040 - 48 20 00
Website
Facebook

Hollandia

In Helsingborg they have Fahlman's, in Stockholm there is Vete-Katten and in Lund they used to have Lundagård. Hollandia is situated on Södra Förstadsgatan and of course they should be in this blog, since it is the best patisserie in Malmö. And the oldest. It has been on the premises since 1903, but got its name in the 50's when they bought new furniture from Holland. The café is still very popular, the only that I know of which needs queue tickets. But one can use some time in line, because there is so much to choose from.

If you want to experience a typical Swedish fika, then this is the place. You get pleasant light from the lamps, a soft wall to wall carpet and a huge samovar with coffee, where you get your refill yourself. And when the weather gets warmer, Hollandia has one of Malmö's best out door cafés. No traffic instead lots to look at as a pedestrian walk is right outside.

Hollandia also cares a lot about the ingredients. And that is why all the pastries are exceptionally tasty. Five bakers and two pastry chefs bake every thing from scratch, they even make their own butter. And the berries on the Passionfruit and Chocolate Mousse cake are raw, that is, not heated. As much as possible Hollandia like to serve anything organic , but "best choice" is even more important. The eggs are from a small farm in Vinslöv and the coffee is Zoega's Cultiva which is both organic and fair trade.

Some info
Coffee with refill 35
Wi-Fi - Yes

Getting here
Södra Förstadsgatan 8
Mon-Fri 8-19
Sut 9-18
Sun 10-19
Phone 040-12 48 86
Webbsite

Noir

This café is located on a cozy little backstreet to Lilla Torg. It is leafy and peaceful. Noir does not have a lot of indoor seats, but they do have a bigger open-air café, with classical French café chairs and tables. I like sitting both indoors, because the wall is one big window, and outdoors, because it is almost always possible to find some shadow, or sun or wrap yourself in a white fleece blanket.

Here they take coffee seriously. It is one of the reasons it is called Noir Kaffekultur (Coffee Culture). The coffee is brewed with coffee beans from LOVE Coffee Roasters in Lund. This place aim for organic and local produce. Like the drink Lina's and her bees, or the stylish soda from Naturfrisk in Denmark. You may drink them only because their labels are so pretty. The pastries are made on the spot and change depending on the season. 

Some info

Americano 28

Wi-Fi - No

Talk to each other instead :)

Getting here

Engelbrektsgatan 6

Mon-Fri 8 am-6 pm

Sat 10 am-5 pm

Sun 11 am-4 pm

040-30 44 60

Facebook